If i haven’t specifically agreed to, or asked for, promotional content I consider it unsolicited.

Unsolicited Ads are poison. I don’t give two shits who’s behind them, if you spew that shit in people faces, fuck you.

So it is actually just an advertisement…yuck 🤮

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Yeah holy shit, this sounds like a POS software I’d stay away from it.

Why bother then?

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you start to form coherency of how some users act across different communities, which allows for much better discussion since it’s not limited to one-off comments in a single thread. The better you know people the better and more nuanced discussions you can have with them.

Or, like you mention, you may see a pattern and know to disregard and not engage with them based on that.

I’m not talking about this thread dingus…

Oh hey you’re one of the butt hurt sync defenders i noticed was very active in that thread…nice to see you here too.

The Sync users in that latest thread with izzy are definitely a bunch of butt hurt people.

My most jarring experience was with a waiter, he asked “English or French?” When I entered the restaurant, I answered “English please” and he just shook his head and said “no”…like, why would you ask then!?

I’ve traveled quite a bit to different places in France within the past few years, both large an small cities, and the vast majority of people i meet, even younger people (<30), have either so bad English skills that they are really hard to communicate with, or none at all. Meeting someone in France with proper English skill is definitely the exception rather than the rule IME.

You’re completely missing the point…this will add an ugly extra box cluttering up an otherwise clean setup. Of course there is a workaround, there always is, but it’s far from optimal. It’s a bad solution to an annoying problem that shouldn’t exist.

None of the >40" monitors I’ve looked at today had any audio outputs. But finding one that isn’t an ultrawide format for gaming is probably the bigger issues it seems.

Not true at all…e.g. Chromecast doesn’t have a dedicated audio output and neither does the apple TV, they only have HDMI output. Now the HDMI does also carry audio, but many amps and especially sound bars, do not have HDMI to pass through and rely on getting the audio signal from the TV/monitor if you’re using those devices.

As I mentioned earlier, use a soundbar or dedicated speakers (most TV speakers suck anyways).

Yes, but there is no audio output (as in a RCA, Optical etc., not built-in speaker) to get the audio from the monitor to the amplifier.

Unless it’s “load this file on a USB stick and plug in in your TV”-easy, it’s still out if reach to most consumers.

But my point is, it shouldn’t be necessary to do these things in the first place. Fucking drop the “smart” element from them completely, they always suck ass anyway and are laggy as hell to navigate.

I haven’t seen >40" monitors at a reasonable price though compared to TVs

Edit: also, there’s usually not any audio output to an amplifier on monitors.

What a fucking ridiculous workaround that’s completely unavailable to the regular consumer…fuck Samsung (and the industry in general) for this approach.