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I think Samsung still use Tizen (still Linux, seems to use Toybox) and LG uses WebOS (Linux again, not sure if it uses Toybox).

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Just looked through my TV, webOS uses Busybox.

please teach me how to do this, I have a webos lg tv which is literally not being used because my father used to watch youtube but then youtube almost stopped working on it and there are no more updates and I tried to root it but i couldn't and I just want to use it instead of it being a junk.

Any guide on helping me prevent some e-waste at my home. I would prefer to have complete linux access of my lgtv and use something like tiny core linux on my webos tv or something, is something like this possible or?

Normally how you realize your TV runs busybox is by looking at the last parts of the manual, not by just casually sshing into it and running busybox --version.

It is however a lot easier to SSH into it.

root@lgwebostv:~# busybox

BusyBox v1.29.2 (2024-06-12 00:33:13 UTC) multi-call binary.

Try https://cani.rootmy.tv/

Use it with a setup box?

my parents bought the "smart" tv a decade ago to switch away from setup box

It was kinda expensive at the time, its wild of sorts how cheap of sorts TV's have become right now but still we bought it and its just e-waste right now.

I am thinking of setting up a raspberry pi but I am more interested in learning the inner details or how to do things preferably without raspberry pi as well

It's not e-waste. Your ignorance for the easy solution makes it e-waste. There is nothing to learn from bad embedded systems.

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