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What are we doing for TVs these days software wise? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have been using kodi but it just so limited and clunky. Android TV is better but that is a major challenge since Android TV is very tied to Google with not much existing outside of Google.

What I am looking for is a device that can work with mostly Jellyfin. I don't use any streaming services. It would need to work flawlessly with a remote and I am looking for something that maintains itself mostly.

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[–] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I really dig my tcl roku tv. Ultra cheap and has plex/jellyfin. Has 1 ad on the main screen that can be easily blocked but can also be setup to insta launch an app on boot. These tvs also have decent latency in game mode too (my most important requirement).

[–] DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.io 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The ad on the right side of the home screen always shows up for me, even with a pi-hole setup at home. I actually ended up factory resetting my roku tv and disconnected it from the inyernet entirely a couple years back for that exaxt reason. Except roku OS 10+ actually gas built-in ads on the right side that show up even if you're offline.

...so how did you get rid of the ads entirely? Because I'd love to do that myself.

[–] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You have to disconnect the internet for a while. Think a month or two.

[–] DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Weird, I've had it disconnected since the factory reset.

Maybe I should connect it, let it load new ads, and then cut it off again?

[–] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Humm. How long has it been disconnected? I wouldn’t reconnect just in case it starts a timer back over or something.

[–] DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.io 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A couple of years now. I messed around with the Secret Menu settings today and I might have solved it; my guess is that there are some "default" ads cached forever on certain settings.

[–] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Wow. Secret menu? Didn’t even think to look for that. What does it slow you to do?

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