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Looking for a simple mini device that I can plug into TV for streaming stuff via browser/jellyfin and similar, with hdmi and control via bluetooth keyboard/mouse. What do you guys recommend?

Would this be powerful enough for example? https://www.komplett.no/product/1323029/pc-tilbehoer/stasjonaer-pc/acer-revo-box-mini-pc

EDIT: lemmy is awesome, thanks to you I'll save myself a ton of work and/or costly mistakes

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[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you say anything about privacy?

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol. Lmao even.

If it has google play services on it, at all, there is absolutely no privacy.

If you can manage to stick to an F-droid+Aurora+Obtainium setup (maybe with IzzyOndroid enabled in F-droid), you can probably pull off privacy, but in my experience there are at least three major streaming services ive encountered that refuse to run if Google Play Services aren't running and you can't pass the SafetyNet authenticity/security check thing (which raspberry pi is missing the firmware and hardware to be able to support.) Netflix being the biggest of them, I think Disney Plus has issues, and it's been a while since I tried but either crunchyroll or hbo Max gave me a hard time.

[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Who said anything about streaming services? What an absurdly silly way to throw away money in this day and age. In this economy?

I kid, but yeah OP was asking about browser/jellyfin streaming.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Browser+jellyfin is easy then, but again you need to make sure you're not using google play services. That shit calls home like crazy.