Redderthanmisty

Yes.

Meanwhile it is your capitalist bosses giving out free lunch to justify the lack of a payrise in the last 5 years.

I bought a new TCL TV recently. Stunning visuals for the price. But I had to jump through a load of unnecessary crap to keep it from phoning home, letting every tech company on the face of the planet know what I watch at 3am every morning before heading out to work.

Need to keep it disconnected from the internet, plugged into an Nvidia Shield that had the projectivity launcher installed alongside plex and steam link, and with a whitelist on my router preventing it from accessing anything other than my media server and linux pc, because that covers all I will ever use the TV for.

End result: a near dumb TV that is able to watch anything I want to watch, and play any game I want to play, but without all of the ads and tracking nonsense.

Learn something new everyday

That'll work too, along with any USB webcam

Raspberry pi and motioneyeOS. Getting to a state where you have a live view of the camera shouldn't take more than an hour.

Ain't that some Canadian bacon

If this is what's scaring you about the death of liberty, then boy do I have a dumptruck full of passed acts and legislation that dwarfs this in comparison. Liberty died a long time ago.

Well deserved.

You can get Google play working by sideloading it with adb, and enabling graphene's microG service in the apps menu.

Any further apps installed with Google play, and Google itself, will still be under the default restrictions imposed by graphene, instead of having full access like with stock android.

It can be a little clunky starting out, but once you get used to it, the only major downside I could find was that I couldn't verify my bank details to enable nfc payments, because Google hasn't whitelisted Graphene in their API for "security reasons"

Audhd executive dysfunction in a nutshell