I'm sorry but nearly any dumb TV has crappy brightness and poor black uniformity. I value a good picture, and if you spend any time comparing TV's on RTings you'd know that budget TV's are not worth it. I personally can not justify spending money on a TV that doesn't even have 400nits of brightness in SDR content, and neither should you. I'd be surprised if any non Smart TV has more than 300nits, most are at best 200 or 250.
The only time anyone should justify a shitty TV, is if that is all they can afford. Still do your research, there are cheap TVs out there that are decent for the money.
Like article above doesn't talk about. Sure maybe you like a microwave with two dials and not smart functions as you like it simple. But if you've never used an inverter based microwave packed full of smart tech, you never used a decent microwave. Its a single button press and perfectly cooked/warmed product every time. No cold spots. Sure a dumb microwave is fine, if you like to waste time.
A Dumb TV is no different. Sure it can be great after tossing a Fire TV stick onto it, and added a sound bar. But it still is going to have a budget picture, may have problems with ARC or no ARC at all, Bad menu system, etc.
For a Budget TV you are better off getting a higher end Hisense TV. Which has a bright Picture and runs Android TV.
> The only time anyone should justify a shitty TV, is if that is all they can afford.
Or anyone whose quality of life doesn't revolve around having a fancy televison...
Our household just doesn't watch enough TV to justify a big screen with deep blacks and lots of nits or whatever. We watch MAYBE an hour a week to relax and have some shared laughs. Until recently, our TV was some 37" 720p Walmart black friday special given to us by a family member who moved away. The replacement for it earlier this year is a big 1080p monster (by our standards) that the neighbors left on the curb because they upgraded to a 4k TV. It's a "smart" TV of course but we have never connected it to the Internet, just the little Roku box we have for occasional streaming.
You'd have to block it at the router level. Just block the IP addresses the TV is broadcasting too and receiving ads from.
Honestly while LG makes a good TV. WebOS sucks. And their need to push ads is crazy.
That's why I like Sony TV's, Google TV is a better interface. And The homescreen has no ads.
I would just use a fire tv stick, roku, or even better yet a Nvidia shield and not deal with WebOS at all. The Worst thing about LG and Samsung TV's have always been the Interface, but I'd take Samsung's over LG any day of the week.
There is not a chance in hell I would ever buy a TV running something called "Google TV". I can only think of two companies I trust less than Google, and those are Facebook and Samsung.
I have a semi-recent Sony TV and it has shitty ads on the home screen too, unfortunately. I feel like there's an opportunity here for a brand to sell an ad-free TV. I know I'd pay an extra 200-400 and a lot of other people here too.
I'd rock ESXI as hypervisor, and Truenas as the Storage environment.
Passthrough the SSD's and any Disk controller to TrueNas. I always recommend HDD Array to backup your primary SSD array. This could have all been avoided with ZFS, along with future worry of bitrot.
Then you can run your Primary Linux VM for Docker, and another other standalone Linux VM's you may need. You'll want to keep Truenas on a datastore connected to ESXI, but the rest of the storage back be kept on Truenas and fed back into esxi.
Not only keeps your system portable for future upgrade paths, but keeps your system reliable.
It just is more likely for a man to only have 1-2 partners before settling down with one. While a female may have had 2-10x that number by the time they settle down.
Its that 1/8 of men that have many partners, while 4/8 woman have many partners.
A man can be a sl*t too.
But you'll find that these days a young man is more likely to want to start a family than a young woman. And this has been proven over and over again by studies.
This is very true with the Gen Zers, Especially the Early Gen Z. You folk that are in your mid 20's. Really People born after 1995 are not Millennial. Its hard to even justify people born in 94 a Millennial. You don't remember 911, and you didn't experience last last economic recession first hand in the work force. If your first out of HS job was after 2012, You are a Gen Zer.
They simply are struggling, very few have moved up in their career paths. And so far have been one of the most lazy generations.
I don't agree at all that they are a lazy generation. They've just been presented with little to no economic opportunities, especially in areas that many of them care about like climate collapse, which is an in-our-lifetime threat to them. There's not much in the way of an economic ladder, and many are saddled with a great deal of student debt because they've had it drilled into them that a degree is the only way to get a good job. Then you graduate with a degree and there are still no good jobs, but you still have to pay it off.
I've had so many Gen Z interns that I've noticed they dont care about being fired from a job right out of College. Little Drive to keep themselves busy. They don't like to ask questions, and would rather do something wrong than ask and do it right the first time. Even If I show them how to do it right the first time, if you forget, just ask.
There isn't much of a ladder to climb as Millennials are still there to fill the void. Millennials have work experience and work hard.
But there is a notable gap and a Gen Zer is easy to pick from the crowd.
Not all are bad though. In fact many didn't have to struggle like a Millennial did early in life. My first 5 years in the work force was slow moving up the ladder. Entering the workforce in 2008 was not pretty for me.
Problem with GenZ is they didn't eat the flintstone vitamins we Millennial ate, and it shows.
One thing that may be worth considering is the quality of corporate laptops that are handed out versus, say, a top of the line custom-built PC.
Outside of any gaming rig I've built I've never used a good Windows computer for work. Not a "top of the line" laptop, not a virtual desktop client, nothing. Every single one has absolutely sucked.
I will say the new Apple TV remote does make it usable. The old touch one was horrible.