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Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs (spur.us)
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[–] 34 points 1 month ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yep. I’ve got an Apple TV plugged into mine. The LG panel itself is great, no need to use their smart services.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    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!

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    • [–] 28 points 1 month ago

    That’s why all my ‘smart’ appliances are in a separate VLAN with strict firewall rules limiting access to the bare minimum.

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    This is why I will never let my TVs connect to my network, there's a reason they're so cheap nowdays.

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    that's the name yes, but from what I've found so far cannot be used on my shield model, mdarcy

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    • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Shout-out to Spectre TVs

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