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HBO Max Shrinkflation: Removing features from my plan, with no reduction in price (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Candybar121 to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did the same thing but went with LibreELEC+Kodi. And it even works with the TV remote.

[–] ericisshort 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why’d you choose that over the pi+plex?

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

I'm using pi+libreelec+kodi.

Why kodi over plex? No special reasons, kodi does everything I need and with the addons support it gives me a lot of options(torrents+streaming).

Have been using kodi since it was called xbmc in the OG xbox modding scene. Never used Plex, so I just went with what I knew.

[–] ericisshort 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohhhh I had xbmc like a decade ago, before I gave up on the aye matey lifestyle, so I’ll probably choose that over plex as well. Thanks for the info. I’m looking up libreelec now, but I was just assuming it was some other hardware solution in my last comment.

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

I had xbmc like a decade ago, before I gave up on the aye matey lifestyle

Same thing here.

I was just assuming it was some other hardware solution

Yeah I though so. LibreELEC is a Linux distro with just enough OS to run kodi.

[–] ericisshort 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, one last question… What rpi do you recommend?

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

I'm using a rpi4 model B 4GB.

Works pretty well for my needs. At least until now I don't feel like it's underpowered.

It plays 4K video from my main PC with no problems or stuttering. But I mainly use it for 1080p.