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kitestramuort··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Buy any tv with CEC support (almost all of them) and never connect it to the internet. Never. Never start any app on the tv. Hook a Kodi box to the hdmi port and use that, and only that.

For the Kodi box get series-7 Intel NUC with Kabylake-era processors, gen 7. They don't run Windows 11, so come very cheap second hand, but decode h264 and hevc in hardware and drive a 4K screen like charm. You can install a modern Wifi card in the NUC and a PCIe SSD.

Then buy one of these: https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/154/intel-nuc-hdmi-cec-adapter and put it in your NUC, so you can use the TV remote to control Kodi.

That's it.

Bonus, you can take your TV with you when travelling.

kitestramuort··on Thank you Intel for giving us driver issues on Linux again. I feel so young
I wonder what was wrong with uvcvideo in the first place.
kitestramuort··on Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max
With my Ryzen 7 5800U laptop I get around 530 gflops, with a peak of 596 if I compile the test against MKL with

g++ -I/opt/intel/mkl/include/ blas_test.cc -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_gnu_thread -lmkl_core -lgomp -std=c++11 -O3 -march=native -L/opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64 -o blas_test_mkl

kitestramuort··on Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
Yeah. Too bad nobody downloaded it
kitestramuort··on Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
> (I assume the linked code is not copyrighted, if it is, please let me know and I can take it down).

it probably is, but by the look of things one can safely assume that they can fuck off