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A couple years ago Sega noticed they could make more money if they copied Nintendo’s homework with regard to legal strategy, and the world is the worse for it



Signage TVs are good for this. They’re designed to run 24/7 in store windows displaying advertisements or animated menus, so they’re a bit pricey, and don’t expect any fancy features like HDR, but they’ve got no smarts whatsoever. What they do have is a slot you can shove your own smart gadget into with a connector that breaks oug power, HDMI etc. which someone has made a Raspberry Pi Compute Module carrier board for, so if you’re into, say, Jellyfin, you can make it smart completely under your own control with e.g. libreELEC. Here’s a video from Jeff Geerling going into more detail: https://youtu.be/-epPf7D8oMk

Alternatively, if you want HDR and high refresh rates, you’re okay with a smallish TV, and you’re really willing to splash out, ASUS ROG makes 48" 4K 10-bit gaming monitors for around $1700 US. HDMI is HDMI, you can plug whatever you want into there.



The Cyclops Athathi ÿivusaro Theÿise of course, can’t you read


“How can you prove he was going to break the law?”

“Your honor he owned a cheap cell phone, doesn’t that sound like he was using a burner”

“Lmao fair enough. After all what possible use is there for a burner phone besides criminal activity, and what possible use is there for a cheap, prepaid cell phone except as a burner”


Aw dam, everybody’s jumping on this bandwagon now, aren’t they? Alienware took a crack at it, then ASUS, and now MSI.

Everybody laughed at GPD for making a handheld PC, and then Valve pulled it off and now everybody wants a piece of the pie