What? I made a purchase from Epic instead of Steam since they didn’t make the MENA currency change and as a result many older games are significantly cheaper on Epic in my country.

For example Celeste’s base price on Epic is 66 cents in my country with no discount (currently on %75 discount) versus 10 USD with no sale and 2.5 USD currently on Steam.

forgot to add this to my previous reply: if you configure the remote to put the PC to sleep instead of shutting down and allow waking up from USB devices, you might be able to wake your PC up with the remote. I can’t do this because my remote uses Bluetooth low energy which I couldn’t configure wake up for. And yes 2 of the PCs are ancient enough to use ATA instead of SATA probably, one has a Pentium T4300 and Intel GMA 3100. However I don’t need 5 HTPCs lol.

I am locked in the software space as I need something very specific that kodi could only partly satisfy and android tv could fully satisfy.

My current setup is similar. the pc runs a custom build of android tv w/o google services, with the remote of the tv box. I already have checks notes 5 spare pcs, i just had no idea 2.4ghz remotes could be dirt cheap. The item you sent appears as 2 usd before taxes & shipment but doesn’t ship to my location lol. Oh and every single one of the pcs have hdd, i’ll need either a new ssd or use one of my flash drives with a live linux install as permanent is very slow from USB.

Since there are a lot of comments here I want to ask this: we purchased a xiaomi tv stick (specs below) and a 15 year old intel pentium dual core w/ android runs circles around it with the exact same apps plus the PC has significantly more stable network connection. The stick’s OS is old however not bloated and it even blocks google banner ads OOB. Did we get a very bad unit or are all of TV sticks / boxes unusably slow unless you get a shield or an apple tv?

https://www.mi.com/us/product/mi-tv-stick/specs

Even if they were made to work, they may still be bad in price / perf and not worth using simply due to being manufactured for a completely different purpose.

I’m surprised something like plaid even exists, i’d expect banks to cooperate with no one regarding customer data

Not every uni teaches stuff like how to study, fortunately one of them does and the lecture is on the Internet. I wish I had found this earlier. https://youtu.be/IlU-zDU6aQ0

I used another of the old HDDs sitting in my desktop, I don’t recall the brand / model

Now I have another backup

Desktop chrome only

Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate: