i wouldn't trust it not to connect to a free wifi from a van parked outside. fortunately, this is purely hypothetical for me. i do not own a TV. i set one up for my mother (with raspberry pi) and felt happy with the setup. then i set one up just like that for my mother-in-law. if i were to own a tv, i'd set it up just the same (and then never turn it on). i'm simply too picky about what i let my offspring watch. eden tv http://eden.uktv.co.uk/ is probably the only tv channel i consider worth watching.

not sure. that's why if i had a smartTV i'd dangle my man-bits and hairy behind in front its camera every time i walked past it. "you wanna watch? here you go, mr nsa. claw your eyes out."

seriously, i want my TV to be as dumb as possible and fed content by an easily upgradeable computer.

i'd rather have a tablet that doesn't look like it was designed by an "equal opportunities" employee.

to give an obligatory car analogy:
nobody cares what's under the hood of "kia soul" or "fiat multipla".

i played with making filesystems RO and logging to a remote syslog server + using shm/tmpfs wherever i could but i ended up using overlayFS which is similar to what you suggested. the iterative steps were quite fun though. i should have taken notes.

not only that, but unlike alternatives, this is the only one I found that my TV's USB port can power. so my B+ is powered by TV and feeds the TV via HDMI. I'm not sure even this newer version will be able to live without an external power adaptor. I know nobody cares but I for one won't be upgrading anytime soon.

I did have to make some changes to raspbian's filesystems so that switching off TV didn't leave dirty bits on filesystems, but it was fun tinkering with it.

this is why i'm waiting for a phone with Intel CPU+GPU. for now, intel's phone cpus come with powervr gpu which is probably the most linux unfriendly gpu there is. anybody remember intel gma 500? i'm not stepping in that sh*t again.

or you can just buy it from oracle. they have 2 types of kit. one has a wheelmouse, the other has a 3 button mouse:

https://shop.oracle.com/pls/os...

although for a slightly different reason, this is exactly how i run our openvpn network. whenever somebody from our company went on a trip to a country where SIP telephony was blocked (yes, it's you UAE!), they took a small raspberrypi-like box (dreamplug) with them whose only purpose was to create an openvpn tunnel via port 443.

i analysed the first couple of packets captured in wireshark and there's pretty much no difference between this and https.

i hope not. i can't imagine anybody choosing suicide over this. (IF this ever moves beyond the usual "lab rats regain memory" stage)

thanks a lot.... i was eating!!!

i guess, now that i have offspring, i'm even more sensitive to this sick shit.