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minus-squareNima@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up214arrow-down1·edit-21 month agomy TV incurred my wrath by having the gall to show me a banner ad while I was in the middle of a game. so I promptly cut its balls off. (disabled the internet entirely). now it is a dumb TV. and it behaves like a TV. and not an ad machine.
minus-squarelolrightythen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 month agoI’ve never given a tv my wifi password. I’m not any techier than the average millennial. Maybe my trust issues are worse than average. I don’t regret my actions. Also - my xbox one s may have streamed more video content than provided rocket leaguery…until I tripped on a cord… Laptop now. Learning how to utilize these new capabilities.
my TV incurred my wrath by having the gall to show me a banner ad while I was in the middle of a game.
so I promptly cut its balls off. (disabled the internet entirely). now it is a dumb TV. and it behaves like a TV. and not an ad machine.
I’ve never given a tv my wifi password.
I’m not any techier than the average millennial. Maybe my trust issues are worse than average. I don’t regret my actions.
Also - my xbox one s may have streamed more video content than provided rocket leaguery…until I tripped on a cord…
Laptop now. Learning how to utilize these new capabilities.