Have a regular PC hooked up to the TV. That's my smart machine. I control every aspect of it. Fuck Smart TVs.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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Raspberry pi with Kodi hooked up to a projector and a NAS serving files works well for me.
This is the way, although the pi is to slow for me at this point and I replaced it with shields.
Also why the are people connecting tvs to their networks...fuck that noise.
I'm glad that I stopped watching television so many years ago (excluding watching the thing at a friend's place (and muting it when the commercials start rolling)).
Watched only movies in the end. But the ads were too much.
PC & Adblock 💗
If you really need a smart TV in 2025, go get a dumb one, and then hook it up to a used nettop or a single-board computer like Raspberry Pi. You can use a cheap USB infrared receiver to control it via regular remote.
Install something like Plasma Bigscreen, and you'll be golden.
This is why I have a dumb TV hooked up to a Linus htpc