Its an old LG, but given the recent light on the lengths they’ll go to spy on us, I figured this guy was better off without any ability to even connect wirelessly. Don’t know if the Ethernet still works but I plan on keeping my TVs as dumb as possible, HDMI only.
If you’re wondering how to open lg TVs you just have to remove all the screws then start pulling open at the bottom and open the clips going up. With the TV face down on a soft surface just keep pulling on the back case from the bottom, it’ll take some effort to pop open. The top edge folds open more like a hidge than clips.
My wife, despite me telling her not to, connected our washing machine to Wi-Fi because that’s the only way she could get it to run a custom soak cycle. There was no way I could disconnect it from the Wi-Fi, and it started getting OTA firmware updates. Then it started throwing error codes when I would try to start it. Then one day it was totally dead. It killed the display panel which to replace costs 2/3rd of just buying a new one. Nothing mechanically wrong with it, just the display board that has an ESP-32 in it that got bricked by a firmware update. I went to our local appliance store and just bought a “dumb” washing machine that has actual buttons and no ability to connect to the Internet.
I have actually fully isolated my washing machine from the outside network via pi-hole. I can still start/stop and change cycles on it via WiFi. I also have WireGuard set so I can connect remotely to my local network exactly for such scenarios.