The other possibility is that its 2 hexbearites who are trying to save the site, not realising they are bidding against each other. Would be pretty silly if that was it.
Not all android TVs are bad, but I think a lot of the cheap ones are pretty bad. Mine is horribly laggy, and will occasionally refuse to turn on unless I powercycle it.
Which Chromecast do your parents have? The ones pre-Google TV are pretty brainless to use, but I hate the new google TV ones as well.
I suspect the vast majority of people are buying dumb TVs because android TV sucks, not for privacy reasons. I'm willing to bet most go home and plug their Chromecast or FireTV stick right in.
So as long as android TV sucks, its good news for us.
Its only a start if it passes, but conceptually, right there with you.
Snowballs chance in hell of succeeding, but thats a great idea.
You can setup DHCP to give the DNS address to every device automatically. Even heavily locked down routers sometimes have the option, but I guess OP will have to try that out.
Pihole also has a built in DHCP, which you can enable and use as long as you disable the router one.
"Effectively kill piracy" - Sure guys, this time it'll work.
Remember that in online spaces (and IRL in reality), there are astro-turf/sock puppet accounts that will make claims to sway public opinions.
To be fair, we only know of this one. There may well be other open source backdoors floating around with no detection. Was heartbleed really an accident?
That kinda sounds reasonable. Especially if it can prevent someone going down that rabbithole? Good job PH.
I think its better to think of it like a president or prime minister. He might set the plan and direction and making the big decisions, but there are thousands of others supporting and making the plan actually happen.
In the past he has delegated the release to others as well.
So if the worst would happen, the linux project would continue operating fairly seamlessly.
White round one with the remote? That's the awful Google TV ones. The earlier versions have no remote, and you really can't go wrong, just press cast and it'll go.