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Blocking BT Connections to a Samsung TV - QN49Q60RAFXZA
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Lord of nothing:
Why not use Sat? I never pay for anything on Sat. Cable is crap. Lower resolution and crappy codeq. In the most European country you have to pay a TV tax and in some even when you have internet only.
TerraHertz:
This is beautiful. I love seeing other people struggling with entirely predictable horrible consequences of 'smart' products. There's ALWAYS a combinatorial explosion of stupid, that's generally unacceptable. TVs and cars are two things that especially should not have any complex software or connectivity in them. Nothing that can decide to perform any spontaneous actions or reconfiguration on its own, anyway. Certainly nothing that can interact in any way with external wifi entities.

Oh and water heaters... my daughter was struggling with a psychotic water heater at her rental place for a while. It would randomly turn off and on during showers. Why was there a CPU and software in a water heater at all? Eventually the heater had to be replaced.

I have a simple rule, much like 'don't take up smoking cigarettes'. NO wifi, NO 'smart' anything, apart from actual computers that I want to interact with the www.  Even cell phones... there seem to be many advantages to using a very simple dumb cell phone.

Also, Samsung are evil. I won't bore you with justifying that statement, but I figured that out about 10 years ago. Related to buying a Samsung flash memory music player. It was gorgeously styled, but I'm never buying anything from Samsung ever again.

They very likely made the TV remote control dependent on BT, specifically so you have to leave BT enabled. Justifying absence of a BT disable option. Now why would they wish their TVs to always have BT enabled? I leave this as an exercise for the reader.
ConKbot:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on March 04, 2020, 10:33:56 am ---. Now why would they wish their TVs to always have BT enabled? I leave this as an exercise for the reader.

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I wonder if they send the telemetry of which BT devices are nearby while whichever programming is on back to samsung HQ encrypted or in the clear.
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on March 04, 2020, 10:33:56 am ---This is beautiful. I love seeing other people struggling with entirely predictable horrible consequences of 'smart' products. There's ALWAYS a combinatorial explosion of stupid, that's generally unacceptable. TVs and cars are two things that especially should not have any complex software or connectivity in them. Nothing that can decide to perform any spontaneous actions or reconfiguration on its own, anyway. Certainly nothing that can interact in any way with external wifi entities.

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Yeah, but this is a much cheaper way of doing planned obsolescence. The old way they had to size components to break after a while, now they just can push a button on the mothership and disable Youtube, make the software crash every now and then or make your device unusable in some other way.
Same with cars.
Mercedes recently soldered a regular lightbulb into the LED headlamp assembly of one of their cars. The damn thing would break after a few years, and since it is soldered, the entire assembly needed replacing. And since it had CAN connection, with serial number, there was no way to replace it with anything else, even one from the junkyard. Now with the GSM connection in the car, they can just trigger a route to the service whenever they feel like.
And the dumb sheep replaces their thing willingly, because the new and shiny has Android auto (barf) and bigger screen in the middle.
angrybird:

--- Quote from: ConKbot on March 05, 2020, 07:43:09 am ---
--- Quote from: TerraHertz on March 04, 2020, 10:33:56 am ---. Now why would they wish their TVs to always have BT enabled? I leave this as an exercise for the reader.

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I wonder if they send the telemetry of which BT devices are nearby while whichever programming is on back to samsung HQ encrypted or in the clear.

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I believe someone already established this was happening with wifi devices, so BT would make sense, all smart phones/windows 10 PC's/MAC PC's/etc are doing this as well, so it would only make sense!
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