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Custom Linux-powered Smart TV breaks free from ads and tracking, enables ultimate customizability — EarlGreyTV straps a laptop to the back to unlock unlimited control (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] warmaster 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So, a worse Kodi. 🤦

[–] plenipotentprotogod 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It very much depends on your use case. Kodi is great for displaying content from a personal media library, but support for most streaming services is tacked-on at best and non-existent at worst.

There's certainly a discussion to be had about whether maintaining a local media library is a "better" choice than streaming, but the fact remains that for people who want to use streaming services, this project is attempting to fill a very real hole in the FOSS ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Seems like adding a local library to this would be trivial, thereby getting the best of both worlds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

for streaming services, you could build an AndroidTV box, right?

[–] warmaster 1 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't this have the benefit of HD content? AFAIK some streaming services provide an SD stream on Linux.

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

Can you get worse than Kodi? 😆

I mean I've tried it several times and it gets the wrong movie info 98% of the time. I ain't got time to manually fix the info for my hundreds of movies and TV shows, that Jellyfin seems to get right.

And don't tell me "go do this and that", that's just telling me "you're doing it wrong". I installed it, let it scan (each movie/show is in it's own folder) and it's just... Wrong.

I really want Kodi to work, it should be my solution, but getting all this stuff wrong isn't acceptable. These are titles that aren't obscure in any way: Big Trouble in Little China, for example. As far as I know, there's only one movie with that name, but Kodi calls it something completely different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It was several years ago for me, before I "used Linux", and was just a copy-paste user of Kodi and pi-hole.

anyway - my experience was similar, Kodi just wasn't worth it. I'm sure "it was the user" but either way, I stopped. Meanwhile the pi-hole is still going strong. And now all of our PCs are linux, so it's not from my inability to learn.