Samsung had a hidden hospitality menu, or hotel mode, search for how to access it for your model. You can have it go right to an input on power on.

Getting an hospitality variant tv might be an option too. I have a Samsung one which does have some smart features but they are mostly backend related. I think there's only YouTube on the user facing side. I got it because they are support to be better TVs for the money but it was such a huge pain to set up that I wouldn't do it again.

I'm so glad that there's room for this kind of investigative journalism in this day and age. Kudos!

In my senior year of college two decades ago, I needed one or two credit hours to finish up, and I signed up for a once per week software patents (as in, intellectual property, I thought) course. It turned out to be a patterns course taught by none other than Ralph Johnson and the text was his famous Gang of Four Design Patterns book. Happy accident, it turned out to be among the most professionally useful courses I ever took.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Johnson_(computer_scient...

I'm with you, a little pogo-pin connector with all the charging circuitry in the external dongle would add, I don't know, ten dollars to the BOM. Very cool product but I won't buy a gadget I know I'd dispose in two years.

In Copenhagen, the vast majority of people park their bikes on the street using only a cafe lock (frame mounted, immobilizes the rear wheel). The bikes are generally nothing special, old rusty junkers, with one or three gears. E-bikes flatten terrain but also you need an indoor place to store it and they become a magnet for theft. A cheap bike you can ride to the Metro and leave in the elements is versatile in a way e-bikes are not. (I say all this as a massive e-bike fan living in a very hilly US city who recently visited Copenhagen and adored its bike culture.)

We once rented bikes in Copenhagen, they all looked like they were fresh from the junk yard. We had to try several to find ones where at least one of the brakes was still working. It was a horrible experience, and we tried several different places. That was after we found out that the public bikes that were supposed to be available all over the city had all been stolen.

Author explains some anti patterns with too much fat, so I'd guess baked or boiled with a dallop of butter or oil and little salt is a good approach.

.NET being so batteries-included is one of its best features. And when vulnerabilities do creep in, it's nice to know that Microsoft will fix it rather than hoping a random open source project will.

I want WASM+DOM so that we can use any language on the web

WASM and DOM in Rust: https://www.leptos.dev/

Uno can render to canvas or the DOM in C#: https://platform.uno/

Blazor renders to the DOM: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...

Beside already mentioned, there is OpenSilver[1]. Supports Silvelight and WPF. Renders to DOM+WASM. They are also planning support for MAUI.

[1] https://opensilver.net/

Can this compiler be used outside of Valdi? TS to native AOT sounds incredible.

Quickjs will do this.

Fun project, it's okay to do things like this just because it's fun for you and you want to explore what's possible. Don't listen to the haters :)