Google has shown off new features coming to Google TV at CES 2025, including presence detection and Google Assistant with Gemini integration.
Imagine walking into your living room and your TV automatically telling you the weather and your calendar for the day. If this is a future you can imagine, you’ll be pleased to hear that Google is working on a new mode for Google TV that does just that.
I remember when tech companies used to do cool things just because it was cool and people were interested in the cool things, and they were making improvements and all sorts of fun stuff.
There was a sweet moment in the mid 00s to early teens where cool stuff was being made to push the envelope. Yeah they wanted to sell you stuff, but they did so under the guise that it would be something to look forward to instead of sucking every penny from your dry husk
I continue to look for dumb tvs, but there are precious few. They’re either small, or big outdoor monitors. I want an awesome screen TV that’s dumb as dirt.
system apps have whatever permissions they want, and you can’t remove them. so much for easy permission management, when the adversary is the manufacturer
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Say McDonalds to continue
Radar IS spying though
I can do this already, all locally, with home assistant. Thanks anyway.
I did it all with a Pi powered magicmirror2 which I prefer since it’s my bathroom mirror anyway.
I just look at what the weather is. And check my calendar.
Right, I’m ok with the TV (or local assistant) knowing I’m in the room. But why does personal convenience have to become the panopticon, tech bros?
because they only make some money selling you convenience and they can make all the money by putting you in a panopticon.
No it will fucking not dumpster
I’d prefer to imagine a world in which a multi-billion dollar corporation isn’t tracking my every step to sell me more shit, and yet here we are…
I remember when tech companies used to do cool things just because it was cool and people were interested in the cool things, and they were making improvements and all sorts of fun stuff.
Now it’s all just done for… idk
Money. This is capitalism. The answer is money.
When was this? 1978?
It was during the Great Back When.
The Before Times.
The tru tru
There was a sweet moment in the mid 00s to early teens where cool stuff was being made to push the envelope. Yeah they wanted to sell you stuff, but they did so under the guise that it would be something to look forward to instead of sucking every penny from your dry husk
Was this during your formative years?
No
I continue to look for dumb tvs, but there are precious few. They’re either small, or big outdoor monitors. I want an awesome screen TV that’s dumb as dirt.
my LG oled works really well as a dumb TV with it disconnected from the Internet
Every TV is a dumb TV it isn’t connected to internet.
They all have annoyances when you don’t do what they want. I want a TV that doesn’t want anything.
Pretty sure roku ones don’t allow to be used until you accept their terms online
Wow, I’m glad I never had the chance to experience that
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
lol, Google is an advertising company, this will be a nightmare “feature”.
ad will complete once presence is detected
I would gladly factory reset my television and run off osmc or something if that becomes the norm.
well only if that becomes possible at all
I was referring to running a second device. Running the TV off osmc would rock, but not happening.
Frustrating fact: I have to wait for my LG TV to boot. It shows a picture, but takes a minute to load the OS and produce sound.
I thought this was The Onion for a second xD
Fortunately, Google TV is fairly easy to lock down and has permission management similar to android (because its just android with a custom launcher)
system apps have whatever permissions they want, and you can’t remove them. so much for easy permission management, when the adversary is the manufacturer
The weather will be what it will be, and I already have a calendar.
The TV is off until the evening anyways, I cannot see the point of this at all.
No. I dont want that. Look for something that I actually want and try not to add it to the Google graveyard.