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Re:Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids by wafflemaker on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:24AM (#46589698)
Given enough determination, you can learn how to locate antennas in the TV and remove them, which would render the TV dumb for all intents and purposes.

I have no experience with it, it just might be less work to remove antennas from any TV than finding a dumb TV in 2026.

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Re:Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids by mikestew on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:27AM (#46589731)
Or one could just, you know, not connect it to the Internet rather than ripping apart your new TV.
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Re:Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids by wolvoleo on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:54PM (#46597440)
I'm sure sooner or later TVs will demand to connect to an "activation server" before they start working. And soon after that continuous internet access.

You know, for your own protection of course. You wouldn't want to miss out on exciting content recommendation features and AI integration! Your life isn't complete without a constant guided tour of all the wonderful things surveillance capitalism has to offer, after all.

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Re:Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids by wafflemaker on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:29AM (#46646680)
Some TV's (unverified) were said to use available open/ring-camera WiFi's to ping the owner. Think I've read about it in some hn comment.
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