I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be

Congratulations, you just made a copy of Apple TVOS, on much worse hardware.

Love them or hate them, the Apple TV is the best streaming box around. I’ve got One and a shield tv, and the Apple TVs level of polish and performance is on a whole other level.

Yeah, let’s get more close ecosystem shit. Stop buying things you can modify because you own them. Think of the executives, what’s wrong with you people?

What?

I’m just saying that Apple TVs are already a simple app launcher interface with basically nothing else.

I can assure you there’s a whole lot of telemetry and tracking in those. It’s not “and nothing else.”

Apple is the least awful about data privacy. Owning your hardware and stack is still better for privacy.

*edit: others have bored this is still using Google hardware with only a custom launcher, not a unique firmware or os environment for data sovereignty. That Sudha, and the lettuce still remains that we need more open hardware vendors, or legislation that let’s us unlock our own purchased devices to modify further. *