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  • What I did was bought a "commercial" television that's intended to either be put in a waiting room and tuned to Fox News all day, OR used as digital signage. It's not quite an Arby's menu board because it's still obviously a television, has a tuner and such, but it has no "smart" TV in it and the backlight isn't as "won't survive a run of Breath of the Wild" like the TCL televisions my parents own. Then I slapped a Raspberry Pi 4 on the back with OSMC on it. Meanwhile I did replace my small form factor desktop gaming rig, so I have a Ryzen 3600/GTX1080 rig sitting unplugged under that television waiting for me to build up the gumption to switch over to it.

    • Not to jump to the defense of the cheapest Chinese manufacturer, but my parents' TCL TV has survived for like 6 years

      • And also to be fair I've got a Samsung with a mostly failed backlight that I haven't bothered to get rid of. I could probably sort of partially half ass fix it, but...

        • Over the years, I've tried three different times to fix the backlights on three different TVs. At this point, I understand that a failed backlight is a failed TV

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