I have an old school boob tube tv in my room, currently with a firestick running through a converter. It's fine i guess, but i want something else because 1, the aspect ratio is off since it expects to be hooked up to a flatscreen, and 2 the privacy problem of running something from amazon. Is there something that could work here?

  • gila@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    FWIW you can fix the aspect ratio issue on the firestick using ADB to force the device to display in a 4:3 resolution (except when using streaming apps that force 16:9)

    If you want something privacy oriented you'll probably need to build some kind of NUC. To my knowledge no off-the-shelf streaming device respects privacy