“A Reddit user says they used Claude to create Android TV patches for Paramount Plus that remove ads from the streaming experience. Disney Plus patches are also already available.”
When forcing us to use AI and it didnt make you any profit, and now it’s helping to take more of it away. Gotta love it sometimes!
Android TV … ?
I am still thinking about moving to it. Im tired of firestick and roku. Theres not really much else either from what i looked at. Just some 3rd party hardware builds with android tv on it. A few look really good as well. Sure it costs a bit more, but im tired of giving those companies all my data and they aren’t perfect either.
Just get a small PC or an RPi or something and bypass the “smart” TV environment entirely! A wireless mouse, and sometimes a wireless keyboard was all I needed to make mine work
I have a pi and i also have had a pc to a tv setup. They have there purposes, but having a dedicated device thats semi cheap for a tv so the kids can easily navigate using a remote to play videos is more ideal and practicul. My main tv for me is a tv connected one and i mainly use kodi through it. Never used a pi for this type of setup, but i have a few for other things that are stand alone with no screens.
For the Pi-curious, I recommend LibreELEC. It’s “just enough Linux OS to run Kodi” and uses a Kodi plugin to manage said OS. It can be locked into kiosk mode with just the kids’ shows and unlocked for full access.
Also going this route setup a DB somewhere and point all your Pi’s to it instead of it’s default DB. The local one is fine but when they share a single DB all your watched shows sync and you can pause in one room, then resume in another.
I did the same but with waydroid’s android tv build. It is a bit buggy and setting it up was not easy (using adb sendkey to increase volume on first setup…) but works fine. I switched to it cuz the android tv stick we had was slow as molasses but I wanted something to replicate the ease of use of it. It even works with the remote of the stick after remapping! I installed it when it was new & had android 11, now it is 16 and I assume much better now.
At the weekend I installed KDE Neon unstable in a VM to play with the revamped Plasma Bigscreen mode. I’m empted to install it on a 2011 Mac mini I have to see how it fares, though I’ve not yet found any apps that work properly with it. Which is fair, it’s very new.
But the basis of it seems like a pretty solid alternative as a media centre.
“TV”?
Removed by mod
Yes and it’s been great despite some recent security issues… Exposure of Signing Keys
Has anyone used Morphe with a google login? I’ve been trying it without one and seems good enough, but still want access to my subs and watch list. Just want to know if its ok to use with your google account, or does it trigger google in some way that might end up restricting or blocking your account?
Yes, you just need to install microg.
Thanks, I already had microg (otherwise it would let me launch morphe), just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t have any issues. Seems fine, will give it a try later.
So far it’s still safe to use with an account.
On the bright side my recommended videos are all out of whack, in a good way.
I don’t get suggested videos way out of my subscriptions and interest, but I also get less suggested videos based on my interests and get old videos from my subs and videos I’ve watched lol.
Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know. Will give it a shot later.
The recommendation thing sounds interesting, might have to do with morphe removing some tracking which throws off the recommendation algorithm.
I asked a few friends about their YouTube recommendations, since they’re less militant screwing with YouTube.
It seems to be a YouTube wide issue right now. Their recommendations are also similar to mine. Showing older videos within their interests, and old videos they’ve watched. Tbf this is just a sample of 3 so it’s still anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt.
Now that you mention it, I think I’ve experienced something similar. At least I have seen way more old videos I’ve watched before as recommendations. Seems like a YouTube issue then
Started using it after LibeTube stopped working for me. Its great and the only way I am willing to use YouTube.
Tubular still works. I see LibreTube was updated this month as well.
Eventually, patched official clients stop working too, necessitating a new app download, repatch, and reinstall…
