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
lord save me from unsolicited tech advice

an update on this infuriatingly viral toot which continues to haunt my ass. the smart TV (named herein as a "Sony Bravia") died, got repaired, then died again, within the space of 3 months.

the same thing caused it to die both times: being turned off and unplugged so that I could vacuum behind the TV cabinet. understandably a TV which cannot deal with something as horrendous as "being occasionally turned off" was absolutely stupid, and I successfully yelled at the seller for a refund.

the bad smart TV has been replaced with a very large (42 inch), non-smart, monitor instead which is a fucking dream and simply pipes audio and video out of my media centre without trying to sell me shampoo at the same time. I will never buy a smart TV again as long as I live. have a nice day and please stop boosting this toot

@burgerdrome Jesus fuck I just looked at the number of boosts and favourites on that. D:

@virtualwolf @burgerdrome I got 820 boosts for a post last month and 420 for another post this month, so I've had to turn off boost notifications. I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's something that needs thinking about if we're going to get famous people with 500,000 followers on here.

(Really wanted to boost the original post because I have similar feelings about my Sony "smart" TV, but refrained.)

@virtualwolf it's easy to go viral on the tootnet as long as you are saying something like "modern technology bad... old technology good". unfortunately it is also completely and objectively true to say that modern technology bad while old technology good. so who knows