Also not really feasible sadly, if I lived alone I could consider it. I’m just trying to find a good compromise between privacy and convenience

I’ll keep that in mind, thank you! I just assumed NewPipe was the go-to on all android platforms

Will that be able to play DRM protected content?

tf is your problem, that’s just another PC. I already said multiple times that an Android TV is a hard requirement for me. If you’re not gonna suggest anything valuable, then don’t suggest anything at all.

Glad you mention that 3 comments down the chain. I’ll look into it.

Am I in the wrong sub?

No, just an annoying prick

why yes of course, thank you, I will just enjoy my movies in potato quality then! I’ll tell my gf to just cope and enjoy the 720p netflix experience!

No, Tortenring isn’t the solution because again, I don’t live alone and my gf wants to watch Netflix. Easy as that.

The poet explicitly talked about Android TVs and TV boxes. A PC is not the solution to that, it’s an alternative that compromises on too many things

Thank you, I see this is probably the best approach. I still hate it, and the Smart TV market is completely fucked, but it’s probably the best compromise between privacy and comfort

Hmm, okay this seems interesting. I thought TV Boxes would be just as locked down as TVs. I’ll do some more research in that direction then!

I mean, yeah, but the rest of the post goes on to outline the issues I have with Google TVs, and how to circumvent them. A Google TV box would just have those same issues, or am I not understanding correctly?

Whether I buy a Google TV, or a Google TV Box, or Chromecast, or FireTV or whatever, the issues are the same

Don’t those external boxes just run a Derivate of Android TV anyways, and have the same telemetry issues? But I guess they solve the freezing issues you mentioned.

I’ll have to read more about those, I only really looked at Smart TVs and the custom TV box solutions so far, both of which aren’t ideal, thank you

I’ll try it out with the current TV and see how much traffic I can block with this method. I have high hopes, but am prepared to have them shattered

Because, as mentioned in the article, I don’t live alone and my girlfriend isn’t keen on using a keyboard and mouse to control a Linux PC, which must also be able to display 4K DRM’d content

Which then also runs Android TV and phones home?

Sure the dev doesn’t owe anything, but he is actively putting in the work to remove existing support. Instead of just doing nothing he is sticking it to the linux user by removing support

Edit: I don’t see how removing your own, working PKGBUILD will prevent people from installing broken 3rd party packages and complaining about it in your project.

Then explain to me how the bazillion other open source cross-platform Windows-first projects do it. Dropping support for Linux moving forward is fine, but actively going out of your way to remove the existing support is petty and just an asshole move. Especially when paired with a license that restricts 3rdparty packaging.

Also “this doesn’t work” is a bad reason not to invest the 3 minutes it takes to make an issue template, and it will already decrease the amount of packaging related issues by at least something

Seems like a skill issue on the part of the dev. GitHub lets you create issue templates and even forms. He could have made it so that every issue creator is warned that packaging issues will be ignored and closed without comment.

“We tried nothing so far and are going for the nuclear option first”