Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

A developer created R2D2, a system that transforms smart TVs into customizable devices by running a local home screen, private browser, and voice assistant on a separate Linux compute host while using the TV primarily as a display. The setup streams a sandboxed Chromium session from the host to the TV over a local network, keeping all content and voice processing private and offline. The project is experimental, unsupported, and comes with significant warnings about potential warranty issues and the need to modify TV firmware.