• Turgid Sturgeon@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    I had a 65" Hisense TV for just over a year, and a firmware update bricked it. It was stone dead, and Hisense wouldn’t even try to repair it. So I spent a little extra money and got a Samsung instead. And once it was set up, I turned off its wifi…just in case.

    Hisense can eat a bag o’ dicks.

    • ShankShill@sh.itjust.works
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      21 days ago

      My first 4K TV was a Samsung. The last update broke eARC making the Samsung home theater in a box thing I had much more inconvenient.

      My 2nd (free in a raffle) Samsung 4K TV connected to my WiFi without a password when a guest in the house casted a video to it despite on setup refusing to consent to any web things due to privacy concerns. Kinda interesting and concerning.

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          12 days ago

          I blocked the TVs MAC address on my router after a factory reset.

          It completely ignored my privacy preferences just because someone pressed “cast” on their phone.