On 26/08/2019 12.19, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:53:31 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
On 25/08/2019 22.36, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:10:57 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Writing a small bunch of movies to a stick to see on the TV take hours.
I keep the movies or whatever on my linux box and serve them by NFS to Kodi on my Amazon Fire TV. Works pretty much out of the box.
I bought a tv box thing running android from Amazon. While it was being delivered, the dealer sent me an email saying that I had to download apps from their site, not from G. Play, meaning the box was rooted. So I returned it without opening it. For lying to me in the description.
That sounds like a feature not a bug. I trust Amazon more than Google. At least more to say I trust Amazon with my credit card number; I don't trust google even with a password. I don't have any account with them. I don't have google play on my android phone; I use f-droid.
A feature that was not described on the product description, and goes possibly against some rule, so they hide it. Possibly to play pirated content, like watch Netflix without paying. They said that I could not install apps using the Play app, only from their site, which also means that not all applications I may want may be there. The vendor lied to us, not Amazon. If I want to buy a rooted box, I'll buy knowingly a rooted box. If I buy a fully compliant Android box, I want to get a fully compliant Android box. Give me what was described. So I returned it, and Amazon gave me all the money back, but took some weeks. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)