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I actually have one of these TVs and the best thing you can do is just give it a static and then only whitelist certain data/ports on your ip fire/ of sense fir

I actually have one of these TVs and the best thing you can do is just give it a static and then only whitelist certain data/ports on your ip fire/ of sense firewall. When connected over wireless, something in the TVs networking stack crashes my entire wifi router too. Some people have rooted them, which is what I was hoping for when I got it, but if you update to a new version and try to root it can brick. Honestly, I think this conversation should be more about the right to control the devices we own more than just egregious privacy breaches. If we are to prevent such breaches from other manufacturers then what we need is the ability to control our devices. I have a quad core processor in my TV, but apparently if I don't want samsungs crappy proprietary OS and want to install Linux, too fucking bad for me. I think that's bullshit and needs to change. I consider it a mistake purchase.

morganvachon 12y ago
> I consider it a mistake purchase. I agree, reading your entire comment, you probably should have researched it more if your intention was to replace the factory OS image with one of your own. But it happens to all of us; I have a useless Motorola phone sitting on my desk because I naively thought "it's Android, it must be hackable", and only discovered after I bought it that Motorola made the bootloader impossible to unlock. I decided a while back that a TV should just be a dumb monitor, and whatever "smart" features I want it to have can be had via a set top box, home-built HTPC, or a streaming stick. So far I've been very happy with the Roku 3 combined with a home-built HTPC/PVR. If I decide I want to upgrade to bigger or better screen, I only have to replace that one component. Ditto for the "smart" side of things. I see so-called Smart TVs as the TV/VCR combo of the 90s: When one half inevitably fails, you have to throw out the whole thing.

morganvachon 12y ago

> I consider it a mistake purchase. I agree, reading your entire comment, you probably should have researched it more if your intention was to replace the factory OS image with one of your own. But it happens to all of us; I have a useless Motorola phone sitting on my desk because I naively thought "it's Android, it must be hackable", and only discovered after I bought it that Motorola made the bootloader impossible to unlock. I decided a while back that a TV should just be a dumb monitor, and whatever "smart" features I want it to have can be had via a set top box, home-built HTPC, or a streaming stick. So far I've been very happy with the Roku 3 combined with a home-built HTPC/PVR. If I decide I want to upgrade to bigger or better screen, I only have to replace that one component. Ditto for the "smart" side of things. I see so-called Smart TVs as the TV/VCR combo of the 90s: When one half inevitably fails, you have to throw out the whole thing.