UnityDevice

Yeah, the arch installation on my desktop is about a decade old at this point. It was installed on a completely different computer. No issues.

current property nonsense

You do realise that by using usb-c in this way, you’d be creating a proprietary connector, because there’s a lot more to usb than just the shape of the plug?

Not to mention that it would probably fail pretty quickly as the contact resistance is too high to handle the currents of a power tool. Compare a connector people usually use for batteries like an xt30/xt60 to a tiny usb-c one and you’ll see what I mean.

If the goal is to make it so you can buy any brand battery and use it with any brand tool, I’d look into making contact adapters instead.

I believe if you want to set up picture-in-picture on LG monitors, you have to use their application - the osd menu can’t do it for some reason.

Isn’t space expanding as well, and faster than light too? So it ought to be even more than 20.

Another badmiral. Typical.

Sorry, being on c/technology I made some assumptions here. I was mostly talking to people who want a dumb tv and hook up an external smart device to it, like a media centre, an android box, or an iptv box.

This is generally agreed to be a better solution as it lets you actually control your media stack, and it provides longevity. A regular smart tv will be outdated and slow within a few years, while a dumb tv can last maybe three times longer unless something inside it actually fails.

Just an FYI to anyone looking, you can still actually buy mostly-dumb TVs.

I was looking for a TV to buy for my parents last year and it seemed like the only options available were “smart TVs,” and I begrudgingly ended up buying a Philips ambilight unit. I was pleasantly surprised by how dumb the Titan OS on it was. Sure, it had WiFi, and the usual Netflix and other streaming apps, but I just didn’t connect it to the WiFi, and from then on it was just a souped up version of their 15 year old TV. It did ask to be connected to WiFi, but stopped after being told no a few times.

I’m sure other manufacturers have similar “smart on paper, but dumb in reality” OSes, as it seems to mostly be a cost cutting exercise. The hardware in the TV would need to be more expensive to run an actual smart platform. So the manufacturers just make a low end thing that ticks the right boxes to be able to call it smart for marketing, thinking that’s what people want.

Slaying the dragon.

2k26

Really? :P