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It's time to dump Roku (www.engadget.com)
submitted 22 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

currently looking at using older laptop motherboards to build a Linux based streamer box. be it native Linux or ASOP, I'm getting the fuck out of this bullshit.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Good luck on the ram champ

[–] Tarambor@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Plenty of cheap RAM for older laptops on the used market.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

If you're willing to wade into FB Marketplace there's also a lot of mini Dell/HP PC's - probably retired business workstations - out there for cheap with 8-16GB of RAM.

They make dandy TV boxes of mini homelab hosts