Can I just get a goddamned monitor? Like, please can my TV just be a damn 70" monitor with hookups for whatever actual tech I want to use to watch stuff?
Is that too much to ask? My TV has to have its own shitty, unintuitive, slow, buggy OS stuffed with ungodly amounts of bloatware and bullshit?
Smart TVs are honestly one of the dumbest inventions.
All they did was take power away from people so corporations could sell it back to them.
Streaming boxes and dongles are no better either. These days I use a laptop hooked up to the tv so I can block ads and limit tracking.
Does anyone know if there’s something similar to universal android debloater for android tvs?
OTOH people who aren’t in the entertainment industry will use generative AI to make original films they otherwise never would have been able to. It seems like a great tool for individual creators who aren’t able to produce images by themselves. Yes, they won’t hire artists to do this, but they wouldn’t have anyway, and we’ll get to enjoy their work, which wouldn’t have existed otherwise. I don’t think we should demonize a very promising technology because we don’t like how some people are using it.
I don’t think their films will be able to reflect their personal creativity other than the story
I bought a cheap TCL TV last year. If you can, turn off the wifi (I literally just wanted the TV, not the “smart” part). I play everything either through a hard drive, laptop or my PS and that works for me. You can also change the settings to open up to the last channel instead of the landing page. I can still connect my TV to Bluetooth. When I turn it on, I see the TCL logo, but after that, nothing.
