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I suggest using an old laptop or desktop and install Kodi or Plex to solve for this.
I just torrent stuff on my Mac now and use a USB stick to ship it to my dumb TV.
Android TV is a surprisingly bad system anyway. Barely apps, I can access maybe 100 games from my TV. The far majority absolute, and filled, trash games. I suddenly found myself locked out of thousands of things I used to watch because the browser, if even enable-able, sucks and so many sites/services have no interest in having an app. Owning a TV still feels like a step down for me, since I was used just streaming o…
I suggest using an old laptop or desktop and install Kodi or Plex to solve for this.
Kodi also works surprisingly well as Android app :) sorrily way snappier than on the RPI (v4, 8gb ram I think) that was explicitly recommended from the kodi website :/
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook - we power their abuses with our money. Just stop buying their trash. Support open hardware, free and open source software.
People bought devices that did not show the ads. Now Google has forced those ads onto those devices. So, hindsight being 20/20, this is yet another abuse.
"They change it after selling it to you for the worse, don't buy their products."
When that becomes the reputation the problem will solve itself when they stop selling them from bad reputation.
The way to combat this is not to buy products that have this and then complain about them. The companies that make them do not care, they have already gotten your money. The way to combat this is to not buy products that have this in the first place. edit: a lot of comments are saying that the ads were added later, after purchase. This doesn't change my opinion at all, because people still bought products that have t…
I’d love to buy a “dumb” tv. How do I do that?
The fact that you need to ask online how to buy a dumb tv, instead of being able to do so yourself, is depressing.
Android TV is a surprisingly bad system anyway. Barely apps, I can access maybe 100 games from my TV. The far majority absolute, and filled, trash games. I suddenly found myself locked out of thousands of things I used to watch because the browser, if even enable-able, sucks and so many sites/services have no interest in having an app. Owning a TV still feels like a step down for me, since I was used just streaming o…
My parents have an Android TV and often have to reboot it to for the internet connection to work. Makes all the streaming apps a pain to use.
The way to combat this is not to buy products that have this and then complain about them. The companies that make them do not care, they have already gotten your money. The way to combat this is to not buy products that have this in the first place. edit: a lot of comments are saying that the ads were added later, after purchase. This doesn't change my opinion at all, because people still bought products that have t…
So, don't buy anything capable of receiving a software update?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d love to buy a “dumb” tv. How do I do that?
Just buy a cheap smart one and attach a device that fully controls it via hmdi. My bedroom TV boots to Kodi and the original remote is attached as well as a small keyboard. Basically the best solution I found