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It's time to dump Roku (www.engadget.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I hooked a PC up to my device. You'd be surprised how consumer-friendly it is. I didn't even need to beg Tim Cook to run my favorite programs on it.

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

    I want to try this for sure, but was that an out of the box solution?

    I have a PC but it can’t use HDMI CEC correctly, so I would have to buy an adapter, then buy a special remote, configure that, then figure out how I want my boot storage encrypted or not.

    What’s the app/service situation like?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It basically is for me, but then again I am personally plenty happy to use a normal keyboard and normal (trackball) mouse, both wireless, to control a desktop OS with slightly bumped-up display scaling. I know there are alternatives for media browsing but I prefer the desktop levels of flexibility at all times

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    That's a great solution. It think we were talking more about people that don't even use PCs. Older people like grandparents or other tech illiterate that maybe use a tablet at most.

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