It's nice that you can unlock the bootloader on these and flash Lineage if you want to limit snooping by Google.

That being said, I think that you get more flexibility and performance with a mini PC and and air mouse. For one, stock (Googled) Android does not give you an easy way to use a browser with an ad-blocker, which is still the best way to stream from many sources without ads. Also all these anemic Android boxes struggle with high bitrate 4K videos.

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aaravchen 11 hours ago | parent [-]

You unfortunately lose Widevine support when you do this though (either switching to LineageOS or a mini-PC). That means you can't stream any of the mainstream services in anything like a half-decent quality.

It's very unfortunate that every streaming service has given up on supporting anything except Google-fied Android and Apple iOS/tvOS. I dont like the services to begin with, but a fully Jellyfin stack can only get you so far when there are niche requests involved as well.

	▲	drnick1 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> That means you can't stream any of the mainstream services in anything like a half-decent quality. Maybe, but I don't think it's a big loss, and the *arr suite works just fine as a substitute.