• Poudlardo@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

    The day nvidia shield start doing that shit i’m going straight for Kodi in a mini-pc

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        The simplest solution right now is to uninstall the upgrade to the Google TV Launcher application under the my apps section in settings for the Nvidia Sheild.

        At the same time disable automatic updates in the playstore app, this way the specific TV Launcher app won’t update.

        Currently this is the app responsible for showing you ads on your homescreen and playing you full screen ads.

        My recommendation is to also downgrade your Nvidia Sheild to 8.2.3, here is a excellent guide below.

        https://florisse.nl/shield-downgrade/

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          I recently installed ProjectIvy launcher and I’ve been happy with it so far and there are no ads now.

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        You can easily change launchers on the Shield, unlike the Fire TV for instance, which actively blocks it, to get rid of the advertising and garbage.

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      Don’t give them ideas!! But I’ve blocked any update for my shield maybe two years ago, so it’s locked in a older version of Android, it works fine and I hope this doesn’t change 😬

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        They don’t need me to get that idea. I might block their update too good tip

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        Don’t forget about the playstore app updates, these should be set to not autoupdate.

        Currently the android TV Launcher app is what shows you the ads on the homescreen. You can easily uninstall this apps update if you upgrade it accidentally.

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      1 year ago

      All my screens just have computer hooked up. Even a debloated windows 10 install is better than any other stick solution. I don’t even need to do special rules on my PiHole lawl

      Also, can’t find the thing I need? I’ll just pop onto AR, OR, IPT, whatever and get it. Can’t do that on a shitty stick or shield

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          I need something capable of decoding 4K hevc. I want to try to stay away from my server and needing to transcode army’s despecialized edition of starwars

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            Fair enough. I use an Apple TV and Infuse in my living room on my main TV, so I didn’t even think about how the 4 needed to have things transcoded for it. Infuse natively decodes almost everything I throw at it. How do Harmy’s despecialized compare to 4k77?