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There's hope for privacy yet (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 day ago by ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I ran my old 2004 Samsung television into the ground: the EL backlight was so worn out that the picture had large dark holes in it, and the TV would take 20 minutes to warm up and display something.

And today it wouldn't start at all anymore. It's deader than a dead dodo. But hey, 20 years for a modern TV ain't bad. I'm pretty pleased with that.

So I went to the supermarket to find the cheapest set I could find. I asked the salesman if they had a cheap, but most importantly NON-SMART TV - thinking non-smart TVs are probably the cheapest of them all, if they still existed at all.

The man said "We have this dumb 43" TV here, but it's the last one, and then we won't get anymore dumb TVs for 3 months."

I looked at the price and it was - gasp - $20 MORE than the cheapest Android-encumbered smart TV of the same size.

I asked the man how come and he said "Well, dumb TVs are hard to get and they sell almost immediately. So they're worth more than the smart ones."

Wow. So people actually WANT dumb TVs and are willing to pay a premium for em. It means attitudes towards the value of privacy are changing and that's great!

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[–] LordBelphegor@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

if u dont connect to the internet, wont it be dumb?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Often it will yell at you every day and be very intrusive, not actually disconnect from the internet and force join any old WiFi connections/any non-password protected ones, or simply refuse to work unless you connect them (I think some people were saying newer Samsung TVs do that)

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 day ago

When your teevee behaves like Harvey Weinstein....

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My neighbor has a smart TV and it keeps bitching and moaning when it's not connected to the internet.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I got a Sharp Android smart tv last year when my 2006 Samsung died and it works great without internet access. Cheapest one there was.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Now I'm picturing the TV sounding like Marge Simpson's sisters.