So. I just bought a new telly and to my surprise, not, the OS is rather bad and has very limited amount of apps. Therefore I’ll invest further in either Apple TV or the Firestick. Anyone got any recommendations, tips or hot takes on this? Which has more adds, and can it be blocked via DNS? Further read that Firestick could be jailbreaked, that has my interest 🦊
FireStick is somewhat hackable. You can sideload Android apps onto it. For example, I got Apple Music running on it https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/06/yes-you-can-run-apple-music-natively-on-your-android-firestick/
You don’t have to subscribe to Amazon Prime to use the other TV services. You can also install Kodi if you want to play back local media.
The FireStick will use USB power - so you can use your TV’s USB ports rather than a separate plug. It also has an Ethernet adapter - I think only the more expensive Apple devices use Ethernet.
I wonder how it compares to other Android TV/Google TV devices. I’ve been using the 4K Google TV Chromecast and it’s been running fine, you can enable the “apps only” mode, which hides the home screen with the recommendations from various streaming apps and instead shows the apps screen that has only 2-3 suggested shows and your list of apps. You can select which services to suggest from, but I believe that it always includes Google Play Movies content.