Don't buy a smart TV , they aren't smart. Many don't even have access to some major streaming services like Amazon. Or their agreements change and what they have today they might not have in a year or two. Just get the latest Roku, they have agreements with almost ever service, over 4500 in all.
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Do you own an HD TV
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Edd
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Agree with comments above. The interfaces on the Apple TV, Roku, and others blow away the smart TVs, the TCL Roku TVs being a probable exception.
Jully
Active member
That's what I thought. Didn't want to harp on something I had never really tried though!
gmcunni
Active member
xfinity (new cable provider) has smart boxes too. so can now netflix without the roku.
What's funny is that even though I now own an HD, it's only because the old boob tube blew up.
If I had my way there would be no TV here but the rest of the family would revolt. There is nothing on TV that interests me and that feeling only grows as time passes.
Don't participate in "social" media either. I have real people to interact with and I have no need for a soapbox.
benski
Active member
Same. I am about to move in for the semester to a place with no TV and don't care. I would say a lot of college students don't have one. I only had one my first two years of college becouse I needed it for free cable with a free 19 inch TV.
dlague
Active member
My 2 oldest boys (one just graduated, the other in his senior year) have HD but not for TV. Those are for gaming. If they watch TV it's through Netflix.
Is this social media?
Not in my book and I have met many (including you Dave) in person.
benski
Active member
Yes. The original social media.
dlague
Active member
I much prefer this medium as a social media platform over others out there like FB, Instagram nd the like.
And like you we have met other like minded folk.
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I guess.
My definition is more along the lines of Facebook/twitter/snapchat etc. or any dating site.
A great example of the dumbness that afflicts people who use those sites is the recent lawsuit Lindsey Vonn filed regarding the nude photos someone hacked from her social media accounts. She either did that on purpose for the publicity or she is dumber than a post for putting nude photos where they can obviously be hacked.
Pretty slick segue back to skiing huh?
I would agree but since I've never used other social media I'm a poor judge.
To this dinosaur social implies physical presence.
Pretty certain those Vonn photos and those of other celebrities were hacked directly from their cloud storage from their phones and social media had nothing to do with it.
It's a catch-22 situation. I have tons of photos of skiing, my son and other things/events saved directly on my phone, but they are all backed up on the cloud service that comes with my Verizon account. That's great if I break my phone as I won't lose those pictures, but it also means anyone with hacking skills can access those photos.
Had she deleted the photos from her cloud storage, hackers wouldn't have been able to acquire them. I periodically delete stuff from my cloud storage when it's getting full and I get a message that I need to buy more storage. Otherwise I wouldn't think of doing so.
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benski
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Yeah but who wants to steal your photos. They only steal these celebrities photos because the Daily Mail pays to publish them. I guess if they are inappropriate hackers could use them as blackmail.
I'm not suggesting anyone has any interest in my own photos. I was simply stating social media had nothing to do with her photos getting hacked.
Very well could be an interesting financial strategy.
1. Take newdz including pictures of famous golfer boyfriend
2. Leave them on the cloud
3. Wait for them to be hacked and published
4. Sue and profit
She may end up making more money off of this than all of her endorsements.
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Very well could be an interesting financial strategy.
1. Take newdz including pictures of famous golfer boyfriend
2. Leave them on the cloud
3. Wait for them to be hacked and published
4. Sue and profit
She may end up making more money off of this than all of her endorsements.
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benski
Active member
No such thing of bad publicity either.
See I learn something every day.
I keep my pictures in frames at home.
I keep my pictures in frames at home.
See my post below.
I hear you and appreciate the tech update but it's all semantics to me. I don't have any nude pics of me but I wouldn't put them in a place hackers could get at them. But some celebs make a living doing that I guess. Read Hilton or Kardashian.
I don't have any nude photos of myself either. I guess what I'm saying is most people don't even realize most digital storage nowadays is hackable. Literally everything we do involving computers is connected to the rest of the world and if people want that information and have the skill, they can get it.
Maybe for her next boyfriend, Lindsey will snap Polaroids and pop them in an album for him.
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