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Roku and TCL are being sued for allegedly bricking smart TVs with bad updates
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this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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That's cool that you're using it as a nas, and I'm glad it's working out for you
Myself, I want something easily controllable from a remote, so that when I come back from work I can just relax without seeing a keyboard and having to work with a pc.
I tried Librelec and lineageOS TV into a mini pc, but they all had various quirks, so I'm sticking to my TCL for now.
Absolutelly, if you can't use it with a remote and have to use a keyboard and mouse it's not the same thing.
However, my setup is easilly controllable with a remote: I have Kodi running always on top in it and use one of these.
With that the sofa experience is the same as with a dedicated TV Box (except that the remote can't power it ON, only OFF, but for me it's fine since I leave it always ON) because that remote just sends the right "keypresses" to control Kodi (apparently the shortcut keys are standard) so from a user point of view one interacts with it the same as with a TV Box or Smart TV.
The PC-ish stuff (such as managing the bittorrent server) I do remotelly from my main PC via SSH and web interfaces.
Mind you, I have a keyboard and mouse connected to it because sometimes I want to use the browser, but if all you're doing is watching stuff like with a TV Box, that's not needed.
Whoa, that's cool. For the power-ing on, I know that its possible to do via bleetooth, my steam deck does it.
It's USB rather than bluetooth, though maybe there are bluetooth versions.