I have an LG C2 (circa 2019). I disabled everything I could through the menus. I never plugged in ethernet and had wifi disabled. One day my wife turned on the TV and it started doing an update. I flipped out on her for obviously having turned on wifi, how else could it update? Nearly (okay, not quite, but felt like it) got divorced over it, until I realized, no she really hadn't. The damn TV formed a mesh network with my neighbour's TV over bluetooth (I live in an apartment and apparently the concrete floor wasn't enough to block the signal).

These TVs will stop at nothing to phone home and get connectivity. When I phoned LG and freaked out at them, they told me there was some setting about 6 menus deep, totally unrelated to anything mesh or network connectivity that if I disabled would prevent it from connecting to other TVs. It was not obvious, not mentioned anywhere in the documentation, or in the many many pages of EULA that I actually read through when I first turned on my TV after purchase.

I want a TV that takes an HDMI (or DisplayPort) and displays it. No TV Tuner, built-in apps, or internet enabled anything. It aslo needs to support HDCP or else my AppleTV refuses to send video to it. Regular Monitors don't have HDCP support without being a smartTV. It's infuriating.

I'm the one that mentioned they don't sell to individuals, and that was me going to the source. I'm in Canada and Amazon.ca does not seem to carry these, but it's nice to see Amazon.com does. For the specific link you shared, it does seem to be a bit risky, as some reviews say they got broken devices and they had to pay for shipping to return it, etc.

Either way, thanks for the link, it's given me hope of finding something that is a 4K display, 55-65 inches, and has good color accuracy, all without the spyware (hopefully).

Good luck buying a 'dumb' TV to try and avoid all this surveillance and advertising non-sense. I went looking and even TVs meant for digital signage and corporate use is near impossible to buy (they won't sell to individuals), and extremely expensive for mediocre quality (color correctness is crap).

We're stuck with this AI infused, Ad-ridden, surveillance garbage.

I thought I was the only one that still used a holster! I found my people!

Also, fully agree about the TouchID being superior to FaceID. I wish Apple actually did proper market research, and talked to those of us that are willing to buy a 'pro' iphone, but don't want a bloody tablet. Give me a good camera, storage, battery life, and a 5S or 6S form factor.. Hell, I'd accept a 7! And to your point, it can be a few mm thicker, that's fine!

I have an iPhone 14 Pro, before that I had an SE2, and before that I had an X, and a 7, a 6S, and a 4S.

I like the camera of the 14 Pro. That's about the only thing that is better in my day to day experience compared to the SE2.

I compared it to the 15, then the 16. Heck, I bought my wife a 16 because it was supposed to have an improved SIRI. Nope, the AI crap has not panned out at all. My 14 Pro's camera is slightly better than my wife's 16. And when I compared it to the 16 Pro, and now 17 Pro, the camera is about on-par. None of the features justify spending more on my next new phone than a kick-ass gaming PC.

As far as I'm concerned, outside of my battery health being reported around 81%, there is no reason to upgrade my phone. And I doubt I'm alone with this mentality. What's the new hot thing? They made the user interface even harder to use or actually see? I've certainly noticed how buggy things have become, like the keyboard, and 'autocorrect'. And I do very much like my daily alarm actually going off correctly so I wake up and go to work... They don't seem to think that's important.

Outside of them doing the planned obsolescence thing with the iOS version no longer being supported, I don't see myself upgrading my iPhone for at least a few more years.

Spot on. I'm on a SNES binge, and once my new C64 comes in (apparently next month), I'm sure I'll be able to spend all my free time reliving my childhood from the 80's and 90's. I think the most modern game I actually enjoyed on the xbox was Peggle.

Indeed. Unfortunately the outer layer (glass) exploded, the middle layer (polymer) flexed so much that it shattered the inner layer (glass), and shards of it flew onto the pilot. Cutting his arm and covering the controls in sharp shards of glass. So yes it could have been way worse, but also, it shouldn't have been as bad as it ended up being. A 1 kilogram mass at cruising speed should be tolerated by the windshield without breaking the inner layer and causing injury.

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

I'll take your trolling and troll back as follows:

When someone says early 2000s they mean the 00s. I have never seen your version, though you may be technically correct (the best kind of correct), I don't believe you are contextually correct. If we take your interpretation, put into context of the original sentence it was used in, it makes no sense. In context, it's clear the author was referring to decade that was from 2000 to 2009.

But that's okay, you sold 350 BTC for $35, the universe has punished you enough. :P

Umm... bitcoin didn't exist in the early 2000's. I believe it came into existence around 2008/2009.

I actually mined Bitcoin, I think I had something like 1.2 BTC back in 2011, then I lost the wallet. It was worth next to nothing at the time. Now it's enough to buy a nice car.

But the better analogy would have been to talk about BlockBuster not buying Netflix back in the day...

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct!

That being said, just like Tesla's 'AutoPilot', just because the 'legal' definition says it's an assistant not true autonomous driving, does not mean that everyone doesn't look at the word and take it to mean autonomous driving. Same thing with AI. Artificial Intelligence is going to be taken at face value, intelligence that is artificial. Very few people know the dictionary definition, or that 'imitate' is a key word of said definition. That makes a big difference, but the vast majority of people assume AI means true intelligence.

Why else is Joe Q. Public freaking out that AI is going to take their jobs? We're treating AI like we treated BlockChain, and countless other 'going to change the world overnight' tech. It's a useful area, but it's mislabeled, overhyped and pulling resources away from other, dare I say, more important areas in the field of CS.

When companies announce RTO mandates, they know that some people will quit out of protest, it's calculated into the cost of the mandate. Some companies are even using it as a form of layoff that saves them money since a person who quits doesn't get severance.

I hate that they call it 'AI'. It is not intelligent. It is a predictive algorithm. Whether LLM, or some other base algorithm, it is not intelligent. Even the generative AI images are terrible as they cannot learn from their mistakes. In order for something to be called intelligent, it needs to be able to learn, and demonstrate that new knowledged. I have yet to see any AI do that.

Also, any 'AI' developer worth their salt will carefully avoid implying intelligence, they'll always lean back on the underlying algorithm to describe what they're working on. Good way to filter out the candidates that took a 6 hour course online and label themselves AI devs, versus actual talented devs that know what they're doing with an LLM for example.

My 2 cents, get into firmware development, if you are good at low level bit twiddling and debugging, you'll make a great career out of it.

Look at things from his perspective, especially over the last few years. He is constantly under attack by very powerful entities (at least in his life), I'd likely get paranoid and grouchy too if the government, media, my professional college, etc, all turned on me.