Is a nvidia shield still the best? Are there others? I’d like to play various 4k HDR video files. Which one to buy? Any recommendations? Nvidia shield looks very much outdated but there’s nothing new.

What about plasma bigscreen? Would that be good? I’d just use it for jellyfin, the DE doesn’t matter much.

  • barbara@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Hard pass. Apple devices aren’t good in regards to foss or privacy

    • guts@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Neither Android TV on the Shield Pro, are you going to install something like Lineage on the Shield?.

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Well, I will disagree. Apple is one of the best Hardware companies out there for not selling your data. Do they do other things wrong? Absolutely. A slew of things. But selling private data is not one of them.

        • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I disagree with that article as well. But you seem vehemently anti-Apple, so I withdraw my recommendation, and I apologize for offering a possible answer to your question.

      • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Apple is one of the best Hardware companies out there for not selling your data.

        Don’t believe their ads, they are actually one of the worst!

        But the threat of Apple turning on its customers isn’t limited to China. While the company has been unwilling to spy on its users on behalf of the US government, it’s proven more than willing to compromise its worldwide users’ privacy to pad its own profits. Remember when Apple let its users opt out of Facebook surveillance with one click? At the very same time, Apple was spinning up its own commercial surveillance program, spying on Ios customers, gathering the very same data as Facebook, and for the very same purpose: to target ads. When it came to its own surveillance, Apple completely ignored its customers’ explicit refusal to consent to spying, spied on them anyway, and lied about it:

        • antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          7 months ago

          The page you’re linking to is a good read. I had heard about a handful of the problems through the years, but having them presented and precisely explained like this was great, I think.

        • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Can you provide any examples of ads someone (maybe you?) received directly due to Apple’s policies and behavior? Totally serious question.

          • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Can you provide any examples of ads someone (maybe you?) received directly due to Apple’s policies and behavior? Totally serious question.

            If you use an iPhone and have app tracking transparency enabled then any targeted ads you’re seeing are almost certainly coming from data that Apple has collected from you.

            A few years back Apple made a big change to iOS that prevents user data from being sold to data brokers and ran a big ad campaign about how they are the good “privacy option”. But the reason they made the change was not to protect user privacy, but because Apple wanted the money that Facebook was getting from iPhone users. The same data is still being collected and sold, just by Apple now instead of Facebook. That was the crux of Facebook’s big lawsuit against Apple accusing them of anti-competitive practices.