as much as this is where everything is headed, this post is a bit premature and overblown
the "always on, always everywhere, super fast" 5G isn't going to materialize outside tiny slivers of the biggest metropolitan areas, and even then it's going to be super limited and won't go through walls. mmwave is never going to catch on. they might repurpose the tech for high-bandwidth line-of-sight connections, like casting a phone's display directly to a TV or whatever, but it's not the apocalypse.
the kind of 5G that everyone is actually going to use is basically just "improved LTE" and isn't meaningfully different from what we've got now, just slightly faster and more reliable
anyway don't buy anything you can't flash custom firmware onto and fully control yourself, don't buy anything which requires cloud services to function, don't buy anything that records you and uploads the recordings
I have a smart TV and it's driving me slightly insane, I had to create an account to disable the "feature" where it phones home to Samsung to tattle on everything I'm watching. I don't really believe they've stopped collecting the data, either.
That’s kind of the point though. Right now you do have the ability to physically stop that TV from connecting to Samsung by changing some router settings. 5G wants to move that critical decentralized infrastructure into the cloud. At that point we’ll have to trust that these massive corporations are keeping their word.
as much as this is where everything is headed, this post is a bit premature and overblown
the "always on, always everywhere, super fast" 5G isn't going to materialize outside tiny slivers of the biggest metropolitan areas, and even then it's going to be super limited and won't go through walls. mmwave is never going to catch on. they might repurpose the tech for high-bandwidth line-of-sight connections, like casting a phone's display directly to a TV or whatever, but it's not the apocalypse.
the kind of 5G that everyone is actually going to use is basically just "improved LTE" and isn't meaningfully different from what we've got now, just slightly faster and more reliable
anyway don't buy anything you can't flash custom firmware onto and fully control yourself, don't buy anything which requires cloud services to function, don't buy anything that records you and uploads the recordings
I have a smart TV and it's driving me slightly insane, I had to create an account to disable the "feature" where it phones home to Samsung to tattle on everything I'm watching. I don't really believe they've stopped collecting the data, either.
So, it's working.
That’s kind of the point though. Right now you do have the ability to physically stop that TV from connecting to Samsung by changing some router settings. 5G wants to move that critical decentralized infrastructure into the cloud. At that point we’ll have to trust that these massive corporations are keeping their word.