Taking the above behavior into account, Apple’s value proposition for anyone that cares about digital sovereignty is extremely brittle. I’ve decided not to invest any further into their tech. Is it the worst evil that roams earth? No. But does it logically follow that you should defend all their practices? Also no.
Hope you can approach this with an open mind. I know it’s hard, I certainly didn’t want to start doubting what I thought was a valiant defender of consumer privacy. Cases like the San Bernardino shooter were testaments for Apple’s commitment to me. It turns out that’s only half the story though.
First had Kodi on a RPI, but I got fed up with Kodi, partly because there are too many moving parts and partly because there’s no great way to watch YouTube.
Then found Flexlauncher, which has already been suggested by someone else. Slapped Debian on the RPI and then realized that getting smooth HD YouTube video playback is impossible outside of Kodi, because of hardware (?) limitations.
At this point I decided that enough is enough and just got out the old laptop in the household no one uses anymore, same Debian + Flexlauncher combo with Stremio and Freetube. Set Debian to do auto login and start Flexlauncher automatically. Works great, but controlling with Keyboard only (and using the laptop trackpad when nothing works) gets a bit annoying. Looks like an airmouse is the way to go.
Thanks for taking the time to answer! I did read the Flexlauncher docs which also recommend the Chromium command, I was hoping there’d be something like that for Firefox because it’s just a matter of time before ad blockers become handicapped in Chromium. But guess that’s the only solution then.
Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops (www.404media.co)
I made an app to install websites as desktop applications on Linux (flathub.org)
Raspberry Pi Smart TV?
I want to try to set up a Raspberry Pi I have as a smart TV box and I was hoping I could find some advice....