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Mozilla reviewed Nvidia's privacy policies and user agreements. It's their second most private rated streaming device after AppleTV.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/nvidia-shield-tv/

Not a marvel when the SoC is also owned by them. Them, Apple, and (outside the US) Samsung are the only ones who could really pull it off without help.

Loops is the FOSS fediverse equivalent.

Doctorow is Canadian-British.

This is written by Cory Doctorow -- formerly of the EFF and coiner of the word "enshittification". You can disagree with him, but this is the same kind of advocacy he has written for decades.

BSD, perhaps. Or maybe Redox eventually.

That's now Thunderbird.

As far as I know, browsers will only do Widevine L3. Meaning you won't get resolutions past 720p or maybe 1080p (depending on service). That's probably fine a small screen like the deck. Less fine for a 4k TV.

One question I have about the cube is will it be capable of doing full DRM streaming services like Netflix? Most living room systems have that, but doing it on an open linux system somehow would be novel.

Speaking for myself — no.

I had reasons for switching to using my dual boot desktop for Linux 95% of the time. Windows 11 became too annoying and bloated for me to want to deal with, and I found Proton could adequately run the games I play (including some old or foreign ones Windows struggles with).

I continue to use my Xbox because it's unladen with Windows' recent bullshit, and as a limited machine, it gives me less security concerns about trying games with connections to Russia, China, and Israel.

An Xbox running full Windows is one I would wecome existing but would never buy. I'd just be thankful all their games were PC compatible and use my Linux PC and streaming devices running Steam Link or Moonlight or even xCloud (until that service inevitably enshittifies).

Noto (Google) I thought was the most well-known.

A lot of live service games will work too. The only time it's really an issue is if it uses a kernel-invasive anti-cheat system.