22 May
2024
22 May
'24
7:34 p.m.
said William Morder via tde-users:
| On Wednesday 22 May 2024 11:47:43 dep via tde-users wrote:
| > Funny thing during this TV project is how easy it is to forget I'm
| > running a perfectly ordinary computer with a great big screen.
|
| Wow, I had practically forgot about that. I guess that it's probably not
| your everyday machine.
I put a USB drive into the port of my TCL-Roku TV and up popped a window
saying that they intended to share its contents with its "partners." Then
I read Roku's privacy policy. I said screw this and decided to take the
television's internet privileges away. So all I'm using now are the screen
and its audio-handling -- ARC and CEC circuits. This worked out well
enough that I made another, with just a monitor instead of a TV at all. It
is different in operation, but in my estimation better. and far more
private.
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