#projectivity — Public Fediverse posts

Sick and tired of your Android TV set top box filling your house with unrequested billboard advertising?

Install Projectivity Launcher as the default launcher app and banish advertising out of sight forever.

I've had it installed on the big TV in the media room for the better part of a week and it's been great. My main swim lane is Jellyfin, S'Tube, F1 TV, Gem, Telus TV+, and that's pretty much it. All the apps seem to work fine with Projectivity as a launcher.

I installed from the G Play store but maybe check if it's in Fdroid or Aptoide or your other favourite.

I still want to build a custom Linux based STB but this app knocks it down the to do list a few hundred places. Ha.

#ProjectivityLauncher #projectivity #AndroidTV #GoogleTV #AdBlock #STB

Only time-wasting, mistreat-the-user part came from the (industry standard) lack of adequate notification that the free version of #Projectivity does not allow itself to be set as the default launcher.

Took 15 minutes for this to become obvious.

Hell I hate IT. Standardised mistreatment of users.

And a shout-out here to those folk who have their software/websites doing so much better than most. #Libation comes immediately to mind here. And webpages with accurate dates. ✅️

#Android #TVBox

Got a ~AUD$100 #Android #TVBox from China.
The Google #Launcher/start screen it arrived with was ghastly.
#PlayStore is pretty much un-usable.
Effectively no search for apps.
Would not let Firefox install.
Didn't like scrolling down. 💩

Installed #Aptoide (EDIT: ❌️❌️❌️❌️) from their website.
Installed #Projectivity launcher from Aptoide. And Firefox. (And Kodi but that looks like a lot of work to get set up. What is a PVR anyway?)

And #NewPipe from GitHub. And VLC. And #SBSOnDemand.

Usable now.