Don’t worry. You’ll get the rest of the little ones with your feet.

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.

I do my best to be the change I want to see in the world and always de emphasize the significance of a vehicle as a status symbol.

I do it in small ways like not noticing what other people drive. Not taking a specific interest if someone wants to talk expensive cars. I’m not trying to rain on anybody’s parade, but I don’t want to give people the satisfaction over something that’s harmful to humans and harmful to the environment. Going out of my way to complement others about driving a vehicle that clearly meets their needs.

In general, I think we’d do well not to celebrate excess. We should recognize enough when we see it and strive for enough.

Asking the big questions.

We are most definitely not making 1.5C.

Very close. But a little too soon.

What did you do with your old yard?

Can’t be held responsible for what happens next given the circumstances.

Clutter.

Interesting study. However, I think we’re past the point of studies informing our decisions here in the US. I still thought it was really interesting to read.

Life is short. Be happy now, in any small way that you can.

I think it’s because a corporation doesn’t understand the concept of why you wouldn’t exploit a vulnerable person.

Dystopian hostility will be enforced! Don’t you dare be nice or show any preference with other humans.

That definitely sounds like a feature that should be added. I remember when you couldn’t even export your subscriptions.

This could be a failure on the part of the driver, but my god I hate those inexcusably giant pickup trucks that fit nowhere no matter how “good” a driver you are. They always stick out and cut of walkways, bicycle paths… they are simply too big. So oversized as to be generally dysfunctional.

Are you certain you were using an official download source?

It feels more like a medical center.

I did in 2016. I was younger and angry at the world. That judgment is deserved. By 2020 I realized that I had made a terrible mistake and was sure not to repeat it. It’s good to read that you can at least understand the perspective of how someone could have at that time.

Some people never learn. This would appear to be the case for most Americans.

The problem with the news is that generally it’s not actionable information.

That’s okay. We aren’t planning to address it.