(((Smart))) TVs now apart of the botnet

except it sucks at youtube

i use youtube through kodi on an rpi3 pretty much daily. did you try not fucking it up?

maybe rpi3 is fast enough, the others struggle to play the video through browser

kodi for youtube has a crap interface that breaks every few months, nobody wants to generate a youtube api key to watch videos on their tv

>now
Where have you been the last 5 years?

well of course the old ones would struggle. they're single core 1ghz arms.
the interface works fine for me and adding an api key took a couple of minutes at most. i can't really see why that would be a problem for anyone.

Don't connect them to your network.
Block their physical address on your network if you are extra worried.

If you want to use stuff like netflix, track the different network traffic, zero in on netflix, block everything other than that.

rpi2 is quad core

>took a couple of minutes at most.
I dont need an api key or youtube/google account to watch youtube videos in a browser, not to mention the UI is far better

the api key makes it easy for youtube to track what videos you watch

that defeats the purpose of having a smart tv
being able to use the internet on the tv is good, but I dont trust the tv, so I use a rpi or old laptop that I can control, but its far less convenient

*roots self into tv, changes programming to geriatric porn*

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well user, it's clear that you have no idea of how google or even webservices in general operate so i'll leave you with your keyboard and mouse to operate your tv. good luck i guess.

I'm gonna use my Sony WEGA until it dies. 32 inches of widescreen FD trinitron goodness with absolutely zero botnet.

>that defeats the purpose of having a smart tv
I think the problem is that if you want a somewhat decent high end TV, it will come with these smart features even if you dont want them. (See amazon.co.uk/TVs-60-69-Home-Cinema-TV-Video)

Be careful because a lot of these Smart TVs also have DVB Transceivers. These were just marketed as just Digital TV, but a later specification allows DVB-RCT which;
>provides a method by which the DVB-T platform can become a bi-directional, asymmetric, data path using wireless between broadcasters and customers.
Even if your network is unavailable your TV now essentially has a transmitter. There is also the possibility of a SmartTV simply searching for unsecured wifi connections, then sending data in the form of dns queries

wrap it in some blocking cage/tinfoil to block the signal?

My TV can only communicate with my Plex box enforced by VLAN and firewalls. Problem solved.

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THEY'RE ONTO US

rpi3s cost the same as all the other ones (besides the zeroes)
why not just get an rpi3b?

if they can serve videos in a browser without an api key, they can serve videos without one either, youtube are just being pricks, like when they disabled rss feeds

ah yes, that would be a problem
I also dread knowing that even fridges will have a shoehorned botnet if you buy them in a few years and is wasting more electricity for shit you dont want

linked wrong one

I havent got one yet, the modest spec bump wasnt enough, i'll wait for rpi4

No I just rewrote the old post () to ( ) because the code block looked fucking nasty.

>wrap it in some blocking cage/tinfoil to block the signal?
This will work but wouldnt it reduce the visual / audio quality of the tv to have noisy foil rattling around the speakers, or a cage infront of the screen?
I suppose another approach would be to put the entire TV room inside a Faraday cage. Then your mobile phone would also not get internet access whilst watching the TV. How would you shitpost?

Honestly I think this is more of a solution than trying to dumb down a smart tv. Just get a fucking huge LCD and make it smart with a rPi and watch all your content over something like netflix that will at least sell your data to people willing to pay 10-20 million dollars.

>implying this is something new
And sky is blue. More news at evening.

don't hold your breath on that one user, the rpi team has said time and time again they're trying to milk the rpi3 for all it's worth before trying to go onto the rpi4
and right now the rpi3 is just fine as a webbrowsing/htpc/shitposting machine and it's good enough for whatever the niggers down in africa use them for
it's only like 35 bucks, a lot better than what those pcmr fags want you to pay for an htpc ($300+)

Supposing we get pushed into a future where everything is "smart and IoT" at a point you need a personal terminal to have your data safe not unlike with megaman battle network, who besides apple would do it? and which brand would be the most reliable? a ThinkPET?

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>ThinkPET
>runs gentoo
>spend all night compiling navi
>ricing it hard and duking it out in netbattles with style
If this were real maybe the botnet wouldn't be so bad.

>IPet
>Jacking in requires two or more adapters
>Can only use battle chips from the apple store
>Netnavi always looks like Steve Jobs and is a tireless social justice crusader

>Jow Forumstard just now realizes this
Companies analyzing what you're using your TV for via comparing a few sections of the screen to a database of videos/games was first revealed a couple years ago, and Samsung admitted their smart TVs were listening in on your conversations 4-5 years ago

>Be careful because a lot of these Smart TVs also have DVB Transceivers
They don't use a transmitter on a dedicated frequency for a return channel, they just use your local internet connection. I am surprised that with the IOT craze we haven't seen device manufacturers integrate cellular connectivity into devices for use as a return channel for telemetry though. That seems like a really obvious application and it would certainly be affordable considering Amazon had no problem negotiating a bulk contract with multiple cellular companies for their 3G Kindles to use for downloading books on the go.

The only truly trustworthy terminal now is a Talos II; which is insane overkill. But everything else now that's even borderline modern needs proprietary blobs.

The whole OpenPOWER thing is supported by IBM, Google, and Rackspace among others.
Then OpenCompute project has support from Google, Rackspace, Facebook and others.

The obvious goal for BigData(TM) here is that everything needs to be datamined -- except for the machines doing the datamining, those need to be opensource and openhardware to hell.

The only way your going to get a trustworthy, open source portable terminal, is if BigData needs it to maintain the infrastructure, because BigData trusts no-one but itself.

This is why Google Fuchsia is so dangerous. Google always wants to control, and so long as they use Linux, control means opensource. But once they don't need Linux, proprietary code is no longer an issue; they have the volume to demand a look at the code, and without Linux's GPL, they don't need to share with anyone else. Once that happens, Google has the control they want, and you have nothing.

The Google market strategy is to dominate with opensource, and control with proprietary code once market domination is sufficient:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
You can see this with Chrome as well, there is a Chromium project, but unless you're on Linux you probably won't bother, and just use the Google builds.

>But everything else now that's even borderline modern needs proprietary blobs.
Except slightly older Thinkpads, that Asus C201 Chromebook, the Asus Tinker Board which uses the same SOC as their C201 Chromebook, and a some other not as good SBCs. If those aren't enough for all the internet related stuff you do then you need to stop running tons of bloatware. All the telemetry in the world means nothing when the device that's running it isn't connected to the internet.

>They don't use a transmitter on a dedicated frequency for a return channel, they just use your local internet connection. I am surprised that with the IOT craze we haven't seen device manufacturers integrate cellular connectivity into devices for use as a return channel for telemetry though. That seems like a really obvious application and it would certainly be affordable considering Amazon had no problem negotiating a bulk contract with multiple cellular companies for their 3G Kindles to use for downloading books on the go.
Jesus Christ how horrifying.