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Lower taxes because you are married, anyone?
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makdt wrote: Lower taxes because you are married, anyone? That IS a benefit, although I heard Ben Shapiro once say that he and his wife paid higher taxes because they were married. Not sure what he was doing wrong but since I got married, I was in a lower tax bracket.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I gotta say, this little computer does quite a good job as a HTPC. I'm using a 4gb Pi 4, with a 32gb Samsung thumb drive, and installed the latest version of LibrElec. For control, I'm using a Logitech universal remote.
I've been testing it for a few days on a 20-inch monitor, and it performs well enough for me to try it on the big 75-inch TV ion the living room. This will be replacing a
I found that installing Kodi on top of Raspbian caused the box to get much warmer than using LibrElec.
BTW, I have the Pi in a Wicked Aluminum billet case from Barch Designs. It's a passive cooling case that completely encloses the Pi. The entire case serves as a heat sink, but I feel like it needs additional cooling because it gets very warm to the touch when running an actual desktop OS.
All in, I've spent about $175 on this little box - a significantly lower amount than I spent on my full-sized HTPC box (hovering right around $750).
BTW, Raspberry just released an 8gb version of the Pi4 for $75 (last Thursday), and I already have one. I bet it's gonna make a decent daily computer for the wife...
I have also applied all of the hardware updates, as well as applied the beta USB boot eeprom.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Got a Pi 4 doing same, although ATM I am using it to dip my toes into the Blazor waters. I have one of the clear cases with a fan ($10), included heat sinks and runs very cool. I am using an old Samsung 28"monitor. Mostly, I just connect via tightvnc. Only problem with that stuff is that it is a black hole where I throw time. Spent a bunch of time with a project using temp sensors via I2C stuff. Another was running a syslog server.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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They just keep getting better
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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All they really have to do is finish the boot over ethernet and boot from USB, and enable video hardware acceleration.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: enable video hardware acceleration
That'd make it a non-starter, I guess, for a home theater.
I was going to ask how well it performed with HEVC-encoded videos, but if it doesn't have video hardware acceleration, that sorta answers my question.
(HEVC aka H.265 aka "the 4K codec"...which doesn't necessarily only apply to 4K-resolution videos...I've seen 1080p and 720p videos reencoded with it, and file sizes benefit significantly. But unsurprisingly, any HEVC video - even at the lowest resolution - proves to be too much for the decade-old Nvidia Ion-based system I currently use with my projector.)
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Nope, it works fine without it (no stutter, no lag). I might make 4k better, but I have no 4k content (or H.265 for that matter), so no harm no foul for me.
Of course, I haven't tried it on "the big tv" yet, but I don't anticipate a problem at this point.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Right. Even though I have no 4K content yet, I do run across H.265-encoded content every once in a while, so I was wondering if that box might be able to handle it. I guess the answer to that, specifically, is still unknown.
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Unadorned, five in formal neckwear became mournful (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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PLAINTIVE = Mournful
PLAIN = Unadorned
V = Five
TI E = Formal Neckware
Bit embarrassing to mention this, but right up until now I thought "plaintive" was the legal term (Plaintiff)
Never heard the word to mean mournful before.
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You are up tomorrow - I was beginning to think there was nobody here but me ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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[[ERROR - UNRECOGNISED INPUT COMMAND. NO MAPPED RESPONSES FOUND]]
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+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
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I know what you mean - there's only a few of us left that do it now
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Not just the CCC - the traffic though the whole site has been down (except for homework seekers) since the lockdowns started. I guess there are more distractions at home ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: I guess there are more distractions at home
I would assume it's more of a case that there are better things to do at home. CP is for "work" time.
Less people working = less reason to go on CP.
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I should be Ok I've drank my fair share of beer and then somer over the years.
I'm not sure how many it cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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There is a glitch in your sig
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Thanks fixed
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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At that age you celebrate however the hell you want
A beer? No problem.
Something stronger? Cheers!
Going out dancing? Sounds fun.
Cocaine and hookers? Sure, why not.
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Sander Rossel wrote: At that age you celebrate however the hell you want Why not celebrate however you want at any age?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I still have a lot of years to live (presumably) so I have to watch my health at least a little bit
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