Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Yeah, every product that they sell will do it.

    Using something like OSMC (or buying a Vero is you don’t want to mess around with the setup) will let you control what runs on your player.

    Until you do that, you’re paying some random company while also giving root access on a device in your house and letting them waste your time with ads.

    All you get out of the deal is avoiding having to learn how to use a new piece of software. A Pyrrhic victory due to the fact that you have to learn to use Roku.

    I’d rather spend a few hours learning how to setup Kodi. It’s free software, you don’t pay for it and it’s Free software, you control it with no strings attached.

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      2 hours ago

      My big issue with kodi is that i like my media library to be human navigable and named and it does not. Dealbreaker

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        21 minutes ago

        Kodi doesn’t organize your media, you use other applications for that (tinymediamanager, sonarr/radarr, etc).

        The default library layout, for Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi is very human navigable, for example TV Shows are in this format:

        TV Show Name
         |-Season 1
         |-Season 2
         |-\-S02E01-Episode_Name.mkv
        

        There may be a few extra files in the directories depending on what metadata you’re storing and what you’re pulling from the Internet, but it is organized and navigable.