I’d get a new drive. Install a sane os and needed tools and use that. They should be cheap these days. Put the old one in a safe place in case you need something from it. When you find it years on and notice that there was nothing important there after all, recycle it. That’s a much safer approach.

I still don’t. But I’m hoping that avoiding anything by Amazon helps.

That’s interesting, thanks. Can I ask what that vram is getting used for? Gaming, llms, other computing?

Intel has been a mistake since 1978. But evil doesn’t generally die.

It’s almost as if people don’t like posts with zero content besides some clickbait link.

Brave is a series scam company.

Sounds bs. Unless their only source was actually Reddit or quora or something.

And there’s a lot of people in the world that effectively get told this all their life.

Some for things that aren’t even their choice.

Everybody definitely doesn’t.

/disco mode on

don’t recall it having a cpu

So, what’s updating the display? Power supply imps?

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinecil_Power_Supplies#Tool_Batteries_18V-21V

Paper doesn’t last, is hard to store, and the information density is miserable.

And for bigger data sets, the capacity isn’t there. And writable media is getting more rare. Probably because of the same reason.

There aren’t, really. There are a few antiques and half baked things.

A big problem is that these days, unless you’re the size of Apple or Samsung, it’s impossible to get a reasonable hardware soc and modem other than one which only runs a soon obsolete blob laden android which is going to be EOL before you’ve even finished your design.

The hardware is not there. The firmware/hw data/platform isn’t there even to begin OS work with. And there’s a global shipping, regulation and mobile operator hell waiting on the other side. And a product lifecycle that’s only a few years long.

Yes, I’ve worked for phone manufacturers.

4/5g is exactly the allowed alternative and what refusing to allow infrastructure use leads to.

Stupidity.

A few ideas to consider in this kind of situation:

If you watch broadcast TV, consider stopping. Is it really of any use? Could your time have better uses? Maybe you’ll never need that ad stream.

If all you need is a display for console/computer/media box, get a display instead. No tuner, no networking, no ads.

You can pick any. I guess the way is to just pick one based on it’s description or users or package availability or size and then learn to use it. And or try another one when you figure out if it has problems. Sick with the one you like the most. Or write your own.

Spam doesn’t care