LG OLEDs are still great. Mine is not connected to the internet and use an external media box (AppleTV). It can be set to turn on to the last used HDMI input instead of the Home Screen. I never see the LG OS.

Let me pay for that chai tea using cash from the ATM machine and my PIN number. Would you also like some naan bread with it?

I have a 2012 Mac Mini. If you replace the slow internal HDD with a SSD it gives it a massive general speed boost. Maybe some extra ram will help as well. Both are easily replaceable.

I use it for retro gaming with OpenEmu on MacOS. But I’m sure there’s some good Linux distros for it.

You could close down all the AI data centres, all the crypto mining farms, all the private jets, and eliminate all the billionaires…and it would be a rounding error in global greenhouse emissions.

The vast majority of emissions come from the fact that 8 billion people exist and need food, transport, heating, and vast industries to support their lifestyles.

The focus should be on building renewable energy grids to support whatever we want to run. This ragebaiting at forks of energy use consisted immortal is just a distraction.

I have an Ugoos am6b+, it’s a bit clunky with stuff like HDMI-CEC and the remote is cheap plastic trash. But it does its job at playing Dolby Vision REMUX files.

For everything else, I use an AppleTV 4K. It’s fast and reliable and the only box that doesn’t shove ads on the Home Screen.

AppleTV.

arstechnica.com/…/all-the-ways-apple-tv-boxes-do-…

That’s what the Pro Max models are for. They have a massive battery.

People had their chance to stop him last November. A third of those eligible didn’t even vote.

Now it’s up to the courts. The other ten branches of government are controlled by a deranged Authoritarian and his sycophants.

Personally I use RAID5, with regular backups for documents and projects. Not too worried if my movies and tv library get lost…that takes up most of the space though.

The internet didn’t create a free and open information landscape where the best ideas rise to the surface. Instead it started an information war, and the right wing is winning. Mostly because they can blatantly flood it with bullshit.