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    Frog: “Hey, did any of you guys notice the water get a couple degrees hotter?”

    Other Frogs: Already boiled alive

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      Frog with hacked firestick and a pirate subscription: huh?

      Frog who downloads media himself and hosts it on his own server: you guys are in water?

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        Frog who downloads media himself and hosts it on his own server: you guys are in water?

        And when that frog realizes that all the other frogs in the water have been caught and eaten already, where do you think the predators are going to turn to next?

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          You’re right! People should stand against this NOW by not paying for these shitty services!

          Wait a minute…

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          If someone could explain to me why that comment is getting downvotes?

          The point I’m making is that just looking out for yourself is never enough, sooner or later its your turn.

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            If someone could explain to me why that comment is getting downvotes?

            It’s absurd. You’ve strained the metaphor by pushing it too far and it makes no sense.

            1. The boiling frog analogy has nothing to do with predators. Predators do not put live frogs in pots of slowly heating water.
            2. How exactly do you think ads are going to be forced on people who pirate their media?
            3. Telling people “stop giving money to trashy companies” is looking out for them. When companies get too greedy and start being shitty towards paying customers, the reaction absolutely should be “we’re going to pirate it instead” so that these practices actively hurt profits.
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              It’s absurd. You’ve strained the metaphor by pushing it too far and it makes no sense.

              And when that frog realizes that all the other frogs in the water have been caught and eaten already, where do you think the predators are going to turn to next?

              The point I was trying to make is that at some point it’ll be impossible or nearly impossible to do piracy, that you have to do more than just look out for yourself, you have to vote people into office that’ll pass fair laws for consumers.

              I’m not passing judgment on piracy, just that someday there will be a point where DRM will be too much, so you need to fight by other ways than just piracy, like getting the right laws passed.

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                The point I was trying to make is that at some point it’ll be impossible or nearly impossible to do piracy

                Piracy has always been illegal, and has always happened anyway. There is no way to make it impossible. Even Denuvo, the currently best anti-piracy measure, can be cracked and makes the experience worse for paying customers.

                you need to fight by other ways than just piracy, like getting the right laws passed.

                I don’t live in the country that needs to pass those laws.

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                  Piracy has always been illegal, and has always happened anyway. There is no way to make it impossible

                  I hope you’re right, but I wouldn’t be so confident in that. As time goes on, and they bake more of the DRM into the hardware directly, it’ll be harder to circumvent (for the common person at the very least).

                  For example, the Sony PlayStation used to be very hackable, now it’s not (last time I checked).

                  I don’t live in the country that needs to pass those laws.

                  I would imagine that, as the world gets more International and interconnected, that might change, at some point the future. If it doesn’t, then good for you.

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      I’m still alive.

      But only because I ditched Amazon Prime at the end of the month.

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      It’s why I’m struggling really, really hard not to feel to annoyed with the average consumers that still buy this trash instead of supporting less oppressive alternatives.

      Like, yeah, people should just be able to buy what they like and not have to concern themselves with the overall market trends they’re helping to entrench… But holy shit is it becoming a serious problem. The customers are what drive the direction of the market, but the customers base isn’t just tech enthusiasts anymore, it’s literally everyone, and they are sleepwalking us all off a god damn cliff. By the time they wake up to start complaining about it, we will already be halfway down.

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        By the time they wake up to start complaining about it, we will already be halfway down.

        They’ll be at the “too big to fail” point, where to try to reverse the trend would crash the economy that’s based on selling customer privacy and information.

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    I will absolutely employ a 0 tolerance policy on forced ads.

    If I have paid for a service to be ad free and you throw me an ad, I won’t pay for your service.

    Hell, I’ll back-charge through my creditor and say I paid for a service that was not delivered.

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      Careful of backcharging large companies. They’ll remove your account from all their services. Looking at you Google.

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      And that’s the exact reason that less and less people are taking credit cards and only taking debit and ACH.

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        Where do you see businesses accepting debit but not credit cards? I’ve only ever seen it accepting both or neither (in the case of neither, you have to physically mail in a check or link up ACH information). And the only time I see ACH or physical payment accepted but not debit/credit is with governmental agencies in the US, because credit/debit costs them money to process while ACH/physical money does not.

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          I haven’t experienced not taking credit cards, but T-Mobile just got rid of my ten dollar auto pay unless I switch from credit card to debit card.

