Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV

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• aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here, I drew the word “Just” in this post

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  [Caption for the visually impaired: “Atlas holding up the celestial globe” by Guercino]

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• Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Been there done that. I prefer the Nvidia Shield, easier interface to navigate with a remote, I don’t have to login first, it rarely needs an update, no noisy fans, I don’t need to keep a physical keyboard connected to it, it’s way cheaper, I don’t need to mess around with codecs, and there aren’t a lot of unnecessary services and background applications hogging memory and cpu resources.

  I get that most of this can be fixed or worked around on a htpc, but that’s effort I don’t have to spend on a Shield.

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  • GeekySalsa@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It also smoothly supports all dolby/dts stuff with no fuss. To my knowledge, there’s no way to get dolby vision working on an HTPC.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have never heard of anyone talk about nvidia shield since 2013 until I joined lemmy. This is the weirdest marketing psyop I have ever seen.

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    • lambda@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then you weren’t in the r/self-hosting or r/piracy communities. It comes from the fact that it supports most codecs. So when you want to watch almost any movie on Plex, the server won’t have to transcode.

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was and I guess the psyop was dealt with there.

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also use a Nvidia shield, very happy with it… Mostly. Clean, few ads, although they did add some banner ads for major streaming providers. But I don’t mind seeing a banner for a few new shows

      Not psyops

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is a psyop because it makes my brain tingle.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This about avoiding android tv and ads though

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    • Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I run a Pihole, no ads.

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      • smooth_tea@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s BS. It’s impossible for something like pihole to block ads like the ones we get on YouTube/Android tv because they are served from the same domain as the regular content and a pihole doesn’t know the difference.

        The only way to block them is to run unofficial apps that replace YouTube and the likes.

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• lurker8008@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A $40 htpc with 4k HDR output, wifi, a remote, and uses like 10W maxed and <1W idle? Please share parts list.

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• RazorsLedge@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What software does it run which is able to access non-local media like Hulu, Netflix, peacock, etc?

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• Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kodi forever, with retropie

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  • RazorsLedge@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean jellyfin! The kodi library management design is silly. Tightly coupled with the player itself.

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    • Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have kodi on a rpi3, with the jellyfin plug in so all the decoding happens on hardware (old cheap nvidia) on the server where jellyfin runs.

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    • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love jellyfin I just wish I could access folder view for my metric ton of audiodramas. Sorting by album, artist, etc works great for songs, but not for longer form interconnected media like that. my file structure is already sorted I just want to be able to view that with the same program that I view everything else with

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      • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For video content, iirc, it’s possible to browse the files just like you’re asking for by creating a “Mixed film and programmes” library. The description of the type, when creating it, mentions: “Content will be displayed as plain folders.” However, I don’t know if that would slso work for audiodramas? Possibly if you disable auto-fetching of metadata and provide it all yourself — either by creating .nfo-files and supplying correctly named images within the folder structure, or through the jellyfin app/webui.

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