I don't think the article was absolutist, binary, at all.

The issue is that for a lot of things, there is exactly zero foss options. The problem is not, and the article doesn't imply, that there should be a 100% foss, so that foss finally "wins".

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squigz 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you provide some examples of things for which there are zero FOSS options?

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the_gipsy 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Read the article, it has examples.

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epolanski 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Modern TVs are a simple one.

You can't control any of them fully. Most you can't root.

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pabs3 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hopefully this lawsuit will be won by SFC, if it is, then anyone can sue their TV maker for the Linux kernel sources for their device and access to install modified versions of it, then replace their TV OS with AOSP/etc, or KDE Plasma Bigscreen or similar on a standard Linux distro.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

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drnick1 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But there is a simple alternative here: don't connect your TV to the Internet, use it as a dumb monitor for a FOSS streaming box (Linux PC or Lineage Android TV among others).

	▲	kuschku 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That doesn't necessarily work anymore, some TVs now have Amazon WhisperNet built in, and will just update ads via your neighbor's Alexa.
	▲	makeitdouble 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That's not an alternative: at the end you don't get a TV, you get a streaming box. Perhaps you don't care about OTA TVs in the first place, but that's a different point.
	▲	epolanski 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		How's that relevant to me not controlling the device?