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My old person trait is that I think 'ghosting' is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you never connect it to the internet.... It stays dumb.

[–] agoramachina@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, I've seen "smart" tvs that require internet to have any level of functionality :(

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would imagine a lot of those get returned, because 10-20% (estimates vary widely) of US households don't have Internet.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of them require internet for setup 🙃