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You’re right, it’s a moral imperative to show children that if you can’t legally get what you want just do it illegally…
Legal != moral.
Would you feel the same way if a commercial entity violated the GPL?
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Or just get any smart tv and add a android tv dongle . They don't cost much
If you care about privacy absolutely do not get an Android TV dongle. Get an Apple TV (though yes, they cost more. Maybe find a used one on eBay if you're particularly price sensitive)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
The new Google TV launcher complete with ads on an expensive TV or a Shield is getting a hammering in the ratings, shows how little they care about customer feedback. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... Bonus points for making the preview images in the store not show the ads you'll see. If any other app tried to mislead users like that they'd be banned from the store. Although it's not lik…
Downfall implies a failure or ending, it seems like they're still selling like hotcakes. This is why we need regulation to save us from surveillance, most consumers want cheap and don't understand/care that they're selling their privacy instead.
I quite like my android tv on my lg display. It’s responsive with a nice solid feeling remote. I think there are ads on the screen but I’ve never given them more than a passing glance except once or twice I was recommended a good tv show. Most people outside of the HN crowd really don’t think about this stuff at all.
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I love my ATV 4K. But it’s useless for traveling since hotels require you to login and the AppleTV doesn’t have a browser. The Roku sticks get around this by temporarily exposing a pass through wifi connection that you can connect to from your phone/computer and log in to your hotel’s wifi. The only work around with the AppleTV is to buy a second travel router.
For travel, I have a Raspberry Pi with a second wifi stick to transmute hotel wifi into my own local network. This avoids having to modify every phone/tablet/Chromebook/Switch the family has in tow or fight with buggy hotspots. I keep meaning to add a VPN back to home (mostly for performance) but I haven't got around to it yet. An upgrade I keep looking for is an external directional antenna so I can get a stronger s…
A travel router will do the trick.
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You’re right, it’s a moral imperative to show children that if you can’t legally get what you want just do it illegally…
downloading video content copy for personal consumption without owning original is legal in many European countries, uploading/distributing would be very different matter, let alone software
No it isn't.
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If you can't wait for the p2p download then you are already lost. Needing the latest an greatest or not being able to wait a year to watch something means they already have you firmly in their grip. Just pay the media troll toll if you can't wait.
Haven't a lot of torrent sites gotten in trouble or implemented rules to mitigate against their sites providing content before the official release since they come out so fast and not always from official sources? I've never heard of issues of having to wait any significant amount of time from an official release on the streaming companies.
Torrenting is great but TBH I'm not going to waste my time setting up Sonarr/Radarr and maintaining tracker accounts to torrent stuff that I can watch through services I already have access to.
At home, I've never connected my TV to my network. The few firmware updates I've needed to do were applied using a thumb drive, and I use an AppleTV as my interface. When I travel, I bring along an AppleTV and plug the HDMI port into their set. This lets me keep the services I subscribe-to and use them with their display. This has worked great until my most-recent rental, which had a RokuTV -- presumably setup on Wif…
>At home, I've never connected my TV to my network The next (already there?) steps are the TV automatically scanning for open wifi network to leverage and/or having a built in 4g connection.
I would worry more about mesh networks like Amazon sidewalk
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Does kodi / librelec have decent Netflix/Prime/HBO Max/Apple TV+ apps? I was under the impression they don't really support the big streaming apps and aren't really of use outside of watching torrented content.
Kodi has Netflix and Amazon Prime apps that I've used. They get the job done, though they ain't pretty.
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Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking. It indiscriminately pollutes the environment, and inflicts harm on non participants by incentivising unbridled data collection.
The hard, spikey, jagged, foul tasting pill to swallow then: Society needs to pay directly for content.