At its core, though, the TiVo Stream 4K is also a cheap 4K HDR streaming dongle that runs on Google’s Android TV operating system. And if you have no interest in TiVo’s extra features, you can easily remove them and customize the device to your liking. That means stripping away all the pre-loaded apps and reprogramming the remote control with shortcuts to your favorite apps and functions.

At its current sale price of $50 through the end of July—versus a regular price of $70—I’d venture to say that a de-TiVoed TiVo Stream 4k is the best cheap Android TV dongle on the market today. It’s especially useful now, with HBO Max and NBC’s Peacock still unavailable on Roku and Amazon Fire TV streamers, and compared to those options, it’s far more flexible. For more on what you can do with it, read the full column on TechHive.

Peacock’s other standout feature is its inclusion of linear “Channels” that you can flip through, cable-style. There are marathon channels for Saturday Night Live and Hell’s Kitchen, spin-off channels for Today and CNBC, highlights from The Tonight Show and Late Night, and more. It’s not a new concept—other apps like Pluto TV and The Roku Channel have similar linear feeds—but the content is mostly unique.

The Peacock app is currently available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Chromecast, LG TVs, Vizio TVs, Xbox One consoles, Comcast cable boxes, and Cox Contour boxes. As expected, Roku and Amazon Fire TV aren’t on board yet as NBC fights with those companies over money. The good news for Fire TV users is that you can still install the app through sideloading, just like you can with HBO Max. I’ve got a tutorial on how to do that over at TechHive.

One other thing: If you have an Android device, make sure to sign up through it. Once you create an account, you should get an offer by email for three free months of Peacock Premium.

Clear your Netflix queue: Netflix has added a way to remove items from the “Continue Watching” row in its main menu, so you’ll no longer be confronted with shows you couldn’t stand after a few minutes.

The catch is that you have to do it from your phone, but any changes you make there will sync to your other devices. Just tap on the vertical “…” underneath the item you want to remove, then select “Remove from row.”

The race to make sense of streaming: Reelgood and JustWatch are two apps that can tell you what’s available on practically any streaming service, and I’ve long been fascinated by them both, so I finally took the time to profile them for Fast Company. Both companies have put a lot of work into indexing the catalogs of services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, then funneling that data into unified TV guides. It’s exactly the kind of thing we need to keep track of an ever-increasing number of options.

All the more baffling, then, that most streaming devices—most notably those from Roku and Amazon—don’t offer anything similar built in. As the heads of Reelgood and JustWatch tell it, these companies are just too conflicted to build the kind of guides their customers need. They’re far more interested in promoting their own services and securing pay-to-play deals, and changing the way they operate would be a major undertaking. That leaves an opening for companies like Reelgood and JustWatch, which hope to get their software integrated on streaming devices not made by the major players. For more on how they’ll do that—and how they plan to make money in the process—check out my full story.

Oh, and if you’re interested in the TiVo Stream 4K that I wrote about in my TechHive column, I suggest grabbing it from Amazon instead of TiVo’s website. That way you won’t have any shipping fees or return hassles.