#htpc

[nagihonos]

this gif is just so nono hana core

[sarahlena]

"The enemy comes in as a whisper, lingers like a gentle breeze, and builds like a storm you don't even see coming." - Lysa Terkeurst #HTPC #womensstudygroup #itsnotsupposedtobethisway https://www.instagram.com/p/BtxDv9Th2IermFBtoE_zHtcqMkOwXoEgs8oU2w0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pdbuejrwgll5

[gundamace]

Finally got the neon green fluid for my HTPC. I can call this build completed.

[itrunsunix]

The EVO Smart Console? It runs Linux.

The EVO Smart Console is another one of those products nobody asked for. Released in 2008, it was a Steam Machine before the Steam Machine was a thing; it's basically a tiny PC, with a controller, designed to be plugged into a television. It ran its own in-house fork of Fedora Linux and was designed as an open platform for easy video game development.

Unfortunately, it failed miserably, because the concept is inherently flawed. What Envizions, the company behind the EVO, failed to grasp is that a console lives or dies by its games. Unless you're Nintendo, you require heavy third party support throughout your platform's lifetime in order to keep it alive. Making a box and expecting your customers to provide the content for it is the best way of wasting your investors' time and money.

What didn't help were the hardware choices that went into it. It had an Athlon 64 X2 processor - a midrange chip that was on the market for two years by the time the EVO was released; coupled with it was an ATI Radeon 3200 - a very low-powered GPU designed for laptops. This made the system massively underpowered, even when compared with its console competitors.

The system could run Amiga games and reportedly, WINE didn't run that bad. Still, when you ask $250 for an unpowered device with no real third-party software support whose only purpose is to play video games from twenty years past, it's no surprise that the EVO died after less than two years on the market.

The people behind the EVO would later attempt to repeat their failure using Android as the base OS (because Android is famously known for the quality of its games). The project failed to gain traction, so the CEO started a new company and attempted to cash in on the Ouya's Kickstarter success by annoucing the OTON, a platform supposedly capable of procedurally generating its own games.

Needless to say, that failed too.

The PC-gaming-on-the-couch concept would later be revisited by Valve Corporation and their Steam Box platform, which also failed due to a lack of market demand.

If anything, the lesson this whole story re-inforces over and over again is the oldest principle in the world: don't solve a problem that doesn't exist.

[boxinggamer-blog]

[tamara-kama]

CUSTOM MEDIA CENTER PC

This is how my custom media center PC looks right now.. it boots direct to this so the first screen is the home screen..

[cee310]

Living Room HTPC

[stxalq]

i don't know what magic Node and VLC are on. but you can totally just npx http-server -o . and then stream 2k over the local wifi