MegaDeKay

As their FAQ says

"Will the guide connect me to a botnet?

No. Every linked tool in this guide is open-source. Check it yourself."

I'd imagine you could download all the bits from github and install everything from pristine github sources after a thorough code review, knowing that factory reset returns you back to stock if need be. Just think of it this way: the odds of anything getting past that level of scrutiny can't be worse than stock firmware.

Nope. The LG AI bluetooth airmouse remote that came with my TV has 11 buttons + scrollwheel / dpad. There's another six dedicated to streaming apps that I can reconfigure to do whatever I want once the TV is rooted.

The guide I linked offers an offline method. You can click through it and read through the entire procedure.

Fun fact: you can install Kodi / Jellyfin clients on a rooted TV as just another app.

Doing so likely tears through a sticker or something that tells them you've opened the TV and, in turn, voids the warranty. And you really want to keep your warranty with these things. Search for "panel uniformity" and "panel delamination" on /r/lgoled sometime.

Might be dependent on where you live. But regardless, a factory reset puts it back to stock so they'd never know. If the TV is so badly fried that you can't reset it, they likely wouldn't be able to determine it in the first place.

I don't know but perhaps you could do it the other way around. Glasshouse has a full blown Home Assistant bridge that lets it control the TV. It looks pretty sweet.

https://rorygallagher2024.github.io/glasshouse/#__tabbed_1_4

They all do it. LG is only the most notorious because of the Gamers Nexus investigation. They've bought other brands of TVs so they'll all have their day in the sun. I can't wait to see what they find with TCL TVs. Cheap TVs made in China that have been doing this forever? What could poosibly go wrong???

Even stock firmware lets you turn off automatic upgrades. The blocking in apps like Glasshouse add another layer of protection by blocking LG's servers.

Rooting is "permanent" until you factory reset the TV which returns it back to stock. This is handy if, say, you've got a warranty claim and don't want rooting used against you.

A number of people have reported that root sticks across firmware upgrades but I don't think anyone should count on that always working. You never know if a new release might find a way to disable root.

One less box. One less thing to get something like a Harmony or Sofabaton remote to integrate with. An interface of your choice (there are many frontends), etc. I see a lot of ppl in here advocate AppleTV but that assumes you're part of their ecosystem already.

Or think of it his way: get root for some powerful new features over the stock TV OS and get telemetry blocking as a bonus. I'm planning to set up lg-hue-sync [0] that can read the TV's framebuffer and control an ESP32 connected to a LED string for a dirt cheap AmbiLED setup.

[0] https://github.com/poiedk/lg-hue-sync

- Buy an LG OLED TV. They're as gorgeous as they are notorious. I just got a 77" LG C6 and it is crazy good.

- Root it [0].

- Install Glasshouse [1] and disable all telemetry. YOU now own the glass. Now you can chromecast to the TV, use Adfree YouTube, access IP TV, etc etc etc. No point crippling your TV by pulling the wireless module and voiding your warranty.

- Install a bunch of cool apps to your TV [2] (there are many more out there besides those listed here)

- Restore to Factory Defaults if you ever want / need to unroot and get back to stock e.g. a warranty claim

The only issue is that LG recently closed the vulnerability that made rooting possible so you don't want any firmware released after 2026-10-10 like 43.21.84. Hopefully a new exploit is found that makes rooting possible once again.

BTW, you might have heard of Dev Mode on these TVs but they don't allow anywhere near the functionality that rooting provides.

[0] https://tv.slada.sk/guides/rooting-guide

[1] https://github.com/rorygallagher2024/glasshouse

[2] https://www.webosbrew.org/

People were up in arms (and rightly so) when the LG TVs were found out for their spying thanks to the Gamers Nexus investigation. At least LG TVs can be rooted and you can install apps like Glasshouse [0] to disable all the telemetry and add substantial new features that you can't do via the officially sanctioned Dev Mode. The vulnerability that enabled rooting was recently patched so hopefully another can be found.

Hopefully similar apps will come along for Samsung now that root on it can be achieved [1].

[0] https://github.com/rorygallagher2024/glasshouse

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218633

It doesn't fly, but the 2000 lbs of downforce on the McMurtry Spéirling Electric Hypercar means it can drive upside down. Sort of. A bit. [0] Top Gear took the car for a spin around the track in a very entertaining video, where a jaded car reviewer is in disbelief about the cars performance pretty much the whole time [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6LYcgaQ46c

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZxcfglU2Q

Came here with that same name in mind. It would be a stone cold crime if that wasn't picked.

> Because I see design as a proxy to build quality and ergonomics

It isn't a good proxy. Couple examples: Apple sold laptops with wonky keyboards for years and still sells a mouse that charges from the bottom when the battery dies.

I hear what you're saying but good written stuff takes longer to produce than a video so there's that much less of it.

