My TV set is a 7 year old Dell All-in-One PC running Linux Mint. It works great. It doesn’t try to sell me shit. Ads be hella blocked.
Pro tip: computer Monitors are, for the most part, still dumb.
Just don’t connect your TV to the internet. I’ve been using it as a monitor for years.
Why would anybody connect their tv to the internet?
Joke’s on you. Many of us stopped buying TVs years ago.
This. We have not owned a TV since the very early 00s, when we realized they wanted us to pay in order to watch… ads. More and more of them.
When I moved, I just didn’t plug the TV in at the new place. Instead, I started using it exclusively as a monitor for my HTPC. Watching online videos on a bigger screen is just so much nicer. Besides, ublock origin is doing a good job blocking all the nonsense a smart TV is designed to show you. When visiting friends and family, I end up watching normal TV a little bit, and I can’t say I miss any of that.
I haven’t owned a TV since they became “smart.” I hated the idea then and I hate it now.
Yeah my TV will never get internet access again. Using my computer with my TV as a screen is way better.
Repost: https://feddit.uk/post/16382677
It’s barely been two days…
LibreELEC and Kodi say otherwise.
