It’s getting difficult to find outright dumb TVs now. Although some (including some Sony TVs) give you the choice on setup of choosing either “smart TV” or “basic TV”.

Yes, I might be able to help. I changed my Onn set top box (which uses Android TV) fairly recently to use FLauncher (or Projectivity, I don’t remember which one I chose in the end), but it kept defaulting back to the default launcher. So I jacked it to change what the detail launcher was. After enabling some options ( developer options, USB debugging, verify apps over USB) on my Onn box, I plugged the box into my computer and then used the adb command line tool to change the default launcher (launcherx).

I imagine you could do the same to your Android TV. As long as it has a USB port.

Hope this helps.

ETA: Here are some more detailed instructions I took when I did this:

1. On the ONN tv box installer flauncher and/or projectivity launcher via the Google Play store

2. Make sure developer options is enabled on the ONN tv box (hit okay on Android TV OS build several times)

3. Look up IPv4 address on the ONN TV box under Settings > System > Status

4. Go to the new Developer Options menu item on ONN > settings > system, and make sure: a) Enable developer options is set to on b) USB debugging is set to on c) Verify apps over USB is set to on

5. Download adb platform tools on windows from here: https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools8

6. Plug in usb cable between PC and ONN tv box

7. On the ONN tv box go to Settings > System > Developer Options and make sure Select USB Configuration is set to MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)

8. On Windows, open a command line as administrator and go to the adb path

9. In the command line window on windows type: a) adb start-server b) adb connect [ONN ip address] (Note: it might initially say “failed to authenticate to [ip]”, that’s okay, see the next step)

10. On the ONN tv box a pop-up window should appear asking to allow access from windows pc IP address, say OK

11. In the command line window on windows type: adb devices

12. You should see the device as active on the ip you stated and on port 5555

13. Next in the terminal window type the following to disable the default ONN tv default launcher and listener: adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx

14. Then in the terminal window type: adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

15. On the ONN tv box click the home button. It should now either a) go to the additional launcher you installed or b) prompt you for the home app (if you installed multiple additional launchers) so select the one you want (e.g. FLauncher)

16. Now when you hit the home button on the ONN tv box it should always take you to the FLauncher launcher, not the default ONN launcher

Note: If you need to re-enable launcherx, you can use these commands in adb:

adb shell pm enable --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx

adb shell pm enable --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

My adventures with doing this were based on this post on reddit.

Oh, fair enough then!

ETA: Yes, the lack of mentions of Matrix, etc are a bit disappointing. But I think Matrix is waaay outside their target democratic.

That article may as well be sponsored by WhatsApp. Zero direct mentions of Signal, but tons pushing people to WhatsApp. That’s a bit disappointing.

Edit: I was wrong, it does talk about Signal as well.

Do you reckon the 5 is powerful enough to run a media server with the possibility of transcoding on the fly?

Agreed. While there are a few ranty, hostile, irrational replies here, they are much fewer and farther between than on reddit. Not to mention the raiding and mod witch-hunts here are much milder. That shit got insane on reddit back in the day (I don’t know what it’s like now, since I abandoned reddit about 18 months ago).

Unsubscribe!

So taxpayers dollars will be syphoned away from government programs that can actually help people in trouble, and will instead be spent on some dangerous bullshit orchestrated by Captain Brainworm and his paranoid dipshit lackeys.

Marvelous. 🙄

I understand the reference. But in this case my immediate thought was “yeah, urinal cake!”

Yup.

So Jarrod Fidden is behind the account. But let’s also acknowledge the full influence of Elon Musk in this too. The article hints at that. But Musk has a bigger hand than many acknowledge. It’s not only the lax moderation policies he’s imposed. His shitty, politically-driven, right-wing evangelizing and misinformation has emboldened and drawn in assholes like Fidden and ramped up their misinformation.

Plus the left two have a beige backpack, while right bottom has a dark grey backpack.

And Brawndo.

And it’s been happening for basically 3 decades now.

Given that the French tend to declare a revolution over fairly trivial things, I agree.

From a rule of law perspective the shooter needs to be punished.

But considering the amount of suffering that CEO and other senior leaders at that company have inflicted on innocent sick people, there’s a big fat dose of karma that goes with this incident, . And I wouldn’t throw the book at the shooter (although you know they will).

Haha, yeah. Pretty sure I would have been summoned to have a chat with HR in that case.

Years ago, when I first moved to America from the UK, I was working in a pretty quiet office that backed on to a field. One day mouse appeared, freaked out a couple of the gals in the office, and then it ran and hid under an office cube.

I investigated to see where it was hiding, but it was pretty dark down there. So I asked if either of the gals had a torch. They both got an expression of wide-eyed horror, which confused me for a few seconds.

Then I realized that torch had a different term in America. So I corrected myself and asked if either of them had a flashlight. And they looked very relieved. They thought I was going to get an old school torch and try to smoke the mouse out or set it on fire, and probably set the whole cube on fire in the process.

The last Conservative government in the UK tried something very similar. They paid Rwanda to take illegal immigrants. It turned into a complete disaster, ruffled with logistical, legal, and cost issues.

But I’m sure this new program by the Trump administration will go just fine! /s

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again (along with many in this thread I’m sure): a large part of our fucked up political culture comes from lead poisoning. But not in a simple single-vector way.

In addition to the obvious neurotoxin effect that lead has and the way it amplifies mental health issues, there’s another vector: the effect that the behavior of lead-poisoned individuals have on the people around them. Especially in the era of social media. And this ripples through society and creates a crescendo of sociological damage.