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How do I free my television?

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It is possible but it needs people to develop the OS for each brand of TV and jailbreak the TVs to run another OS.

Most TVs are like phones in that they have a locked down system and their bootloader/BIOS/UEFI is also locked down which is what ultimately needs to be unlocked to allow another OS to be installed.

Why there isn’t?

Just not really many developers interested in creating an OS for it. Probably because of so many different brands and models of TVs that would require lots of work since each one is pretty different from another.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yes and no, but mostly no
If you have a samsung tv there would be stuff like: https://www.samygo.tv/
webos has an open source version: https://www.webosose.org/
but anything else is even fewer and farther inbetween

[–] spector@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty sure samygo killed the storage chip on my TV due to wear. I suspected it was going to be a problem seeing as the hack dumps log files indiscriminately.

I'd be more upset if I actually used the smart TV stuff.

There's a whole lot of different smart TVs. If you want help, it would be useful to provide the brand of smart TVs as well as the operating system that it's running.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I would think that'd be pretty tough!

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