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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by mkhpalm on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:50PM (#24669090)
I have a 65 inch samsung tv that kept popping up on my network. I put it on an isolated wifi network once to get the firmware updates. After I did that I turned it back off.

But it keeps trying to come back for just a moment every couple of days. I had to ban its mac address since there was no way to get it to stop in the settings or after factory resets.

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by christoph on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:30PM (#24669283)
Forcibly banning the MAC address of a TV on your own home network, that you've paid money for, really does sum up the state of consumer electronics atm.
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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by ziftface on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:07PM (#24669164)
It's crazy how user hostile TV manufacturers have become.
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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by heresie-dabord on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:07AM (#24671188)
Profiteering using the personal information of consumers.

It is maddening how incompatible with Democracy the commercial surveillance system has become.

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by aiisjustanif on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:22AM (#24679239)
Just wait till you’ve been to the country it’s made in.
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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by chasd00 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:22AM (#24671249)
that's pretty funny, it's like fighting a rogue employee in a corporate network.
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