Dang, beat me to it.

I’m not so sure about that

I’m now paying attention to this and totally forgot about what OP was asking.

Over 50% of the food prepared for buffets goes to waste. Link

Rule of thumb in open source and honestly even in closed source, the more users there are, the more funding there is, the better the result is. Linux has a ton of like highly niche projects being run by like one guy on his free time with zero funding.

Even in a worse case I still think the effort is worth it for someone who wants to pull away from the iron clasp of the data overlords where they can. In this life it is rare we get something without giving something in exchange.

That said now that you know you also gained valuable knowledge and skills you can apply to anything else you want to do. That is it wasn’t like you wasted time completely.

Yeah one of the distros I listed above which I haven’t used personally is literally just enough Linux to run kodi. I mean installing Kodi also only takes seconds. Now to be clear we’re talking about billion and trillion dollar companies vs a group of people mostly volunteering their time for free. On one side you get no privacy or flexibility but amazing customer service and UI. On the other it’s isn’t as polished but far more free, private, and flexible.

When making deals with the devil things are usually nice at first until he comes to collect later. That’s the whole gimmick. Get people by the nuts by making it so easy for them to walk into your grasp.

Hours? Running Fedora and enabling DRM on Firefox ain’t that complex, neither is installing the waydroid flatpak. I think you’re really blowing the situation out of proportion. Assuming you already have the iso probably like 30 minutes to get set up including a full install.

Falkor?

Most definitely, it’s essentially a full Linux PC. You could do a lot of things with it.

You buy one from the internet, any hardware that can run Android Open Source Project (AOSP) like the Ugoos AM8 Pro, Generic Amlogic Boxes. You could use certain arm and x86 hardware and run waydroid on top of Linux or install android like LineageOS, BlissOS, PrimeOS AndroidTV-x86_64, and FydeOS. You can use like an SBC like a raspberry pi or an old laptop or something. In short there’s. A lot of pathways to get this done that doesn’t involve sending all your data back to the TV or streaming box manufacturer.

Maybe the easiest way is just using Linux and waydroid on really any hardware. There are specified Linux OS’s like LibreELEC, OSMC (Open Source Media Center), LinuxMCE, but it’s not necessary you run a specified OS. Also easier to slap a hard drive on that badboy and get a media server going with Plex or jellyfin and host other stuff like kiwix, pinhole, nextcloud and so on. Just pair with a Bluetooth keyboard trackpad combo and you’re good to go.

Never connect it to your wifi and use an open source Linux or android media box instead. If you can buy a tv or projector without any smart device baked in.

It is very useful for collecting votes, justifying increased spending, and is ultimately lucrative. A lot of political topics are like this, IRL reality is more complex and no one has a silver bullet

They’re trying to build a prison for you and me to live in

Can’t imprison corpses I guess.

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Not me but I’ve known three people now that would swing to absolute extremes on a kinda half year to three year cycle. Like their thing now is they are an ultra atheist and then in a couple months they were the most devout Muslim possible and then ultra this and ultra that, seemed kinda like undiagnosed manic behavior. Very impassioned individuals, pretty intelligent, absolutely convinced in whatever their thing was at that moment, always trying to fight the “enemy” and save the world type stuff but seemingly totally unanchored. The switches would come with some sort of epiphany or a sense they were being tricked or fooled. I bring this up because two of them had done that swing from ultra right to ultra left and then one into kinda political no man’s land conspiracy they’re both out to get you. Haven’t run into the other guy in a while so I’m guessing he has a new crusade by now.

Called someone in the next room to bring me something.

Remember, support FOSS and not E-corps

For frying certain things they’re very useful for flipping or grabbing.

Aim for their sore throat I guess, I heard it helps and they seem like they may be into it.