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I totally forgot about “Skannerz”!

Thanks for rushing back a bunch of my childhood memories

Because of who decides how such verification gets built. Just look at what is happening with Android apps to know how big tech companies will handle it. https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

Whatever Apple, Microsoft, and Google decide it does.

This would require “verified” operating systems: No alternative Android-based OSes. No Linux phone. Hell, no Linux desktop, or at least we would be stuck with a big-tech-built proprietary web browser.

This is a terrible idea.

barebones, but you can use RTP with pipewire

The one OP mentioned is the 2nd-gen model that came out in 2019

I’m fairly certain that there is an issue with AMD and HDMI licensing that is a barrier here

As a John in both name and in relation to my main project at work, I am working my ass off to write comprehensive documentation and to train the rest of the team to take over. I don’t wanna be working on this same shit in 5 years.

I’d recommend looking at used Nvidia Shields. They’re simply the best Android TV boxes available. There are pretty good instructions available to remove all the proprietary stuff from the devices, too.

I also have a OnePlus 6 with Mobile NixOS. I haven’t been able to get audio or camera to function, so it’s just a toy on m desk at the moment. Other than that and a few UI quirks, it’s serviceable.

Thanks!

threads and spaces?

It’s important to make a distinction between the definition of “open source AI” canonized by the OSI that doesn’t require open training data, and models where all of the training data used is also made available.

Separately, the tools most people think about when they hear “AI”, generalized generative AI models, only exist as capitalist surplus, and we shouldn’t be defending them. Hyper focused AI tools such as the Te Hiku Media project to create speech recognition tools for the te reo Māori language are unequivocally good, and we should be making a lot more projects like this.