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

  • peteyestee@feddit.org
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    8 hours ago

    Raspberry pi kind of sucks ime. I had the 4 and it seemed underpowered. It’s more worth it to buy a used minipc if you can spend some more money. Plus you then have fully functional pc to use on your TV that can do anything at all. I used to have mine auto boot kde plasma to a specific desktop with Kodi full screen. Then another desktop with a full screen browser, and another one for steam or whatever. Custom keyboard shortcuts on a rii mini handheld keyboard and a single button would toggle desktops/apps.

    Also it’s not really an option for people that don’t know how do technical computer stuff.

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      7 hours ago

      It really depends. For the purpose of “SmartTV” the Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM served it’s purpose. If you wanna do more, then yes, it is underpowered. For usual Kodi functions that arent just TV/streaming, you may need something better.