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[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (48 children)

my TV incurred my wrath by having the gall to show me a banner ad while I was in the middle of a game.

so I promptly cut its balls off. (disabled the internet entirely). now it is a dumb TV. and it behaves like a TV. and not an ad machine.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (46 children)

But what device do you use to stream? That's the dilemma I'm in, streaming sticks and devices are all so spammy.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I just run an old PC plugged in to my TV. It's been running Windows, but I'm strongly considering switching it to linux now that it seems HDR on linux is getting stable. I might even use SteamOS directly since it's got a nice interface for controller use.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Google "Rii i6"

You'll thank me later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like a nice little device. I've already got a similar Logitech keyboard that's a bit bigger and is missing the IR remote, but I'm still able to turn on my TV via an HDMI CEC command.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ah nice. We were using a mouse/on screen kb for a minute before i got fed up and did some looking around. we also didn't have a TV remote so we thought we were killing two birds. Turns out you can only copy IR commands from another source, so I hit the bullet and bought a cheap 7 dollar remote too to program it that way were just using one device for the bedroom TV.

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