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> My TV needed an update via internet.

How could it possibly know it needed an update? And what could your advantage be letting it update, considering it would otherwise be forever air-gapped?

dev_tty01 on Dec 28, 2019 [–]

I knew it needed an update. It was a high-speed HDMI bug that required a software update. I learned about it via internet searching.

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