Faceman2K23

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to technology in Unsmart a smart TV

I have seen some talk over on XDA forums, but since there is more to an android TV than just the basic android OS, it’s a bit trickier without risking losing licences/compatibility/DRM/features.

Some older LG webOS tvs can be rooted and custom apps installed too such as ad free youtube players etc.

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to technology in Unsmart a smart TV

Not sure if there’s a list, but most Android based TVs can be cleaned and modded to some degree via ADB. If you can access the dev settings in android, chances are you can do a lot to make it better, strip out some google or branded packages, replace the launcher to block OS level ads etc. Projectivy usually works well since it supports input switching on many devices, but it’s still better to do all of this to a separate box and then plug it into a TV that is firewalled/filtered/offline. more control and less to fuck up.

Rooting and unlocking bootloaders is more complex as these android devices dont have normal recovery systems and require a lot of custom drivers to make the video and audio processing work, so it’s not worth going that far.

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to technology in Unsmart a smart TV

LCDs do tend to speak somewhat standardised languages, but there is a lot more to a modern TV than just an LCD controller.

Color and white balance calibration, image/motion processing, HDR Processing, backlight control/dimming zones, input management, audio decoding/encoding/passthrough, digitizing analogue sources, HDMI licencing, Dolby licencing, etc.

If you want a better smart TV the best thing to do is to get a hackable TV like most android based models, replace the launcher, strip out system apps and telemetry with ADB and start fresh, then either leave it offline or use filtering to only allow access to the services you approve.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in I always click the wrong button.

I haven’t thought about powder toy for **so **many years.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs?

Yip, I have a Linux VM running on one of my boxes in the garage that is plugged into a video matrix so I can bring it up on any screen in the house, I use the pi to connect Keyboard/Mouse/controllers etc to that when I’m using it.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Preferred E-Book Library Server Software?

I use Ubooquity and Komga, both mainly for the OPDS service which I access on various devices.

Ubooquity is good for basic book and file serving, but does support graphics. Komga is very much graphic focussed and is very good at it.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs?

I replaced 4x Pi4 4gb with a single N95 mini PC with 16gb ram and wont look back.

Only PI left in my home is just running a 24/7 USBIP bridge.

the only reason to use a pi is if you need GPIO pins for custom devices.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Replacing CD Collection

In most cases yes, but hdd space is cheap enough that lossless compression is just the best option. Can always use them as originals to spin off mp3s or other compressed files when needed.

300cds would only be around 120 gigs flac compressed

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to technology in Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube

Yea no shit It’s also a significant chunk of regular youtube now too

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to technology in Startup claims 100x more efficient processor than current CPUs, secures $16M in funding

Usually means “yes this works in theory but only for very specific operations at limited scales that aren’t all that important so it’s not worth pursuing seriously”

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to technology in Startup claims 100x more efficient processor than current CPUs, secures $16M in funding

I mean, we know the absolute limits of computational efficiency thanks to the Landauer limit and the Margolus–Levitin theorem, and from those we know that we are so far from the limits that it is practically unfathomable.

If they can show some evidence that they can perform useful calculations 100x more efficiently than whatever they chose to compare against (definitely a cherry picked comparison) then I’ll give them my attention, but others have made similar claims in the past then turned out to be in extremely specific algorithms that use quantum calculations that are of course slower and less efficient on any traditional computer.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to technology in is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets'

We know spez’ secrets too.

Dude loved the jailbait subreddit before it was banned for obvious reasons.

He was a moderator.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Et tu, Guinnéss?

For a while it was in the international section of one of the big liquor stores. Thought that was funny.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Et tu, Guinnéss?

Didn’t Asahi acquire all of lion Nathan breweries over a decade ago?

Edit, actually kirin owns lion Nathan, but asahi definitely aquaired some of their brands a while ago.

Faceman2K23 , 5 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Et tu, Guinnéss?

Funilly enough Fosters is japanese now, and hasn’t been Australian for decades.

Asahi have been buying up all of Australia’s breweries, even a bunch of popular micros are owned by them now.

Before asahi, they were owned by ABINBEV and SABMiller.

It was actually made in many countries by the likes of Heineken, Coors, Molson, and others. I don’t think any true fosters has been made in Australia and exported for a very long time.