I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it’s trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it’s downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it’s being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This sounds like LG and Samsung smart TVs.

    I have a TCL running Roku TV and don’t have those issues. There’s the Roku ads sure, but it isn’t randomly changing my channel/app lineup or restarting to install updates unexpectedly. It just sort of works. It’s why I went with something running Roku software instead of the manufacturer bullshit.

    It’s just like car infotainment systems. They almost all suck still, and CarPlay and Android Auto are infinitely better options.

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      1 year ago

      I have LG smart TVs and have literally none of these problems. Sounds like user error to me.

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      1 year ago

      No it doesn’t lol. I’ve used plenty of both and never seen those problems.