My TV is not a smart TV but has hdmi inputs. Are there any non American alternatives to the Amazon fire stick?

    • Nate@programming.dev
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      9 hours ago

      Roku is headquartered in California. If we’re prioritizing user friendliness over location (nothing wrong with this!) I’d go with a Google TV box or something like the Google streamer. Since it’s Android based you can (with a little bit of a workaround) change the launcher and ditch the ads. With Roku you’re stuck with whatever they give you; and they just “accidentally” tested ads on startup before you even see the home screen.

    • PatrickYaa@lemmy.one
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      2 days ago

      Using a browser isn’t family friendly enough? :D The only thing that needs fiddling is the setup.

      • iwasnormalonce@lemm.eeOP
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        1 day ago

        I might think my family are more retarded than they are, I’ll test them out on my pc and see how they do. If they do good I might be able to use the raspberry pi someone has suggested.

    • marduk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 days ago

      Roku is the easy way out for sure, even though I (and the other Linux homies) will espouse the Linux way