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best privacy respecting tv/streaming box?? (self.privacy)

submitted 4 days ago by goofsqueak to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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im using a chromecast right now and i want a similar experience to that, just more privacy friendly

although i have set up a google account just for my chromecast with its own email, it still doesn't feel like its enough

im in the eu btw

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[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 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.

[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it just IR?

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

It's a customizable IR receiver, yeah.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 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

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also, hi AdmiralPatrick's alt 🙂

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago (1 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.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 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.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Was it harassment to acknowledge your online name?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Stop messaging me

[–] pinto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Make us. You're not slick, you're an evil asshole.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days 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.