Comment by xnx
4 days ago
Someone please do "smart" TVs. You have the chance to remove ads and botnets ("residential proxies") from millions of devices.
4 days ago
Someone please do "smart" TVs. You have the chance to remove ads and botnets ("residential proxies") from millions of devices.
They’re really locked down now because of people removing their spyware. Encrypted hardware, signed software.
If someone can do it I’d appreciate it, but it won’t be easy. Their whole business is spying on you.
At this point replacing the board with an open source brain might be the way to go with tvs.
LGs are fairly good: https://tv.slada.sk/guides/rooting-guide
Others like Samsung are unfortunately way worse, hard to secure.
I’m doing headphones … the cheapish Chinese white box ones….
I was hoping someone would do color printers inkjet and laser.
In a legal fight of printers VS AI behemoths, my money is on the ruthless printer mafia.
It's time to hack into my solar inverter...
Or buy the ones that are already pretty open (Victron)
You can do this with a DNS gateway in your home running on something like a Raspberry Pi. Check out AdGuard
How do you do this with XFinity? They no longer allow you set your own DNS servers "for better security".
If it's set on your router, can they block that? Assuming you aren't using the router they provide.
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Super easy: don't give them a network and use a dedicated STB that's kept patched instead. Ta-done.
I do that, but it would be nice to have a single device/remote and faster UI.