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  • ShimitarAtoNew Communities@lemmy.worldconservatism
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    1 hour ago

    I Will be joining and participate. Or at least read. Not because I am a conservative myself, I am not, but because I welcome different ideas from mine when they are declined in a way to accept discussion and not imposition .

    Wish you luck…






  • The overall success of the Intel platform is that bios/UEFI is open so you can install any OS you want. On Arm this is not always the case (see phones and tablets) where more than not vendors lock in OS with an unlockable bootloader and crypto keys.

    Also, on Intel, hardware is more standard and so drivers are available, or easily reverse engineered, for non mainstream os (Linux…). On Arm again this is rarely the case, and you are stuck with old not supported kernels when you are lucky

    There is one exception to all this on Arm and it’s the Pi (with all the clones). But as far as phones, tablets (including windows tablets) and even laptops (chromeos stuff…) the reality is pretty different and would bring us a locked in future where the choice we have today is luxury.




  • ShimitarAtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDIY android TV
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    2 days ago

    The problem is app support for x86. Many just are released for arm and arm64.

    At least back when I tried it.

    Also, power management on x86 sucks hard compared to arm, so expect much higher power usage compared to an Android stick.

    It’s a fun project tough…