aren't there armies of linux hackers that love hacking stuff like this? Seems like Smart TVs are a big, ubiquitous consumer item with privacy concerns that the linux hardware hacking community has treated with apathy. If there was an open linux alternative, it probably would be getting updates and AppleTV and Disney Plus would be options on it.Ĭursory searches have basically returned "man it would be hard, you'd need to know the board pretty well", yet. It's not just that, my relatives have an old LG smart TV that long ago stopped adding apps. Firefox on the phone, ubuntu phone, etc, they couldn't break into Android, and nothing has broken into smart tvs.īut man if there was an OpenWRT I could replace my roku TVs with, I'd probably do it in a heartbeat. With android and smart tvs, the corps got a major foothold into managed computing platforms that they can control to do whatever spying was necessary. It appears most smart tvs are already running linux, but probably in the way that android phones are already running linux. You know what else kind of had this problem? Well, not the spyware as much, but just the crap software embedded: routers. Or the side-effort of some moribund commercial line that will also cost a ton more. But even they might change their tunes back to the concept of separate boxes and normal panels if they dislike all the ads and data tracking. I think they're well worth considering, particularly for the HN crowd, granted I suppose for people who truly want built-in netflix or the like without connecting something like a Roku or Apple TV maybe it's less optimal. Players like NEC will even advertise their use of an RPi compute and wink at lack of spyware for some of their products, but lots of major "smart TV" providers also have a commercial lineup. But they're often nice panels aimed at serious running hours, without this sort of junk (which would give enterprise IT conniptions) and can have very useful feature support like 802.1x authentication which so many devices still lack. They're often found under labeling like "commercial digital signage" or "business display" or the like, they seem to often try to avoid using "TV" (if being cynical maybe to make them harder for normal people to discover and confuse them if they do). TVs are still made for business usage in areas like conference rooms, wall displays etc. FWIW, it is still possible to get TVs without this stuff, albeit at a premium.
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