That’s super cool! I’ve been wanting to setup an offsite backup rig at my parents place and using an old phone to run it would be super ideal but I just don’t have any hardware that’s compatible with postmarketOS. Maybe one day ill bite the bullet and just buy a compatible used phone to do it with.

Running FOSS on closed source systems. Classic.

Obvious bad faith argument; I’m not going to waste my time engaging with you any further.

Yes, it’s totally the voters fault and has nothing to do with the broken system that is kept in place by powerful corporations bribing (lobbying) those in charge to keep the system broken for their own benefit and profit. You fucking donkey.

First world countries have this thing called universal healthcare for their citizens.

See, I used to remember being able to go outside and play during the summer when I was a kid. Now days it seems like of you dare go outside in the summer you’ll be a puddle of sweat within 30mins.

Just leave it on. Lock the screen and walk away.

I have three ONN 4K android TV boxes with smarttube loaded on them. I only really watch YouTube and movies from my file server so it’s perfect for me. Plus they’re dirt cheap. I replaced all of my old Chromecasts with them when Google started serving Ads in the YouTube app when casting to a TV which they surprisingly didn’t do for quite a few years.

Exactly. I was about to rip my hair out before I thought to check my UEFI settings.

Reminds me of that time I updated my UEFI firmware which automatically re-enabled secure boot which caused my Nvidia driver to fail to load on boot because Nvidia doesn’t sign them so I was stuck with the noveau(spelling?) driver which would crash when I tried to log into my DE. What an adventure figuring that out was. Oh, and the cherry on top: updating the firmware didn’t fix the initial issue I was troubleshooting.

If I didn’t need a large amount of storage I’d totally do this. As it stands it’s hard or prohibitively expensive to get 30TB of storage connected to a laptop with reasonable read/write speeds.

Remember when Google aquired YouTube and stated they didn’t intend to change anything? Remember when the only ads were those little banners you had to close? We’ve come such a long ways from where we started and what is considered “sane” these days would have been an affront back then. Google truly did slow boil the frog.

Ok but playing a game through a mirror would be hard af

Who is Will Biden?

On top of that the actual article is a big nothing-burger. Not worth reading beyond the title.

I love it. My cat routinely walks through the room I’m in every 20-30mins giving me little chips along the way.

I just borrow my Dad’s, tyvm.

Jokes on you, I don’t own a tractor! (It did remimd me of that time my pickup truck got stuck in the mud though)

Ok, but anyone with a monster energy tattoo needs to be bonked on the head. It’s 2024 for crying out loud! I thought we were passed this!

That’s it exactly. Most consumer camera gear uses H.264/H.265 for video and AAC for audio in an MP4 container and the free version of Davinci Resolve just doesn’t support that on Linux. (But does on Windows)