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              Probably and I’m perfectly fine with cash or debit only. Screw credit. Just hurts people in the long run

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                Depends on the person.

                If you’re using credit because you don’t have money, then you’re doing it wrong. Credit only hurts people that don’t understand this.

                I put everything on my credit card. I also pay it off every month. So it’s only helped me.

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                If you’re bad with money, sure.

                If you have half a brain you absolutely gain using credit

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        I’ve never seen a merchant that doesn’t take a credit card. wtf are you talking about

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        not really. it’s that credit cards usually cost a lot more per transaction in fees to the merchant.

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      I’d look through the fine print if it says that they won’t serve ads. Cause I doubt that.

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        The fine print didn’t say I won’t do a chargeback either. Two can play this game.

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          I’d try to get a refund first unless you never plan to shop on Amazon again.

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            I meant it as a counterpoint, not something I’d actually do. Especially considering I don’t shop in such places in the first place. But yes, you’re obviously correct.

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    A great solution is just to stop buying from Amazon. Like, anything.

    Chances are you did survive before Amazon was a thing. It’s possible.

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      I gave them 1 star and left a bad review for each of the fire tvs…they called me about the revie and then did nothing…buy a roku and throw out your $800 fire tv…it is worth it to take the loss for your own sanity

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        I recently bought a Roku and was surprised to find they force ads on their home screen. It’s obviously not as terrible as a fullscreen ad but its still very annoying.

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          Roku also does not work well with Crunchyroll at all.

          You can’t get any dubs, and if you get subtitles - they only seem to be in the language the show is. E. G. Japanese subtitles only for Japanese Audio.

          It’s so dumb that neither Crunchyroll nor Roku will budge.

          If you don’t care about anime. Roku is better than the alternatives.

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            What do you mean they won’t budge? Is this a conscious decision they’re both making to spite one another?

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              Roku controls Subtitles/Language as a system level which means Crunchyroll can’t fix it. Other systems allow the language/subtitles to be within respective apps.

              Roku won’t budge that subtitles must match language spoken and that each content should be in its primary language (Japanese).

              Crunchyroll is “fixing” the issue by creating duplicate seasons - one for each language - but that is a very slow process and it only fixes the dub

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                Netflix doesn’t use Roku’s system level language / subtitle settings so I assume there’s a way around it for other apps as well.

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        buy a roku

        Wait, what? A Roku has more ads than a fire TV. 1/3 of the screen is always an ad. For new releases they’ll sell the entire screen as an ad. ( Disney’s Seeing Red was a full screen splash ad on my Roku.)

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          OK open to any other options and I mean any…there has got to be someone who can wite hacks to fix issues like this…they are doing it for chrome?

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            Roku is more closed than Amazon fire. I’ve read about rooted Fires.

            Apple TV seems the least intrusive right now but I’ve never used one personally.

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      You pay the Amazon tax indirectly often enough regardless. Huge chunks of the Internet run on AWS. And if it’s not AWS, then it’s Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. Shareholders win again.

      As for not buying shitty products, returning them when you realise how shitty they are, cancelling contracts when services turn shitty, etc. Yes, do that.

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      Naw, it didn’t stop any other company i boycotted, and thinking it does is actually a silly idea to consider if you give it a minute to be in the ol’ noggin.

      If it did make a difference there’d be a bunch of astroturf campaigns against voting with your wallet, wouldn’t there?

      The only thing that stops this is something we’re not ready for yet.

      EDIT: wimps.

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          The only thing that stops this is something we’re not ready for yet.

          EDIT: wimps.

          And what is that one thing?

          “Viva la Revolucion!”, probably.

          Hot take incoming, apologies in advance for the lecture…

          What is it about the newer Generations that they’re so binary about everything, that it’s all or nothing, and nothing in between?

          How about we try voting in the right people into office first?

          And before you reply saying what a waste of time it is, only bother replying if you actually have the Congress app installed on your phone, if you watch the votes that are held and passed, and you can name your Representative and your Senators.

          Because they sure as hell not paying attention to you, and what you comment about here on Lemmy. You need to get more in their faces with your opinions, if you want them to treat you with respect and seriously.

          And yes, it might all fail anyways, because money talks and bullshit walks, but at least you can look in the mirror and say you tried.

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        It doesn’t make a difference unless enough people boycott. The problem is not enough people care enough to actually stop going there to hurt their revenue.

