Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by intelVISA 1060 days ago
You'd probably DoS your router if they're all on concurrently due to all the data exfiltration they're performing.
2 comments
nerdo 1060 days ago
No joke just the Amazon stick itself would accomplish that. It tries to phone home constantly, every second of every day, idle or not.
link
Corrado 1060 days ago
I can confirm (mostly). I have a FireCube and if my Internet connection goes down then I can't watch TV at all. Even the Plex server I have in my closet. It's super annoying! In fact, I'm ==this== close to ditching it and going with AppleTV. The experience is just so much better.
link
arprocter 1060 days ago
You might be able to load VLC onto the FireCube and then enable DLNA on your Plex server

Navigating DLNA in VLC isn't great, but better than nothing

link
petecooper 1060 days ago
>data exfiltration

Pi Hole can help with limiting this:

https://pi-hole.net

Here's the 24-hour top blocked domains list for my network (1x Kindle Fire Stick):

https://i.imgur.com/JZsO3WK.png

link