Sure, that would work too, I guess.

For that kind of money, I may end up building my own running on Bazzite. That's not to say I don't like it, it looks bad-ass, but 1K+ for that hardware is a bit much. I'm thinking I can build something a bit more powerful for 100 or 200 dollars less.

Fact.

Well, no shit.

I did read, and part of what I said came from that as well. My steam deck has been on bazzite, SteamOS and ChimeraOS, and I've never had an issue there either.

To be clear, I'm not saying you're imagining anything. It could very well be faulty hardware, a BIOS level issue, the downloaded ISOs themselves. The possibilities are endless. But the reality is that I have not had that experience in the Linux world at all, but have had a way worse experience with Windows, and I used to build gaming PCs in my country for a living, with Windows, since XP. Windows is a royal pain in the ass unless you buy the equipment with it preinstalled, and even then, the 1 hour + updates and resources hogging are ridiculous.

We just use home Assistant. It works great.

Trackar is also a very good and lightweight option.

I'm buying 2 Sceptre TVs. That's the only manufacturer that I'm aware of that still makes dumb 4K large panel TVs. 86" are all 2,500, 75" are 1,000 and they only drop from there.

If someone knows of another brand that's still making TVs like this, I would really appreciate the info.

Funny how this is being imposed on the population at large, but the same politicians pushing it are exempt. So self-sacrificing that they will put their children and grandchildren in peril to protect ours. They're heroes.

I only use my Roku for...

Never mind, I got rid of that shit like 5 years ago.

What the fuck have you been trying that you have to jump through so many hoops? Hanna-Montana Linux? I get that some distros don't work with some hardware unless you get down and dirty with some tweaking, but in my case, I only had that issue once with an Alienware laptop and Linux mint, because of the NVIDIA card, but that was 11 years ago. Never again since. How does that compare to having to hunt down drivers to make everything work in windows unless you purchase a computer with windows pre-installed for it to work 'out of the box'. If you reinstall, good luck with that.

And even if some distros don't play nice with NVIDIA cards from first install, they will still give you a display to allow you to get it to work correctly, so there's that.

Honestly, by all means, stay on windows. I'm happy on the penguin side of things, you're happy on the... whatever that side of the spectrum happens to be right now.

I guess Sceptre Is the brand to go with then. Thanks.

In theory, with a usb-C hub that has an HDMI port you should be able to make do.

Right

Vader? Take that back. Anakin was a good kid, and an even better psychopath 🤣

Like when I smoke weed and my wife wants me to do the dishes? Yeah, that's not happening while I'm high.

I get that, and it would be a fair assessment if it wasn't because the real problem here is that parents are not parenting, plain and simple. This is yet another part of this that the social media and tech companies are using to their advantage. They get people hooked, that we agree on. Then they lobby for all this surveillance and forced identifications that uses... (Drumroll) companies owned by the same tech giants, in partnership with the other giants. Now they have made it illegal to not provide them with your data and identity, while removing many underage individuals from the equation. Win-win for them, as their liability drops, and now they can serve more ads directed at each individual, effectively increasing the price advertisers are willing to pay, increasing their revenue. There is absolutely no way to keep children out of any platform without full identification, its that simple. Then the same governments that are pushing this have access to all this data as well, which makes them basically all-knowing about every single person in the population.

There is no universe in which any of this is a good thing. Look at the whole picture, and it's not the UL, it's every country in the world doing this, at different levels, with varying level of success and oppression.

These are only some of the many reasons why I will never agree with something like this.

Only to be told "your system is up to date" 🤣

Another factor is making executives of those companies personally responsible for all the havoc they have created while only thinking of their profits. Do that, make the penalties tough enough, and the problem ia fixed.

Wao, you really believe this too, don't you? Kids are smart enough to circumvent most barriers you put around them. No amount of government bullshit is going to keep them from doing something they are laser focused on doing. Now, parenting does have a chance to keep them from harm (a CHANCE) if the parents put on the effort and are raising their kids with values.

You have to be a special type of moron to believe tour own post, honestly.

Yeah, I've heard some stuff over the vines lately, which is one of the many reasons why I use Firefox forks only. But for the 'I only work in chrome' bullshit sites (which are not that many as far as I'm aware), I just use Brave.