• glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Worth mentioning: Android TV is proprietary and developed by Google. As far as privacy goes it is as bad as any wish.com-android-solution.

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      10 months ago

      To my knowledge Android TV isn’t any more proprietary than standard Android. The only really proprietary code are the Google Play Services (and Widevine).

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        10 months ago

        You will find the source code of Android, you won’t find the source code of Android TV.

        Just like all the Android-based operating systems on smartphones: if you take a free product and add suckyness, the end product sucks.

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          10 months ago

          If there’s no source code for ATV, how can there be (unofficial) LineageOS builds of ATV? Genuine question

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            10 months ago

            Do you mean this konstaKang-Image? LineageOS for the RaspberryPi, I tried that and it works quite ok. A bit sluggish maybe. LineageOS is an open source project build around the pure open source Android. And the konstaKang-Image is also an open source project, although with a weird license. But they have nothing to do with Android TV, as far as I know.