Are they both named Billy? Edit: I realize non-Billy spoke up for Billy

He bid 20k over, which is 3% of the asking price of 595k. I agree with the other points, but 20% sounded way off

Unfortunately the Smart TV hacking community is not that active.

It is a bit more active than your links seem to indicate, but is not very well organized or easy to find.

Use https://cani.rootmy.tv/ to check recent status of rooting LG TVs models. Many slightly older, 2+ years old TVs are still rootable, due to this exploit from 2024: https://github.com/throwaway96/dejavuln-autoroot

Even worse, IMO, than the high initial price is the fact they charge a subscription to continue to use the cooling cover you already paid an arm and leg for.

Had to look up what a few of these were myself, check the sidebar resources: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted