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Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The biggest hurdle is streaming services' DRM (something called widevine iirc) that just doesn't work on linux, which limit you to low resolutions like 720p. There was some struggles between AMD and the HDMI consortium preventing them from shipping HDMI2.1 drivers, but that appears to be solved.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The biggest hurdle is streaming services' DRM (something called widevine iirc) that just doesn't work on linux

    Good point. Of course, while technical solutions make for an interesting discussion, piracy is both an excellent free solution, and can get rid of the pesky anti-piracy ads.

    But I do appreciate the discussion, as I remain unwilling to bother with piracy, and I might still use and pay for a service that works on Linux without too much effort.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I love how both streaming and blu-ray both made piracy the simpler solution by having ungodly amount of DRM that only screw over the paying customer (that don't even work to stop piracy, by the way).

    As some old gaming dude once said "Piracy is almost always a service problem" , said dude is now a billionaire by providing a correct service by the way.

    Show me a steam or gog equivalent (ie just a platform that is not outright hostile to consumers) to buying movies and tv shows and my money is yours. In the meantime I'll keep sailing the high sea.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    As some old gaming dude once said "Piracy is almost always a service problem" ,

    So true!

    Show me a steam or gog equivalent (ie just a platform that is not outright hostile to consumers) to buying movies and tv shows and my money is yours.

    Dropout and Nebula both stream pretty well from locked down Android, without unreasonable permissions, at least.

    Neither is at feature parity with Steam, by any means.

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