I moved forward on a car purchase because modern cars contain lots of fancy electronics that could and probably will be impacted by tariffs.

I’m not saying you should buy a car that you weren’t otherwise planning to buy, but if you need something in the electronics area, moving it up a few months might not be a terrible idea.

Definitely not a binary situation. Did it live up to all expectations? Certainly not, but I hesitate to label it a failure if they use the chip in an appropriately-priced device.

I was looking for this comment. Animations especially can be a problem.

Everything was pretty fine until they realized they could sell shitposts.

Why? What does it mean for something to be real?

I believe pure mathematics isn’t concerned with its correspondence with reality.

He used to be better at keeping his mouth shut.

The new Prius actually looks pretty good too.

Stealing this saying. Quotable.

Fireball can’t save you now.

Hm hard to say. I’d like that to be the case, but I’m not sure they’re looking far ahead enough to appreciate the concern.

Get everything out. Do your step 1 in the project. Good so far. Rinse and repeat.

Paint me like one of your French cats.

I’m becoming increasingly familiar with this photo. It should just come with the articles.

Those are some awesome names.

My sinuses and energy levels have never returned to normal. Everything takes 50% more willpower.

I don’t think it really matters what is legal at this point because we cannot hold him accountable anyway.

Best get used to it. It’s going to be tough for a while.

It’s the risk you take. I’ve met some of the most interesting people this way. If you go into it with an open mind and understand that usually it’s not going to work out, you’ll be better for it.

In principle, yes, and I believe a few small hobby projects have attempted to do this and support specific TVs. However, interest in developing a custom Smart TV platform tends to get siphoned away into a project where the output from your actual platform is displayed on the TV rather than running directly on it. Simply, it’s easier to develop and maintain support across different models.

Why would you develop a custom TV OS that runs on one TV when you could develop it for any mini PC and immediately support all TVs? You’d have to develop your OS to run on each specific TV model which will make it quite hard to reach a critical mass sufficient to attract attention from developers and users alike.

The juice isn’t really worth the squeeze. It’s not like TV vendors are publishing detailed hardware specs and drivers. Writing or even porting an OS is hard. Look at the state of the Android ROM scene, and that’s about as good as it gets when some vendors are actually attempting to open source their drivers. The difficulty is much higher and the interest lower due to the existence of a viable alternative.

With that said, motivated minds have done it anyway. You just need to have the right TV for it.

He’s into it.