Knowing that it is an individual is a lot more reassuring, knowing that it isn’t a state actor or some shady group

I’d suggest:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/

Or

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ + https://cachyos.org/ + https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine + https://github.com/supechicken/waydroid-androidtv-builds

https://smarttubeapp.github.io/

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/KartaView

That’s crazy!

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Anyone know the new best place to get French content? It wasn’t perfect, but it was the only place I could find many French shows, movies. A lot of places have only the English version, or don’t have it at all (French only)

Nice, this looks like a good solution that could be solved with a script. The other solution I was thinking might work but would also require a script to get per channel url updates is from iptvcat.com

I tried thetvapp.to on a few devices recently and couldn’t get it working and previously found it struggled with big sport events, it was one of my go to’s. Is it working still on your end?

If it has a headphone jack, you can plug in a dummy aux port. I’m convinced that the removal of the headphone jack was to ensure the microphones are always reachable

Everytime I see stuff like this I’m thankful most of my devices (hopefully all one day) either have cameras/microphones that have hardware kill switches (HKS), or can be unplugged from the device

Its funny because in the US, there are regulations that make it such that, even if they have the capability to close the doors remotely and anti pinch sensors etc, they are not allowed to unless it is done by someone from a device nearby while they hold down the close button.

Install KDE Plasma Big Screen QT6, Waydroid Android TV, and you’ll be golden

You didn’t specify OS, and most of the good Android ones have been mentioned. But in case you have a GNU/Linux phone, there is also Jogger

Valetudo

The only other one not mentioned I can think of is Pinetime, but it doesn’t do all you want without a phone

And so it begins…

I have a desktop, but would buy it for the bespoke compact hardware to fit in the TV console. The dedicated antennas are a clear sell as well.

Right now I Steam Link via Shield, but I need wired or a better router to do any low latency play.

I would love if Valve shipped and contributed to Plasma Mobile and Plasma Bigscreen alongside the existing Plasma Desktop. Or even if more Steam Deck users installed it so that it would get more interest.