There is sendtokodi, which uses yt-dlp. I'm a bit surprised that there are no newpipe-extractor clients for Kodi, since there should be hooks for everything you'd need. Then again, I don't know how well it works outside of Android.
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Honestly, I was avoiding Debian for the staleness, but it might be what I go for. I use ungoogled chromium, and all but the flatpak version seem to lag behind. I don't like the packaged dependencies for each app, since there tend to be a lot of redundancies and bigger deltas. Though if you fully commit to flatpak, with Debian as a stable base, that might be good. The more I try to customize Mint, the more it fights me.
Interesting discussion, but many of the questions have pretty lame default answers. I have a Sony bravia from 2015 for reference.
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The TVs that come with an OS instead of just firmware are smart-TVs in all aspects. Your cable TV or hdmi input is an app just like Netflix is, and is subject to a launcher. You can't make it dumb by disabling stuff.
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You can mostly reject targeted ads and disable personalized data collection. But smart TVs are priced with ads included, so completely turning off everything will require unsupported modding.
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cameras are only found in telepresence hardware, unless you want to be paranoid. Check the feature list. Microphones can be in the remotes of some TVs, but this will usually be advertised as a smart assistent if present.
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I haven't seen any TV actively complain about missing wifi (except for during setup for updates)
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unless you are tricking the TV into thinking it's online, any connection attempts/power usage would be a bug. Do note that smart-TV will by default have a standby-draw influenced by WoL or similar.
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This is pure tinfoil-territory. No hotspot/carrier carries data without being payed for it. It's also not economical when telemetry can be sent over the customers home-wifi in 99% of cases. There is no gain in hiding sim-cards in every TV. Unless you are a person of interest and are sent a modified TV in that case.
Hope this helps.
For now, NC Deck does what I asked. Even if it's bound to Nextcloud, that's at least a server I trust. I also used Markor as my editor ever since switching to Android, it seems to have a todo-focused Markdown extension with linking other files. Looks powerful, maybe I can build something with it.
They do have SQLite on their Roadmap, so maybe there can be a standalone app at some point.
A thing that popped up in corporate space is IgelOS. It's an immutable image meant for linking to a VM workstation on a company network. Seems worth checking out.