Isn’t GitHub already blocked in China?

I know there are already a number of extensions specified in the specifications, such that Risc-V could be relevant to design the simplest of microcontroller up to the most powerful super computer. I suppose it is possible and allowed to design a CPU with proprietary extensions. What should prevent an ARM type of situation is the fact that so many use-cases are already covered by the open specifications. What is not there yet, to my knowledge, are things like graphics, video, neural-net acceleration.

Yes, I admit it’s still a pretty complex explanation. I gave it my best shot :)

RISC-V (pronounced risk five), is a Free open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). Other well established ISA like x86, amd64 (Intel and AMD) and ARM, are proprietary and therefore, one must pay every expensive licenses to design and build a processor using these architectures. You don’t need to pay a license to build a RISC-V processor, you only need to follow the specifications. That doesn’t mean the CPU design is also free, no, they stay very much the closed property of the designer, but RISC-V represents non the less, a very big step towards more transparency and technology freedom.

The topology of this necklace is a riddle that will haunt mathematicians for centuries

Do not expect this thing to be a daily driver. It’s aimed at developers who need a Risc-V testing platform. Very few Software will run on it unless you can spend hours making it compile for Risk-V and lets not talk about drivers. Also it will likely cost over $1000.

I am exited for the future of Risc-V in the consumer space, but we aren’t there yet.

I mean, in the cas of Projectivity at least, when you launch Projectivity the first time it will ask you to change specific settings and it will take you to the corresponding menus. You just need to read the instructions and press OK. Sorry I can’t be more specific at this time, as I am away from my TV.

Just install an alternative one from Play store or APK, and apply the requested change of settings.

Didn’t know this one, looks very nice ! Will give it a try.

• FLauncher / play.google.com
• FLauncher / gitlab.com

I live a different life since I have entirely banished ads from my TV: Shield, Projectivity Launcher, Smart Tube.

I live a different life since I have entirely banished ads from my TV: Shield, Projectivity Launcher, Smart Tube.

About the power of the hardware, you don’t need to worry too much. My NAS is a SBC with 6 ARM cores and 4GB or RAM. It run flawlessly all the services you’ve listed and more ! (Also, without transcoding for jellyfin).

I don’t know if your budget includes Hard disks, but it should be plenty enough to get you an ready made NAS from Synology or other brands, that will give you an easy start with self-hosting.

If you want to go the DIY route. Then I recommend to build yourself a small computer from a Intel N100 motherboard, or the older J5040. From there you can install Open Media Vault, or otherwise the Linux distribution you are the most familiar with, and install Docker. You can check Linuxserver.io for many guides for spinning up docker containers for all of the services you’ve listed.

Who is this someone you’re talking about, FuglyDuck ?

Streaming services don’t support artists in any meaningful way.

Instead, buy music for download when it’s available (Bandcamp and the like).

If not possible, just pirate it and buy merchandise or go to a concert. You will bring as much revenue to the artists this way, than listening to them on Spotify for 200 years non stop, and it will be cheaper for you in the end.

It has been purchased by EPIC and a large portion of the staff was layed off. But it is still up and you can still buy music there.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr

We all have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and many other brilliant volunteer developers to thank for it

I had no problem with FIDO2 security key and other Webauth method so far.

Yes, I noticed that as well. And Google account as well, would not let me register a passkey from Firefox.

Brave, a.k.a Chrome with a lion logo…

I can’t say for LineageOS, but on GrapheneOS my banking apps work without doing anything special, apart from enabling sandboxed Google Play services.