The link has a ton of information.
Under Privacy Settings, there are options for Device Usage Data, Collect App and Over-the-Air Usage, and Interest-Based Ads. All are enabled by default, but you can disable them.
The link has a ton of information.
Under Privacy Settings, there are options for Device Usage Data, Collect App and Over-the-Air Usage, and Interest-Based Ads. All are enabled by default, but you can disable them.
So 720p streaming and a lot of maintenance.
I so very much want to ditch closed source but then i’m limited to piracy really, and any setup really requires hours of maintenance here and there at minimum.
Hours? Running Fedora and enabling DRM on Firefox ain’t that complex, neither is installing the waydroid flatpak. I think you’re really blowing the situation out of proportion. Assuming you already have the iso probably like 30 minutes to get set up including a full install.
Not who you were responding to, but it took me weeks and several iterations to get an acceptable working HTPC for the family. Sure what you described can get you up and running in Netflix in a browser rather quickly, but try handing that solution over to a 6 year old and see how that goes. That experience is nowhere near what you get with say a Google tv, where everything just works right out of the box.
Linux can’t do streaming on the major apps over 720p, there are no apps designed for the TV, you have to use the browser. The Jellyfin desktop app is pretty bad on Linux, and so is Plex.
The solution I finally landed on was Kodi with the Jellyfin add on and a flirc remote. That works well. But it’s not something you are going to get working in 30 minutes, and you have to go full pirate. It is a terrible experience compared to Google tv otherwise.
Yeah one of the distros I listed above which I haven’t used personally is literally just enough Linux to run kodi. I mean installing Kodi also only takes seconds. Now to be clear we’re talking about billion and trillion dollar companies vs a group of people mostly volunteering their time for free. On one side you get no privacy or flexibility but amazing customer service and UI. On the other it’s isn’t as polished but far more free, private, and flexible.
When making deals with the devil things are usually nice at first until he comes to collect later. That’s the whole gimmick. Get people by the nuts by making it so easy for them to walk into your grasp.
Video frontends like GrayJay and Revanced let you pick streaming resolution and it actually gets followed. Plus they work for multiple services like Youtube, Patreon, Nebula.
If you’re not happy about getting 720p from Netflix in a browser, that’s from Netflix being cunts. You’re better off voting with your wallet and dropping them.
Also, maintenance? It’s minimal. You get an update popup in the video frontend maybe once per week and wait 30 seconds after hitting “yes”. And you can add an extension on Deckyloader to autoupdate all of your software in the background each day without needing to do anything