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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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Roku ultra with the memory card. But no one in my household uses apple devices.
Appreciate the comment. The Roku seems to be pretty popular and luckily it's just me, so I can experiment.
I've never used an Apple TV, but my smart TV is a Roku and it does most of the things you've described. I use Crunchyroll and Tubi and a few other streaming apps including Apple's. I use Prime Music and it has like 99% of the albums I want to listen to. Obviously it doesn't have Apple Arcade, but I mostly just play games on my phone anyway. I even put a Roku box on an old CRT TV that I use sometimes for watching older shows in SD format lol! I don't know if this is the type of answer you were looking for but I hope it's helpful.
As does my fire stick, and even my Vizio smart TV … all except the Apple Arcade
I’ve bent thinking about moving in the other direction. I try to avoid privacy abuse of the SmartTV and Fire Stick is being enshittified, so what should I use? AppleTV seems interesting to try plus games may be fun
I use a Synology NAS + Plex + Chromecast, works great.
Thank you! I'm going to start looking at the Synology NAS devices. I have one of their routers which I really like so the NAS stuff should be similar (fit, finish, interface, etc.).
my go-to setup is
chromecast with googletv 4k
alldebrid membership (€3 a month)
stremio app + torrentio addon
Appreciate the info / response. I'll have to check out alldebrid, stremio, and torrentio; those are new to me.
debrid is basically "cloud torrenting", a server torrents the files and you download them from there. extremely useful if you live in a jurisdiction where p2p filesharing is illegal.
stremio is a netflix-like video player app, torrentio an addon that let's you crawl torrent sites and stream stuff via debrid.
Thank you for the info on these. As I figure out what I want to do, I will keep these in mind! Sounds like some good stuff.