        Then there’s the problem with the current political division, at least in the US, where if something upsets one side, the other likes to dig in to stick it to them and often winds up giving the boycotted company more money than they’ll ever lose.

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    The enshittification will continue until moral improves.

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    Currently using a Roku Streambar for all of our streaming needs but if they pull this crap, everything we consume will be downloaded, served on my Plex server and streamed using the gaming PC I have under our TV.

    Getting beyond sick of these companies using every measure and device they can to shit ads into our eyes.

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        as soon as services and sites start doing the same thing yt does… delivering ads via the same servers and hostnames as the content… pihole and other dns-based solutions lose their effectiveness.

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          Oh I have my own content. I’ve also been doing this since we were recording off air broadcast TV breaking out commercials from a live stream is nothing but an inconvenience.

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            i just uncovered a box with over 100 vhs tapes from the days before i switched to pc-based recording. that’ll be a future project after i get done with de-duplicating and consolidating the files i already have.

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              Coming back from VHS is a bit painful, I’ve done quite a lot of it at this point. (I think I’m up to a few hundred tapes)

              I used to use TiVo to record broadcast and cable, export as MPEG, strip the commercials and then turn that into DivX. There are options out there to automatically strip commercials they’re ‘mostly’ good and work way better with digital sources.

              The problem with VHS is another layer of substantial loss. If someone recorded it as SLP (and that’s pretty much what we all did back in the day) you’re going to spend a very long time with AI video denoising to get something even remotely watchable. Analog CRT hid so many video sins.

              Topaz Labs video AI does a reasonably good job under certain circumstances. When you go to rip your content don’t just rip it all and then worry about it later. Rip a couple of things and then mess with them until you’re happy enough with the results to continue.

              Generally speaking the stuff you start with needs to be kind of watchable If you expect it to turn out into something truly watchable. AI is good at cleaning up artifacts in a little snowy grain and straightening out fuzzy edges. But if your source material is coming out as utter disappointment it’s not going to fix it.

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            Interesting. I’m using nextdns on my router, I had manually blocked ads.roku.com and now have the Stephen Black block list enabled too but I’m still getting ads.

            Now that I look through my nextdns logs, I don’t see my roku at all so something seems to be up with my config. Thanks for the help!

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              If you can’t get it straightened out Hit me up again here and I’ll restart my Roku and see if I can figure out what else it’s hitting

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                Thanks! I’ve just got it working now - something weird is going on with my ddns setup but manually linking my IP to the nextdns profile did it.

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                  Something to be aware of, some devices will straight ignore your DNS settings in DHCP if they can’t get to their ads. My iPhone 13 did that. I had to block port 53 udp/tcp for everything but the piholes.

                  I’m sure eventually we’re going to see DNS over https doing the same and I’m 100% ready to mitm all devices that pull that bullshit…

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        Broke: PiHole and a Roku

        Woke: PiHole and a regular-ass computer that doesn’t need to be PiHole just to not see ads they’re not even expensive and and can do EVERYTHING why would anyone use a Roku or Amazon stick this run on sentence does not understand

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        Oh, that’s great to hear. I have a pi hole ready to set up, but I’m waiting on a card reader to come in the mail so I can finish it, but I was curious in how effective it would be.

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      What OS are you using for the gaming pc under your TV? Wanted to do something alike but don’t know what would be the best OS for something like that

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        The best OS for your HTPC is whatever OS you’re comfortable with

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          As I wrote on the other comment, I was looking for something easy and fast to use even if I’m on the couch. Something that i could set to almost look like a smart tv but that could also work with steam link/moonlight. So honestly I’m comfortable with windows but don’t think it would be the best OS to use for my case

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            i mostly use windows on the tv, an old laptop and a wireless kb/trackpad. runs cool, even with the lid closed all the time. reliably wakes up outputting to the external ‘monitor’ as long as it hasn’t ‘lost’ its connection to the tv (can’t unplug that input temporarily for another device–would have to flip open the laptop lid later to re-enable the external-only setting), and it’s new enough (skylake) to have decoding in hardware for the formats i’ve been using.

            the other hdmi is a linux sff desktop set up similarly, but i haven’t got all the kinks worked out yet.

            use firefox (with addons and some userscripts|styles) for online sites, and usb externals or lan connection for ‘saved’ content. shortcuts on the desktop (to web sites, playlists, lan shares) function as the ‘home screen’ or ‘launch’ page.

            i do have the tv ‘online’ atm, though, because a lot of pluto ‘live’ tv get watched here, and the tv ‘app’ is faster and more reliable than their web site. the remote has a hotkey for it, too, which goes directly to the last ‘channel’ it was on.

