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> I don’t know how much longer that will be possible with how cheap 5G is getting. Sooner or later they’ll be able to install a $10 part and make a deal with wi

> I don’t know how much longer that will be possible with how cheap 5G is getting. Sooner or later they’ll be able to install a $10 part and make a deal with wireless carriers as backhaul for unconnected TVs. I had a really snarky reply to this, about how I'd just crack it open and remove the sim card, warranty be damned. Then I realized that even sim cards are going away, that's all done in software on the latest phones (no doubt an option soon for everything). Sorta fucked, I wish you were wrong.

barotalomey 2y ago
It's called eSIM and has been around for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM
exe34 2y ago
it has to have some kind of modem/antenna that you can cauterise.
- jononor 2y ago
  But the TV functionality does not have to work if one does that? We should really have laws that makes it illegal to not function without connectivity.
  - exe34 2y ago
    correct. that's why I have an old and dumb projector instead of a TV.