Imagine walking into your living room and your TV automatically telling you the weather and your calendar for the day. If this is a future you can imagine, you’ll be pleased to hear that Google is working on a new mode for Google TV that does just that.

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RESUME VIEWING

RESUME VIEWING

RESUME VIEWING

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I’d prefer to imagine a world in which a multi-billion dollar corporation isn’t tracking my every step to sell me more shit, and yet here we are…

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I remember when tech companies used to do cool things just because it was cool and people were interested in the cool things, and they were making improvements and all sorts of fun stuff.

Now it’s all just done for… idk

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Now it’s all just done for… idk

Money. This is capitalism. The answer is money.

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When was this? 1978?

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There was a sweet moment in the mid 00s to early teens where cool stuff was being made to push the envelope. Yeah they wanted to sell you stuff, but they did so under the guise that it would be something to look forward to instead of sucking every penny from your dry husk

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It was during the Great Back When.

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lol, Google is an advertising company, this will be a nightmare “feature”.

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ad will complete once presence is detected

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I would gladly factory reset my television and run off osmc or something if that becomes the norm.

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well only if that becomes possible at all

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Drink Verification Can.

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Say McDonalds to continue

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I continue to look for dumb tvs, but there are precious few. They’re either small, or big outdoor monitors. I want an awesome screen TV that’s dumb as dirt.

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Every TV is a dumb TV it isn’t connected to internet.

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They all have annoyances when you don’t do what they want. I want a TV that doesn’t want anything.

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Pretty sure roku ones don’t allow to be used until you accept their terms online

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Wow, I’m glad I never had the chance to experience that

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my LG oled works really well as a dumb TV with it disconnected from the Internet

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