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best privacy respecting tv/streaming box?? (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 31 points 2 months ago (16 children)

I use a Linux machine that boots to a big picture interface with these apps:

  • Jellyfin Desktop client (pirate everything)
  • VacuumTube (YouTube TV interface with adblocking)

And I use a Flirc receiver so I can use a remote for all of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    When you mention big picture mode, are you talking about Bazzite's big picture mode or just any distro w/ Plasma Bigscreen, or something else?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I'm currently using Bazzite with Steam's Big Picture mode, yes. I'd like to switch to Plasma Bigscreen, but I'm not sure it's ready just yet. I keep trying it on my laptop every few weeks, but there are some crashes I keep running into.

    I can't wait to switch away from Steam Big Picture mode though, as it's pretty tedious adding shortcuts and having to use a Decky plugin to download art for them. It's very apparent that Steam isn't meant to be used this way (even though once you set it up, it's not bad). Plasma Bigscreen just reads the .desktop entries, which is a lot better.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    I'm using my Steam Machine partially for the same purpose, but this is the first I'm hearing about this receiver. I got a shitty little PC remote that kind of works but isn't great, I might give this a shot

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (11 children)

    The Flirc receiver is the best $25 I've ever spent. You can use it with basically any TV remote and turn it into a decent PC input device.

    You can map any app with decent keyboard navigation support to work with up, down, left, right, enter, etc. and get a pretty seemless TV experience.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    I think the newer raspberry Pis have CEC so if someone goes that route they wouldn't even need a second remote

    Edit: or just get a CEC adapter probably

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

    Also, hi AdmiralPatrick's alt 🙂

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You Kiwi Farms freaks need to update your wiki because /u/AdmiralPartick is deleted long ago. This is the main account, not an alt.

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

    You're sadly mistaken if you think the people that rightly don't like your heinous behaviour are kiwi farmers.

    But sure, everyone that doesn't like you just happens to be bad people from a stinky Nazi forum. Whatever you need to tell yourself.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    "I'm harassing you for different reasons than the Kiwi Farms people are" is not the moral high ground you think it is.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I've always found CEC to be insufficient. If you need to access anything more than directional nav, enter, and back, you can't. I have CEC on my Linux machine, but I leave it off because it just can't do most of what I need it to.

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