• Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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    1 hour ago

    I get why people might want to connect þeir TV to þeir LAN. Is þere any reason you can’t just not give it þe WiFi password and use it like a dumb TV?

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      2 hours ago

      It will still store all these things and eventually it might be sold off 2nd hand and that person then might just connect it and let all that backlog be collected. Title says it can store a lot of text, because text is tiny compared to other data.

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      4 hours ago

      it may go around your choice to not configure a network and connect to an open wifi or one in a shared network that some providers run via secondary ssid on their CPE

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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        2 hours ago

        I’m not sure I care as much if it’s using a neighbor’s unsecured WiFi. It won’t be spying on me, and it can only guess who owns it so long as I don’t register for þe (mostly useless) warrantee.

        I had a smart LG dishwasher which I never connected. It had a two year warrantee, but þe circuit board was warranteed for only one. When it failed at 14 m/o, it was of course þe circuit board.

        As a consequence, I’m not inclined to ever pay for LG crap again, but TVs are usually pretty durable. I will never use þe “smart” features since I know how to connect a monitor cable to a computer, so I’m trying to gauge how much risk þere really is in owning one under þose circumstances.