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I bought one of these from Flirc but never used it.

A totally valid option I had not considered. Imo, the solution needs to be controlled by a standard remote. I tried for a couple years to get my family to use a media pc that used a media keyboard and no one would touch it. I turned it into a server and streamed to emby and now they will use it but only after I showed them it works even when the internet is down.

No doubt. The market is shriveling up for people who want a new tv that isn’t garbo. Outside of commercial displays which are like 3-4x as expensive and have lower image quality, I don’t know of anyone making dumb tvs in a 55" plus size. Yes, you can opt not to hook them up to the internet but in a house with non-tech people, its a huge hassle to get them to want to use anything other than the built in apps. Even diy set top boxes running on a pi or shield are not as user friendly for kids or grandparents.

I basically left it vanilla after switching the launcher and borking the updates. We use emby for our home streaming but I am always looking for extra functionality

I will 100% jump over to it if that does turn into a thing

Oh cool, I’ll have to checkout those other tools!

When I lived at my old house, the interstate (a mile away or so) switched from sodium lights to LEDs and the light bleed was bad enough that I could have done precision yardwork at night. Even with blackout curtains, I could see the outline of my door at night. It was miserable.

I have a HiSense TV and use ADB AppControl to disable/remove the telemetry or forced updates, and Projectivy Launcher to get a home screen/launcher that doesn’t show ads. Both are free and work really well. I don’t see trash on my homescreen anymore.

For sure don’t bring kudzu.

I won’t say you are wrong but I can still be pissed about this and expect/demand better while recognizing that there is a longstanding historic pattern of shitty and shortsighted behavior directed by incompetent and morally deficient corporate stooges against the better interests of the people they are supposedly representing.

If it helps, they were never meant to protect the US homeland. Logistically there is too much coastline and not enough batteries. You have the same amount of protection as you did before.

Absolutely shameful that the US started a pointless war, without congressional approval, then burned through a known limited resource that could have been gone to protect lives as protection from unjustified aggression. Instead, some chucklefuck decided to BE the aggressor and waste these protecting bases from retaliation that wasn’t coming until he stirred up the shit.

China and Russia are laughing their asses off right now. Attacking Iran was idiotic for any number of reasons but long term, burning through a resource (missile interceptors) that requires stockpiles for be functional, while also not increasing production in any meaningful way is absolutely insane when the rumors are that a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan could occur as early as 2027.

Not to mention, Ukraine has been begging for these munitions for the last 4 years while they were actively being attacked by Russia (unprovoked Iight add) and we basically told them “sorry we don’t have enough to share” before we went and wasted them on an illegal attack that didn’t need to happen…

I’m hosting a seeed solar node pro at home, and I carry either a t-echo or a t-1000-e with me daily. I also grabbed a t-deck pro to play with. It’s been a blast learning about the setups and I keep thinking about stealth deploying a couple more solar nodes to build out the network in the area around me.

I read this thread title 4 times before I finally saw it said poverty and not poultry. The chicken and egg line made some sense with my misreading…

For context, there is a BUNCH of potential issues with OpenClaw. This recently happened and then ARS used fake ai quotes of the author when publishing an article about it.

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

Whole lot of false dichotomy going on in this thread.

Yes, tires already produce microplastics but you also don’t have to use processes that produce more microplastics by mixing them into a road just because you have big accumulated stores of waste plastics as potential building materials.

You can just say they are end of life and develop a reasonable storage or disposal method that does not reintroduce them into the environment as this could.

That isn’t pie in the sky thinking either, there are numerous reactions and processes that allow you to do waste-to-energy with or even high intensity photo-degredation that is capable of producing syngas or even industrial grade hydrogen from this as a feedstock. With secondary scrubbers you can recapture the carbon and other waste products for sequestration.

It really depends though, if you want to do analog in or out, relay control, or use existing hats, you are bought/forced into the ecosystem. If you are just using it as a small computer, yeah roll with whatever. To me, it’s always occupied the void between an arduino and a sffpc or when I wanted to do compute and analog/digital control on something.

I had an 8350 machine with 32gb of ram when if was in season and while it never really left me short of power, the intel 4770k and 4790k were better performers. That may not be the case anymore with stuff being more multi-core optimized but at the time, the intel single core performance was so much better than the 8350s which made a bid difference in gaming.

My old rig was an 8350 overclocked to 4.5 on liquid, crossfired 3gb 7950hd’s, and 32gb of matched corsair dominator ddr3 all in a corsair 230t chassis with the bright orange paint and led fans.