Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse
To me a smart device was supposed to be a normal device that you could control 'smartly' over wifi.
Mini SoCs with their own apps and an optional subscription built in for some proprietary shit? That goes past smart straight into dumpster trash.
We replaced ours with a refurbished business desktop, installed Linux and Jellyfin then use with a wireless keyboard with built-in track pad
Plays media great, emulates up to Wii and can use for general web browsing too
I do something similar. I have full control over everything. Use Firefox with UBlock. NEVER see an ad. I was super close to buying an Nvidia Shield because the box looks nice, and I'm glad I didn't.
Yep! I have a Pi 4 running Pihole blocking ads on network and often get thanks from the teens when they're away from home and they realize just how many ads they would otherwise be exposed to
Android police needs an editor. This guy out here casually throwing
spoiler
gimped
around in an article like it's cool.
Okay I don't love Lemmy's implementation of spoiler tags.
This is why I only buy shitty cheap chinese IoT devices. Less likely that they're going to enshittify my devices for profit. Maybe use VLANs and a firewall, though.
