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Hello!

Regarding what Gamers Nexus recently disclosed regarding LG TVs in their latest video I think its finally time to do what I can to mitigate it.

I cant root it since the firmware is too new and I cant afford a new TV either. My best bet would be blocking all LG IPs network-wide and disconnecting it from the network. (Although I understand even that might not be enough, its the best I can do right now)

I was thinking of using an old Raspberry to atleast access youtube and my media server, however I dont know what would be a good OS/distro to run this on. Preferably I would want to use something like an old PS4 controller as the remote.

Anyone here who has any suggestions or living room setups to suggest? Any and all tips are welcome.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 32 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

There's no best answer right now, Plasma Bigscreen is making good progress.

I have to imagine they'll soon be putting cellular antennas in the TVs to circumvent all that anyway.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That'll be expensive so I don't think it'll be happening. They'll be OK with collecting data from the 95% of their customers who don't know how to block the TV from having internet access.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 14 hours ago

That's true even the premium brands won't halfway decent CPUs in them to keep the giant bloated menus from stuttering.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

plasma-bigscreen looks nice, would it go on a RPI 4? and are they spy-ey? they have google as a patron.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 6 hours ago

Not running on a Pi yet, any spying would depend on the distro. There's no dedicated Bigscreen distro yet but I'm pretty sure it's being worked on.