Samsung's chicanery taught me this, but other manufacturers are no better. Those TV apps may seem nice, but they can be run on hardware you have more control over. I'd recommend only buying "dumb" TV's, but they've become increasingly rare and expensive. Less costs more!

> One day after granting the TRO, the same judge ruled that it should not remain in effect and vacated the order.

> “The Court finds, sua sponte, that the [TRO obtained by the State of Texas against Samsung] should be set aside,” the judge wrote in the order.

"ruled that it should not remain in effect" links to https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26462588-20260106-or..., but my desire to understand what's going on does not yet extend to reading the order.

Hopefully the Vizio lawsuit that is going to trial soon will help make that more possible.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

Two recent LWN articles about that:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052842/52c45fb8bcc3fade/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1052734/5903e175673caeef/

Par for the course for Ken Paxton, one of the most blatantly corrupt politicians in the US.