Most people are not dealing with that. Making a laptop work as well as a dedicated remote first device is a pain in the ass for most people. People want panel and remote based ui's first.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I never said most people would do it. I said there are other options and described one. If people want to be lazy, that's on them.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It takes such a minimal amount of effort nowadays to set up a barebones pi or laptop with Linux , hook to TV and just watch in web browser or use a graphical frontend like kodi. Theres millions of sources for doing all of this.

Oh well , my coworkers can complain to me about $250 monthly cable bills. I'll just smile.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know what you're saying but there's dozens of people at just my company making $100k plus and they need to go to the phone store to set up a new email address. Like these people don't know how to make a pivot table in excel and they have no interest in learning it.

Most humans just don't have much intellectual curiosity they just want to get paid and spend money.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's always Vero (https://osmc.tv/vero/). Basically customized Kodi (OSMC) already installed on hardware for them; they can just unbox and hook up to the T. V.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

That's pretty cool actually, that looks like it would work for most people, idk ppl just buy what they see in ads for the most part unfortunately