I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it’s trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it’s downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it’s being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

    • Aasikki@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Yeah op must be talking about some cheapest of the cheapest tv’s. I’m also on my second smart tv. I tend to buy tv’s at around 1000€ price range as that has so far been the best bang for buck personally. Never had any issues like that, tv turns on instantly and updates have always happened during nights when I’ve been asleep. My current Samsung sometimes displays a small add on the home screen, which isn’t really that bad I guess, but out of principle it’s still mildly infuriating imo. I paid for my tv so I expect zero ads.