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they make em with a usb-c + 3.5mm -> usb-c still not the same, but a way to get by

Have you found one that supports peered blocklists?

Oh they’re actually flying coach. 192 is just the average, it takes time to get through the airport.

Its still working in Vivaldi alo. Had to re-enable it tho, it’s “unsupported” but working.

In selection 2, you don’t seem to be selecting an image. You’re selecting text.

In method 1, it’s doing OCR. In method 2, its just reading the raw text data you selected. This is how you can copy text from thing A and Font A, and paste it into thing B with font B (depending on Thing B’s paste settings)

your however is pointless.

Edit3: I thought about it and you’re right, the point is irrelevant in the context of this thread. Really should have been a separate comment re/ the target market.

I went to see to compare against a Thinkpad (E14).

Framework Laptop 13: $1140 for the Ultra 5 125H, 8GB, 256GB Lenovo E15: $1120 for the Ultra 5 225u 16GB, 256GB

Lenovo price is a “sale” on their site off the “list price” of $1340

Framework wins:

• The H series processor is superior to the U series, even if older model -More custo options in general - eg I can choose 16gb in 1 stick vs 2 sticks, or I can choose “none” (also for SSD) -I can choose No OS and save some money there

Framework loses: No Core 5 in stock. I don’t need a 7, that’s $2-300 I don’t need to spend

Framework Neutral: No 256SSD in stock. But I do have the option to get no SSD and just buy my own. Arguably a win for me but not ideal for some

I’m unclear if Laptop 13 is the correct comparison vs a Laptop 13 Pro. The E14 is a mid-tier pro model, not a top of the line, which is where I tend to chill with laptops since they’re not my dailies anyway).

Anyway, as someone shopping for a laptop, I see that prices are the same. Given this, Framework wins.

HOWEVER: If I was actually shopping for a laptop, I would buy a used older-model E14 on Ebay for say $400. I know it would last, they’re repairable, and for the cost I could buy spare parts now. Because this is a secondary (1/week) device for me, I wouldn’t spend $1100 on a laptop in general. Not when Thinkpads are ppossibly the next-most-repairable laptop out there.

Ultimate calculus - Framework isn’t for me. Yet.

Now, if I had the money for activism? Sure, let’s get more of these into the 2nd hand market, stop the waste. Or no second hand market at all, just upgrade like a Desktop.

At some point, I may have no need for a desktop. At that point, $1100 for a primary PC is a good price, esp if I can build on it. If I was a laptop user, me who like custo and upgradeability - Framework is a fair value, good price even.

Anyway, to the point of the comment chain above me, I would say it’s a 1:1 price. If you’re shopping in that spec range anyway. If you need lower spec than Core Ultra 5H, say Ultra/Ryzen 3U, Framework doesn’t target that audience - and neither do quality [major] OEMs (you might find a great sale somewhere of course). But basically a well-built mid-tier laptop just costs $1000-$1200 new these days (I’d have said $800-$1000 before the price hikes recently).

So I have Denoise settings, I will disable per your recc.

But I don’t have motion/blur (I don’t remember having it in the Roku OS either so my 6.5yo TV may just not have had that)

I have a Game Mode that seems to increase response time at the cost of picture quality, which I have disabled.

After reset i was given the 2 options of home or store. BTW Store did not have a setting to disable standby LED, so I reset again with Home, and lucky I did because that has slightly more settings, including that one.

You have full control of picture settings, yes. Also picture profiles (Movie, Vivid etc). Full color brightness contrast adjustment. HDR detection.

I had no Ethernet connected and never connected to wifi. There is no Roku OS. It’s a TCL OS with fewer settings. I could custom name the inputs and I personally made my HTPC inlut be startup. The main menu does have a static Roku Ad in Home mode. When starting instead on an input, input can be changed with the side drawer flyout menu, so I never have to see that main menu ad (not that it’s intrusive, there’s not really enough menu items to require a full screen anyway).

Nothing is bugging me to connect or do anything, and I couldn’t be happier. Wish I knew about this sooner.

Just did this. Appreciate the tip. I had to select In Store Demo, which made it a Dumb TV. Its perfect.

Edit: store demo isn’t required and has more limited settings. Just resetting and not connecting to anything makes it a dumb TV with no Roku OS on it. Inout selection, picture controls, sound controls, and that’d about it.

Cannot thank you enough. Dumbt TVs for life.

I just did a factory reset per another reply and I selected to set up as Store Demo, which makes it a dumb TV :)

Ooh, definitely gonna try this first. I actually assumed that factory reset would use the 1y old firmware that introduced the problem, but it could well roll back to the 6y original.

That’s not something I would have considered and thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Now I know about silicon diodes.

Oh good to know. Much appreciated. Thisnines still going strong after 6.5y, great panels honestly. If LED neutering failed I was only going to look for other brands because of this thing so this is super good news

TCL TVs (whose OS is just Roku, and I imagine Roku is the same situation) blink the front LED as an Error when there’s no network connection or it can’t hit whatever servers it has configured for FW update check. It can get stuck on partial firmware updates when it can’t cokplete every check it wants to make. The LED has a diffuser on it so it’s a significant negative impact.

I can’t even tape that LED because that’s also where the IR sensor is. My next step is to disassemble the thing and snip snip.

I don’t use any smart features, just HDMI input like you. Finding a Dumb TV has been a challenge.

Syncthing Fork works well for Android

the old crowd is still going strong and have been proven largely correct because what they/we were really against was going from a “you own this software” model to a “perpetual licensing” model with price hikes, lock-in, and everything becoming a service.

it’s not completely enshittified, there are lots of great cloud-based services. some long-term, some at various stages of the enshittification curve.

same with AI. it doesn’t all suck, and it won’t all suck. but a lot/most of it does and will absolutely suck and it will enshittify many things.

keys tend to be organized (that’s a horrible word for whatt he registry is lol) in a handful of locations depending on context. so those chrome keys are next to the other chrome keys. in enterprise we mod that area pretty often.

the 2 was to discover a new key are:

1. reg watcher that takes a baseline, then you install soemething, and you see the diff.
2. in the case of no new key has been added (like for this new setting), most softwares have support articles aimed at Enterprise Admins who need to control deployments granularly. So the regkeys tend to be available.

Sometimes some dev figures it out, sometimes word spreads from the devs themselves on Discord/etc. Sometimes if you contact Support they have that workaround (after escalating to engineer). Not that you can easily get to Google Engineers, but you have a much better track with say a paid Workspace account.

It’s a FT job though to maintain a set of controlled software in an enterprise environment. Constant fiddling/tweaking. SOmetimes it’s a RegKey, sometimes a GPO setting, sometimes you’re modding a config file in AppData, or adding some lines to a Logon Script. And a lot of the info spreads by word of mouth still and to really answer your question - sometimes, no one knows where the hell it came from but after days of searching, you’re happy some random forum post finally worked and you hope to never have to touch it again. Then you close your ticket and move on to the next one.

I don’t miss it lol

I’m 100% with you and this is my mantra, but at this very moment am having trouble finding a TV that can operate without ever connecting to a network and would appreciate any brand/model reccs in the 55/60" range. All I need is HDMI.

I don’t think efficiency would be the thing, but I suspect that a generalized package could have trouble accessing certain distro specific/unique things. Some packages don’t have 100℅ compatibility with every distro.

That said Ubuntu’s very ubiquitous/popular and tends to be top of the list when you’re looking at the compatibility list of an application, so I think it’s the least likely to have trouble.

But… I’m answering generally here from a systems perspective, not a developer’s. There might be quirks about how a native vs added package can/does interact with an OS… And I’m joking someone else can chime in