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LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 4 days ago (5 children)

the older my Shield gets, the more I end up looking at the apple TV as the least worst of the bunch. until some foss Linux approach gets easy enough for me to be satisfied it won't drive the rest of the household mad, that is

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (4 children)

    Yup. I went Apple TV for our main TV. Apple TV is easy for rest of the household and isn’t a huge Trojan horse. Retired the shield to the upstairs bedroom.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    it's a trojan horse for Apple though right? Apple still collects tons of telemetry they've just never been caught selling it

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    True. But also, a Linux box at the TV just isn’t practical when you live with normal non technical people. Pick your poison unfortunately. I will say it is behind a pi-hole.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    I've been pretty shocked at the "non technical people" who just walk up to our Linux box TV setup, fire up Kodi, navigate the menus and start movies. 10 years ago that NEVER happened, today it's not unusual. Even 15 years ago it was also common that all kinds of TV setups, including "normal" consumer gear, needed a one page "user's guide" that a lot of people still couldn't manage to make work.

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