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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent adEnglish
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    21 days ago

    1. Buy one or more NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019 editions for whatever TV (and make sure whatever brand TV you use is itself completely disconnected from the internet) you like watching things on.

    2. Replace the built-in NVIDIA / Google Launcher with a custom one like WOLF or FLauncher completely free of ads.

    There are completely ad-free wonderful little alternatives to every ever-enshittifying service out there…

    • YouTube - > SmartTube Next

    • Subscription Streaming Services - > Plex (or Jellyfin if you’re just doing local and no special devices that need transcoding)

    • Twitch -> S0undTV

    1. Combine that with a NAS of your choice and (optionally) a few pieces of free software setup through a containerized deployment system like docker by following the guidance of Dr. Frankenstein along with an account with Mullvad.

    …Any other steps there may or may not be are for you to figure out on your own.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription PlansEnglish
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    30 days ago

    I haven’t checked in on Jellyfin for a while now, but don’t they still have issues with hardware transcoding support?

    Not to mention the lack of software clients on other platforms for just playback that Plex has been established on for years and even multiple device generations like with PlayStation, Roku, Fire Stick, etc.?

    Also you have to configure your own reverse proxy / Tailscale set up to securely access a content library remotely, right - as opposed Plex’s relatively simpler remote access configuration?

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription PlansEnglish
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    30 days ago

    At this point, I think we all can see the critical tipping point of enshittification writing on the wall for Plex.

    I know everyone says Jellyfin, but given how easy Plex still handles hardware transcoding on many common current standard NAS configurations as well as the somewhat non-standard network configurations needed to otherwise easily yet securely access content remotely from external locations, not to mention the decent UX and deep integration across all client platforms whether web, iOS, Android, Smart TV, and even things like PlayStation and Xbox hardware, but do others here have some any thoughts on how to jump ship to get 1:1 features here at some point?

    Many people have been on Plex for more than a decade and have seen it slowly try to reposition its business model to one that is leaning toward something more akin to a streaming subscription rather than a simple personal content library software… but I still have yet to feel the need to switch… at least not yet.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OSEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Not good enough. Any OTA updates your TV can get over the web will eventually be trying to circumvent your IP blacklists to shove in any ad-riddled garbage they can.

    Literally just blacklist your TV’s MAC address, and use a dedicated set top box of some kind to avoid this shit. My current choice is my NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019, which I installed a 3rd party WOLF launcher (there’s also F-Launcher) and turned off auto-updates so I could avoid NVIDIA and Google doing the same.

    At some point, I will probably need to switch to a NUC or other HTPC with some flavor of Linux on it, as eventually the Shield may succumb to this shit as well.