Smart TV are trash of the trashiest sort. Cheapest components, painfully slow, 4 GB flash stuffed with outdated buggy Android and preinstalled adware, with 200 MB free space for anything usable, zero chance of updates, tons of security holes, and pretty much abandoned by Google.
Smart TV are trash of the trashiest sort. Cheapest components, painfully slow, 4 GB flash stuffed with outdated buggy Android and preinstalled adware, with 200 MB free space for anything usable, zero chance of updates, tons of security holes, and pretty much abandoned by Google.
What the alternative if I want to run my own media server
Separate box with Raspberry Pi and Kodi, and don’t connect your TV to WiFi or any other network connection, just an HDMI cable.
Or buy a TV box specifically supported by LineageOS or other opensource Android TV ROM.
In theory you can try to root and replace your TV firmware, that gets messy fast because most of them do not have any custom ROMs.
I can’t even find dumb TVs anymore
Digital signage.