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Re:SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011) by ribalda on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:33AM (#21905381)
A bit off topic: Any idea about how to install apps from two countries in your Samsung tizen TV. As a expat I want to see TV from my home and host country. If I change the country from my TV all the apps are uninstalled :(
Re:SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011) by netsharc on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:31AM (#21905560)
Ah, I hate the stupid "convenient" localization. I remember reading an American being angry that Google's homepage came up Arabic because he was in Kuwait.

Recently I was in a foreign country looking up hotels in my home country, and even though I earn money there and was planning to spend it in that country, Google Maps was showing me hotel prices in the foreign currency. I was even logged in and had defined where Home and Work in Google Maps...