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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's why I love projectors, they almost never have "smart" features built in. A Raspberry Pi can serve as a great HTPC running FOSS software like Kodi, connecting to a local, self-hosted Jellyfin server full of pirated content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't really get the whole projectors thing when you easily just the do same thing for a TV that's offline 😆

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sure, that's another option, but I would have bought a projector anyway, and the fact that they haven't been hit by enshittification is a nice bonus on top

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Problem with projectors is they don't work very well in bright spaces

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's true