Same.

I live in Wyoming so I understand rural, however we are not the only folks with a “real” use for trucks. Plenty of reasons for a townie to own one.

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Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

At least that one is flip phone so it’s closer but it’s still not running Linux, has a worse camera, no earphone jack, no FM radio, half the RAM, far less storage, worse CPU and so on.

Is all of that worth $350 $250? Depends on your use case I suppose but it’s absolutely not the same product.

but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS.

Qin doesn’t make a flip phone, they don’t use Linux, a worse camera, a shitty DAC, no headphone jack, and they’re all loaded with Google Apps / Spyware.

They aren’t the same product at all.

It had vaporware startup written all over it.

It can’t be “vaporware” when they are actually releasing products for purchase.

XBOX hardware is fine. It’s what they’ve done with it that’s the problem.

You can get them for free can’t you?

Running Linux? Where…

You can only install apps they allow.

Untrue, the article clearly says that you can sideload anything you want.

IIRC that chart only shows US Government investment / spending. A lot of other countries, such as South Korea, are spending on this and even here in the United States large sums are being spent on it by Venture Capitalists.

The “actual funding” line is wildly out of date since there’s several Fusion Companies that have spent more than that each in the past few years.

and now the courts are saying “fuck you”

It’s one Court and unsurprisingly it’s the Court located right there in town. I strongly suspect that the Third Court of Appeals is going to have a different take on this mess.

At least where I live you can’t wash away a deed restriction like this by transferring the property a couple times.

What specs? I’m in the market for 32Gb of DDR4…

Roku’s slide into corporatism kinda hurts. I really liked their product and their lead developer came from the Amiga Universe.

Is the recommended ONN streamer (see above) as good as the Roku at all the same shit?

I honestly don’t now. I haven’t owned a Google Streamer since the Asus days.

The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

LLCs are pass-through entities and not corporations. Thankfully no pass-throughs have been granted personhood yet.

Limited Liability Companies are expressly discussed in the article and the court filing.

I think I read that licensing for the transcoding or something was the hang up.

There’s several problems. Transcoding is one but there’s also issues with content providers requiring the use of their own apps along with Linux not (until very recently) being able to use any HDMI spec beyond 2.0.

I’ve been a ROKU user for over a decade but the last year has had me thinking more and more about boxing up my devices and sending them to their HQ with a note “Since you treat these like you own them I figured I’d just send them to you.”

I am really REALLY tired of them dicking with my boxes and updating / reconfiguring things however and whenever they see fit.

There isn’t enough AI code out there (yet) to cause this. IMO what’s really happening is that AI Code Review is finding vulnerabilities and creating ways to exploit them way faster than they can be patched by Human Dev teams. An easy example of this is the Linux exploits like Dirty Frag that came out last week and the week before.

It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

If that happens, that hypothetical progressive government would put guns on a back burning.

LOLNO. There isn’t a single leftist / progressive politician currently in office in the United States that would willingly “back burner” the 2A issue. That is not going to change in my lifetime either. They want them gone.

It wasn’t widely known to the general public. If you were / are new to the community it’s highly likely that you don’t / didn’t know.

As someone with a BL P2S I really appreciate other people helping with this fight. I won’t buy another BL product but I’d like to keep using the one I already have.