Raspberry Pi

This may sound really weird and dumb (and long, on top of that) to you micro-pc gurus but this thought has been going in my head lately so I'd like to ask to someone who actually knows. Please excuse me in advance.

I have a Sony Bravia 'smart' TV, pre-Android TV (and pre-Google TV). It still works great, if I'm not wrong it just completed 10 years with me (or it's about to be 10 years old).

The thing is that, along that it takes time to "warm up" when turning it on, it has a non-updateable WebOS or something similar. An ecosystem that seemed to be rich at first now barely has a youtube app that works veeeeeeeeeery sloooooooooooow (it will hang and crash after a couple videos!) and, worst, you can't block its ads (maybe partially with a PiHole but it seems YouTube won the war in that front).

Of course I know I could just use a Chromecast or whatever, but I don't like the idea of having yet another device plugged in, an ethernet port in the TV that would render useless, and another remote control to take care of. I "still" use my TV to, well, watch TV. Like antenna/cable stuff. I don't even have a single subscription streaming service (Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, etc).

Plus the idea of buying a new TV kinda goes out of the window - new ones cost 4x for what I bought this one, this one still works pretty well (the issues are most software related), and the new Sony-s that arrived here don't even have the internal DVB-T2 antenna so I won't be able to watch local TV.

Ideally I'd like that when you go to the 'Home' section of the TV (where you can launch apps, navigate the gallery... that kind of stuff) it gives the control to the Pi instead, and you always could go to the 'TV' mode as usual (in other words, giving the image/sound control back to the "original" OS).

So having some idea of what a Raspberry PI is capable of, I'd like to ask if is it possible in some way to hack the TV to replace whatever system/board/etc controls the TV with a Pi? I can imagine the answer being 'no' due to propietary buses or connection incompatibilities, but will that be the case for every single TV, or is there some standarization about it?

I have a headless 3B+ and want to connect a USB drive to it to periodically backup some data. I don't want the drive to draw power all the time.

My plan is to use this in a script
https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl#raspberry-pi-3b
to power up the USB port, mount the drive, write the data, unmount and power USB off again.

My assumptions are that a USB drive will draw power even when idle. Is this correct? Does it depend on the USB adapter in the drive? Is there a better way to do this, cause my plan seems pretty hacky.

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Welcome fo the RaspberryPi magazine here on kbin.social!
So realistically there are relativly few posts wihtin this magazine. I have projects which I would like to write up and share... but I can't fill this channel alone, and time always seems to be short.

However... this is kbin, there is whole other side to the magaizines! Alongside the Threads there is also the Microblog. If you are on a pc the Microblog tab can be selected from top of the page, if you are on Mobile this page can be selected below the Magazine panel at the bottom of the page. This Micoblog includes pages from all over the fediverse which include the hashtags below.

If you find anything interesting using the Microblog here please do crosspost it back to here as a new thread - this will make it a little more visible to others here on kbin (and to those on Lemmy too!)

If you would like me to add other hashtags please comment below. I'll edit this post to keep the list upto date.

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