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I believe the general consensus is that hooking a smart TV to the Internet is generally a bad idea.

I mean the Vero V seems to be a nice polished experience. It’s just a lot of work to setup a linux box and get it to work, the latter being the hard part. The wiimote and the flirc have some comments in reviews about being poor experiences, and I just want it to be on par with the Roku or it’ll wind up in the trash heap. I don’t mind paying a little bit extra for a finished solution, and it seems like a plus that the Vero is a community/libre project.

trying to get away from Google services / looking for a libre solution.

I would 100% do this (minus the pirating part) if there was a way to get a tv style remote for the box. That’s the biggest obstacle for me because I’ve never been able to find a PC/tv remote and non technical users will be using the TV.

Android/Google telemetry.

I’d like just one piece of technology that doesn’t use my information to sell to the highest bidder.

Stallman on why free software is important.

Ubuntu shouldn’t be with those who care about privacy. Snap is completely integrated into Ubuntu now.

What do we do with your information?

Your information is stored in our database and may be processed outside of the European Economic Area.

Canonical LTD.

https://ubuntu.com/legal/data-privacy/snap-store

They’re going to be just as bad as Apple, Google or Microsoft if they’re given the market share. Corporations care only about one thing.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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Unfortunately opinions do not always match.

If a large group of people do not agree with the direction the Lemmy devs are making, why not get together and create a new site forked off Lemmy’s source code?

It seems like the fediverse is a return to a more liquid internet, similar to the early internet of the 90s. A lack of existing large infrastructure here is actually advantageous for new sites to startup.