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A Raspberry Pi and Kodi.
Kodi is not a replacement for an amazon fire stick, but a replacement for streaming in combination with piracy
You can install Prime Video and other apps on Kodi itself with the right repos.
Raspberry pi kind of sucks ime. I had the 4 and it seemed underpowered. It's more worth it to buy a used minipc if you can spend some more money. Plus you then have fully functional pc to use on your TV that can do anything at all. I used to have mine auto boot kde plasma to a specific desktop with Kodi full screen. Then another desktop with a full screen browser, and another one for steam or whatever. Custom keyboard shortcuts on a rii mini handheld keyboard and a single button would toggle desktops/apps.
Also it's not really an option for people that don't know how do technical computer stuff.
It really depends. For the purpose of "SmartTV" the Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM served it's purpose. If you wanna do more, then yes, it is underpowered. For usual Kodi functions that arent just TV/streaming, you may need something better.
Now that I think back... Some of my issue had to do with streaming from nas.
And being tech savy, spend time on it, and be ready to update when it's needed. Not necessary bad things, but it a completely different solution, not a "European firestick"