I haven't bought a new TV in a while since I use a video projector in my home theater. Last year I got a vacation place and bought a new higher-end Samsung TV.

I haven't bought a new TV in a while since I use a video projector in my home theater. Last year I got a vacation place and bought a new higher-end Samsung TV. The place is semi-off-grid and only has connectivity through a 4G mobile hotspot (c'mon Elon hurry up with my Starlink!). However, the day I unboxed the TV there was no internet yet. I only got it out with the goal of testing the new receiver and 5.1 speakers that had just arrived. All I needed was to display the HDMI UI output of the receiver so I could select the proper speaker assignments and validate the speakers were working before mounting them. I could NOT figure out how to get this display to... you know, display! At least not without first providing it an internet connection and spending nearly half an hour configuring it. The first barrier was accepting the license agreement. But before displaying the license agreement the TV insisted on checking a server to see if there was a newer version of the license agreement. I couldn't figure out any way around this and it's just unacceptable.