gomp

Wow: they also go to great lengths to piss off their paying customers.

Anyway, I have no idea if it's 1080p or not: I can say it looks ok on my phone's screen, but IDK how to check what the video resolution is

You should be able to run Lineage on the shield (double check the specific model)... maybe you can try that and re-flash the stock OS if it doesn't work for you.

That's a great tip! I didn't know lineage supported Android TV on SBCs

As for Netflix on Lineage: it does work (at least w/ microg - I just tried on my phone), but you won't find the app in aurora store so you'll have to source it on apkmirror or the like.

As much as I dislike Google spying on my relatives, I'd rather them be spied by Google than by some Chinese entity (BTW: their spying would probably not be on top of Google's)

It's closed-source AFAIK (also, not sure how it is privacy-wise)

You are 100% right: netflix not being open is less than ideal, both from a freedom standpoint and for the privacy implications of it.

However, my 70+yo relative does not care about FOSS or even about their own privacy for that matter... since I, however, do care about their privacy, I'd like to pragmatically find something that may be better than a chromecast privacy-wise, while not being so much worse (or radically different) from it that they'll ask me to "put the old thingy back - I can't use this nerdy shit" :)

Death warrant? Maybe, but I expect companies (maybe not the EU, but - let's be frank - probably the EU too) to go back into X as soon as they feel they are done cashing in this virtue signaling.

There were plenty of reasons to leave twitter before this idiotic tweet from Musk (reasons due to twitter's action as a company, and not just Musk's drunken posts) and they were all happily tweeting and advertising.

Is this drop that breaks the camel's back? Maybe, but I wouldn't be holding my breath.

Didn't you know? Disabling ad blockers ensures free speech and apparently may also peacefully end the current crisis in the middle east... oh, did I mention it helps with world hunger too?

I wasn't recommending OP to switch to an 80-character passphrase (see the very first sentence in my comment)... I was just showing that passphrases are about length and not about ~~(real or perceived) randomness~~ how difficult they are to memorize or type.

Also, if I may, one shouldn't throw terms like "unbreakable" around: security is a game where you trade usability for resilience to attacks and what how much security is enough security depends on your specific circumstances and risk profile... absolute terms like "unbreakable" picture security as something different than the compromise it is and should be left to marketing people.

edit: (see correction above)

Move to the EU :)

"You Know How To Scare Me Shitless" is 33 characters and a decent passphrase on its own.

Base64 brings the length to 44 characters, but you might be better off by just using a longer passwphrase (eg. "You know how to scare me shitless and you do it every day, dear student of mine!" is 80 characters long, not much more difficult to remember that the 33-char one and way easier to type than the 44-char base64 one).

All in all, IMHO base64 is not the best idea.

Yes, but you only really need one (the one that unlocks your password manager) and you'll quickly learn to type that relatively fast.