For the love of Mithras do not get a fucking firestick. The amount of data collection and phone home requests those things do is actually insane. Not to mention they’re locked down hard now, you can’t even change launchers. You’ll be back at square one with a TV spewing ads at you without consent, and you can’t do shit.
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ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Easy way to never get this. Don’t connect the tv to internet. Literally get an Apple TV or fire stick or something else as a media player.
michaelalf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Jhex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
if you get one of those you end up in the same place with more steps… you need to hook up a pc (any format), preferably running Linux, so you have full control
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Amd streamers dont give hd on desktop devices.
So if we go this route we need to bring our sea legs.
Jhex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I assumed we are all fellow waterdogs
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So they don’t waste my bandwidth on badly compressed source video that I can’t see the difference on anyway?
Sounds like win/win to me.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why is your bandwidth limited to the point you have to acept sub optimal products.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Yeah it used to be a pc on Windows was enough, but now even that’s corrupted to hell