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              Thanks for the thorough explanation! So you just use windows on the old laptop, no Kodi or anything else?

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                yup. just windows (or linux) desktop applications and networking. i don’t need a ‘10-foot’ ui; and don’t (atm, anyway) need the remote streaming capabilities or other features of a jellyfin or plex.

                the keyboard i have is an original logitech k400. it’s really the piece that makes my setup usable, otherwise i’d have a full-sized separate kb and mouse sitting on the ‘coffee table’ (it’s really just a low-standing tv shelf on wheels) instead.

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                  Yeah that’s a nice keyboard, maybe i’ll think about it because it seems really useful and compact at the same time! Thank you again for everything :)

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            Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 4 is pretty good, and you can run moonlight from within Kodi. Of course, you have to find a reasonably priced Pi…

            EDIT: Also, I use this setup in a spare room, but use an Apple TV in my living room for identical purposes. Though I use Infuse and the actual Steam remote play application.

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        Cant say for the other person, but I use linux mint for the gaming pc under the tv (and for every other computer my family uses)

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          I was looking for something easy and fast to use even if I’m on the couch. Something that i could set to almost look like a smart tv but that could also work with steam link/moonlight

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      I can’t believe there isn’t a good HTPC OS that can handle launching Netflix, prime, plex, whatever.

      I haven’t used Kodi in a few year but at least then Kodi and the big apps didn’t play well together.

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      Its sad so many people seem to lack pattern recognition and don’t appreciate that Plex is no different than any of these companies, they’re just not as far along on the enshitification cycle.

      They’re for-profit, providing a “free” service. They will fuck you and the platform. It’s not an if, it’s a when. They’re already moving in that direction. They’ve made many decisions in recent years that are very obviously stepped in trying warp the product into something more profitable. That will not stop, it only gets worse.

      Why not get started on the move to Jellyfin now? You will have to in a few years to avoid bullshit, I promise you.

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    You can update the TVs settings to block these new large video ads. However, Amazon is getting more and more intrusive with its ads. I imagine that, similar to the Alexa Shows that I also use, every few weeks they’ll tweak the ads, making your previous “disable this” settings no longer applicable. It’s technically a new ad type, so they can auto enable it again. Super frustrating.

    Largely in response to these new autoplay ads, I replaced my Fire TV with an LG TV. I’ve got another LG TV from only a few years ago that doesn’t really have ads. This one… does. Damn it. Don’t get me wrong, they’re much less in-your-face when compared to Amazon’s ads. But, damn, does everything just have to be ads now?

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    Well, you get what you pay for. It’s very cheap for a reason: you are the product.

    I got an Apple TV in 2018 and it’s still working perfectly. Yes, it was expensive, but it has no ads, it’s still fast and responsive, and it still gets updates.

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      Ditto, I caved and got an Apple TV around 2020 after getting fed up with Android TV OS being complete garbage and constantly crashing. I’m not even an Apple fan, but the user experience was a night and day difference. Siri ended up actually being really useful in a TV remote, no more typing in passwords manually or typing in search bars.

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      I bought an Apple TV recently for a secondary TV and it’s a real pleasure to use. Also have a Shield Pro in the theater which is getting annoying with ads and silly UX changes. I used to sing the praises of the Shield and encouraged many friends/family to buy it in the past (even over Apple TV). But not anymore.

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        Sadly that’s mostly a google issue. They can turn a lot of stuff on and off server side. Nvidia would have to build a new Home Screen and I’m not sure they want to do that.

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          I have an Nvidia Shield and recently learned about alternative launchers to replace the stock android TV launcher and remove all the ads. I just installed ProjectIvy and it’s amazing. Clean and simple and now there are no ads or banners or anything. Highly recommend it.

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      I still have one of the Apple TV HDs from 2015 on one tv and it’s still fast compared to the built in smart tv on TVs I got last year. I had 2 more that I upgraded to 4K units last year but gave the HDs away and they’re still being used. They really weren’t expensive for me because directv had launched their streaming service and were giving Apple TVs away when paying for a certain amount of months.

