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What'd they get wrong on the Android TV boxes?
What they said is that the devices are rooted and they didn't vet the products for malware. So given that most of them were rooted, it's fair to assume that most others would be too and would also be at risk of malware.
Because the way these products are manufactured in China is basically like ordering off Etsy. You can't trust random people 10000 miles away to have your best interests at heart.
dude, don't order unaudited tech and put it on your network LOL.
there is this really cool place called a court, and i can sue people there for selling me deliberately malicious products. if the company is not in the US, i can't do that.
so would you recommend random android TV boxes off aliexpress to normal people?
And thus you have given the exact same sentiment they have. Congratulations you agree that these devices are possibly dangerous to your personal information and should not be used until proven otherwise. That is what they said and it's the first thing I told you they said.
No you didn't. You claimed they said all of the boxes were infected with malware and that is objectively false. You're not going to actually watch the content and simply dismiss all of their problems with rooted android devices from strangers thousands of miles away in a jurisdiction you have no recourse in, then none of your criticism is valid.
I thought the Linux gaming pc challenge was fair. You have to remember that most users are not technical at all and that's where Linux falls down.
The only thing I disagreed with him majorly on was his complaint about the GitHub interface not downloading files you click on by default. I get where he's coming from as a non-dev, it's jarring and confusing but as a developer that's the last thing you'd want. His complaint about GitHub's interface really should have been directed at all those people using GitHub as a place to store files. But that's so intrinsic to Linux, it's hard to get away from yet it's something that does prevent Linux from appealing to the mainstream.
Don't get me started on the reliance upon the terminal and bash scripts to achieve anything. I cringe every time someone says "just go here and copy/paste these commands", not just because it's unintuitive but because it's also a major security risk. Not that windows is innocent of this either but it's much more common in Linux.
I'm going to bet your 80 year old gran isn't playing AAA games and streaming on her Linux PC.
I think you're missing the point I'm getting at. The Linux challenge was specifically a gaming challenge, or at least gaming was a significant part of the challenge and while yes, gaming has indeed come a long way in recent years (and the stream deck is helping drive that further), it still has as long way to go.
You need to separate the "what's doable" fun "what works out of the box", it's the latter that can fall down for most people and the second you have to open as terminal, you've lost the audience that we're talking about.