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Jim Keller is now working on one. I kind of doubt it will be FOSS, though.

I’ve been using GMail in K-9 Mail for years. Maybe you’re thinking of OAUTH 2 support?

Upstream WINE enabled it by default in version 10, so I can’t imagine Valve wanting to strip that out. Knowing Valve, they probably helped out a decent amount with that support.

The Wayland driver wasn’t considered stable in version 9.

You can right now if you use WINE instead of Proton. Just unset the DISPLAY variable with “DISPLAY=”

Shizuku would absolutely work. I can use adb either wirelessly or through a USB A to USB A cable with the 5 volt line cut (which is also how I interact witth fastboot). Activating developer settings is as simple as tapping build number 7 times, like on every Android device.

Rooting can help you replace built in apks. For example, there is a Magisk module that lets you replace the system’s WebView with an alternative, like the one from GrapheneOS, for instance. App signing is the problem here, so that’s what that specific module helps bypass.

Modules work on top of an OverlayFS, which essentially lets you write to /system without actually writing to /system, similar to rwfus on the Steam Deck.

Also your current TV app is one made by TCL and not a stock Android app. I wonder if it can be substituted with a different one from a different vendor, or maybe an older version of the TCL app. The only issue I forsee is if the app attempts to communicate with hardware in a non-standard way. Alternatively, I wonder if you block internet to the TV app using a firewall if the TV functionality would still work without showing ads. There is AFWall+ if you’re rooted and DNS/Android VPN based firewalls if not. There is also DNSNet, which is a DNS based ad blocker that uses Android’s DNS service.

Mine doesn’t have a custom ROM either because Hisense refuses to release the kernel source for my device. Didn’t stop me from rooting anyway. Magisk/KernelSU modules can also do a lot of heavy lifting for replacing things.

I was able to unlock the bootloader and root my Hisense Android TV just fine. I think you can also root TCLs, but I’d check xda first.

I didn’t even need to enable OEM unlocking first to unlock the bootloader. Dumping the boot.img was a different story. Someone did it for me for my model, since my model’s UBoot firmware is missing a lot of functionality. You may have better luck dumping through UBoot using the UART interface, or maybe there’s an alternative. If your TV is a GKI device and you can boot a generic kernel, yhen you can use KernelSU without needing to first dump the stock boot.img (or init_boot.img), then you might be able to upgrade and dump the stock one from the other partition before rebooting

I couldn’t figure out how to get into BROM mode on my TV.

Make sure there is a reliable way to reflash the firmware in case of a brick. Hisense provides firmware packages that can be flashed from the bootloader without needing to boot an OS.

Existed since 2011

I’ve been using Tuta for damn near a decade, and it’s been great for me.

You can pass through a dedicated PCIe USB card if latency is important.

On my desktop, I’m able to pass through the motherboard’s integrated USB controller. YMMV if you try this, though. If I need to control the host (ex: to force shutdown the guest), I either use a PS/2 keyboard, SSH, or KDE Connect.

The “K” stood for “Kool”

Is it possible to self-host a server? Is the server code open source?

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If you want something that will scream on that hardware, AntiX (Debian based). AntiX runs much faster than Windows XP on my Pentium 3 rig from the late 90s.

Otherwise, I’d go with one of the flavors of Linux Mint, which should also run fine, especially if you go with Xfce or MATE.

If it can run Windows 7 fine, it can run Mint even better.

Unless you’re an original Intel Pentium trying to divide a number.

It is an app that has access to both your microphone and the internet.

Just install the NewPipe flatpak and replace the apk with whatever.

AntiX runs great on my late 90s Celeron rig with a 1.2GHz single core socket 370 Celeron with 256MB RAM.

Runs waaaaaay better than Windows XP and slightly slower than Windows 98 SE.

The place to get snaps is proprietary and exclusive.

I thought only people who subscribed to CrowdStrike’s services had that driver installed.