• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Instead of using a streaming or other settop device? That’d be far, far more normal for the use cade.

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      4 months ago

      I find it convenient, but I’ve had pc’s hooked to tv’s since broadband became a thing. I can watch anything, download anything, play games, check banking, ect.

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      4 months ago

      I have one of those Google streaming devices but I hate giving up my privacy. Also, I saw fast food ads on the device’s home screen one day and I couldn’t disable those. That was the last straw.

      So now I use a raspberry pi 5 running arch with Firefox to stream everything to my TV. I even got a remote working with it that works fairly well, moves the mouse and everything. It was a lot of work but now I own my experience and don’t have to give Google my data in that particular way anymore.

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        4 months ago

        From a couch, though? That was the use case here.

        I have one of those as well for one desktop system. And I will stream to TVs as a second monitor from laptops sometimes. But I don’t think that’s the setup they have.

        Which of course is a good setup if it works for them! Or for you :)