u/Ezer_Pavle

And this comes from someone who has no problem rushing through the first etude of Villa-Lobos

Any suggestions on how to play it?

My toddler has almost broke the new dirty cheap stupid-ass Hisense I bought precisely for the reason it will get broken soon. He has used a USB cable as a whip trying to hit the Wolf-Death character from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. As a result, a scratch across the screen has remained... whatever... he will suck it up for the next year or two, it will daily remind him he's guilty while watching Peppa Pig, Hedgehog in the Fog, and Blind Vaysha.

The whole episode however has triggered in me the desire, a fantasy even, to prematurely and strategically look for a long-term alternative for when the current TV will finally break. Given that this is the first smart TV I've ever had (I have lived without a TV for almost 10 years before that), and given the enshitified experience of useless streaming buttons on the remote, lagging interface, constant suggestions, icons that I cannot delete, icons that I can delete that then reappear after each system update, ads shoved into my face each time I turn the thing on, etc., I've came up with a seemingly brilliant idea: why not simply buying a dumb TV, with no smart features, just something I xan pluck the streaming stick in...?

Well, to my great surprise, it is extremely difficult if not impossible to find one nowadays.

Does anyone has figured a solution? I don't have any wil whatsoever to buy another smart TV. It feels too invasive, too clunky, too not mine, as if I am the product, if you know what I mean.

All the "dumb" alternatives are either business-use expansive panels, or a lower-quality niche products. I know that I can treat smart TV as a dumb one, just by not connecting it to the internet, but even the idea that all those invasive features are latently there, a button click away, is off-putting.

Should I simply give up on the idea of a good quality solid-build dumb panel that could last me 10 to 15 years of movie nights? Am I being delusional? Why should it be so hard, if not impossible, to find?

In your opinion, what is the classical guitar piece with the most complex arpeggio when it comes to the right hand execution?