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Cake day: September 24th, 2025

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  • First and foremost, it doesn’t matter at all that it was made in 2019. It plays every video I’ve ever thrown at it and it’s still getting updates.

    Second, it’s very easy to replace the launcher, as already mentioned in the thread.

    Third, a general purpose computer would almost certainly be more powerful in absolute terms, it would also be much worse in terms of usability for the specific purpose of playing videos and acting like a tv appliance. I’ve used HTPCs before and worked very hard at making them comfortable to use with a TV. No matter how hard I tried, they were always clunky. As soon as I got the shield, I never contemplated using an htpc again.



  • Sure, it’s not just propaganda, but there’s definitely a lot of conservative and oil industry-friendly propaganda jammed in there.

    I stopped watching after they set up finicky nonbinary person as some kind of poor, misguided, slightly evil fool. They sure tore that strawman (strawperson?) down!

    Fuck that shit. There may be some interesting stories in there but I’m exposed to enough fascist propaganda without willingly choosing to watch it.