I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my useage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology
@burgerdrome I haven't bought a TV for 15 years so this is like science fiction to me. But hardly surprising now that I think about it

@ecoscore @burgerdrome Yeah I'm a 'wear the fucking thing into the ground before you replace it' fella so my TV is from 2009 and its still working well enough for my needs (plus I kept it around as I had a *huge* game console collection and it afforded me the perfect number of inputs to have like 9-10 consoles hooked up lol).

I still have 3 dumb Chromecasts (from before they changed them to have a full OS and apps and whatnot) so my TV isn't smart but it at least has basic connectivity and I don't need to worry about the other guff...yet.