It’s cheaper to buy an android phone than it is to upgrade my desktop to run android apps wtf
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5nm ryzen looks good y’all
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Coffee Lake was the beginning of Intel’s now five-year-long wheel-spinning burnout so beats me
This year’s iOS supports older iPhones than Windows 11 will support desktop processors.
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I can’t believe this list hit me twice
well, my 2200G is on linux duty anyway but oof
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OTOH, Microcenter dropped the 3900X back down to 400 bucks
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God help me if I ever get the socket longevity of AMD
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Microsoft: we’re saving the planet by being carbon neutral!!!
Also microsoft: lol throw your perfectly fine computer in the garbage, it’s trash for losers, updates for winners ONLY
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first of all it’s a venue 11 pro (haswell, with tpm!) lol
second, coffee lake was actually the only good Macbook architecture between haswell and M1 so not all bad
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Huh, so I looked at the equivalent doc for Win7 out of curiosity and there’s nothing older than Broadwell (5th gen)
Maybe this is just for businesses getting capital-S Support? @km
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Idk, the page that the health check tool sends you to says processor requirements: 1ghz blah blah “compatible processor” with a link to that page
If it’s something else the tool doesn’t tell me so that’s the only thing I can go off of
Well, they’ll have to come clean up some of this with a FAQ when the Amazon pricing algorithm starts marking up TPMs, here’s hoping
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getting “this pc isn’t supported” on a b550 + 3600, love it
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well I turned on fTPM (BIOS and Windows reporting 2.0) and secure boot/EFI and no, I cannot be anointed with 11
maybe MS should get ahead of the messaging on this before it spirals out of control
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why in the hell would “runs android apps” be a thing anyone cares about? there are only 3 kinds of android apps 1) standard shit that is also available on everything else, including just a web browser, 2) f2p games, and 3) malware. also samsung is the biggest android manufacturer and you can already connect their phones to windows and run whatever
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Instagram and TikTok have poor browser versions
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In India and Indonesia some of the most popular and useful apps are Android exclusive. Not on browser, not on Windows, sometimes not even on iOS. For example, I think Gojek falls into this category.
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There’s also IoT stuff and mobile payment apps e.g. Venmo
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I want to be able to live in the FUTURE and tell Google to play music for me with voice commands, so they can spy on my listening habits and sell my data. Sell my data, Daddy Google. But also, I want to be able to use my own personal collection. It seems like ever since Google killed Play Music and its free upload feature (YouTube’s replacement costs the premium subscription fee) the current setup that can accomplish this requires buying some hardware, at least if you don’t want having your actual computer running in the background as a requisite.
So since this costs money, I wanted to run what I understand to be the working setup past you guys, and make sure I’m not missing some crucial caveat, or overthinking this all and passing by some much simpler solution/adding in steps I don’t need, or letting me know which specific brands/models are best for this, etc:
- Buy a NAS that supports Docker
- Install Plex in a Docker
- Install Home Assistant in a Docker
- Install Plex Assistant for Home Assistant
- Finally have the ability to yell at my Google Assistant and make it play music for me, realize my life is still empty and barren, feel depressed, but at least now I can lay on the couch and play music without lifting a finger while I question my life choices
I realize I could literally just pay for a Spotify subscription, but then I can’t eventually branch out into video streaming and I keep telling myself I should really get a NAS for other reasons too. Is there a way to play specific playlists via Spotify, and specific albums, with voice commands? Maybe I’ll just go that route nonetheless.
Edit: Also, is Home Assistant a good (the?) way to control your smart lights with voice, without locking yourself into GE bulbs as the only brand that natively support Google Assistant?
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ive been moving all my stuff over to unraid, i love that u can have a little guy on your dash
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With Synology’s software you can skip Docker, even. I set up a DS220+ for my mom last month and it was a snap.
A lot of the value in a streaming service is in social (where Spotify dominates) and playlists but that’s a sound plan if you have a big library of decent MP3s. I realized my MP3s from a decade ago were half awful encodes and gave up.
Wait, what? I guess define “native”
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