Comment by squigz

Comment by squigz a day ago

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Can you provide some examples of things for which there are zero FOSS options?

the_gipsy a day ago

Read the article, it has examples.

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epolanski a day ago

Modern TVs are a simple one.

You can't control any of them fully. Most you can't root.

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pabs3 17 hours ago

Hopefully this lawsuit will be won by SFC, if it is, then anyone can sue their TV maker for the Linux kernel sources for their device and access to install modified versions of it, then replace their TV OS with AOSP/etc, or KDE Plasma Bigscreen or similar on a standard Linux distro.
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

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drnick1 a day ago

But there is a simple alternative here: don't connect your TV to the Internet, use it as a dumb monitor for a FOSS streaming box (Linux PC or Lineage Android TV among others).

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- kuschku 20 hours ago
  
  That doesn't necessarily work anymore, some TVs now have Amazon WhisperNet built in, and will just update ads via your neighbor's Alexa.
  
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- makeitdouble a day ago
  
  That's not an alternative: at the end you don't get a TV, you get a streaming box.
  Perhaps you don't care about OTA TVs in the first place, but that's a different point.
  
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- epolanski a day ago
  
  How's that relevant to me not controlling the device?
  
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