We’ve now moved on to eSim, once phone companies wondered “why do we even need a piece of outside hardware to connect to a phone tower”, so good luck sleeping at night.
I created a satellite box for my mum using a Raspberry Pi with Debian and a USB stick for the LNB feed. It works fine. Great even, better than the shitty satbox massive phonebook sized device she had. And I can control it.
I don’t see why we can’t build our own TVs. Get a large MIPI/DSI 1080p screen (15.6" is the biggest I’ve seen), mount it on a piece of plywood, mount a raspberry pi or other SBC onto it and connect it via the MIPI ribbon. For apps, install Kodi, and for LiveTV install a streaming server. That’s it
tetris11@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Amazon shipped out thousands of Kindle’s with prepaid Sim cards in them back in 2012
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We’ve now moved on to eSim, once phone companies wondered “why do we even need a piece of outside hardware to connect to a phone tower”, so good luck sleeping at night.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
We’re about to go full circle with 5G enabled televisions
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
I created a satellite box for my mum using a Raspberry Pi with Debian and a USB stick for the LNB feed. It works fine. Great even, better than the shitty satbox massive phonebook sized device she had. And I can control it.
I don’t see why we can’t build our own TVs. Get a large MIPI/DSI 1080p screen (15.6" is the biggest I’ve seen), mount it on a piece of plywood, mount a raspberry pi or other SBC onto it and connect it via the MIPI ribbon. For apps, install Kodi, and for LiveTV install a streaming server. That’s it