Apologies if this should be posted somewhere else.

I have had this TV for about 7 years and have never had this pop up before. About a month ago, I bought a router that uses OpenWRT. With that, I setup up Adguard and specifically one of the lists that is supposed to block devices from phoning home.

Am I nuts thinking that this pop up is due to the TV not being able to offload what has been recorded? How would I check that?

  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Great advice which is completely inapplicable to the person you are giving it to, considering they already set their TV up ages ago.

    And the advice to anyone about to get a new Samsung or LG TV is “Don’t.”

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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      3 days ago

      get a new Samsung or LG TV is “Don’t.”

      I have seen the answer to that…

      The person absolutely wants 4K 50" for some reason and monitors that come for that much are industrial ones that cost 5x as much.
      I am more than happy with 27" and don’t even require 4K, so MSI, ViewSonic etc work well.

        • jpreston1986@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          yeah but nowhere near the video quality.

          I’ve had the same 40" LG OLED TV for like 15 years now, and I want to get myself a new big 4k OLED 65" behemoth for Christmas this year. I looked up hospitality TVs of that size and whoo boy, they’re like $3-4k. But you can get a regular TV that size and spec for like $1k.

          I have no open Wifi in my house or nearby, I plan on just using it as a second monitor for my computer, and never connecting it to anything beyond my soundbar. Then just hope that it doesn’t brick itself I guess.

          • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Yeah, I would expect those thingies to also have much better quality internals, that are less probable to cause the kinds of problems that might happen in industrial environments.

          • eleitl@lemmy.zip
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            2 days ago

            I would expect it to start nagging you and then eventually degrade into unusability. Which is why I won’t buy such snitch devices.

            • jpreston1986@lemmy.world
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              17 hours ago

              I guess it depends on the severity of nagging, and how long until it becomes unusable. The 40" LG TV I’ve had for over 15 years is still running strong, thing doesn’t even know what time it is. I dunno. Maybe just not connecting it to anything would work?

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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          3 days ago

          If I can find that thread, I will link it to you.
          You can convince that chap to not buy a smart tv.