There’s people running old raspberry pis with USB hard drives.

It’ll run on just about anything.

Though, you’ll only be able to stream original quality, no on the fly quality changes for low speed connections and such.

Yeah, you will have to send the dev the new trial ID for a re-activation.

That’s also why it’s costs more, because it’s more manual work for him.

It’s a chore, but really cool by the dev to offer it as an option for people with de-googled devices.

Nope. You can buy an infinite trial via the developers ko-fi!

There’s info about it on the symfonium forum.

Too bad it’s unusable if you’re like me and have huge playlists that you want to offline for shuffling due to spending long stretches of time without an Internet connection.

When I asked about this limitation, I was told that it was stupid to have such big playlists and needing to offline them because nobody is without Internet for long enough times for it to matter.

Great response from the developers that.

I’d suggest having a look into LinuxRuleZ! repacks, maybe not for lower performance devices but at least it’s like 2 clicks and you’re up and running for basically any game.

Even games that are notoriously difficult to make work pirated, like Forza Horizon 4 and 5.

It’s also the second time it’s happened in this roundabout in a few months lol

Guy that went and directed them said they were stuck for a total of 3 minutes.

If all four arrived and entered at the exact same time, the exit might have been clear for all four.

I remember when we got a new deal with the ISP for my condo building (negotiate one deal for x amount of condos) and I could choose to have no TV channels but get gigabit for the same price.

It took about 2 weeks from when I got the gigabit before they called me asking for when a bit of downtime would be OK, as they needed to move me to a different switch at the node because I was consuming more bandwidth than the remaining 23 people connected combined, and it was messing with their QoS as they hadn’t planned for someone actually using their gigabit line lol

Great ISP though, sad they shut down their Usenet servers a couple years ago…

It’s a QR code and not rfid.

I’m not saying this is for everyone, I’m saying that’s a feature that could be handy for certain use cases where people need such assistance in their life.

The one smart feature I could see being nice is inventory tracking.

There’s some new regulation incoming in the EU where they’re doing QR codes on products with the price and also expiry date. A fridge that scans my milk carton as I put it in and then also knows the expiry date would be neat.

I don’t see this as something I could ever need, but for old people or people with various disabilities? Could have its use.

They talked about streaming VR games from the SteamOS based steam machine to it.

So with that I’d assume we’re finally getting some much needed progress to SteamVR on linux.

I hope you seek and get the help you need with your paranoia.

Almost as if small niche communities attract the same type of people, with similar interests and problems. Surely couldn’t be that.

I’m sure that’d work on some humans too.

Even the first version of ChatGPT passed turing tests.

It takes surprisingly little for an LLM to make natural language responses that are indistinguishable from a human. Especially when factual accuracy was never part of it.

Personally I don’t care which state actor it is, I don’t want any of them to have easy access to my data.

If they want it, they should work for it.

All your data from this device being stored on servers in China that are accessible to the Chinese government isn’t a relevant concern?

It’s not cloud free and requires online activation with the Tuya app. (I assume based on other Tuya WiFi devices)

Yup, it’s a rebranded Tuya device.