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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by Koshkin on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:37PM (#35487963)
But who/what are you calling "idiot" and why? I would never think of calling that a plain HDTV set - it is still a technological marvel (and also would have all kinds of "smarts" built in anyway, just no apps or wifi).
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by Godel_unicode on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:54PM (#35488143)
Calling the version with no smarts “idiot” seems pretty clever to me.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by partdavid on Sunday April 09, 2023 @01:57PM (#35504953)
"Idiot box" is an immediately-accessible slang term for television for me, but maybe the usage is a little old.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by chriscjcj on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:59AM (#35490676)
Yeah.... I never purchased any books in the "For Dummies" series out of self respect.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by xigency on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:40AM (#35491874)
Beginning Programming for Dummies isn’t too bad.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by 867-5309 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:19AM (#35491567)
because it's a synonym of dumbo
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