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True, but irrelevant to the conversation at hand. And also ironic, given that most HNers decry smart TVs and yearn for a return to "just a screen", without apps
by scubbo 5y ago
True, but irrelevant to the conversation at hand. And also ironic, given that most HNers decry smart TVs and yearn for a return to "just a screen", without apps (including file managers).
- jrm4 5y agoYou're missing it entirely. They want "just a screen" precisely so that they can use whatever they want on it, including filemanagers if they wish. Moreover, they correctly understand what the TV industry works so hard to obscure. It's computers all the way down. If you're gonna slap a computer on my screen, then let me use it as a general purpose computer. If, however, you insist on putting a computer on my screen that I hate, then make it easy for me to avoid it. And of course, we know why they don't do this -- the low cost of the TV is subsidized by the data they sell to others gained by spying on you.
- scubbo 5y agoI'm not sure how we're managing to agree so much on overall direction/motivation, while seeming to contradict one another. > They want "just a screen" precisely so that they can use whatever they want on it, including filemanagers if they wish. Yep - and if the screen is "just a screen" (i.e. has no file manager or other media-interfacing functionality on it), there there will need to be some _other_ computer in the stack of "computers all the way down" to provide the media-interface. For me, Kodi does that job perfectly well, but it doesn't work well for everyone. > the low cost of the TV is subsidized by the data they sell to others gained by spying on you. Yes, this is an uncontroversial statement of a distasteful truth.