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• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Install libreelec onto a raspberry pi 4. Its a linix OS that automatically boots into Kodi.

  It has an ad free youtube addon that has no ads, which you can augment with a sponsorblock addon.

  If you have or jellyfin, but intergrate really well with kodi. For plex, use plexkodiconnect, for jellyfin, use the jellyfin kodi app.

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  • Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to be into that sort of tinkering and custom install/configuring of all sorts of software. I probably still have 2-3 flircs in a drawer somewhere.

    These days I just want to be able to buy something, plug it in, and have it work. The idea of installing a plex/jellyfin server and a custom OS on a pi might as well be the same as getting a 4 year degree at this point. I’m sure it works out great for loads of people, but it’s definitely not something I’m interested in.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thats all well and good mate. Id say youree a couple of YouTube vidoes away from getting the above done, but if you aren’t interested that’s no problem.

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      • Ilikecheese@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not the knowledge that I need, it’s mostly the time and desire to set up all that stuff and maintain it and keep it working and constantly needing to track what the latest and greatest version of whatever platform or software that is out there. It’s the same reason I don’t jailbreak my phone or hack my consoles anymore. Sometimes it’s nice to just buy a thing that works out of the box and use it as its intended.

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  • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about the remote?

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Flirc has a great remote if you go with the above called the skip.

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  • teichflamme@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used Kodi for almost a decade and switched to firetv because add-ons were breaking constantly. Netflix worked maybe 20% of the time.

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• TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Chromecast with stremio is still the perfect streaming setup for me, now if only the voice recognition on the remote was a bit less shit.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chromecast with stremio

    Just so that people are aware, from stremio’s privacy policy…

    The analytics technology we use is Google Analytics. To learn more about Google Analytics and your privacy, visit www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics you can use various browser addons such as tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or www.ghostery.com .

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