Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
Android TV is not free though.
You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for “personalized ads”…
What about a raspberry pi with lineageos as a tv box?
It depends on what you’ll run on it.
LineageOS in itself is good/private.
However the GApps/GMS are not.
I’d recommend replacing GMS with MicroG if you need that for the apps you use,
which still talks to Google,
but in a minimal way.
YouTube isn’t private either,
but Grayjay/NewPipe are.
You can put LineageOS on some of the Amlogic boxes and just don’t install Google apps and stick to FOSS.
Ofc the most private way to view content is to sail the high seas, though.
Good, I don’t care about ads anyway, barely an inconvenience
Depends on the launcher you use.
That’s… Not at all how it works.
Don’t worry, you’re one of today’s lucky 10000!
Launcher on android is just that - an app to launch other apps. Other apps can and do run in the background, without ever being explicitly launched. Think play services, location provider, wifi connection manager, etc. Since google runs its stuff at the highest level - nothing can hide from it. Other apps, like netflix, utilise internal telemetry. Assholes like facebook push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.
TL;DR - custom launcher cool, but no cure.
Not a cure, but does stop me seeing ads. And frankly of you don’t want anyone to know what you’re watching, you wouldn’t be on Netflix either.
But my point remains that Android TV is still a better legal media player than a PC.