90 days and 10 dollars.

They actively colluded through price-fixing software, and very little is done about it.

I feel like that's possibly a prelude to setting up a scapegoat. You can't let people think he got away with it.

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.

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

Injection of money more often than not does not solve the fundamental problems that lead a business to failure or in this case poor performance. The causes of the poor decisions along the way must also be addressed.

Be silly. It makes the world a better place.

Likewise. I enjoy my bread lasting more than four days.

You’re missing the part where the results are infuriatingly answering a similar but not the same query because it’s more profitable to do so.

For example, looking up the part number of a transmission on my car, and then half the page is links to dealerships and repair shops. Not the answer to my question.

It’s been a couple years since I’ve had to scrape the bugs from my windows.

This. You just don’t hear the word anymore. For example, it was instrumental in producing the COVID-19 vaccine.

Why wait? Haven't they been impeaching this guy for like a year at this point?

I tend to believe that if they could they would have done it already just to be petty.