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@Sid2006 on May 2019, a bug on Firefox side marked all browser extensions as legacy, and thus, unusable.
A bug on Samsung side can very well turn off all these "smart" TV on our side. -
@daniel-wu Companies need to keep making profits off of something every year.
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im always a big fan of dumb appliances.
In fact, i'd rather buy used appliances for the reason that they don't have all that fancy software nonsense on there.
Added bonus: they're cheaper and already have stood the test of time, so if they haven't failed yet, then it'll take a while until they do. And even if they do, in a lot of cases they are simpler to repair anyways. -
@daniel-wu
People have been hacked in their smart homes. Google went down for a while and people couldn't turn on a light switch because smart. There is no backup operation on some of these systems. You lose connection and your house can become dumb.
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Samsung apparently thinks they are doing us users a favour with their "genius" TV block feature.
Let the following be clear: I will never get a television which can be remotely disabled by ANY one, even if allegedly for my benefit.
In fact, I'd be happier with 768p "HD ready" garbage from 2005 that at least works reliably than a shiny "QLED+" Samsung TV that can fail without warning at the press of a button at some giant corporation's headquarters.
Remember the May 2019 Firefox incident?
"We can remotely disable your TV, but it's just for your protec...." Get lost.
rant
kill switch
samsung tv block