As stated in OP, I have an S2 dish already. Agreed that it’s better than cable. But not everyone lives in a place they can set up a dish on. Rentals and such. My point was that I wanted to use the display without relying on some buggy vendor-locked OS.
From what I can see, this is still a Tizen based smart TV masquerading as a monitor, Apps and all.
When scaled to mass production, the SBCs become dirt cheap. Then they can subsidise with sponsored/preloaded content, ads and usage data.
I was eyeing Scepter, but I just saw that their stuff is made with exclusively US standards and EU power and broadcasting is different. Didn’t notice that would matter.
Seen them recommended in dumb-tv articles. Will check them out.
I might resort to this. It’s mainly just the e-waste potential that has me bothered. The OS will inevitable break after EOL, and the hardware becomes inoperable without the “hdmi-app”. The computer parts are usually dirt cheap and eventually break themselves even on minimal use.
Afaik google-pay is prone to fail even with faked safetynet. Magisk can also fix safetynet, but I don’t want to enable root-access. Kinda dumb that the way to fix overcritical security checks is to break security even more. :)
Thanks for the idea though.
Custom roms with relocked bootloader only work on pixels by design. You’ll have to live with an unlocked bootloader.
As for easy installs, Murena’s e/os exists with support. But I can’t vouch for their cloud ecosystem. Other than that, maybe an officially supported lineage device. You will lose safetynet on both unless you want to root.
I would absolutely buy a Pixel, if only they supported sd-cards. I get that Google is pushing cloud-storage. If I smash my phone on the sidewalk, I still want to have a local storage, I can take out and thus make live backups to. There are just some features Pixels lack and privacy shouldn’t lock you out of them.