Kirk

Yes but I recommend waiting until someone makes a version of Linux specifically for Bigscreen because it's not really ready yet

I kinda love the glove too

Check out https://store.auroraoss.com/

It's in the post. They wanted immutability:

"Unraid has always been a so-called immutable OS— however you modify your server, if you go in there, you type the wrong command, you delete all the files from your root, you still could just reboot and you're back to the virgin release… and that's a big reason why we've chosen Fedora [uCore]."

— Tom Mortensen, creator of Unraid

Not running on a Pi yet, any spying would depend on the distro. There's no dedicated Bigscreen distro yet but I'm pretty sure it's being worked on.

That's true even the premium brands won't halfway decent CPUs in them to keep the giant bloated menus from stuttering.

There's no best answer right now, Plasma Bigscreen is making good progress.

I have to imagine they'll soon be putting cellular antennas in the TVs to circumvent all that anyway.

I could never get those Android TV builds to work with CEC which kind of defeats the purpose for me. I'll try it out with the next update. Librelec had no issues.

I couldn't find a working YouTube app on Kodi, nor any of the streaming sites (besides Disney plus oddly) nor Plex. It kinda felt like a real debrid frontend and graveyard of plugins.

"Astroturfed" implies an appearance of a grassroots campaign, here the dev has connections to wealthy people who give him money, that's really all there is to it.

I think the dev just has connections and the people donating don't understand what they're giving to.