r/Adulting • u/Far-Industry-7745 • 6h ago
Is there like a petition we could all maybe sign
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u/Astra-Fang 6h ago
Especially since most of the new smart TVS are ad riddled garbage.
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u/SockofBadKarma 2h ago
That's why they're cheaper. They're being subsidized by sales of your personal life data.
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 1h ago
I don't mind them selling my data, I've got nothing to hide, but why the fuck are the remotes so flimsy and so hard to replace?
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u/SockofBadKarma 1h ago
The remotes don't help them sell data (yet). Easy place to cut costs.
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u/EBtwopoint3 1h ago
They do. They have microphones built into them, which means they can record and beam back to the TV for upload. The secret is just to not connect modern TVs to WiFi and the problem is solved. Either pick a stream box you trust, or use your TV via a computer over HDMI.
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 1h ago
But why is it so hard to get a replacement?
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u/SockofBadKarma 1h ago
Replacements also don't help them sell data. Try to barter with them. Contact customer support and tell them they can get access to your preferred cooking ingredients and a list of the biggest tech stores along your daily commute, and maybe they'll deign to send you a refurbished one.
New ones require at least one intimate discussion about your current checking account statement and discretionary budget for new spyware purchases.
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u/bondsmatthew 51m ago
Next year there's gonna be a fingerprint scanner in a remote, you just willed it into existence
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u/LoudMusic 1h ago
I am astonished that so many people actually use the "smart" features rather than having their own streaming box like a Chromecast or Apple TV.
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u/SeenYourScene 1h ago
There are some pretty good ones for not too much. But you have to absolutely 100% never ever allow it on any network. Hell, I've got a TV more than a decade old that my brother had left online, using the 'smart' features, getting updates, and it was slow and dogged and even switching source would take so long.
I factory reset it, kept it offline, it almost works like a TV now, it's an amazing improvement.
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u/Sophisticated-Crow 5h ago
I remember when $100 would fill my cart with a range of groceries. Now it can blast off over $200, or even $300, really fast. Especially if you buy beef. Feeding a family of 4 takes a lot of frugality now.
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u/raistlin212 54m ago
A 10 pound log of ground beef, the 72% super fatty kind, is over $5 a pound here in the heart of cattle country, and I'm told it's over $6 in most of the rest of the US - right?. Buying the lowest quality in the largest amount to try to get a bulk discount still costs an arm and a leg. Inflation from 2000-today is about double but the price of beef is up 4 times in the same time frame. It's so painful now.
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u/Sophisticated-Crow 52m ago
Beef shot up a lot just in the last ~2 years. So it has an extra inflation boost. I've been sticking to pork and chicken these days.
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u/NewToHTX 5h ago
No shit this is one of the most genius ideas out there right now. Fuck consumer goods. Put groceries on sale and watch the people fight harder to get thru the door first.
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u/Royal-Wealth-8266 32m ago
I thought food was a consumer good. It is, but goes by fast moving consumer good and a nondurable good. Interesting.
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u/Individual_Slice_234 4h ago
Supposedly those big Walmart TVs have trackers that spy on you.
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u/Johndough99999 4h ago
All your smart electronics and newer cars have this. Anything that connects to the net reports to the information overlords.
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u/Infinite-Group-4520 1h ago
Which is why you never connect them to the internet. Plug your PC in or get a device from a company you think isn't spying on you to play the media.
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u/Ghudda 1h ago
Except the TVs automatically connect to any open wifi network. If your neighbors don't have passwords on all of their operating home, guest, and hotspot wifi networks, the tv can automatically connect to it and report back.
And who knows if they have agreements with ISPs like comcast so these smart devices can connect to any ISP deployed routers and get internet access. Not sure if they still do but comcast had a sort of mobile wifi service where if you were in range of one of their routers your phone or laptop could get internet service off of a router deployed in one of comcast's customer's home. Any usage wasn't put on the home owner, it was part of your own data use. As a comcast customer, you just got internet through any of their deployed routers.
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u/Infinite-Group-4520 1h ago
I’ve seen no evidence of that. In fact I’ve even run open guest networks to test and they don’t do that. You’re welcome to cite a video of that happening. But you’re just spouting lies until then.
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u/BrevardBilliards 47m ago
Same - I’ll dump packets, check client lists, etc. and have never seen any of my TVs automatically connect to an unsecured network.
Regardless, I still disable the network card on all of them…
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u/Ghudda 30m ago
It is conspiratorial.
