Throwing my Roku in the trash

I work from a big corner desk and part of the space on that desk is taken up by a small TV positioned in the corner. I use it occasionally and, for the longest time, it's had a Roku stick attached to it. It's reliable, but the UI has been filled with more and more cruft when all I ever want to do is launch Jellyfin.1 This was the lone Roku device on our home network, it was mostly idle and the top two domains blocked by NextDNS were a pair of Roku tracking subdomains. Roku is also being acquired by an odious media company. I'm invested to the tune of, maybe, $29.99. I bought a cheap device and got a progressively crappy experience. It's not a whole ecosystem, it's not inescapable, but it's all irritating. I looked at onn streaming devices2 but ended up buying a cheap Xiaomi TV box running Google TV. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, sort of. The key differentiator here is that Google TV means Android, Android means I can install and meaningfully change things. I plugged the…