🌟 Internet Famous Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

tehpope said:
Also, i feel like this video is months old. Not sure why they're wearing sweaters and winter hats in April.
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I'm not familiar with vancouvers weather patterns personally, but canada as a whole really does see april and may snows and cold snaps. I know the coast is more mild, but its not unrealistic.
 
$550 for a 60hz, HDMI 2.0 TV? Or, how about a 144hz TV with 2 HDMI 2.1's with VRR for the same price that you can just choose not to fucking connect to the internet if you're that worried about it? What's the point of claiming Smart TV's are saving money by selling your data and that's why they're cheaper, when the dumb TV is the same price and 'saving you money' by selling your outdated tech?

And more importantly
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Asshole is just trolling at this point. Chink wife must have decided sex is off the table now that procreation is done and he's just comfortable looking nasty.
 
Dwarf Lord said:
What's the point of claiming Smart TV's are saving money by selling your data and that's why they're cheaper, when the dumb TV is the same price and 'saving you money' by selling your outdated tech?
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Because he's deliberately strawmanning an argument he himself doesn't believe in. TV's are straight up commodities now, there's very little market differentiation at the low end, and that includes the smart vs dumb delineation. I don't know why he's trying to present it as a cost savings measure vs "I don't want 'smart' shit" straight line decision, other than that doing it this way makes it sound dumber than it is.
 
tehpope said:
Reviewed a dumb tv. Which is not as good as a smart tv. Mainly picture quality. They didn't mention this, but the best way for keeping your privacy on smart tvs is never connecting them to internet. if you have to, only doing so once. And if you need it connected, use dns blocking and firewall rules to block them from talking to the outside world.
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The typical LTT viewer is terminally online, so the idea of not connecting an Internet-enabled device to the Internet doesn't even register with them.

Anyway, fuck smart TVs, and fuck modern TVs in general. I'm too old and blind to appreciate 4K. Imma gonna keep using my 20 year old 40" Sony Bravia until it dies or I do.
 
tehpope said:
the best way for keeping your privacy on smart tvs is never connecting them to internet. if you have to, only doing so once. And if you need it connected, use dns blocking and firewall rules to block them from talking to the outside world.

Biggest of all, make sure you never use your tv for streaming. use a 3rd party box. or watch all your media locally on something like a kodi box or a disc player.
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I haven't connected a TV to the Internet since 2010. I've never used a streaming service either (been torrenting since the protocol first came out in the early 2000s). I did have a Win10 box for playing TV/movies, but mpv for Linux now supports HDR (with some work) and I moved my media PC to Linux last year and never looked back.

But I agree. Never connect your TV to the Internet. I don't understand how anyone would after the leak that Samsung was sending audio constantly back to their servers like a decade ago. Like, literally a two-way telescrene from 1984. I don't understand why the fuck anyone would have an Amazon permanent spy microphone (Alexa/Echo) in their house either.

But I agree, LTT's general audience is too stupid to understand rejecting the Internet of Trash.
 
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