I don’t think it really matters what is legal at this point because we cannot hold him accountable anyway.

I didn’t think they were going to eat my babies.

Best get used to it. It’s going to be tough for a while.

It’s the risk you take. I’ve met some of the most interesting people this way. If you go into it with an open mind and understand that usually it’s not going to work out, you’ll be better for it.

Let’s see it then. I’m concerned when the opportunity to profit arises that perverse motives will occur.

Don’t worry. You’ll get the rest of the little ones with your feet.

Howcan it be? I just took my mandatory annual ethics training refresher. My certificate says I am ethical now.

Ain’t half bad.

In principle, yes, and I believe a few small hobby projects have attempted to do this and support specific TVs. However, interest in developing a custom Smart TV platform tends to get siphoned away into a project where the output from your actual platform is displayed on the TV rather than running directly on it. Simply, it’s easier to develop and maintain support across different models.

Why would you develop a custom TV OS that runs on one TV when you could develop it for any mini PC and immediately support all TVs? You’d have to develop your OS to run on each specific TV model which will make it quite hard to reach a critical mass sufficient to attract attention from developers and users alike.

The juice isn’t really worth the squeeze. It’s not like TV vendors are publishing detailed hardware specs and drivers. Writing or even porting an OS is hard. Look at the state of the Android ROM scene, and that’s about as good as it gets when some vendors are actually attempting to open source their drivers. The difficulty is much higher and the interest lower due to the existence of a viable alternative.

With that said, motivated minds have done it anyway. You just need to have the right TV for it.

Most of ours used to be white!

He’s into it.

I would but I rather stay in my lane.

The joke is that BMW drivers don’t use their blinkers and may not give notice of quitting a job.

I’m sure it’s been asked 1 million times but do they actually federate with us? I haven’t seen a blue sky handle.

HIPAA.

And we’re made of meat!

Asking the big questions.

I’m rapidly losing faith that it’s worth trying to be better.

We are most definitely not making 1.5C.

Russia’s investment really paying off!

The Guardian is welcome on Lemmy anytime.