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  • OR3X@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlAndroid TV Boxes
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    1 month ago

    I have three ONN 4K android TV boxes with smarttube loaded on them. I only really watch YouTube and movies from my file server so it’s perfect for me. Plus they’re dirt cheap. I replaced all of my old Chromecasts with them when Google started serving Ads in the YouTube app when casting to a TV which they surprisingly didn’t do for quite a few years.




















  • They have their uses. In particular they’re useful for easily getting applications your system repositories don’t have or getting more up to date version of applications. Downsides are certainly the space all the redundant dependencies take up and the sandboxing can be a PITA especially if you have an application that needs to run another application. Overall I think they’re the best “third party” package system available but they’re not great.