• Reannlegge
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    1 day ago

    After my first pihole setup (I hate SD cards with a passion now), I saw what my “smartTV” was doing and I pulled it off the internet. The TV really did not like being off of the internet but I found ways around that. I have an Apple TV as my smart stuff.

    I have 2 pi5’s with NVMe drives and a pi4 booting off of an external NVMe drive. Last night I thought about figuring out a way to download the youtube videos and setting up a jellyfin sever. Or breaking and getting using Firefox and attaching one of my pi5’s to the TV and just doing it that way.

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      1 day ago

      I looked at smaller things like the Pi and in the end decided I had more flexibility by just having a little PC and bunging Linux on it.

      I just got a new smart TV, but it’s never going on the internet, lol

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        19 hours ago

        When my smart TV was attached to the internet, because a friend helped me get it into my place she was fairly insistent on setting it up to the internet, I had no idea how much data it was sending places. I set up my first go at a pi-hole and say that a good majority of the internet signals coming and going from my place was from the TV.

        Smart TV’s are not cool, I bought it to display video not spy on me and sell ads to me. I have since ditched that email address it’s only used for YouTube now. I would ditch the email entirely if the Google did not own YouTube. It breaks my buy Canadian heart that I am stuck using YouTube and Reddit, I am however trying to cut down on the groups and channels I subscribe to or pay attention to.