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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by NoMoreNicksLeft on Sunday March 30, 2025 @01:06AM (#43521513)
> I don’t know how much longer that will be possible with how cheap 5G is getting. Sooner or later they’ll be able to install a $10 part and make a deal with wireless carriers as backhaul for unconnected TVs.

I had a really snarky reply to this, about how I'd just crack it open and remove the sim card, warranty be damned. Then I realized that even sim cards are going away, that's all done in software on the latest phones (no doubt an option soon for everything). Sorta fucked, I wish you were wrong.

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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by barotalomey on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:41AM (#43521899)
It's called eSIM and has been around for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM

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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by exe34 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @03:37AM (#43522186)
it has to have some kind of modem/antenna that you can cauterise.
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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by jononor on Sunday March 30, 2025 @05:45AM (#43522817)
But the TV functionality does not have to work if one does that? We should really have laws that makes it illegal to not function without connectivity.
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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by exe34 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:38PM (#43526410)
correct. that's why I have an old and dumb projector instead of a TV.
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