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submitted 6 months ago by fidodo@lemmy.world to c/raspberrypi@lemmy.ml

I've been using Chromecasts and it's gotten so slow and buggy. I was trying to cast from VLC on my phone to it and I had a ton of trouble getting it to show up and connect and after I finished streaming from my phone I tried to switch to the YouTube app and it just kept on crashing.

It's 2024, I'm tired of dealing with shitty tv streaming experiences. I want something completely uncompromising. I want a silky smooth experience and I don't want it to randomly break on my.

I'm thinking about shelling out for a shield TV, but I'd rather have control over my device since I don't want to deal with the manufacturers fucking around with my device after the fact.

I'd love to be able to set up a raspberry pi for this, but would I be able to get a seamless experience? I don't mind doing extra up front work to get it set up, but I don't want it to be an ongoing maintenance thing, and I'd like it to work with Chromecast so it's easy to stream to from a variety of devices.

Can I actually pull that off with a raspberry pi or should I go with the shield TV?

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 113 points 6 months ago

Damn it, all those stupid hacking scenes in CSI and stuff are going to be accurate soon

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 178 points 7 months ago

A smart VPN will avoid going to jail for you by not storing any of the data law enforcement wants in the first place.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 115 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What do you think most clothes were made out of before polyester? Most people wore cotton, linen, or wool clothes. The first two are from plants, the last one doesn't kill the animal. Hemp was also a major source of textile. Seriously, what the hell are you talking about?

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 82 points 7 months ago

Instead of lab grown meat they want meat grown in the most deplorable conditions with 14 year olds working there.

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[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 77 points 7 months ago

I wonder if there was some kind of technological revolution that made it exponentially easier to generate text that happened recently.

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submitted 8 months ago by fidodo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 72 points 8 months ago

Why would anyone do free work for a corporation to profit off of?

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 77 points 8 months ago

Maxis was bought by EA. The End.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 84 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Did Trump mean what he said? Probably not. This is typical Trump fare. Say something provocative, grab some headlines, outrage your critics and thrill your fans.

Oh bull fucking shit, don't downplay his idiocy and danger

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 105 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To the state that can't even keep their power grid up during the winter?... Or summer?

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submitted 9 months ago by fidodo@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world
[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago

That's how Reddit was for a long time too, and Reddit still is more like that than the other social networks. For whatever reasons that demo is more likely to be early adopters of this kind of platform. Diversity comes with growth.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

I'm anti mega corporations with consolidated power and platform monopolies. I'm not anti small distributed devs getting paid for high quality hard work.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pros of Linux: does exactly what you ask it to do.

Cons of Linux: does exactly what you ask it to do.

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