I just finished setting up a custom router with dns ad blocking. Next comes a media player so I can purge this smart TV filth from my household.

Huge shout out to Louis Rossmann and the FUTO communuty contributors, check out the wiki on self-hosted software if you haven’t already.

Wiki link

  • @grueEnglish
    1•5 days ago

    And then buy a non-smart TV instead. At least one company, Sceptre, still makes them. (I don’t want to make it seem like I’m shilling for a particular brand, but I genuinely don’t know of any other options, aside from commercial signage displays.)

    • @[email protected]English
      1•20 hours ago

      Commercial displays might be the answer, all the smart bullshit goes against their use case so they need a way to go around it in case they still have it, and every brand have them.

      Last time I looked into it they were more expensive and had to be bought through an agent but that was a few years ago, thing might have changed.

      • @grueEnglish
        1•11 hours ago

        Again, the brand I mentioned in the previous comment is a consumer-oriented one, that you can simply buy off Amazon etc., that still sells dumb TVs. I’d only suggest resorting to commercial displays if you’re boycotting that brand for some reason.

          • @grueEnglish
            1•7 hours ago

            Ah, that’s unfortunate, and another good reason to consider resorting to a commercial display.

            'Course, it’s also possible that a commercial display is so much more expensive/a hassle that it might be worth figuring out how to buy a Sceptre TV in a country where it is sold and then importing it yourself.