BeardedBlaze

Make/model of the TV would help. They often do support playing videos through USB, but are really limited in what movie file types it supports.

You could buy a cheap laptop or raspberry pi, connect that to the TV, and use VLC to play movies from your desktop (would have to make the folder with movies on your desktop network shareable).

I wish that was the case, but it absolutely doesn’t even come close.

I recommend heliboard.

Except for those on degoogled android.

Nope.