and most importantly: they can be easily swapped out if they stop meeting your needs.

Important enough to repeat.

I have gone thru 3 different streaming devices over the lige of my current TV.

Each suffered, after several years, from needing to have an updated app to continue supporting one or another streaming service that no longer had an app available for that hardware.

That fault is mostly on the streaming services for updating something in their stream but only providing an updated app for a small list of hardware vendors/models.

If I was relying on built-in streaming hardware in my TV, it would have become e-waste many years ago.

y’all know that pretty soon the TV won’t work unless it’s connected, right? I mean, that has to be coming.

It’s not coming into my home if it tries to force that.

We currently have an LG connected to the internet, but I never see any ads

How old a model is it?

likely in jail too (his own words)

Yes, but not for the reasons he claimed.

He would be in jail for actual criminality, not for his political opinions.