flubba86 @ flubba86 @lemmy.world

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Yeah. I tried it once, just to see if I could do it. Now I know I can, I never need to do it again. I buy the frozen stuff.

This is the same reason I've never bought one. I love the concept, they are so cool. I use Linux on my desktop at home and at work. The thought of a powerful handheld Linux gaming PC for gaming on the go is so enticing, and I want to support Valve and the development of proton and gaming on Linux. But in reality I'm rarely "on the go". I read articles on my phone when I'm on the train on my way to work. I watch videos on my android tablet when I'm flying on a plane for work. I have a Nintendo 3DS and an ODroid Go Ultra ARM emulation handheld gathering dust on my nightstand. I'd hate the thought of adding a steamdeck to the pile.

Hey, I started in 2003 too! What was your first distro? Mine was mandrake, from the cd on the cover of a magazine.

I feel like the average consumer uses their Android TV boxes the way that they come.

The average consumer doesn't buy android TV boxes from AliExpress. They use a Google Chromecast or a NVidia shield, or Amazon Fire TV.

The people who buy these devices from China are those deliberately looking for specific hardware to use for a specific application.

This is the first time I've even heard of CoreELEC despite using LibreELEC. Thanks for mentioning it. I have doubts every obscure cheap Android box is supported though.

LibreElec reduced official support for SBCs with Amlogic Cpus (like the Odroid C2, Odroid C4, and Odroid N2) in 2018, that spawned the fork called CoreElec. Then LibreElec removed Amlogic support entirely in 2019 (they wanted to just focus on Raspberry Pi SBCs). That caused a mass exodus of users and most moved to CoreElec. That was around the same time cheap TV boxes started appearing on AliExpress, and a lot of them happened to have Amlogc CPUs like the s905X, s905X2, s905X3, and s922X, these are the same CPUs in Odroid C2 and Odroid C4 and Odroid N2, so CoreElec was able to add support for most of them.

CoreElec remains tied to LibreElec upstream, receiving the same updates.

They have a comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date hardware compatibility list. They don't support all Chinese TV boxes, but if it has an Amlogic CPU, there's a high chance it is supported. If you're unsure, just look at any one of the hundreds of "will this cheap TV box work?" threads on their forum.

I've owned four different android TV boxes from AliExpress over the years, from different manufacturers, different sellers, and different versions of Android. None of them ever came with malware. I'm a member of the CoreElec community forums where thousands of people own android TV boxes, hundreds of different models and hundreds of different firmware versions, and nobody ever once talked about having malware on their device. That LTT video is ill-informed and out of proportion. Anyway, nobody ever buys the Android TV box to use whatever crappy old version of Android they include, they immediately wipe the partition and install CoreElec on it, with kodi and all the plugins you'd ever want.

I have two of them running CoreElec for my media centres, and one with Armbian OS with HomeAssistant installed, running my home automation. They're the best bang-for-buck ARM powered Linux hardware you can get, miles better than a raspberry PI.

Oh I'm firmly in the second camp. They can use whatever version they like, as long as I don't have to go near it.

The one thing I can say about java; the kinds of people who like Java tend to really like Java. Everyone else just leaves them to it.

Your loop had a race condition, so we let the smoke out for you.

Well said. I've been using Linux for 15 years and using Docker for 6 years. I couldn't have communicated as well as you did. You have a knack for teaching.

As a Queenslander.. I often dream of the day I can move to Tasmania. I've been there a couple of times (once to a friend's wedding, and another time for a work trip) and it's a beautiful place and the only place I've ever been that I don't need aircon running 24/7 to be comfortable.

HP office keyboard on your android phone?

I'm using a Motorola Edge 30 Pro that I got 18 months ago. I'm very impressed with it. It's got flagship CPU performance, and long batter life. Good screen, decent camera, and NO ADs.

If you keep having to add lime, chili, garlic and sugar to all your gross nonsense, maybe you really just like lime, sugar, garlic and chili, no need for the gross nonsense.

Nothing. I have this weird thing where I can't listen to music and do my work at the same time. Listening to music is an active experience for me, I have to focus my whole attention on it and enjoy it. Putting music on as background noise doesn't work, it gets super irritating because I can't focus on my work or on the music.

The other issue is that the instant I put my headphones on at work to listen to music, someone comes to my desk to talk to me, without exception. And I hate talking to people, so I avoid wearing headphones at work these days.

Don't get me started on the number of Toms, Olivers, and Olivias at my daughter's school.

When these kids start working in offices, is going to usher back in the day of calling all co-workers by their surname "Hey Jonson, I have that report for you from Smith. Thanks Brown."

I think they used to do that back in the 70s and 80s because everyones firsnames were all James, and Peter.

Hey, have a look at Wezterm. I was an Alacritty user for 3 years, but always wanted a scrollbar and tabs. Wezterm is what you are looking for.

I was a fan of Alacritty and used it for the last 3 years, but I was frustrated by the lack of features (no scroll bar, no native tabs) and the disrespectful way the developers handled feature requests.

A few weeks ago someone on this site recommended Wezterm, so I tried it out, and it's amazing. It's everything I was hoping Alacritty would be or could become.

Read this thread for more details, specifically the reply by wez: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/discussions/1769

I'm really only good at one thing, that is designing and developing software. So I try to make all my personal stuff open source, so others can benefit from it too.

This is almond juice, not milk.