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Roku and TCL are being sued for allegedly bricking smart TVs with bad updates (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] vratajin@piefed.social 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but that's a terrible setup for 99% of the people. I don't want a big loud box near a tv. How would you even control it ? If all you are going to do is launch those apps, most people would be better off with apple tv. You can even install jellyfin there if you have your own home server and stream to it.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Loud?

You can get a minipc with no fan for a couple hundred bucks.

You control it with a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard.

Or with kde connect using your phone.

Or however you want to control it because it's linux and you can do whatever the fuck you want and use ubkock or pihole or whatever and never see another ad for the rest of your life.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago

I use a media center PC and never want to go back to anything else.

  • very easy to split screen / picture-in-picture

  • not reliant on: did this service release an app on whatever platform, and will it continue to support it

  • can use a real browser (read: ad-blockers)

  • mouse/keyboard - yes it's perfectly fine to use wireless mouse/keyboard in a livingroom on a couch