I would also put a good bit of the blame on executives and marketing people being way out of touch with the average person.

to get something as flexible as my android tv i’d need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn’t completely impossible by then.

Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i’ll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|

just saying its possible

Not sure if you mean hardcoded DNS IPs or hardcoded “phone home” IPs. Hardcoded DNS addresses in devices are annoying, the only way i’ve found to get around that is using destination nat rules (DNAT) which requires more than a consumer router typically. hardcoded phone home IPs would get blocked by your firewall. you’re right that most firewalls are set up by default to implicitly allow outbound traffic. you set up a rule that explicitly denies all outbound traffic from the TV, then only allow port 443 (or whatever port your streaming service uses) on the specific IP/IPs that your service uses. Here’s Netflix’s published IP info for example.

edit also i’m fully aware it’s fucking ridiculous that we as consumers have to go through this much rigamarole. you shouldnt have to be a literal network engineer to do something as simple as have an internet-connected tv that doesnt spy on you.

no it helps to block everything that isnt just netflix or whatever streaming service you use. you combine a DNS adblock along with blocking all the unused ports and it severely limits the communications. you could also add a vpn to add another layer of security. idk about jellyfin but most streaming services i know use https/443 to stream to your tv. so youre only allowing the specific service you want and only on a specific port. buncha great dns blocklists here https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists, and a smart tv specific one for pihole here https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/SmartTV.txt

It’s relatively easy to restrict a smart tv to TLS/HTTPS traffic only using your router and a dns adblocker.

we prefer to call ourselves acetomeniphen-americans

i like this, it removes the “traditional” gender expectations from the saying, while also bringing any other members of the immediate family into the equation.

you get it. glad you found something that helps, took me a while to find a med combo that worked to help me “logic” my way through the emotions. they’re still there, but i’m able to bitch slap them into submission more easily.

hah, computers have had the same drive rail layout for so long that i didn’t even notice! .^_.

what, do i dare ask, are the computer holes?

see, this is why we millienials throw so many lols into our text communication. so people know it’s not super serious lol.

i wonder how much extra stress access to instant non-verbal communication has added to humanity. like for thousands of years you could only talk to someone face to face or wait three months for a letter to arrive. we never really had to try and translate someone’s intent without the aid of vocal tone and body language until pretty recently.

that’s just a mid-coitus snack! at least it wasn’t a pastrami sandwich.

“happy wife happy life” seems so… antiquated though.

edit i think my viewpoint might be because my parents were both born in the early 1950s and very much reinforce the “boomer” stereotypes. i think both people in a partnership should be happy, to be clear.

that’s awesome. it can take a lot of courage to be blunt, even if you’re very close to someone. i always have that voice in the back of my head going “was i too blunt? what if i offended them? what if they hate me now?” etc etc, even when i’m trying to be polite.

arch wiki is good, been using that since i migrated to cachyos in september (had been running win 11 pro for years prior to that). only major issue i had was display related lol, i use a tv that needs a custom EDID to expose 120hz mode and it was an absolute nightmare trying to generate it with linux. ended up using a linux tool to dump my existing EDID then popping it into CRU via wine to generate the new one. Works pretty damn well now, have to say.

“Black and white” thinking is something that adhd and asd people struggle with constantly. It may not be a choice.

It’s all just one big ass blast.