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Aye, but it’s based on a real treasure chest!

I don’t think it really matters what is legal at this point because we cannot hold him accountable anyway.

I didn’t think they were going to eat my babies.

Let’s see it then. I’m concerned when the opportunity to profit arises that perverse motives will occur.

Don’t worry. You’ll get the rest of the little ones with your feet.

In principle, yes, and I believe a few small hobby projects have attempted to do this and support specific TVs. However, interest in developing a custom Smart TV platform tends to get siphoned away into a project where the output from your actual platform is displayed on the TV rather than running directly on it. Simply, it’s easier to develop and maintain support across different models.

Why would you develop a custom TV OS that runs on one TV when you could develop it for any mini PC and immediately support all TVs? You’d have to develop your OS to run on each specific TV model which will make it quite hard to reach a critical mass sufficient to attract attention from developers and users alike.

The juice isn’t really worth the squeeze. It’s not like TV vendors are publishing detailed hardware specs and drivers. Writing or even porting an OS is hard. Look at the state of the Android ROM scene, and that’s about as good as it gets when some vendors are actually attempting to open source their drivers. The difficulty is much higher and the interest lower due to the existence of a viable alternative.

With that said, motivated minds have done it anyway. You just need to have the right TV for it.

This always ends in a yes-men military filled with unskilled ass-kissers.

People will optimize for the grading system.

They did provide the illusion of hope and a little bit of justice for the naïve for a limited time.

At least it’s better than unalived, which strikes me as especially dystopian with the self-censorship.

This is good advice in general. Think of it like penetration testing. You really should verify what you can actually access remotely on a device and not assume you have any level of protection until you’ve tried it.

Log files can also contain signs of attack like password guessing. You should review these on a regular basis.

I’m willing to pay for one, maybe two subscriptions, and ain’t nobody got time to dig for which service has what show to find out season 2 is on some other service entirely.

Piracy provides a better user experience 🤷‍♂️

Always good to see some competition! Although, like the article says, it really depends on thermal and power efficiency. It’s too early to understand the real performance that you’ll get in hand.

It’s complicated.

Box64 cheats by minimizing the amount of code that must be translated. For example, it injects standins for graphics libraries instead of using the ones that come with the applications whenever possible. The goal is to provide native alternatives to as much code as possible to avoid the translation problem entirely. It hijacks the application at the DLL boundary. Think of it like a sophisticated patcher preloaded with native code that only translates when it’s forced to do so.

Where translation is necessary, it’s imperfect. For example, floating point emulation cannot be performed with complete accuracy without a very slow software solution. If you can compromise on accuracy, performance is a little better.

State of the art emulation like Rosetta on Mac requires hardware features to accelerate the translation.

These are extra ignorable because there’s no way you’re going to end up paying the rate on the card. They are actually trash.

I’m on an Ubuntu derivative called Mint, and on the first boot it gave me a pop up from the driver tool recommending that I change to the proprietary driver with an option for one click automatic download and install.

You are correct that this is detected and handled.

I don’t have money for a new SSD right now but my current SSD is mostly empty, 2TB. I turned off BitLocker to facilitate easy copying of files and because I’m pretty sure secure boot would be a pain. I’m running Linux Mint and I hope to go back into the windows install as little as possible. Maybe one day I’ll dump it entirely.

Could be worse. My ISP has a broken implementation.

2nd. Ubuntu is the place to be if you want your best chances for immediate compatibility, and search results will favor your popular configuration if you have issues.

I’ve seriously been writing down the pros and cons thinking about switching over to Linux on my main desktop at home. It covers all the games I play now. I was very surprised.

Without the games to hold me back, I don’t see why I wouldn’t.

Follow Up: I’m on Linux mint! And my two favorite Windows games work just fine with zero configuration with Steam.

I love the foldable idea, but it’s well beyond what I’m willing to pay for the novelty.