Faceman🇦🇺

I have .solutions and .info domain emails that still gets denied by some services, especially anything government or public utility, pain in the arse.

You’d think that at least .info would be pretty well accepted by now.

you have been able to right click (or i guess two finger click for apple people) and open a second window forever.

You can have multiple finder windows in OSX, thats perfectly normal, but you cant have the network settings open next to the printer settings.

I’m pretty positive on mac OS, as an OS it’s technically quite good, but their preferences app has always been atrocious almost entirely for this reason, I want to have two preferences windows open to different pages please…

Thus why im moving to 11. Lots of the PCs I work with are still 10 though.

Mostly 11 now. I honestly prefer it to 10 now, but that’s with quite about of decrapification done to remove all of Microsoft’s bullshit.

At home I’m mostly using Ubuntu, but it’s basically covering firefox as all of my self-hosted stuff runs in thevbrowser and I don’t game much.

I hope your firewall is up to scratch.

honestly I still cant figure out how to configure a network interface properly without using the old control panel.

Soulseek has been getting hammered too

Gets even weirder when you see LGs webOS kinda started out as PalmOS

I have seen some talk over on XDA forums, but since there is more to an android TV than just the basic android OS, it’s a bit trickier without risking losing licences/compatibility/DRM/features.

Some older LG webOS tvs can be rooted and custom apps installed too such as ad free youtube players etc.

Not sure if there’s a list, but most Android based TVs can be cleaned and modded to some degree via ADB. If you can access the dev settings in android, chances are you can do a lot to make it better, strip out some google or branded packages, replace the launcher to block OS level ads etc. Projectivy usually works well since it supports input switching on many devices, but it’s still better to do all of this to a separate box and then plug it into a TV that is firewalled/filtered/offline. more control and less to fuck up.

Rooting and unlocking bootloaders is more complex as these android devices dont have normal recovery systems and require a lot of custom drivers to make the video and audio processing work, so it’s not worth going that far.

LCDs do tend to speak somewhat standardised languages, but there is a lot more to a modern TV than just an LCD controller.

Color and white balance calibration, image/motion processing, HDR Processing, backlight control/dimming zones, input management, audio decoding/encoding/passthrough, digitizing analogue sources, HDMI licencing, Dolby licencing, etc.

If you want a better smart TV the best thing to do is to get a hackable TV like most android based models, replace the launcher, strip out system apps and telemetry with ADB and start fresh, then either leave it offline or use filtering to only allow access to the services you approve.

I haven’t thought about powder toy for so many years.

For a while it was in the international section of one of the big liquor stores. Thought that was funny.

Didn’t Asahi acquire all of lion Nathan breweries over a decade ago?

Edit, actually kirin owns lion Nathan, but asahi definitely aquaired some of their brands a while ago.

Funilly enough Fosters is japanese now, and hasn’t been Australian for decades.

Asahi have been buying up all of Australia’s breweries, even a bunch of popular micros are owned by them now.

Before asahi, they were owned by ABINBEV and SABMiller.

It was actually made in many countries by the likes of Heineken, Coors, Molson, and others. I don’t think any true fosters has been made in Australia and exported for a very long time.

I’m certain he must’ve lost a lot of money betting against amd on the stock market right around the time of zen1 and he never got over it.

One of my mini PC’s is an N95, which is similar to the n100 but with a higher peak power. It’s faster than the old legend 2600k and has a decent little igpu for video processing or general desktop use.

I run a jellyfin test server from it, transcodes high bitrate 4k HDR H265 to 1080p SDR tonemapped H264 at over 200fps, while running my security camera Dashboard with multiple video feeds.

Their only limitation is they usually only have a single memory slot so keep that in mind.

Wait to you find out what we call a corn dog