• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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    19 hours ago

    TV software is fucking abysmal. Its laggy, full of bloat and as you point out, their wifi capabilities are shit. I even have the connection/speed issue right now with one of my older TVs.

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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      15 hours ago

      I just bought a Sony BRAVIA 8 and it’s close to this. Never connected to WiFi. It goes directly to my HTPC input and I never see the home screen unless I want to.

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      20 hours ago

      I feel like I’m the one guy in my friend-sphere that hasn’t got a Smart-TV and such, at this point.

      I have little use for anything particularly “smart” when it comes to tv’s. Also my paranoia doesn’t allow for anymore potential spyware ridden electronics in my home. So I’m pretty happy about that…

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      22 hours ago

      Grammar & punctuation fascist I see

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        22 hours ago

        I mean, yes, but I was rather wondering, if that extra space was maybe why it couldn’t find it. Maybe you had to manually enter the SSID and accidentally put in that extra space? Then again, I don’t even know, if you took that photo…

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          17 hours ago

          I had a IoT device “lightbulb” that would trim any spaces left after the passkey, problem being I intentionally had a blank space at the end of my passkey. Took a while to realize till I counted the little stars hiding the recorded passkey.

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            17 hours ago

            Nothing grinds my gears like password interfaces that modify the password. If empty spaces at the beginning/end are an issue, tell the user. Show a note, or at worst a modal. But don’t modify it.

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    22 hours ago

    I remember when I bought an 40MB hard drive back in the day. (Yes, megabyte, not gigabyte) And I labeled it “WOWSOBIG”, because it was huge for me. When I bought a 32" flat screen when those first released I thought that was big. Now even the TV in the bedroom is a 48" and that just the small secondary TV. One of my neighbors across the street has a TV as big as his wall, I can watch his TV from my window.

    Funny how perspectives change over time.

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      I remember being so happy my HD was big enough that I could have OG Fallouts “Humongous Installation” on it. About 700MB.

      It was back when 1GB was seen as 1TB was a few years ago.

      How time flies…

    • n7gifmdnOP
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      22 hours ago

      I remember when we bought our first Windows PC in 1995 (We had had Tandy 1000 & a Commodore 64 before then) the sales guy told us, if you upgrade to the 1GB hard drive you’ll never fill it up in 20 years.