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You'll still be able to buy them but you'll have to get it from like Harbin Industrial Electronic Co., Ltd. who happens to be the only manufacturer of it in the entire world, and the minimum order size is 20.
even the commercial monitors are coming with bloat.
you basically have to get the really expensive ones that you can swap the main boards out for whatever.
Was also struggling with this shit recently. I found out about the concept of "digital signage" which is like, the kind of screen that's used for a restaurant menu or an airport display. It's certainly a dumb display, so no smart tv crap. But the quality is all low, ain't exactly meant for good sharp picture. I ended up just getting a stupid 'smart tv' and have not hooked it up to the internet ever. It gets a display feed from my computer and that's it.
When my dumb tv dies I don't think I'll bother replacing it if I can't find another non-smart tv. I barely use it anyway so I don't think it'd be that big a problem. If monitors are all smart bullshit now then that's a different problem
I dread the day when TVs refuse to operate without a network connection. As it is now, even most smart TVs can be made dumb by never connecting them to WiFi etc., but I wonder how long that's going to last.