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nickdothutton | on: Root shell on Samsung TV
This is why you buy a display panel and not a smart TV.
Geezus_42 | parent | next
Or just buy the subsidized TV and never connect it to the internet. I've yet to see them adding cellular modems.
regularfry | root | parent | next
I'll probably get a kiosk panel next time. But this time, yeah, I've just not configured the network. All content comes from the console. Which is a different bundle of problems and no better in a lot of ways, but it's more of a known quantity.
pixl97 | root | parent | next
>and never connect it to the internet

That saves you from some potential issues but not others. My google search magic isn't working, but there was some manufacture a number of years ago who's TVs were crashing because they'd save up massive amounts of data to upload and either exhaust all their memory or fill up the disk because it never connected online.

Also, if you live in a household you have to make sure every other person behind that TV doesn't connect it to the net at some point for some reason.

Geezus_42 | root | parent
Oh no! My TV turned off for a few seconds...

> Also, if you live in a household you have to make sure every other person behind that TV doesn't connect it to the net at some point for some reason

You could always ban it from your network at the router.

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frankharv | root | parent
Right......

Like none of these TV's hooks to an Open Wifi Hotspot and abuse you.

Geezus_42 | root | parent | next
How many open WiFi networks are around you? I live in a city and there are 0 within range. ISP routers have defaulted to password protection for more than a decade. The only places with open WiFi are places of business that provide guest work. Even those are far less common and usually password protected these days.
wtch98 | root | parent
Trivial to prove that, just set up an open wifi and show it connecting, getting an IP, and then transmitting data.

I haven't managed to reproduce it.

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timnetworks | parent
Underrated approach. Even if the screens are a tad more expensive by today's subsidized standards. There are also many FHD and 4k non-smart TVs on the second hand market, with many given away for free on your preferred marketplace website.