Was just gonna say this. I'm currently using GrapheneOS and am concerned about how long my pixel 8a will last with Google being such assholes. But if this app can solve the issue of not having android, then I'd definitely switch to a Linux phone (with further research of course).

I'm afraid with how insecure mobile networks are, modem manufacturers will never dare to open or document their mobile drivers to Linux. And we'll continue to be stuck in this perfectly controlled and planned scenario.

It's really more like the Android apocalypse is looming. We have 11 months and some change before android phones get locked down like Apple.

It would likely increase adoption of the OS on people's computers too.

Steam could make this happen faster if more of their user base requested the ability to play (x86 compatible) Android games on their Deck.

Oh good to know! If you've tried it with any specific apps this way, would love to hear which ones work well and in what ways.

FYI, as well if you're looking for a good remote for a GNU/Linux TV box (or Android, Windows, etc), this remote is the best one I've tried from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.ca/Backlit-Keyboard-Backlight-Learning-Voogoo/dp/B09Z2X4WGB

This?

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

I'm currently using a Raspberry Pi with their Debian based OS. It is on Bookworm, but there are major improvements to Plasma Bigscreen on QT6. They didn't make the updates before it was removed for Trixie, and Trixie is still in beta for Raspberry Pi, so doing an in place upgrade for the OS and compiling Plasma Bigscreen for it to see the improvements.

I think Manjaro (which works well on mobile too) has the latest one in their repos, and the KDE ARM OS may have it too if you want to try it without compiling it.

I want to see how difficult it is to drop in OVOS/Neon modules to replace Mycroft ones for voice control too.

If you run something like Debian Bookworm, or based on it, you can apt install plasma-bigscreen to run the older version. New version you likely need to compile depending on your distro

I tried it a few times, did not work for me, I've had android emus on windows work fine, I'm pretty sure I followed the setup correctly, but I couldn't get apps to launch.

Yes you can install it on any Linux device, especially since it's a convenient flatpak. Any desktop apps on mobile, and mobile apps on desktop. Tux does not discriminate 🐧

Waydroid allows you to run any Android app

Similar apps:

• Pipeline 8 mb

https://flathub.org/apps/de.schmidhuberj.tubefeeder

• VacuunTube 114 mv

https://flathub.org/apps/rocks.shy.VacuumTube

• Parabolic 114 mb

https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter

Looks like the NewPipe flatpak is very unoptimized compared to what others are doing.

Not really, no.
If the TV is running Android you could do some trickery to (maybe) disable the bloat apps, but actually flash a new OS? No.

Developing a third party OS for a closed device like this is super hard, and there's so many millions of TV models, the developers with the skill to do it end up focusing their time on other devices instead.
I'd recommend looking into a TV box appliance of some sort.

Some of those OSes are pretty integrated with the TV's features, like picture processing, input settings and such, so I can envision that being problematic.

I know it feels like I waste, but I think factory resetting it, airgapping it and using some external device is the way.

Yes: https://xdaforums.com/t/official-lineageos-22-for-amlogic-gxl-gxm-g12-sm1-ne-family-devices.4649881/page-43.

I run several of the dynalink and onn boxes and works great for me.

It's best to never connect a "smart" TV directly to the internet. Bloat and updates to the software will inevitably cause what you mentioned. It's almost intentionally planned obsolescence.

A Android box, Raspberry Pi, or apple tv, or small pc would be the way to go IMO any day of the week.

Lineage OS on a external device?