What is the point of this thing?
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What is the point of this thing?
Jeremiah Campbell
Gabriel Howard
its called computer user
Noah Rodriguez
Evan Rodriguez
Streaming 3d porn and playing fortnite. htpc where largely replaced by androicboxes.
Jason Bailey
to be a computer
Charles Anderson
Why bother with a HTPC when Walmart chink TVs have Roku built in with h265 support?
Samuel Stewart
Colton Hill
This is a desktop computer (no, not gaymen, just a desktop) or HTPC. Should be able to do almost anything desktop computers usually have to do.
YMMV if you want this one vs a cheaper model.
Mason Taylor
Jaxson Wilson
>desktop
these things aren't made to sit on any desk
Aiden Long
or buy literally any smart tv, run a dlna server (if you're on Jow Forums you probably have a NAS) with your content and play it right off the TV.
Sebastian Johnson
Most desktop PC are actually more likely to sit under a desk than on them, but you COULD put them on a desk.
That gets a bit harder with a mainframe/rack. The average table isn't constructed to take these and it'd look absurd.
Easton Ross
Grayson Taylor
It's a mini PC to be used as a media player for digital signage. It says so right on the page.
Lincoln Brown
Smart TVs are almost all crap. Maximum botnet with no way to even deploy an adblocker or change firewall settings. And eventually left unupdated connected to the internet to likely be infested by malware.
Either way it's a thing outside your control, and getting a HTPC or SBC ARM with more control and more capabilities is $25-50 (or $50-150 if you want x86_64) - I'd recommend that instead.
Jackson Lee
Just about every TV for sale is a smart TV, the cheap chink ones all run Roku. You can stream to them using Plex or Emby
Wyatt Morgan
What's life like in 2012?
Luis Evans
>he's too incompetent to block ads and telemetry at the router
Benjamin Price
both of those require a subscription to be usable though.
blocking shit at the router is doable even on shitty, ISP-provided devices, so not sure what you're on about.
Jacob Walker
I'm using Plex without a subscription right now. Eventually I'll switch everything over to Jellyfin once there are more clients available
Jordan Ramirez
>What is the point of this thing?
It was hoped that it could been seen as an alternative to the Mac Mini, similar to the Ultrabooks challenging the Macbook Air.
Cameron White
The Thinkcentre Tiny exists and makes the Mac Mini look pig fat
Grayson Harris
>The Thinkcentre Tiny
is dead and buried
Oliver Kelly
You can buy them brand new with plenty of different CPU options. I just want them to update their AMD versions to Ryzen APUs
Jaxson Richardson
>is dead and buried
what the fuck are you on about?
The M715q has 2200GE and 2400GE options
Isaiah Fisher
Kayden Perez
sick no more excuses