im using a chromecast right now and i want a similar experience to that, just more privacy friendly
although i have set up a google account just for my chromecast with its own email, it still doesn’t feel like its enough
im in the eu btw
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It’s appletv unless you’re willing to use a custom sbc with a taped together third party android version.
I don’t recommend the latter option because it fucking sucks and you seem like a psycho to others who may use it or watch stuff with you.
You can just host jellyfin from your pc (or a server in your closet) if you wanna get away from streaming services and it works good with either option.
I want to be clear as day that you cannot get a privacy friendly experience from any Android streaming device unless you load it yourself and make sure it’s something like the lineageos Android tv stuff linked by another user.
It’s probably worth it for you to put into words what you’re trying to accomplish, being as clear and explicit as possible.
im mainly trynna watch something like smarttube (youtube ykyk), jellyfin and some streaming services
There are a bunch of tvos smart tube apps in the store for free but I’d just build the client on github and load it.
Even on the most locked down device the qos involved in streaming gives enough information to track you. If your goal is to block ads that’s no problem but just bear in mind the feed isn’t one way, your device communicates back to the source to negotiate bitrates and buffers and that’s enough to do some very accurate measurements especially with a side channel of normal https communication in the mix which they all have.
It sounds like you just want to block ads and there’s nothing wrong with that, I just don’t want to lead you into thinking you’re actually in any way private when streaming. Every service is actively collecting as much information as they can in the process of sending you video.
Anyway don’t read any of that just try out the appletv and if you end up not liking it you can easily sell it to someone for 90% of what you paid.
my brother actually wants an apple tv and/or my family’s tv needs a tv box just in general so that could work
and i don’t really care that streaming serviced collect my data (i mean i would like them to not but im “fine” with it)
i thought that sideloading apps like smarttube on apple tvs was pretty hard, and thats mainly why i didn’t really want one, but if i can use something like smarttube then maybe ill give it a try
You have to take some extra steps, it’s not just “click button -> success”, but it’s not too hard.
Perhaps you’re the target audience for the many unofficial smarttube apps in the tvOS store.
im fine with sideloading and stuff, i use linux (arch btw (endeavouros but i want to larp as an arch user)) ykykykykykykykykykyukykykykykykyklykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykykyykykykykykyukykykyykykykykykykykykykykyuklykykiykykykykykyk
Building and loading your own apps for tvOS isn’t hard but the instructions are always written for Xcode in its native environment (macos, formerly osx of xcode fame). You may have no problem setting up a vm for that, already have some device that runs macos natively or run into an infinite amount of roadblocks that you can’t surpass.
In the last case be careful what insane unofficial smarttube app you settle on.
You could also, and I wasn’t able to come up with a better way to put this because I’m not very smart so apologies if it seems like an attack, not watch youtube on the tv.
youtube is like the only thing i watch so giving it up is a big deal, and all of the other stuff you said is basically nonsense to me 🥹
I can’t speak from personal experience, but I’d suggest looking into Kodi. It’s an open source OS designed for DIY stream boxes, meaning I believe you would need to install it on a mini PC or similar. Since I haven’t used it myself, I can’t provide you much specific advice on it, but depending on your use cases, it might be worth a shot.
What’s the benefits of this over jellyfin?
Kodi is more of an OS, whereas Jellyfin is an app. I believe Jellyfin is available on Kodi. I mentioned Kodi b/c OP mentioned wanting to replace their chromecast.
I use a Linux machine that boots to a big picture interface with these apps:
- Jellyfin Desktop client (pirate everything)
- VacuumTube (YouTube TV interface with adblocking)
And I use a Flirc receiver so I can use a remote for all of it.
When you mention big picture mode, are you talking about Bazzite’s big picture mode or just any distro w/ Plasma Bigscreen, or something else?
I’m currently using Bazzite with Steam’s Big Picture mode, yes. I’d like to switch to Plasma Bigscreen, but I’m not sure it’s ready just yet. I keep trying it on my laptop every few weeks, but there are some crashes I keep running into.
I can’t wait to switch away from Steam Big Picture mode though, as it’s pretty tedious adding shortcuts and having to use a Decky plugin to download art for them. It’s very apparent that Steam isn’t meant to be used this way (even though once you set it up, it’s not bad). Plasma Bigscreen just reads the .desktop entries, which is a lot better.
I’m using my Steam Machine partially for the same purpose, but this is the first I’m hearing about this receiver. I got a shitty little PC remote that kind of works but isn’t great, I might give this a shot
The Flirc receiver is the best $25 I’ve ever spent. You can use it with basically any TV remote and turn it into a decent PC input device.
You can map any app with decent keyboard navigation support to work with up, down, left, right, enter, etc. and get a pretty seemless TV experience.
I think the newer raspberry Pis have CEC so if someone goes that route they wouldn’t even need a second remote
Edit: or just get a CEC adapter probably
Also, hi AdmiralPatrick’s alt 🙂
You Kiwi Farms freaks need to update your wiki because /u/AdmiralPartick is deleted long ago. This is the main account, not an alt.
You’re sadly mistaken if you think the people that rightly don’t like your heinous behaviour are kiwi farmers.
But sure, everyone that doesn’t like you just happens to be bad people from a stinky Nazi forum. Whatever you need to tell yourself.
“I’m harassing you for different reasons than the Kiwi Farms people are” is not the moral high ground you think it is.
