Post #3416347
2026-06-26 20:19 UTC
Alright, lets start with the problems:
People want to watch television.
Modern televisions spy on you, screenshot what you're watching and phone home with it, and use your home internet connection to proxy other people's traffic.
The modern settop box ecosystem is dominated by google, apple, amazon, and roku.
Roku is being acquired by Fox.
Google, Apple, and Amazon are owned by billionaires who are perfectly happy to bend their knee to fascists, and their products also spy on you.
This is prime time for a good, open source, community focused set top box alternative.
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@ajroach42@retro.social 2026-06-26 20:25
There are several pieces of set top box software out there already, and they all "work" for varrying definitions of work, and I kind of hate them all. If you're looking for suggestions, I run jellyfin as my server and interact with it from either the jellyfin google TV app or kodi via openelec. This is fine. It does the job. There are some papercuts, and it means I have to supply my own media. It's a nerd solution, and probably the best we can hope for.