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If I got a dollar for every person suckered into buying Samsung products… But to stay on topic: never! connect your tv to the internet. My LG has been offline
by eckelhesten 2mo ago
If I got a dollar for every person suckered into buying Samsung products…
But to stay on topic: never! connect your tv to the internet. My LG has been offline for around 5 years now after automatically installing unwanted apps. Since then, I run everything via an Apple TV 4K which works way better than LGs own software does anyway.
- NetOpWibby 2mo agoExact same setup here. Ideally I'd buy a dumb TV but they don't exist in the modern era.
- brador 2mo agoCan a screen/monitor/TV send data back over HDMI through a connected computer or is that a 1 way connection?
- eckelhesten 2mo agoTechnically yes, hdmi supports transmitting Ethernet. Realistically no.
- stvltvs 2mo agoPutting on tinfoil hat... how do we know it isn't connecting to our neighbors' open WiFi?
- BenjiWiebe 2mo agoDo your neighbors have open Wi-Fi? I'm a country dweller, but when I'm in town I look at the Wi-Fi list (in horror) sometimes, and it's really rare to see an open Wi-Fi network.
- stvltvs 2mo agoAnecdotal but my laptop just found 2 open WiFi networks out of 20. One's enough though.
- BenjiWiebe 2mo agoAre they truly open, or are they captive portals? Of course, it might be possible to exfiltrate data through a captive portal network, depending on how they implement the portal.
- philistine 2mo agoIt’s a common fear. People constantly mention it on HN every time the advice to keep a TV off the internet is mentioned. Yet we have never seen proof by anyone, not once, that it has happened. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- eckelhesten 2mo agoThat would be a lawsuit waiting.