Refurbished Refurbisher

Tubular is great.

Is Cloud Stream not also torrent based? Personally, I use Real Debrid with Stremio.

At that point, why not just use Stremio directly?

Check out Stremio. It has cross-device syncing.

Stremio + Torrentio is basically modern-day Popcorn Time.

There is no open source implementation of RCS.

People should fully own the computers they buy, regardless of which company they buy from.

This means root access and a replacable primary bootloader, let alone just being able to install apps not on a curated market (what Apple calls sideloading). macOS and Windows both manage to allow root access, and so do certain Android devices (and obviously other OSs as well). Replacable primary bootloaders are more rare, though, especially in ARM devices due to efuse-based secure boot in the CPU that is impossible to turn off. There’s only one phone I can think of that allows for replacing the primary bootloader (Shift 6mq).

We shouldn’t allow for artificial restrictions placed by corporations on devices they sell, because as we have seen time and time again, companies copy each others’ restrictions, especially Apple. Same goes with game consoles, IoT devices, Smart TVs, etc. And before you mention the potential for piracy, DRM is an artificial restriction placed by corporations, and should also be removed from devices.

Anything less means that you don’t own the device that you paid for.

Apple is clearly attempting to comply with the EU DMA in bad faith so that they can maintain as much control over their users and app developers as possible.

Codeberg

The $20 Walmart onn-branded box (2021 version) supports LineageOS. Also the Google ADT-3 box, along with other Amlogic devices.

You will have to build a ROM yourself, since Android TV doesn’t have an open source launcher, and usually comes embedded with GApps. You can replace the launcher with Leanback On Fire, which is a TV-friendly, open source launcher.

https://xdaforums.com/t/unofficial-lineageos-21-for-amlogic-gxl-gxm-g12-sm1-ne-family-devices.4649881/

Voyager is on Android as well. It’s technically a webapp, so you can run it on any device that supports displaying a webpage.

Example: https://m.lemmy.world

Eternity FTW

Even the FBI recommends ad blockers for security.

You can root some head units and disable modem that way. It can get sketch, though, and there’s a risk of bricking the head unit.

Could be A/B testing that Roku is doing.

You can put LineageOS on some of the Amlogic boxes and just don’t install Google apps and stick to FOSS.

Ofc the most private way to view content is to sail the high seas, though.

The one that I’m using. Focuses heavilly on retro tech.

sdf.org also hosts a multitude of other services, including a public SSH server.

Also doesn’t defederate with any servers and (from what I know) no servers defederated with it.

Infinity for Lemmy is great

Right now it’s only on codeberg. You can manage updates with Obtanium

You can also use Firefox/Fennec/Mull/whatever to use PWAs. On F-Droid, there’s an app called Native Alpha that uses the system’s Webview (Chromium based).

You’re assuming the Supreme Court has legitimacy and principles. About that…