Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

• renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As soon as RAM isn’t more expensive than the TV.

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Personally i’d rather pay more than have these assholes tracking my viewing habits. But you could throw ddr4 in it. Should be fine for a simple HTPC.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t get the whole ram catagories. DDR3, DDR4, DDR5. They make it seem like the higher the number, the better the ram, but I always thought ram was just a space for computers to temporarily store information until it was ready to call on it.

      So from my perspective 16GB DDR3 should be the same as 16GB DDR5. But that’s clearly not the case.

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      • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The biggest differences are speed and max amount of ram per module. For a htpc those shouldn’t matter much. I wouldn’t personally go to ddr3 unless I had some free sticks hanging out since the spec is about 20 years old now.

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• nathan@lemmy.permisuan.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I just wish there was a way to control the PC as easy as a tv remote. I would totally do this except my wife and kids just want to hit a button on the remote instead of fiddling with keyboard or a track pad or controller of some kind

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  • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    FLIRC is your friend! It’s a USB IR receiver that you can train with literally any IR remote you have. Once you set it up (and it does take a little elbow grease to train it), it just works.

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  • UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Keep an eye out for the new Steam controller. It can interact via gyro, touchpad, and traditional controller input methods.

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    • nathan@lemmy.permisuan.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes! I’m saving now for a steam machine when it comes out too

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  • MaXsteri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My HTPC is running Bazzite and boots into Steam big picture mode. I watch media using Kodi and control everything using a Sofabatton remote.

    This setup is almost as seemless as when I was using an Nvidia Shield and a Logitech Harmony remote.

    The keyboard and controller are not needed, except for gaming.

    The only negative I’ve found, is that I’ve not yet worked out a way to power on the PC from the remote.

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I believe Kodi supports IR remote controls.

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