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.

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!

I really miss the space shuttle. That was really cool, and I don’t think we’ve built a vehicle that quite compares.

HIPAA.

And we’re made of meat!

Asking the big questions.

Russia’s investment really paying off!

Universe: whoops let me fix that.

Like the horror of this code is wrong but the program works.

I also keep seeing this as neurons.

My neurons say these are also neurons.

What is this? Oil on canvas? The water detail is incredible.

I would not tap that.

Particularly considering where it’s been.

I’ve been with Fastmail for a year and it’s always been a very positive experience. Good support. If I had to pick a weak link, I think the spam filtering could be better.

Thank you very much for the clarification. I didn’t know that was a distinct feature.

You can’t give a platform or a stage to these people. You’re disrespecting your own journalism when you do.

Uuuuun-constitutional!

Paper tearing.

My flabbers are gasted.

It’s a jelly eat jelly world out there.