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Solder the wifi antenna to ground (so long as the remote is IR and not radio!)
by coryrc 6y ago
Solder the wifi antenna to ground (so long as the remote is IR and not radio!)
- jjoonathan 6y agoMy TCL starts to bootloop if it goes more than a month without connecting to the internet so it can download screensaver ads. The warranty people force me into the support gauntlet. The support gauntlet's first demand: connect it to the internet.
- echelon 6y agoThis is disgusting. Ads are ruining everything. And if you think it stops here, I've got bad news. This is only going to get worse without strict regulation.
- antman 6y agoEdit: Didn't know TCL is a brand, not available in my part of the world... - What brand is your TV?
- LeoPanthera 6y agoHe already said - TCL.
- andrewflnr 6y agoTCL is the brand. (I hadn't heard of it either)
- kaetemi 6y agoI see that around in supermarkets here. Cheap garbage from you-know-where.
- ezconnect 6y agoTCL is a big Chinese company, they even have their own tv streaming service golive tv.
- bloody-crow 6y agoHold up. What if you don't have internet? Are they legitimately prepared to say "well, in this case your TV is not gonna work"?
- em-bee 6y agosoon, not having internet will be like not having a phone, and wanting a tv that works without internet will be like using a computer without internet. in any case, i'd get any claim that the tv works without internet in writing. then it becomes a warranty issue if the tv stops working
- ObsoleteNerd 6y agoYes. I lived on a farm for a couple years recently and you had to extensively research any tech you bought even if logic said there’s no reason that particular tech should need internet. The TV we took with us no longer worked (Samsung) so we had to buy a Sony (and have never looked back), among other things. Also, software. Half the software on our computers stopped working despite not being internet related. It was incredibly frustrating and really soured me on the direction tech is headed.
- volfied 6y agoYes and they’re legitimately paid to ignore the fact that internet access is a base need for everyone and should be cheaply available.
- Scoundreller 6y agoHow does it know the time? Can't you set it to 1971?
- tornato7 6y agoYou should try running it through a pihole. Even better, maybe you can manage to MITM it and replace the ads with something funny.
- lostlogin 6y agoSome devices bypass the Pihole, and while you can catch them at the firewall, it’s a tedious game.
- panpanna 6y agoSo what we need is a jailbreak and custom firmware?
- lostlogin 6y agoVery very much so.
- 867-5309 6y agohow is it possible to bypass? if it is the only thing available then it is impossible to use an alternative
- girvo 6y agoThey use their own DNS rather than PiHole’s.
- mateuszf 6y agoIf they use own DNS then maybe it can be disabled by IP rule in firewall?
- Spare_account 6y agoIf they can't get to their preferred DNS servers directly then they use DNS-over-HTTPS which you can't block.