A Raspberry Pi will never prevent you from using your property however you like.
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How difficult is it to set up one of those? I've rooted a tablet but I have basically zero coding experience.
You don’t need coding experience. You just need to find an OS that’s capable of running on the unique hardware — I personally use Alpine Linux. More broadly speaking it’s tricky to install on ARM but Raspberry Pi is pretty well supported.
I think the main question is what content do you want to play out? It allegedly plays 1080p things just fine but can see artefacts around 4k. So a mixed bag if you have alot of high bitrate 4k content (or the not so long future of 8k)
PS not tried ot myself but seems to be the information i managed to find online about it.
I picked up a Walmart ONN stick and sideloaded Kodi.
Great price. But idk if it's worth going to Walmart for it. God that place sucks. In store only.
Until secure dns Is enforced
Care to elaborate? Are you talking about DNS over TLS/HTTPS or DNSSec? And who would enforce it and how? I can't see how this should go and what wouldn't work.
The fire stick might enforce it. Meaning if you were to point it to a rspwrry pie it wouldn't resolve anything
Ah, I think the comment suggested to use a pie instead of a fire stick
Yeah I misunderstood. I right they said pihole
I had to use one of these things in an AirBnb before, Fire TVs are impressively awful.
I have recently picked up a mi but I am expecting google to follow suit. Onn seem recommended but not available in some locations. Gonna have to start working on a new solution. Fk Amazon. Glad mine will all be done soon.