Jae Bochs
RastalThere needs to be a good #opensource firmware replacement project for smart TVs...
Andrew (Television Executive)@Rastal I would happily up cycle every TV I could get my hands on if there was a decent firmware.
John TimaeusThere's got to be a way to just make them stupid.
I can't believe they're running anything other than a Linux kernel under the hood
ticho@johntimaeus @Rastal It all depends on whether a decent driver(s) for all the hardware bits can be obtained, or made.
Those things tend to be pretty locked down, not very hacker-friendly.
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲Yep, discovered it wasn't bad batteries or remotes, but our 2 yesr old smart TV infrared sensor failing at anything past 5 inches. Figured this out because Bluetooth worked from my phone. I need one part, not a new television.
Nate Allen@Rastal best I can do now is deny it access to the Internet entirely, which I did.
Anyone working on Tesla's battery pack control software? That's what I want open sourced. I want to have a mechanic shop that specializes in buying cheap Teslas, guts them, and uses the guts to power converted classic cars. At night part of it is a rage room where you get to safely bash whatever is left of those cars before they are recycled.
Allan Chow@Rastal are there more open source Chromecastlikes and just leave the tv itself disconnected from the Internet?
Áine@Rastal the only solution to smart TVs is to stop connecting them to the internet and using android boxes for all that instead
RMS06510@Rastal Tvbuntu?
mmu_man@Rastal and it should be made by manufacturers. I'm tired of writing software to just use hardware I buy when it's the duty of the vendor.
mahadevank@Rastal oh yes! please...and it could just erase away everything making it a dumb tv with casting ... that should work
Bradley M. KühnI agree, @Rastal. At #SFC we continue the #Vizio case <https://sfc.ngo/vizio/> to yield that outcome.
SFC's earlier case <https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.html#best-buy-et-al> vs.#Samsung yielded SamyGo <https://www.samygo.tv/>, but sadly only works only on TV models subject to that lawsuit.
This impact litigation is part of our long-term strategic plan for alt. firmwares (ala #OpenWrt) for many devices:
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html
Cc: @brainwane @ajroach42 @mmu_man @drwho @cainmark
#copyleft #GPL