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Article #625657Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Rob Morley
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:29
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:29
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:34:09 +0100 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On 23 Aug 2018 19:20:59 GMT > Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > > > Precisely. I forgot about the "software updates" bit. Expect > > services to go away until eventually it just turns into a TV. > > Yep so if you want that sort of thing buy a TV and an Android > TV box, and expect to replace the latter every couple of years > because they don't get OS software updates either, but they are > relatively cheap and easily replaced. > There's a Raspberry Pi Zero W hanging out the back of my TV to give it the smarts. It runs a flavour of Debian so is unlikely to go out of support any time soon, and copes very well with 720P playback.
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