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Privacy friendly streaming box?
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Micro form factor corporate “desktops” are the easy and cheap answer here. More expensive but also easy are the n100 lil boxes. You may need to disable or cover a bunch of gamer leds.
Weirdly cheap but with one hidden cost is appletv 4k, you gotta either pay monthly or one time to the infuse (jellyfin client) app developer to unlock dolby decoding. TBH I don’t mind paying one time for software, it’s the subscriptions that bug me also it’s what we still use so that’s why it makes the list.
After all the stuff about super/bad box started getting around I haven’t been able to really trust android set tops, which sucks because the price is right on those little fuckers.
Also I often found awful support environments for safely using android tv boxes, lack of lockable bootloaders, undocumented memory for blowing the original install back in, weird variants of weird socs.
It made me do the Seinfeld at the movies gif, ymmv.