What I've found pretty handy for learning FreeCAD is finding an existing model and messing around with it to see how the original creator did stuff. That's where I started with my pinball cabinet. Once you get the basics down it is much easier to pick up on new features, many of which are enhancements to existing functionality.

The FreeCAD wiki is very good. The release notes for 26.3 are at https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_26.3 and those entries link to relevant sections of the wiki that go into more detail. For example, changes to the Measurement tool on that page link to https://wiki.freecad.org/Std_Measure where you'll see notes like "introduced in 26.3".

The wiki tells you what the tools do. For learning how to use those tools to model something, YouTube channels like Mango Jelly's are a better bet. The pace of FreeCAD development has definitely picked up since the 1.0 release

I agree with your ordering of the various programs out there but FreeCAD 26.3 is now available as a release candidate with a wonderful collection of improvements. I'd think for many people, FreeCAD is now "good enough" for a lot of things. I'm building a virtual pinball cabinet and the whole thing is modeled in FreeCAD.

Mango Jelly's overview of some of the biggest new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdTyFHY-5r4

The IPS 800 x 480 display won't do it justice, I'm afraid.

Well...

You can take a regular CRT and rewind the deflection coils on the yoke to work as a vector CRT display. Arcade Jason has a good video on how to do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9qiGVMF7s

Then you need a vector generator if you don't have an OG vector game. This one on Github is pretty good and can be connected to either an oscilloscope or vector monitor.

https://github.com/english1234/vstcm

If you use the vstcm to drive your rewound crt, you still have a problem. The deflection coils are very low impedance (around an ohm I think), so you need an amplifier stable at very low impedances that can generate a voltage sufficient to get deflection across the full screen in x and y. I think Arcade Jason was working on one of these too but I don't think it is out yet. ElectronAsh was working on one as well but I don't think he finished it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybGveLtlkA

https://github.com/ElectronAsh/Vector-XY-Deflection-Board

Or you could follow iz8dwf's amazing series on how he built a black and white vector monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKEoUHtoVucsrySlogDz...

$199 when it was introduced in 1982. It was discounted a couple times after that after Milton Bradley bought them and got down to $100. That's a pretty decent price considering the Atari 2600 debuted in 1977 at $199.

It was basically a whole arcade machine, just a lot smaller :-)

And passive SAR is a lot less accurate than active SAR.

There isn't much need for stealth in all this the same way there isn't for an optical spy satellite. The adversary knows it is there and what it is looking at. The adversary just doesn't know its exact capabilities, and there's not much they can do about it being up there that doesn't lead to a sudden military escalation of some kind.

If you want something more powerful than MiSTer and have a bit of patience, there is the Replay R2 being developmed around the Agilex 5.

- Agilex 5 E-Series 043 (Replay2 phat) has 434,240 logic elements (LEs).

- Agilex 5 E-Series 013 (Replay2 lite) has 138,060 Logic Elements (LEs).

The website (https://www.fpgaarcade.com/news-2/) hasn't been updated in some time but the dev now has prototype boards that he's in the middle of bringing up. It is purpose built for arcade emulation and has tons of I/O, lots of memory (both SRAM and HyperRAM), and (on the phat) a PCI connector. One or both (can't remember which) accepts an ARM daughterboard for hybrid emulation. There's a Discord for it you can track down to follow its progress basically in real time as mikej progresses.

The latter. Official MiSTer targets the DE10 nano.

Check out the Superstation One [0]. Outer shell modelled after the original PS1. Optional optical disk dock. Simplified UI. Lots of outputs. Well priced.

[0] https://retroremake.co/pages/superstation%E1%B5%92%E2%81%BF%...

(Don't mind the strange characters in the URL above. That's a superscripted "one". Use https://retroremake.co/ if you feel better about that).

Might the UGreen adapter mentioned in this Reddit post do the trick?

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1pkdfcm/ugree...

It was all the rage towards getting 4K 120 Hz VRR on Linux before AMD came along to contribute proper HDMI 2.1 support to the kernel. There is also mention in that thread of a CableMatters adapter that could be flashed with an alternate firmware but it wasn't as stable.

A simple Google search showed they are right here: https://www.fairphone.com/spare-parts

Rather than download the 30GB Master Chief collection, you might try downloading the Xemu OG XBOX emulator plus the original game on archive.org.

https://xemu.app/

Electric cookers don't "measure" pressure. They are thermostatically controlled via a sensor touching the bottom of the bowl and, because they are sealed, that temperature directly translates to the same pressure no matter what altitude you're at.

Russia has not formally declared they are at war. Some like Peskov have stated that they are in a state of war but that's different. In fact it is illegal in Russia to refer to it as a war. This law was introduced in 2022 and has not been repealed.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/05/1084729579/russian-law-bans-j...