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I don't think the article was absolutist, binary, at all. The issue is that for a lot of things, there is exactly zero foss options. The problem is not, and th
by the_gipsy 1y ago
I don't think the article was absolutist, binary, at all.
The issue is that for a lot of things, there is exactly zero foss options. The problem is not, and the article doesn't imply, that there should be a 100% foss, so that foss finally "wins".
- squigz 1y agoCan you provide some examples of things for which there are zero FOSS options?
- the_gipsy 1y agoRead the article, it has examples.
- epolanski 1y agoModern TVs are a simple one. You can't control any of them fully. Most you can't root.
- drnick1 1y agoBut there is a simple alternative here: don't connect your TV to the Internet, use it as a dumb monitor for a FOSS streaming box (Linux PC or Lineage Android TV among others).
- makeitdouble 1y agoThat's not an alternative: at the end you don't get a TV, you get a streaming box. Perhaps you don't care about OTA TVs in the first place, but that's a different point.
- epolanski 1y agoHow's that relevant to me not controlling the device?
- kuschku 1y agoThat doesn't necessarily work anymore, some TVs now have Amazon WhisperNet built in, and will just update ads via your neighbor's Alexa.
- pabs3 1y agoHopefully this lawsuit will be won by SFC, if it is, then anyone can sue their TV maker for the Linux kernel sources for their device and access to install modified versions of it, then replace their TV OS with AOSP/etc, or KDE Plasma Bigscreen or similar on a standard Linux distro. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ https://plasma-bigscreen.org/