• Albbi@piefed.ca
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    9 hours ago

    What do you see that makes a difference? Lack of ads or is performance also better?

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      2 hours ago

      All of that. Lack of ads, more performant etc. Plus (and depending on the device), you can set it up in such a way that you don’t need to sign into your google account, yet still have ability to watch YouTube (Smartube), install apps (side load plus use the Fdroid TV store … name escapes me at the moment… Flicky I think?).

      Even if you need to be signed in for some reason, it’s a smoother experience.

      Its just…better. You’ll lose some of the prettiness (for some reason, mine no longer displays backgrounds from upsplash, only solid colours) but its more than worth it.

      EDIT: Yes, it IS Flicky

      https://f-droid.org/packages/app.flicky/

      https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.smarttube.fdroid/

      https://www.sendfilestotv.app/

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      9 hours ago

      No ads, better performance, customizable

      I also tried Projectivy in the past but I don’t remember why I switched away from it. I think there was a performance bug that was causing it to crash. Both may be good options now

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        7 hours ago

        I recently swapped back to FLauncher after using Projectivy for a while. Projectivy uses a lot more resources (cache + RAM) and my TV only has like 4GB of storage.