Privacy

32465 readers

426 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Looking for FOSS android TV (or something like Kodi, but dumber) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by gomp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

45 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've been looking for something to replace the google chromecast that is attached to our TV.

I've tried Kodi out, but the main use case for the TV set is a 70+ yo person watching netflix and there is just no way they will be better off with Kodi than with the stock netflix app.

Besides supporting netflix, being easy to use, and providing significantly better privacy than the chromecast does, the device would ideally:

support other mainstream streaming (amazon, disney, ...) for when my people get tired of netflix
support a DVB-T2 usb stick (directly, or through IPTV: I can put the stick in a different machine)
support youtube without ads (through an adblocker and possibly sponsorblock, or maybe using invidious)
possibly, support local public TV streaming (eg. BBC)

I have a PC set aside that should be more than capable enough (intel N100), but I'm open to getting new hardware if needed. Also, it doesn't matter if the system is not very user friendly to setup (eg. if it needs to be nixos), but once it's setup it should be easy to use and relatively straightforward to update/maintain.

I guess a FOSS android TV would be ideal, but.. is there any? (I see Lineage supports the Google ADT-3, but that is basically unobtanium, at least where I live).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't want to be rude but I don't think Netflix is Foss in the least.

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My friend, someone can be a FOSS enthusiast and still consume things that are proprietary.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FOSS stands for free/libre and open source. For something to be libre it has to meet the 4 freedoms. Proprietary software doesn't do that.

I don't mean to start a holy war but FOSS doesn't mean DRM streaming services. I appreciate the sentiment but I wanted to take the time to explain why many will disagree with your statement

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ok, so let me try again: OP didn't say Netflix is FOSS. Nobody is saying Netflix is FOSS. OP is asking for something open source that can run proprietary software, which happens to be an alternative to Android TV. Your comment didn't answer OP's question and just added an unecessary and obvious comment which gives the idea that you are judging OP for utilizing proprietary software. If you are able to consume only free and open source software/hardware, good for you! That's it, just make an attempt to be helpful and nice when people are trying to consume more open source stuff.

Edit: I saw that you actually gave an answer to OP afterwards. That's nice!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I reread my comment and realized that it sounded pretty aggressive.

I get annoyed at a lot of the communist circle jerk but I'm sure many people get annoyed at my comments about free software. I'll try to rephrase my comments in the future.

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awesome, really! Yeah, internet makes pretty easy for us to get annoyed at stuff sometimes

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I just have talked to my local police and seen how hard it is to be a cop. Try to remember we are all human.

[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are 100% right: netflix not being open is less than ideal, both from a freedom standpoint and for the privacy implications of it.

However, my 70+yo relative does not care about FOSS or even about their own privacy for that matter... since I, however, do care about their privacy, I'd like to pragmatically find something that may be better than a chromecast privacy-wise, while not being so much worse (or radically different) from it that they'll ask me to "put the old thingy back - I can't use this nerdy shit" :)