I have Google TV on my Sony TV and found that I was able to disable the ads and crap.
There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.
I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.
I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD
Since it's a static database and the queries against it are most likely going to be static, just pre-run the queries and store the results statically in a more space-efficient format. When you're on a dogshit internet connection in a 3rd world country 50kb can actually be pretty unpleasant. Try rate limiting your internet to EDGE rated to see what I mean.
I'm not saying the whole thing isn't impressive, just that the concept itself is one of those "because I can" rather "because I should" things, which kinda devalues it a whole lot.
Yeah...as someone who recently relocated from a third-world country (South Africa) to a first-world country (Canada) I'm just going to go ahead and tell you that while the costs of living and property in third-world countries sound great there are a lot of negatives that don't make up for it.
There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.
I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.
I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD