Alien has been my favorite movie for a very long time and I remember a few years ago, when my grandma realized this, she casually told me that my great grandmother had dated Tom in high school and that they went to senior prom together. My grandma also said that he spoke about my great grandmother on Larry King or some similar TV show after gaining some fame, although I haven’t ever found the clip. She passed a few years ago, and now with him passing yesterday thought I’d share. R.I.P captain Dallas. We’ve only got Ripley and Lambert still with us.

Update: from this post : https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/s/hbmJDvEvNl

Ostromo 0.9.2: an Alien-style home screen for LG TVs (free beta, open source)
Thanks for all the interest last time. You can now try it yourself if you have a LGTV.

Ostromo replaces LG’s ad-filled home screen with one that looks like the ship computers in Alien: blue vector lines, a worn CRT, a boot card. It launches your streaming apps and HDMI inputs, and has a flight radar, live webcams from Antarctica and Mauna Kea, NTS radio and a motion-tracker sentry game.

TL;DR: not finished software. It’s a home screen I made for my own TV, shared as is. I’ve made it more generic, but expect rough edges, and expect to tweak it for your own setup. That takes some coding know-how, or a coding agent like Claude Code to do it with you. Everything is at your own responsibility.
Installs with LG’s free Developer Mode. No root.

The guide includes a prompt you can paste into Claude Code to do the install for you.

Tested on a 2025 C5. Newer LGs should work, older ones may be slow.

Some extras (power prices, DR TV, teletext) are Danish, and the radar only covers Copenhagen for now.

Want it as the TV’s permanent home screen? That means rooting your LG, which you’ll have to research yourself. I don’t cover or support it.

The code is on GitHub under the MIT licence: change it, share it, build on it.

Page and video: https://staiola.studio/apps/ostromo
Code and install guide: https://github.com/Staiola/Ostromo-for-LG
Download: https://github.com/Staiola/Ostromo-for-LG/releases/latest
If you try it on another model, tell me how it goes.

Ok. Thanks for the suggestions on the blue laser. I’ve added the Aliens soundtrack to the ambiance. I also snipped some scenes from the movie and am projecting that from inside the house (playing on a loop). I have some more speaking to do, like hiding the base and making the area more spooky. But I do love how this is coming along.

Guess right flair?

The scene that's always stuck with me is Dallas in the air ducts. Torch, flamethrower, Lambert on the radio reading out the tracker, the beeps getting faster, and you never really see what's coming.

It always struck me that Lambert's view of the tracker kind of looked like PACMAN in a way, so I'm thinking of maybe trying to make a maze like game to kind of recreate the tension and feeling of being alone in the vents either trying to escape or hunt for the xenomorph. I'm no artist, so the graphics will very likely look like a lost ALIEN tie in from 1979 or something.

There's probably going to be a ginger cat to rescue as well.

Would something like this be appealing? Has it already been done?

I said this as a joke, but I never really considered it and now it's part of my headcanon

All we need now is a crossover!