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I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be
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If any apps, preferably open source, could do a search of services to see if one has "American Beauty" (or whatever) streaming for free AND launches the app directly I'd have no need for my stock launcher.
Somebody once tried to sell a box that would cancel all your streaming services and only fire the account back up for a month at a time when you wanted to stream something. It was a phenomenal idea with a genuine problem worth solving, completely torpedoed by the fact of the box costing $400 up front and I think requiring its own subscription.