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They’re really locked down now because of people removing their spyware. Encrypted hardware, signed software.

If someone can do it I’d appreciate it, but it won’t be easy. Their whole business is spying on you.

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LGs are fairly good: https://tv.slada.sk/guides/rooting-guide

Others like Samsung are unfortunately way worse, hard to secure.

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I’m doing headphones … the cheapish Chinese white box ones….

I was hoping someone would do color printers inkjet and laser.

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It's time to hack into my solar inverter...
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In a legal fight of printers VS AI behemoths, my money is on the ruthless printer mafia.
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You can do this with a DNS gateway in your home running on something like a Raspberry Pi. Check out AdGuard
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How do you do this with XFinity? They no longer allow you set your own DNS servers "for better security".
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If it's set on your router, can they block that? Assuming you aren't using the router they provide.
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If you don't use the router they provide, they literally cut your line. They don't say anything about this or ever explicitly clarify this, but they will cut your line, their customer support will accuse you of having bad equipment, and then even when you connect their equipment, the line will still be cut until you call them and have them reconnect it. Once they have, your own equipment will work again too, until they notice and cut the line again. It's ridiculous.

You can, however, use their equipment as a dumb modem and insert your own router downstream. It thankfully supports DMZ to expose your router directly to the internet without NAT. I use Ubiquiti.

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Super easy: don't give them a network and use a dedicated STB that's kept patched instead. Ta-done.
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I do that, but it would be nice to have a single device/remote and faster UI.
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