Can someone recommend a good, simple, open source TV box with a remote that can play YouTube and Plex?
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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Mini PC with KDE Big Screen? Just got a massive update and can even handle HDMI CEC, so You can use your TV remote with it
Thanks for this info! Ive got a house full of Roku and have been gifting them over the years. Now I'll have a new gift "box" to all those same people.
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Guess it’s finally going to be time to flip over to AppleTVs.
Sail the high seas.
I dread the day my Nvidia shield dies. The next less shitty option is probably using an apple tv, but I really wished Nvidia made a new version with a bit more power
I've spent a solid 4 years at Discovery/WBD, working on their video playback engine for all things Android. This includes all of Android TV.
I am still an Android engineer, but all my TV systems are Apple TV. This should tell you everything.
but if it didn't... Google really made the TV experience of Android go to waste. Underpowered hardware, badly written software, all resulting in stuff like sluggishness, UI freezes, apps crashing, not to mention the frequently messed up hardware/software layer (took us 2 years to make Sony admit they messed up like 3 years worth of Bravia TVs...).
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- Install a PiHole.
- Create a guest wifi (most current routers allow you to do this)
- Configure PiHole as DNS server on guest WiFi DHCP
- Add all IoT devices including Roku and SmartTVs to guest WiFi
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Propaganda machine is on the move.
Does anyone know how to download content off those weird Roku channels? I'd like to download a bunch of stuff off of one before they (I assume) shut it down.
Can you imagine what it must be like to have a stake in roku when you get the news that the company is going to be sold for 22 billion? Do you just immediately nut and throw up at the same time?
Of all the devices in my house, besides the computer I use all day for work, the Roku gets the most ads blocked by my pi hole.
Even my partner who is chronically infinite scrolling some major platform has less ads blocked
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