AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh great, thin clients ar back!

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  • 0ddysseus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They never left bud

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• Poutinetown@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m curious why it runs android instead of Linux.

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Android is Linux. Also, they already have an android distro that is fine-tuned for the hardware, so why not reuse it?

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    • Poutinetown@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Android is Linux-based but it has a modified kernel. It might be subtle but the entire design philosophy of Android is mobile first, which is very different of Ubuntu or Arch.

      But there the similarities end. AWS created custom firmware and ripped out anything remotely related to running a consumer device, replacing it with software designed solely to create a secure connection between the device and desktops running in the Amazonian cloud.

      If they are going to rewrite the firmware, remove most of the features, why even bother with an OS designed for touch screens and partially written in Java? Can’t they fork one of the 22 ARM Linux distributions?

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I had to guess, it was already running Android so why not?

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  • bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Postmarket os to your service

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