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A smart TV nowadays should only be treated as a computer monitor loaded with a bloated, spyware-ridden OSD.

I’ve connected a Samsung and a Roku TV to my WiFi one time, and they each routinely make hundreds of thousands of advertisement and data collection requests over the network daily.

Take advantage of the deals if you must get a TV, but never connect it to the internet, only navigate the UI to switch display inputs, use external devices only, and always, always, always turn off motion-interpolation!

Sometimes memes are the only way we know how to cope

“THE JOY OF NOT BEING SOLD ANYTHING”

I know someone who recently flew with Philippine Airlines that got an email exactly like this, after booking the cheapest possible economy seats. It’s a Wild West bidding war against other passengers for maybe a “premium economy” upgrade that gets you three economy seats in a row for yourself, so you can lay down and sleep on all of them during the long flight. It’s telling of an airline when this flight booked almost a year in advance wasn’t ever going to be a full flight.

That being said, if you’re ever flying to the Philippines, take any other Asian airline but PAL. They’re stingy with drinks, they have strict overhead carry-on weight limits that forces you to check bags in for a fee, their food is school/prison cafeteria quality, they delay flights without taking responsibility for screwing up your connecting flights, and you’re overall treated like cattle when in economy.