Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

• InternetUser2012@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I find it convenient, but I’ve had pc’s hooked to tv’s since broadband became a thing. I can watch anything, download anything, play games, check banking, ect.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair enough.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have one of those Google streaming devices but I hate giving up my privacy. Also, I saw fast food ads on the device’s home screen one day and I couldn’t disable those. That was the last straw.

  So now I use a raspberry pi 5 running arch with Firefox to stream everything to my TV. I even got a remote working with it that works fairly well, moves the mouse and everything. It was a lot of work but now I own my experience and don’t have to give Google my data in that particular way anymore.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m using a wall-mounted TV as a 2nd monitor.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From a couch, though? That was the use case here.

    I have one of those as well for one desktop system. And I will stream to TVs as a second monitor from laptops sometimes. But I don’t think that’s the setup they have.

    Which of course is a good setup if it works for them! Or for you :)

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