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Roku and TCL are being sued for allegedly bricking smart TVs with bad updates (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I want my tv to turn on instantly; not to wait for a pc to boot, have to log in, and only then opening my streaming app. Such a hassle.

I personally have a tcl with custom launcher, debloated the most I could, on a network with adguard, streaming only from jellyfin (Wholphin client) and Navidrome (Chora), and sometimes Youtube (Grayjay). I click the power on button, it instantly turns on into Wholphin most often, then I click the play button. Litterally 2 seconds. What's the big deal? Ok, it still has traces of google and other stuff, but it sounds like a decent compromise. Ofc, if someday somebody out there makes a custom rom I'll be the first one to install it, but until then..

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I use a Mini-PC with an N100 CPU.

    It literally has a peak consumption of 15W, though I seldom see it go above 10% CPU usage (which is nice because even the small fan it has almost never goes on) so even when I'm actually using it as a TV box it consumes a lot less than 15W. It consumes even less when idle.

    So it's always ON.

    As a side benefit it's my home NAS and a bittorrent server managed via a web-interface, both things for which it makes even to have a machine always running.

    Haven't actually seen any difference in my power bill.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    That's cool that you're using it as a nas, and I'm glad it's working out for you

    Myself, I want something easily controllable from a remote, so that when I come back from work I can just relax without seeing a keyboard and having to work with a pc.

    I tried Librelec and lineageOS TV into a mini pc, but they all had various quirks, so I'm sticking to my TCL for now.

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

    Absolutelly, if you can't use it with a remote and have to use a keyboard and mouse it's not the same thing.

    However, my setup is easilly controllable with a remote: I have Kodi running always on top in it and use one of these.

    With that the sofa experience is the same as with a dedicated TV Box (except that the remote can't power it ON, only OFF, but for me it's fine since I leave it always ON) because that remote just sends the right "keypresses" to control Kodi (apparently the shortcut keys are standard) so from a user point of view one interacts with it the same as with a TV Box or Smart TV.

    The PC-ish stuff (such as managing the bittorrent server) I do remotelly from my main PC via SSH and web interfaces.

    Mind you, I have a keyboard and mouse connected to it because sometimes I want to use the browser, but if all you're doing is watching stuff like with a TV Box, that's not needed.

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