Flying Squid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agoAfter luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with adsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square198fedilinkarrow-up1746cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1746external-linkAfter luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with adsarstechnica.comFlying Squid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square198fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-square@knotthatonelinkEnglish2•8 months agoPushed a software update that disabled third party launchers and disallowed disabling future software updates.
minus-square@pirat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoOh, shit! My Xiaomi Mi Box S 4K doesn’t auto-update because there’s not enough storage space left. No idea if Xiaomi have pushed any Amazon-level evil updates since last update though. All I know is, 3rd-party launchers changed my life for the better, and I don’t want it to change anytime soon. My favorite 3rd party launchers AndroidTV FLauncher LeanbackOnFire Android Kvaesitso
How did they lock them down?
Pushed a software update that disabled third party launchers and disallowed disabling future software updates.
Oh, shit!
My Xiaomi Mi Box S 4K doesn’t auto-update because there’s not enough storage space left.
No idea if Xiaomi have pushed any Amazon-level evil updates since last update though.
All I know is, 3rd-party launchers changed my life for the better, and I don’t want it to change anytime soon.
My favorite 3rd party launchers
AndroidTV
Android