I've been seeing the black screen on Firefox. Still better than an ad, but it would be nice to be gone lol
gears
Amazon did this with their cloud security cameras as well.
Spotify did it with their "Car thing"
It's common and I agree, should be illegal.
You can use shift+f10 and type OOBE\\BYPASSNRO
HomeAssistant is HomeKit compatible and could probably do everything you've got going now locally
Jesus that was one hell of a thread
Just buy a smart tv and don't connect it to internet. You'll get to buy from the same selection and enjoy the subsidized price.
EasyTether+ might have a Linux client. It's a similar app
Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does
Turn off the "follow day/night" setting and it will be dark mode in the day as well
I get almost this experience with Jellyseerr and jellyfin. I do have to wait ~10 min for it to download and import to my library, though.
Use jellyfin