Jackbox Games is releasing its games for free on Smart TVs

While there’s no release date yet for the service, Jackbox Games is hoping to bring a beta version to “one or two smart TV platforms” in spring this year. More platforms and features will then follow.

  • caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    My LG OLED autoupdated through the internet last year and now VRR is broken (flickers no matter what or how stable the FPS is), only way to „fix“ it is to set the refresh rate to whatever my FPS is gonna be (most of the time) and then lock my FPS to that and hope it doesn’t dip below that too much (or it‘ll flicker). Support is as helpful as you might imagine.

    So yeah, don‘t connect your TV to the internet or you‘re at the mercy of the manufacturer. Lesson learned.

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I setup rules on my router to block outgoing traffic from my LG OLED but I still have it on the network so I can use wake-on-LAN.

        • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          This would vary based on what router you use, but this is the way I handled it on my Ubiquity EdgeRouter.

          • I added a DHCP reservation for my TV so it’s IP address on my local network doesn’t change.

          • I added a new firewall policy (with the highest priority) that accepts all traffic by default between my internal LAN network and the WAN interface of my router.

          • Then I added a rule to that policy to drop traffic from the IP address I assigned to my TV.

          Now the TV can no longer phone home to send obnoxious notifications or issue surprise firmware updates but I can still turn on the TV and adjust the volume over the local network. I use Home Assistant for this, but I think the LG remote android app would still work as well.