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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal (variety.com)
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I don't have any Roku devices luckily, but is there anyway to remove the google, roku, or amazon OS from a smartTV yet? I hope someone can crack these smart tv's and we can install linux on them in the future to eliminate the ads and backdoors.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    People be like “don’t connect it to the internet.” I tried that and the TV actively functions worse. Like it forces me to go to the Fire TV Home Screen rather than just returning to whatever input I had it on when it was turned off and it says “some features don’t work when not connected”

    Like Amazon enshittified the TV input to force me to connect the TV to the internet. I wouldn’t have bought it if I had known but now I’m stuck with it.

    I should be able to use whatever software I want in my own devices. I want a Linux TV so badly.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Get a proper top class panel TV that's dumb and do rasp pi as a firestick, or just run it as 24/7 mini pc connected to the TV that has ad free YouTube, free movies, free everything really if you know what's up.

    It cost like 7 euros a year to run it 365 days 24/7

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I can’t afford a super nice TV. I have a Hisense U6 which I probably spent $500-700 at the time. It’s a few years old. But the fact that they know we don’t want their garbage so the make the TV worse if I don’t connect it to their services pisses me off. That’s the FireTV version.

    I have a smaller Google TV version of the same panel on my bedroom and it doesn’t do that. Plus it has more features. I am degoogled tho so I don’t have it connected to an account tho.

    I do have the living room TV connected to an Apple TV set top box. As for streaming devices that work out of the box, I actually really like the Apple TV. The only thing better than this would be doing what you said.

    I’ve been trying to self host with Jellyfin, but getting my NAS set up has been a hassle. I’ve probably spent 200 hours trying to get it to work but no luck yet. (Fuck you QNAP/QTS and your proprietary software)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    If you auto update your tv, you most likely are SOL for jailbreaking a smart tv. I have tried two different TVs from LG and Samsung ending in the device being bricked. This is slowly becoming a pet project that I am realizing I am way out of my depth with.

    If you can replace the mainboard and just use the panel, that would be awesome.

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