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[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@eloy But eloy, we already have way too many cheap ass-computers that can run Linux at this point

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@lanodan @eloy too... many? What do you mean with "too many"?

[tivasyk@awawa.club]

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me there’s no such thing as «enough cheap computers that can run linux».

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@tivasyk @lanodan i have... 70(?) at home, i think i'm still below 100

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@lanodan @eloy
"cheap ass-computers"
perfect, no notes

[mxfraud@tabletop.social]

@eloy is there some cheap webos tv somewhere?

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@moses_izumi @eloy btw it's because https://xkcd.com/37/ (wow, early one) has been living rent-free in my head

[elly@donotsta.re]

@eloy turning cheap AliExpress TV boxes into a beowulf cluster or something something

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@elly
plan9 grid
@eloy

[ladypretzal@transfem.social]

@eloy@hsnl.social Do tell me more! :3

I currently have a tv stick, but it's sadly not hackable

adb sideload works on if for now at least!

[eloy@hsnl.social]

@ladypretzal no clue about your specific model, some are better secured than others! many don't care about enforcing any bootloader signature

[ladypretzal@transfem.social]

@eloy@hsnl.social I was more wondering if you knew any specific ones!

I hear some aren't even super strict about checking the bootloader integrity for widevine ;3
(some of the only chances to have working widevine on lineageos however sketch)

[eloy@hsnl.social]

@ladypretzal https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Amlogic_Generic_AArch64_TV_Box_(amlogic-aarch64-tvbox) for example

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@eloy @ladypretzal
this thread makes me wonder how much you can do with a jailbroken ARM-era Apple TV, compared to an equivalent iPhone/iPad

[vampirdaddy@chaos.social]

@mbpaz @lanodan @eloy

Raspberry Pi 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, ...
(wait! I don't have a 5?!?? yet?),
several old PCs and laptops in various states of gutting .

Where in the days of yore we needed a PC for each job, nowadays I can use these newfangled virtualisation magics instead. Less hardware, same (or more) speed.

[paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno]

@eloy
Is there a list of #aftermarket #linux #firmware for #TVbox and #smarttv ?

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

@paoloredaelli @eloy, any distro focused on the gold standard "Kodi" will do the trick

[paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno]

@ppulfer
I know any distro will work. I'm looking for firmware images for that peculiar model and instructions on how to flash as the procedure tends to be arcane and different for each model, AFAIK
@eloy