What? I made a purchase from Epic instead of Steam since they didn’t make the MENA currency change and as a result many older games are significantly cheaper on Epic in my country.

For example Celeste’s base price on Epic is 66 cents in my country with no discount (currently on %75 discount) versus 10 USD with no sale and 2.5 USD currently on Steam.

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/

I had a VM with that specs, win10 dialed down its ram usage to 1.4g. It took 3 mins to boot and another min to load chrome but was operable after that. Heck even 256m was enough to boot, but certainly not to install.

Even windows 10 will run on 2 gig of ram and hdd.

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.

And the original board was waaaay larger than what we have today EDIT: what happened to lemmy world servers? my comment was registered very quickly

OP are you using Crossover or similar to play portal? The native mac version of Portal doesn’t support macOS newer than 10.14

I was about to recommend specifically OW because I played in 1-2 hour sessions over many months (not every week). I left the game open with the PC sleeping quite a few times to avoid losing my current run (and each time a blackout happened lol) however I did my fair share of silly stuff and didn’t feel pressured.

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.