Yeah I think this is the price for my soul, I'll keep using the data mining LG TV. Perhaps I ought to just throw it on a vlan that i turn off whenever i dont watch the tv.

Is it that hard to use a regular computer or video game console hooked to the TV?

I have been using a laptop for 2 decades (albeit with a beamer, not a TV), using display scaling to 150% for the desktop and a wireless keyboard+trackpad combo.

Whenever I am in a place where I want to temporarily put, say, music using youtube app on an hotel TV, I cringe at the terrible UX to search for content with a tv remote versus using a regular keyboard+trackpad. Especially entering text in a search field.

Interestingly, Apple just released a “home collection” of LG products. I wonder how private they’re going to be.