- bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish4 days
Or, just never hook them up to your network.
I plug a laptop into my TV for viewing shows and never have connected it to my network.
Smart appliances are crap that aren’t worth the hassle.- TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish4 days
Yep. I’ve got an Apple TV plugged into mine. The LG panel itself is great, no need to use their smart services.
- bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish4 days
Yup. Also have an LG big screen. So frustrating that it has such amazing features and remote, but you cant trust them enough to plug in an ethernet cable.
All that labor and effort to create a really great product, then completely destroying it with corporate greed to squeeze that last penny of value out of you by undermining your network security and privacy.
Just such a stupid situation.
- TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish4 days
Honestly I kind of hate the remote. 😅 I know a lot of people like it though!
- 3 days
I like the motion controls so I can point and type instead of arrowing to the correct letter and clicking it.
- Atropos@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Same setup here! It’s the only apple device I own but I am pretty happy with it. TV is just set to turn on when the apple tv turns on, and go straight to that input.
We only watch stuff on the local Jellyfin
- TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish3 days
Apple TV is a pretty awesome device. Fun fact, you can install Moonlight on it to stream your PC to your TV, and it has controller support so you can use it to play your PC games on your TV. If you’ve got the Ethernet version it’s even better!
- BorgDrone@feddit.nlEnglish4 days
That’s why all my ‘smart’ appliances are in a separate VLAN with strict firewall rules limiting access to the bare minimum.
- dimjim@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 days
This is why I will never let my TVs connect to my network, there’s a reason they’re so cheap nowdays.
- cenariodantesco@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
I too have a large LG, but it is never connected to my network. Instead is connected to my nvidia shield that is locked in a old version, 9 I think. Pihole blocks the shield.
PlasmaOS TV (?) will be the OS I’ll be installing as soon as is released
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
plasma bigscreen, and actually it had a release already! doesn’t have its own distro, but some include it already. I think fedora kde has it installed by default.
- cenariodantesco@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
that’s the name yes, but from what I’ve found so far cannot be used on my shield model, mdarcy
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
update: so the problem is that linux cannot even boot on it yet
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nvidia_Shield_TV_Pro_2019_(nvidia-mdarcy)
if that’s fixed, it will probably need graphics drivers to be found at least, wireless drivers, and whatever for the remote but possibly that would already work at least partially.
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
you mean nvidia shield? can it run any kind of alternative OS though? maybe custom android roms, but rather I mean even just a basic linux distro, or PostmarketOS.