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    That shit is annoying, Shit starts to blast out loud before I adjusted the audio. It’s like going to some old website that would autoplay music obnoxiously.

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    The day nvidia shield start doing that shit i’m going straight for Kodi in a mini-pc

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        You can easily change launchers on the Shield, unlike the Fire TV for instance, which actively blocks it, to get rid of the advertising and garbage.

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        The simplest solution right now is to uninstall the upgrade to the Google TV Launcher application under the my apps section in settings for the Nvidia Sheild.

        At the same time disable automatic updates in the playstore app, this way the specific TV Launcher app won’t update.

        Currently this is the app responsible for showing you ads on your homescreen and playing you full screen ads.

        My recommendation is to also downgrade your Nvidia Sheild to 8.2.3, here is a excellent guide below.

        https://florisse.nl/shield-downgrade/

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          I recently installed ProjectIvy launcher and I’ve been happy with it so far and there are no ads now.

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      Don’t give them ideas!! But I’ve blocked any update for my shield maybe two years ago, so it’s locked in a older version of Android, it works fine and I hope this doesn’t change 😬

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        They don’t need me to get that idea. I might block their update too good tip

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        Don’t forget about the playstore app updates, these should be set to not autoupdate.

        Currently the android TV Launcher app is what shows you the ads on the homescreen. You can easily uninstall this apps update if you upgrade it accidentally.

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      All my screens just have computer hooked up. Even a debloated windows 10 install is better than any other stick solution. I don’t even need to do special rules on my PiHole lawl

      Also, can’t find the thing I need? I’ll just pop onto AR, OR, IPT, whatever and get it. Can’t do that on a shitty stick or shield

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          I need something capable of decoding 4K hevc. I want to try to stay away from my server and needing to transcode army’s despecialized edition of starwars

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            Fair enough. I use an Apple TV and Infuse in my living room on my main TV, so I didn’t even think about how the 4 needed to have things transcoded for it. Infuse natively decodes almost everything I throw at it. How do Harmy’s despecialized compare to 4k77?

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    This is so annoying. It goes into a full screen ad as soon as you turn it on, so I babysit the remote and navigate to an app as soon as it turns on, in order to avoid ads. It also does this if you let the TV idle, which I also hate. I might just throw it away and go back to hooking up a laptop to the TV instead. I paid $70-ish bucks for this stupid thing.

    Edit: I just remembered that you can hack these fire sticks, so i’ll probably try that first.

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      Chromecast 2. Very cheap and no hassle. Just stream from your phone or computer. Virtually every video streaming app I have ever seen is compatible. There’s a remote app you can use on your phone if you want one of those too.

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      Isn’t there some consumer protection law against this, I mean this is really invasive and not doing what you expected it to do when you bought it.

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          Anything less than allowing every corporation to plunge their tentacles into the inner depths of your anus is 100% communism.

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      … RAID SHADOW LEGENDS. RAID Shady Legions is the new exciting RPG PVP for NPC that you’ve all been waiting for. It’s got last generation graphics, an “immersive” “story”, and integrated mobile upsell offerings unlike some other things on the market.

      I’ve been playing PAID Shadow Legends ever since they sent me $20,000, and now I have an unmitigated addiction to laxatives, so I can escape from my wife and kids on the porcelain gaming throne, and spend time with my favorite hero, WHICHEVER ONE WAS JUST ADDED THIS WEEK. Get that limited time premium champion with the link in my bio.

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    My Chromecast is doing it’s job fine with app only mode but the day they change it or take away that mode I’ve got some mini PCs ready to have libreelec thrown up on them.

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        It’s a setting that effectively disables all content recommendations from the home screen, leaving you with nothing but app icons.

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            It’s in settings > accounts and sign in > your Gmail account > apps only mode . I have to scroll down for it on my Chromecast but if you have it on your Sony it should be in there.

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            If you don’t have it on your Sony TV, I’d recommend installing another launcher like FLauncher which effectively does the same thing and gets rid of the garbage.

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    Ever since getting a fire stick I’ve been hooking my laptop up to the tv instead. Now I can play games, watch movies, shows, etc

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    I always say ads are a nuisance and need to be eradicated. None of my friends agree with me… whatever, enjoy your ads

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      Bought an early one. Used it for less than a year.

      I still have it. Can they be flashed with Lineage or something?