You've tested yours but have you tested ALL of them? Keep in mind that the devices don't need to be continuously connected, just connect for 1-5 minutes, send back a few megabytes of stored collected data over the past few weeks and be done for a month.
Even if they aren't doing it now, what about next year? What about when the tvs inevitably get their own installed SIM card so the only way to ensure they aren't reporting ACR data is by desoldering chips and radios off the motherboards?
It's a vector that can exist that privacy minded people should be wary of because it's very hard to audit any of these devices, let alone every version of them every year.
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u/kzlife76 2h ago
Grocery stores' worst day of the year is black Friday. This could be their year to shine.
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u/Ok_Broccoli25 1h ago
Was a grocery manager for quite awhile and I can tell you that profit margins are slim. There isn't much room for black Friday style grocery sales
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u/LouieFixesStuff 4h ago
Dead ass
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u/pickingbrains321 2h ago
Gonna be selfish here bc my 70" is fading out. Drop TVs & raise turkeys. I make lasagna, anyway.
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u/PriorRare5308 2h ago
Yeah for some reason this makes 100% sense but it’s funny how it should be reversed
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u/OwnStudy723 1h ago
They should do black friday with houses. But maybe like a full week. And weekly.
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u/feldejars 4h ago
Prime ribeye for 12$ a lb will have me waiting in line
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2h ago
As soon as I started making enough money to buy ribeyes they skyrocketed in price lol. Back to stewing beef so the cheapest cuts are edible.
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u/midnayru 2h ago
I cant afford meat lol all i have been eating is oatmeal and jiffy cornbread for a few weeks by now. Had a tire blow out this morning on the way home from selling my plasma…Stew sounds amazing.
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u/LockHimUpForever 1h ago
We're all starting to sound like literal peasants here. Kinda crazy
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u/wirefox1 8m ago
It's what they want, two classes, and I don't think the middle class will be moving upwards.
Vote Blue. Let's get rid of them. And we can't just talk about it this time. We have to actually GO and VOTE.
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u/CoconutMochi 5m ago
Stewed meat takes so long to make but stuff like birria tastes way better than any steak IMO
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u/CynthiaH0210 3h ago
Put groceries on sale and taxes on hold…. Please and thanks !!
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u/Several_Hour_347 2h ago
Groceries aren’t taxed lmao
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u/wirefox1 6m ago
Alabama groceries (and everything else) are taxed at 10%, and that's after all of trump's ad-ons.
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u/CynthiaH0210 2h ago
I’m meaning taxes in general.. put a hold on it all.
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u/VarietyMage 3h ago
We'll be lucky to afford Black Friday's Eve, er, Thanksgiving.
Maybe we should just rename Black Friday to Red Friday...because the retailers will go deep into the red thanks to the Trump administration.
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u/RosesTurnedToDust 25m ago
Genuinely could profitable for the store. You would need to have a few extra stockers than normal to keep the shelves stocked, but you would fly through product.
I think the margins on groceries on pretty tight though so its hard to judge without seeing regular sales numbers.
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u/RenegadeTechnician 23m ago
That’s the point.
Companies like Walmart heavily discount electronics like TVs on Black Fridays, knowing full well they’ll get their money back from customers buying other stuff throughout the store (including groceries).
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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 21m ago
"Best we can do is mark up TVs by 30% a week early and then mark them all down by 20% on Black Friday."
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u/plectramedulla 16m ago
I don't need another 70-inch TV, I need eggs that don't feel like a luxury purchase.
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u/WafflesTheBadger 4h ago
I own a grocery store and do put groceries on sale that weekend but few people come out for it because they're usually planning on eating leftovers for the next week.
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u/StruggleBoy1999 3h ago
Fuck that. Lower prices for one day? How about we just make shit cheaper rather than encourage these dumbass "sales" in the first place...
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u/MyvaJynaherz 2h ago
I mean, if the food lasts a year and change from its date of manufacture, sure...
You think companies are rushing to make the slop they sell on Black Friday for "discount?"
They knock that contract out first because the quality doesn't matter as much, and it's money in the bank compared to building up stock that could fail to sell.
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u/PutConstant866 1h ago
Fuck, I remember reading something about Amazon putting household essentials on black Friday being a big recession indicator a couple months ago. Now this entire thread smells like adtroturfing for them.
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u/Signal_Opening767 5h ago
black friday really said “60% off a soundbar” like i’m gonna eat the soundbar