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.

He’s into it.

I’m sure it’s been asked 1 million times but do they actually federate with us? I haven’t seen a blue sky handle.

HIPAA.

And we’re made of meat!

Asking the big questions.

Russia’s investment really paying off!

The Guardian is welcome on Lemmy anytime.

Universe: whoops let me fix that.

The people clearly made their choice and intentions known. It’s a shame.

Like the horror of this code is wrong but the program works.

Fox News? Dear god.

I would not tap that.

Particularly considering where it’s been.

This always ends in a yes-men military filled with unskilled ass-kissers.

People will optimize for the grading system.

I’ve been with Fastmail for a year and it’s always been a very positive experience. Good support. If I had to pick a weak link, I think the spam filtering could be better.

What did you do with your old yard?

They did provide the illusion of hope and a little bit of justice for the naïve for a limited time.

You can’t give a platform or a stage to these people. You’re disrespecting your own journalism when you do.

Uuuuun-constitutional!

Paper tearing.

The only thing that matters is that he bends the knee.