Parent comment's point is that you shouldn't have to hack your TV just to get a half-decent user experience.

You shouldn't have to, but the fact that you can is part of the hacker ethos. We've already gotten past the most fundamental part of hacking, can it be done. The next is can it play Doom. The third is announce it. Then, we just have to get past the boring people asking "why"

I don't want to spend all my waking hours hacking all things in my life. That's not what "hacker ethos" means. Especially not when the "hack" is working around stupid wankery, which, to me, is completely boring and uninteresting and doesn't "build" anything.

I just want to watch a film.

I don't want to hack my forks either. Or my microwave. I just want to heat stuff and then shovel it in the appropriate foodhole so I can get on with things.

Then don't buy the thing in the first place????

I suppose there's an opportune time to hack and a sub-optimal time to do so, subjectively.

Tell that to the VC posters, the corporate drama posts, the psychology links, the biology, space and popular science articles that are on here.

This place isn't for just hackers, not anymore at least. And that brings good and bad.

I’d rather spend the time “hacking” something fun than a smart TV. My time is better spent elsewhere