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OK gang my point is not that this is impossible to DIY. In fact we really enjoy you all sharing your setups and appreciate everyone taking the time :3

We just like for something like this as a cheap (enough) commercial product to finally catch on. At the end of the day folk just want to have a TV, plug something into it, and have it work.

We were already tired of the overpriced TV boxes that shady broadband companies forced into everyones livingroom. Nowadays that horrible experience comes physically fused to every TV further out in the markey than a sane person could reasonably be expected to look.

It just super sucks to see so many pay for devices that actively fight you in general. Most electronics already inherently feel like an accesability issue simulator to most people anyways. It being deliberately opaque, confusing and facilitating dark patterns on top of that is such a PITA. Not to mention if you already have inherent accesability difficulties from any number of conditions.

Browser shortcut/PWA, and also DRM isnt a problem because google offers linux its DRM services for free.

I did also not rule out expandable local storage for offline media. Or connecting to a jellyfin instance.

Can’t we just have small Linux boxes with Plasma Bigscreen or something with cec support setup so the tv remote still works already :sob:

https://icsx5.bitfire.at/

This keyboards closest row to the screen has a chromebook layout, while the pinebook has a regular F-key row.

https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_gigi.php

“LMDE 7 is based on Debian 13 Trixie. Make sure to read the Debian release notes.”

fastboot oem unlock

Is a command you can do on your PC while phone is in fastboot that should still be able to enable oem unlocking ^^ So as long as USB degguing is there in dev options you should be golden

To unlock your bootloader you need to enable usb debugging and oem unlocking in the dev settings. The rest of the steps are done in fastboot; a secret menu. From there you need to connect your phone to a pc with android sdk and your phones drivers installed.

Here it gets way complicated but the short version is that on the pc you use a tool called adb to make your phone go into fastboot. With adb you also ask your phone for a string, which you send to its manufacturer, who then hopefully sends a more different one back. That last string is then used to unlock the bootloader