The Apple TV works well as a consumer product though, it's reliable, it's simple to use, everyone in my house knows how to operate it, so on and so forth.

Being on Hacker News doesn't mean that every comment needs to praise how interesting technology can be, as I grow older I get a lot more value from reliable boring tech than when I was younger and riding the waves of the next Linux distro that promised me to be able to configure everything under-the-sun as I pleased.

Yeah, it might be unusable from a "hacking" perspective, it's still a great product for a streaming box that doesn't suck :)

Hacker News is a misnomer.

Mainly it's people bitching about Apple, hawking their doomed startup, or pretending to know Rust but all of that is too much for a snappy website name.

edit: Also, sometimes people will wax poetic about a shitty project some dude did on a Thinkpad running i3.

Yet I originally moved from roku to appletv specifically because I could sideload "real" apps much easier.

What are you looking to do with Apple TV that you can’t do?