What's the best use cases for cheap Android TV boxes?
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>>108359065You can plug a microsd card in and use it as a regular desktop computer. The graphics drivers aren't particularly good so not really suitable for gaming unless you go back far enough.
>>108359065Adding another node to the residential proxy botnets
>>108359065onn tv box
>>108359091I wanted to type that
>>108359065
I dont trust them
>>108359234that's why you use another operating system not the one it comes with
>>108359065door stop, paper weight, shim, coaster.
>>108359188>improved performance variant
I use a fire tv stick 4k max. I mostly use kodi, smarttube, and cromite, but I can use normie apps, too.
>>108359403I hate the firestick UI -- make the app icons tiny while filling the home screen with recommendations you have to pay to watch
Not exactly cheap, but pic related flashed with the avdvplus build of CoreELEC gets you proper Dolby Vision profile 7 FEL decoding with 4K remuxes. Of course this only matters if you are autistic.
>>108359412I hate the ui too, but the fire stick is a nice balanced option. Plus I need something with widevine certification.
>>108359244>that's why you use another operating system not the one it comes withcoreelec is a good non-android operating system for amlogic tv boxes
Is there, like, a graphene OS but for android tv? Coreelec sounds good but I just want to use android apps without all the home screen ads (and the inevitable fucking around with launchers) that regular Android TV brings
>>108359403firestick running android-based tv os is good option, but i hate the ui too!maybe i figure out how to disable stock fire tv launcher via adb and use third-party launcher
>>108359753Yes
>>108359765...may I see it?
>>108359775Google android tv box custom rom
>>108359777Oh all right
>>108359244Oh i didnt know that was an option. Like o heard of kodi os on pi but thats it
>>108359872I use Debian Sid on mine
>>108360003>I use Debian Sid on mineCan it handle 3d video games?
>>108359244it can be turned into a low-cost home server also.
the best usecase for these is hosting malware residential proxies in retards homes
>>108360064GTA III (re3 arm64) 15 fpsFor example PSP emulation is 4 times faster on android and emuelec
>>108359065EmuELEC retro game box
>>108359065Same as any streaming box, just install a bunch of illegal streaming apps on it and enjoy watching free shit.
>>108359065Emulation + IPTV
>>108359065e-waste bin fillerthese are fucking lagging and stuttering dogshit, just like the entire google tv/android tvim going to buy 2x apple tvs to replace my xiaomi shitboxes
>>108359065No idea, I have usb drive size android pensticks wyse made for dell and I've never found a use for them, all TVs basically have an android board in them now anyway, You can pick them up for five bucks (Dell Wyse Cloud Connect , 8GB ram, storage dual arm) RDP clients, not much else really, open to suggestions. Thoudght I would stick the board in a drone and put something on it but never bothered.
>>108360997>im going to buy 2x apple tvsHi, I'm interested in brands and marketing and no offfense intended but are you homosexual or do you identify as female?
>>108361121samefag this thinghttps://www.theregister.com/2014/04/09/review_dell_wyse_cloud_connect_android_ultrathin_client/
>>108361127Google/Android TV and the hardware it usually ships on is absolute dogshit. You can joke around about faggots all you want but at least the Apple TV 4k performs as a product of its price should. The Google TV Streamer has ARM-cores from 2017. It's quite frankly utterly unacceptable, it performs like ass and people keep buying that slop.
>>108361142>>108361142>AppleI have a Normende 50 inch UHD and I just don't careYes but are you homosexual or do you identify as female? Please be honest.
>>108361152What's with your hyper focus on fags and women? What's wrong with you?
>>108361158Well.... Apple. It's for fairies with tinted hair called Greg and karen in marketing.
>>108359065Android tv is useless outside of widevine L1 apps
>>108359065trebuchet ammunition.
>>108359065watch tv
>>108360956>IPTVSuch a crapshoot. The free lists are all same so you get low quality and freezes a lot. No clue about pay shit, although they have a ton of useless channels and each service seems like they offer the same shit.
>>108359065install stremio + torbox, smarttube and other apps that strip out retarded ads
>>108362472Just pay for unauthorized iptv services and be happy
>>108362876You mean one of the hundreds of services that all offer the same 10k+ channels?
>>108359065people watch media with them or run various android appstheoretically they're powerful enough for a whole lot of people's computing needs but the software on these usually isn't meant for that
>>108359065i had a shield tv for many years but it finally crapped out. now i just use my ser 6 iirc and it works a jillion times better.
