are there custom ROMs for TVs like there are for Android phones?

Add the “Activate Linux” watermark as well.
The one from https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux

completely black

Taskbar is good, but I prefer SmartDock
https://github.com/axel358/smartdock/

Still better than that Swarovsky Antivitus

there is a bridge, but some parts of the fediverse got very mad about it
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/
https://fed.brid.gy/

Yes, and there are probably other FOSS applications for that as well.
But it is a bit sad to see that Google considers the “phone” part of the “smartphone” be so obscure functionality that they left it’s development to community.
Maybe I should stop living in the past and just accept that the glowing rectangle that we carry around is actually a tiktok machine that can occasionally do some other stuff as well.

this is what open source dialer app died for?

Other comments already pointed to some very good software solutions.
But I would argue that absolutely the biggest barrier to entry for the masses is hardware.
Restoring an old PC or making some cable spaghetti with some SBC is currently too advanced for average person.
Self-hosting for the masses would require some new form of home servers.
Something modular, where adding new components would be as easy as playing with Lego bricks.

sup dawg, heard you like advertisments

GotHub seems to display basic GitHub stuff decently well.
https://gh.whateveritworks.org/

ah, I checked again, it works fine for me now as well

that’s what I have

I want the effort that would otherwise go into making camera even better to go into making other aspects of phone better. Figure me out a better battery instead, give me more features that make my phone capable of doing tasks that can currently be done only on computer, stuff like that.

you are correct, I do

didn’t read the article because it wants me to disable adblock
but wow, the title really triggers me
do normalfriends really do nothing else besides take pictures and videos with their phones?

*laughs in OSMAnd*

!stallmanwasright

so this is similar to LibRedirect?
https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
https://libredirect.github.io/
check out this list of privacy frontends and see if you can implement any of them in Predirect

Also, I see that you only handle one instance for redirect. Either the default instance or custom instance.
Consider implementing multiple instances. Here is list of instances that LibRedirect uses:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libredirect/instances/main/data.json
Here is a list of instances that Farside.link uses:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benbusby/farside/master/services-full.json

Both LibRedirect and Farside still have to deal with the rate-limiting problem with Youtube and Reddit and I assume other sites as well. Invidious instance or Teddit instance can be rate-limited, resulting in video not playing or post not showing up.
If your extension does not distribute user traffic across multiple instances, then I assume that your chosen instances will get hammered into ratelimit even faster than other instances.
So consider thinking about solution for this.
One of suggestions that I like is to allow user to provide an URL to a list of instances.
That way, someone or some automated system can periodically compose a list of instances and users can “subscribe” to that list.

Also some useful links:
https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#social-networks-and-platforms
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
https://matrix.to/#/#alternative-frontends:tchncs.de

which is why we need to support developers of custom ROMs who are giving us lightweight open source alternatives.
Is there any way we can help steer the direction of AOSP?