The most boring way: lemmy.world on browser. Somehow among all the comments I am the only one doing it this way

Casually recommending DDLC💀

forgot to add this to my previous reply: if you configure the remote to put the PC to sleep instead of shutting down and allow waking up from USB devices, you might be able to wake your PC up with the remote. I can’t do this because my remote uses Bluetooth low energy which I couldn’t configure wake up for. And yes 2 of the PCs are ancient enough to use ATA instead of SATA probably, one has a Pentium T4300 and Intel GMA 3100. However I don’t need 5 HTPCs lol.

I am locked in the software space as I need something very specific that kodi could only partly satisfy and android tv could fully satisfy.

My current setup is similar. the pc runs a custom build of android tv w/o google services, with the remote of the tv box. I already have checks notes 5 spare pcs, i just had no idea 2.4ghz remotes could be dirt cheap. The item you sent appears as 2 usd before taxes & shipment but doesn’t ship to my location lol. Oh and every single one of the pcs have hdd, i’ll need either a new ssd or use one of my flash drives with a live linux install as permanent is very slow from USB.

Since there are a lot of comments here I want to ask this: we purchased a xiaomi tv stick (specs below) and a 15 year old intel pentium dual core w/ android runs circles around it with the exact same apps plus the PC has significantly more stable network connection. The stick’s OS is old however not bloated and it even blocks google banner ads OOB. Did we get a very bad unit or are all of TV sticks / boxes unusably slow unless you get a shield or an apple tv?

https://www.mi.com/us/product/mi-tv-stick/specs

I did the same but with waydroid’s android tv build. It is a bit buggy and setting it up was not easy (using adb sendkey to increase volume on first setup…) but works fine. I switched to it cuz the android tv stick we had was slow as molasses but I wanted something to replicate the ease of use of it. It even works with the remote of the stick after remapping! I installed it when it was new & had android 11, now it is 16 and I assume much better now.

https://github.com/WayDroid-ATV/waydroid-androidtv-builds/

Even if they were made to work, they may still be bad in price / perf and not worth using simply due to being manufactured for a completely different purpose.

I’m surprised something like plaid even exists, i’d expect banks to cooperate with no one regarding customer data

Not every uni teaches stuff like how to study, fortunately one of them does and the lecture is on the Internet. I wish I had found this earlier. https://youtu.be/IlU-zDU6aQ0

I used another of the old HDDs sitting in my desktop, I don’t recall the brand / model

Ask each time lets me pick the SIM used for the call. I always use the second SIM, the first one doesn’t support calls. What I want is routing calls with the cellular data of the first SIM. On my phone backup calling is tied to SIM switch, when one is on so is the other. SIM switch is automatically swapping cellular data to a SIM if it receives a call (which I can’t, the calls SIM has no data)

The dlc variant of him is insanely difficult

Now I have another backup

I should have been more clear… Waydroid uses LineageOS as its Android image and since it is used on x86_64 (it also supports ARM but > %90 of Android image downloads are x86_64) it is basically worse than phones with custom ROMs from the perspective of app developers trying to lock down stuff / create security.

Is “no google services” the issue here? I still have waydroid but with google play at the moment

Whatsapp web is so unbearably slow i might just use waydroid lol, thanks for reminding

EDIT: it is fast but it is using %50 of a core at all times🤷‍♂️ Aaand now it is calmly sitting in the background, no cpu usage

No whatsapp? I used it on waydroid with no google services installed

I love another cover by We’re Wolves

Can you remove paid games from your library? I have removed a few f2p ones, most notably Apex Legends after removal of linux support. Turns out you can add them back and your hours, achievements will be right back.

Desktop chrome only

Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate: