TVs require walmart accounts to work now
Louis Rossmann
Smart TV manufacturers are increasingly requiring user accounts to access basic features and streaming apps. This shift links retail data with device usage, fundamentally changing the ownership experience. Explore how these requirements impact data privacy and control over hardware bought and paid for.
TVs require walmart accounts for all features to work now
I got a fairly new Sony TV and I'm really pissed about a few things. I don't let it connect to the Internet and don't give a crap about any of the features this video addresses. It's an OLED TV and the picture quality is great. That's where my praise ends. The biggest headache I have is connecting the audio to my amplifier that doesn't support ARC. The TV has an optical output but it's only fixed-level. My old TV allowed the optical out to be fixed or variable with the TV volume setting. This means I can't use the optical output for controlling the volume via the TV's volume setting. There's no analog audio output. They couldn't even put a lousy headphone jack on the over $1,000 TV. I bought a converter box to grab the audio via the ARC output to get variable level audio via the TV's volume mechanism. It works sorta, with delay in responding to the remote. Possibly my only option is to get a bluetooth receiver with an analog output. The TV sends audio over bluetooth. I don't want no stinkin' bluetooth connection but it might be the least-worst option.
Other gripes: I didn't like the declaration that by using the TV I agree to all sorts of the crap agreements like we see on software packages. I don't like that it proudly displays the google logo every time it powers up. This TV is one example of how TVs have become enshitified, and the video discloses that the enshitification is getting worse.
enshitification:
I wonder where enshitification fits on the Shit ton scale.
1 Crap Load ≈ 1 full car trunk.
1 Ass Load = 4 Crap Loads.
1 Butt Load = 2 Ass Loads.
1 Shit Load = 2 Butt Loads.
1 Fuck Load = 2 Shit Loads.
1 Butt Ton = 2 Fuck Loads.
1 Ass Ton = 2 Butt Tons.
1 Shit Ton = 2 Ass Tons.
1 Metric Fucktonne = 2 Shit Tons.
1 Imperial Fuckton = 1.15 Metric Fucktonnes.
The Fuckton is the Imperial standard for the measurement of fuckweight, while the Fucktonne, in contrast, constitutes the Metric measure of fuckmass. Generally used to imply superlative quantity with the Metric standard included to emphasize this point. The inclusion of the term is, however, fundamentally a misuse of that standard, as the Imperial Fuckton (2000 Imperial Fuckpounds) denotes a slightly greater measure of fuckweight within Earth's gravitational pull than does the Metric Fuckton (1000 Metric Fuckilograms).
