VLC for Android (TV) can stream from URLs nicely.
Please make your products work with URLs
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#22Irony: blank page w/o JS, fails in Outline.com.
Well this is one way to write a web page.
It's doing, ...interesting stuff, like rendering markdown on the client, but at least all the required assets are self-served. So it works with uMatrix. Hey, that's something in 2020! 15 years ago we were complaining about the .doc files, now we have the XML based .docx files that are at the very least parseable but we lost the XML based web in between. Now every website implements their own document format which needs to be opened with the executable it sends next to the content. You can try to parse the markup bits but you'll get zero semantic content, that's for sure.
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#23Irony: blank page w/o JS, fails in Outline.com.
Even worse, once the JS is whitelisted, the resulting page still can't be opened with the Firefox "Reader View" so it is unreadable for me (having the black background).
JS should not be needed to show five paragraphs of text. And even with the JS the resulting HTML is still unreadable.
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#25So you can't watch porn and anime?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well this is one way to write a web page.
From the site: I am a data visualization software engineer. Based on this web site, this is a definition of "software engineer" of which I was previously unaware.
Presumably, he makes _data visualization software_. For example Tableau.
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#28I hate smart TVs with a burning passion. They accomplish literally the bare minimum to keep people happy and sometimes not even that. Samsung’s Tizen OS is the most genuinely frustrating experience I’ve had with a consumer device outside of printing. Advertisements on my home screen that can’t be disabled, dubious privacy, bugs that require me to reboot my TV, and of course security so bad that they recommend install…
Can't you just remove the smart TV's internet access (no wifi pw, no Ethernet) and treat it as dumb? Then attach a Chromecast or whatever "smart" dongle you think has the best UI.
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#29I hate smart TVs with a burning passion. They accomplish literally the bare minimum to keep people happy and sometimes not even that. Samsung’s Tizen OS is the most genuinely frustrating experience I’ve had with a consumer device outside of printing. Advertisements on my home screen that can’t be disabled, dubious privacy, bugs that require me to reboot my TV, and of course security so bad that they recommend install…
Worse yet, Smart TVs often brick themselves due to failed software updates. My last Sony TV did an overnight Android update, and I found it in a state where it'd show the Android boot logo and subsequently shut down. Some Google research showed that this has happened to hundreds of people (youtube videos outlining the problem, etc). Sony refused to do anything due to the TV being out of warranty, and no amount of hackery could get the TV back up and running. The end result--perfectly fine hardware being taken to an electronics recycling facility because the firmware was totally hosed. It's maddening.
Re: Please make your products work with URLs
#30I hate smart TVs with a burning passion. They accomplish literally the bare minimum to keep people happy and sometimes not even that. Samsung’s Tizen OS is the most genuinely frustrating experience I’ve had with a consumer device outside of printing. Advertisements on my home screen that can’t be disabled, dubious privacy, bugs that require me to reboot my TV, and of course security so bad that they recommend install…
I've long since run with the notion that if you must have Smart TV features, do it with an external box. Last time I checked the Roku devices were decent for this, but there's a bunch of alternatives, and some lovely FOSS stuff (Kodi comes to mind) that is much more privacy focused.
The TV itself is a black box of mystery, and does NOT get to go on my network. It doesn't need my wifi password, and I certainly don't want it sending screenshots of my desktop (with sensitive information) off to some advertising agency. No thank you! But far more importantly, the TV will last for years as a dumb monitor, and the external box is usually much cheaper, and can be upgraded and secured separately. This just feels like the correct model.