Self-hosting adjacent, but you have to watch your jellyfin content somewhere, or connect to your audiobook store... Or even music.. what do you guys use for music?

Anyway,
Amazon's firetv stick had a great remote. But sideloading on it comes to an end and it needs replacing. What do you guys have? Anything with a good remote and UI?

If you are in the US the onn 4K Streaming Device from Walmart.

I use a mini PC with a wireless keyboard and mouse. There are also remote controls for media PCs if you don't want to use a keyboard and mouse.

I use a Vero V with my TV's remote via CEC, it's great, Kodi is awesome and it can look amazing with a good skin

do you need dolby vision support? both profiles? that makes a difference

Is Jellyfin FOSS? If not, what is good alternative?

I tried using Kodi, but found it very lacking and far too complicted to use (says the guy porting Linux to his phone for fun, lol)

dolby vision support? both profiles?
I didn't even know what it was until 10 seconds ago.. Well, I don't think I need that.

Jellyfin FOSS

Github with GPL-2.0. So I guess yea, it is. I used Kodi in the past. But had major issues with the jellyfin plugin. I wouldn't want to do that again.

Avoid Roku devices. Roku had an OK remote and decent UI, but the company has thoroughly enshittified it and turned it into an "advertising everywhere all the time" platform. There is a Jellyfin app that works well though.

Was eyeing one of those. Thanks for the warning.

I'm waiting for Plasma Bigscreen to be released (hopefully soon!) and then I plan to use a palm sized x86 PC from Aliexpress.

Roku has WAY LESS ads than Fire TV. Yes I get one on the home screen, off to the side, easily ignored.

It's true they might add more later. It is pretty much the only corporate strategy these days.

Idk if Apple TV is still no ads. It is usually suggested as the best home streamer.

There is a Jellyfin app that works well though.

🤘 Sweet

Roku tries to monitor HDMI activity on Roku TVs so they know exactly what's being watched at all times. They also insert ads into the menu on a regular basis and sometimes force install apps. Adguard Home has blocked the vast majority of the ads on screen, but from what I've found the menu ads can't be blocked.

If I had Fire TV and it's as bad as you say it would have been binned long ago.

I used to use Roku with ad blocking DNS on my local network, but I just started to become more and more unhappy with Roku, so I hooked up an old laptop and bought a wireless keyboard.

I bought an old Nvidia shield. The AI upscaling is nice.

Computer and keyboard is the way.

All true. But a few years ago Fire TV had a big update that put full screen video ads that you must navigate off of every time you wake up the fire stick. It's so bad we stopped using it.