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It's time to dump Roku (www.engadget.com)
submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ryan_@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Instead of a Roku Stick, you could use the Google TV Streamer or Apple TV 4K…..…..Amazon's Fire devices are also an option, but I figure anyone with moral qualms against Fox may have similar issues with anything tied to Jeff Bezos.

I got a kick out of the article recommending Google and Apple like they’re the ethical option against Amazon here. Any sane person with moral qualms against Bezos will have plenty about Google and Apple too, so let’s not pretend that any of them are anything less than evil.

[–] malios@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What suggestions do you have for simple media players that techy people could recommend to their families? It seems like for the most part we're limited to Android-based devices or the Apple TV.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's not there yet. But I'm hoping KDE plasma big screen continues to receive love. If it gets into mainstream distributions. It will likely be big. It's a much more smart TV like shell for the KDE desktop. All the familiarity of your Google TV, Apple tv, fire stick, Roku etc. But none of the advertisements or lockdown. With waydroid it should even be able to run most of your Android applications as well as all the native Linux and KDE applications. But again this is something to watch for. Not quite ready for deployment yet.

[–] mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This would be awesome!

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 2 months ago

It absolutely would be. I'm watching it with great interest. The thought of having a Raspberry Pi and old E-Waste business PC or a cheap n100 or 150 system at the television. Running Games movies everything. It's very attractive.

[–] amgine@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just looking into this recently and CoreELEC came up. That or LibreELEC that run kodi. The hardware that was recommended would be a ugoos x4q

[–] malios@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depending on how maintenance-free this is once it's configured (because non-technical people are not going to mess with things), this actually looks like a pretty solid solution. Thank you!

[–] amgine@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

It’s been years since I’ve used Kodi but I remember after it being set up it was pretty solid. I’m sure it’s been improved since then

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub -1 points 2 months ago

All kinds of media player distros for raspberry pi

[–] natecox@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A raspberry pi 4 running libreELEC (which runs Kodi) is a much better investment if you're looking to stay away from evil corpos.

There's a really nice subreddit (which also has a Lemmy community) to teach you how to get content for it.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's a really nice subreddit (which also has a Lemmy community) to teach you how to get content for it.

If someone wanted to build the streamomg box you mentioned: it would be helpful to provide the names of those communities.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Yaarrr just going to have to find it on your own. It's kinda a black spot for most communities to link there. My friend Davy Jones got in trouble for it once, the rules sailed right over his head. Now I need to go drink some High C.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I went with a HTPC and haven't looked back.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you cast from your android or iPhone to am HTPC?