I loved SmartTube, but I moved away from my Android TV when Google started saying they are not going to allow side loading apps. Google has walked back that policy a bit, but I am much happier now with my alternatives and the knowledge that Google can’t wreck them with their future bull shit.
That said SmartTube is a goat and it is sad to hear that such a great app has been compromised like this.
Fuck you, take the account
My vote here is a PC with Linux on it. I have a PC plugged into my TV that runs Bazzite. Got it for $170 at the second hand store. It’s even powerful enough to game on and I can connect a bluetooth controller
People will get killed in these things. I don’t trust a computer to drive me safely home. Give me a train or a bus instead driven by a real person.
Not good enough. Google showed their hand and they will try this garbage again at a later date
Retro Game Corps was estimating $500-$600 and they are defintely out to lunch with that
So I’m going to put this out there, why watch this content on a Android that we will not have less and less control over as time goes on?
Grab a laptop with Linux on it and go wild. I now have a computer hooked up to my TV and I don’t have to worry about any of Google’s bullshit
Spotify has been garbage for so long. I left when the Joe Rogan stuff got so bad and artists were demanding to have their music removed from Spotify in response.
You can buy music and maintain your own personal collection. It was not as hard as I thought it would be and the quality is so much higher. Artists get more of the money as well from you.
Loaded Linux onto a spare desktop and use Freetube now with a VPN