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I’ve done the same! It’s impossible to buy dumb TVs nowadays, but you can always prevent them from connecting to the network.
Chuck 'em in the garbage and get something that doesn’t break when you insist on privacy.
Fair enough.
Thank you for the detailed response! I’m going to give it a try! This will be a step up from OpenWRT on a cheap router, I’ll bet!
Can a device like this act as my router?
Unraid is a great option for anyone, but beginners in particular. It does, however, cost money and isn’t open source.
Sorry, the video takes too long to get to the subject it claims to be about.
… will be eventually incorporated back into PRC
It has never been part of the PRC.
Woah! We better keep this quiet! Only me, you, and theverge.com have any idea this is happening! What a secret!
Also, you can host your own server: https://headscale.net/
It is wrong to see that as a “US car manufacturers” problem. That mistakenly implies that other corporations would not behave this way or that this is anomalous behavior. This is how monopolies behave and it is the end state of any insufficiently regulated market.
Thank you. I fixed it.
Apparently, it’s been too long since I played Crusader Kings!
The true casus belli is revealed at last.
You’d also need GPIO pins to be able to do the remote “button presses”.
Check out pikvm: https://pikvm.org/
There are cheaper knockoffs that run the same software. For example: https://geekworm.com/
Decent older servers (e.g., Dell Poweredge) can be had off of Craigslist/FB Marketplace pretty cheaply (~$300-$400).
I hear you.
This is the correct answer if privacy is your priority. They’re not particularly cheap, however.