BBC has been ramping up the scare mongering lately. I mean, moreso than usual. Maybe I’m just noticing it more though.

I looked at it and thought, “lol funny comic strip”.

You mean there are other uses???

I took speed twice in my life, and the first time I thought it would help with a presentation and I ended up researching about the dogs in the film The Duchess for three hours. My lecturer was happy with the full history of the dogs, though.

The second time I used it to clean my house. I have no interest in doing amphetamines again, and this was nearly a decade ago, however I will say my house has never looked as clean as those few hours. I was getting into the grooves with a toothbrush at one point. 3 bedroom house cleaned top to bottom in half a day.

You’re right in that you’d have to install an APK, from outside of the Play Store, however if you’re aware of the right sources of the right apps your security should be fine (you can disable the ability to install apps from unknown sources after you’ve got the YouTube alternative app, without affecting it, if you’re worried about that).

There are a few steps, which are usually straight forward, listed here: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

If you follow that link it should have further links for an installation tutorial (they also link a YouTube tutorial to make things easier).

If you do go down that route, it’s a much more pleasant experience imho. No ads, Sponsorblock for in-video ad segments, complete control over quality of video, audio, options to manually force specific codecs, etc.

Do you have the option to install Android apps onto your TV? Or if it has another OS with the option?

I did an upgrade, instead of a clean install, to the same version. I just had to reinstall my graphics driver and everything works as before, I just went through another step to remove some programs and it’s been smooth sailing since.

Massgrave.dev provided what I needed. Was a breeze.

I’ll believe it when it happens, until then all I hear are promises that could be broken.
Words alone are meaningless.