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csallentoday at 8:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

My Samsung TV has some stupid voice assistant inside of it called Bixby. Not only is it useless, it's extremely annoying.

I've had multiple experiences where it muted the show I was watching, so that it could try to listen more closely, after being triggered by something said in the show itself. Samsung's software engineers literally built a TV that interrupts itself.

Needless to say, I disabled it. But every week or two, when my TV auto-updates itself, it re-enables Bixby, at least to the degree where it starts listening again, and then mutes whatever I'm watching to ask me if I want to re-enable Bixby.

I would pay 2x for a dumber version of my otherwise-excellent TV.