Bought a #UGOOS UR02 #remote for no particular reason to control my #Onn 4K pro box. Here it is next to the original remote. Verrrry similar, both feel amazing in the hand - FAR better than the #AppleTV remote. Some diff buttons. Light grey ones are IR programmable. Everything else can be reprogrammed with #ButtonMapper or #tvQuickActions Pro. Got it for just over a buck from #AliExpress as it was a first-time purchaser deal. Could have gotten any of a billion other things. Oh well.

[Satire] Thiel Backed 'GigSlave' Goes Public with $84B Valuation [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlBwyJVEfw
#ycombinator #The_Onion #comedy #satire #news #Onion_News_Network #ONN #ONNCast #humor

I am #annoyed. I originally bought an #NvidiaShield #streaming box in December 2017. Used it for years until one day I was deleting a film I'd just watched from the USB stick it was on when the power went out. Electricity came back on in a few minutes, but the #Shield never did.

Okay: freak accident. So I bought another one in June 2022. And last night it went insane. It will start and get to the homepage, but whatever button I touch, the screen just flashes. If I manage to open an app, it will crash in a second or two. Tried the box again today, and it's the same. It's not even stable enough to try a factory reset.

Now I have to find another #MediaPlayer. After one Shield lasting 4½ years and the next only 2½, it's off the list.

I mostly watch #YouTube #ReVanced on #TV, and that requires a touchpad to use easily, so I have a couple of iPazzPort keyboard remotes. Does the #Onn use a bluetooth remote? Walmart says nothing, but Android Police says yes. So I guess I'm watching stuff on my tablet for a week, then grabbing a #streamer on Black Friday.

Woot have the #FireTv Cube gen 3 refurbed for $75. Normally over $100. As a streaming nerd I was tempted, but the #Onn 4K Pro box is just so freaking good AND it’s $25 cheaper. Slower CPU but who cares? You use the interface like 5% of the time. I just wish the Onn was smaller. It doesn’t need to have a main unit the size of a double decker sandwich. Cube has upscaling (so does my TV) but that’s apparently nowhere near as good as the #nVidia #Shield’s.

May buy another Onn this week actually.

A minor but still cool thing about the #Onn 4K Pro box is the amount of onboard RAM it has. For example I use KODi a lot but also watch stuff on other apps like YouTubeTV or Prime Video. On the #FireStick I’m used to flipping between them and having to wait a few seconds as each inits (because it exited running as other apps started). This morning, started the TV and ran KODi and it instantly started. Still in the b/g. Hadn’t exited since the last run. That’s nice. It’s the little things.

After reading the hype, I bought an #Onn 4K Pro #streaming box from #Walmart yesterday and hooked it up. Just like the #GoogleTV interface a lot more than the #Firestick one. It has the Google Assistant built into the box itself (ie the streaming unit is a mic as well as a speaker) and the remote is backlit, has a "find" feature and is generally comfortable to hold. I really like it. But I'm going to firesale (see what I did there?) some of my older firesticks now. Finally.

As a heavy user of the original #Chromecast, and a current user of the #CCwGtv I'm not sad at all.

#ONN makes excellent #AndroidTV boxes that are just as cheap and even better built than the #Google ones.

Just sideload #SmartTube and bob's your uncle!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24215344/google-chromecast-discontinued-salute-great-hdmi-streaming-dongle

> the Onn Pro’s box includes support for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. It also sports 3GB of RAM, comes with 32GB of storage, and has Wi-Fi 6 support as well, with four rear ports: one HDMI, one USB 3.0, one ethernet, and a barrel connector for power.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146446/walmart-onn-pro-4k-streaming-chromecast-google-assistant-smart-speaker

Intresting article about ONN (Optical Neural Networks) used to process images in flight in a camera. Students at Cornell used ONN's to compress the signal.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/04/optical-neural-networks-hold-promise-image-processing

So proud of my former workplace #ONN advocating for #nonprofit business models in health & social services. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/02/08/ontario-needs-to-invest-in-the-non-profit-business-model-for-health-and-social-services.html?mc_cid=9220bce8e2&mc_eid=c29b973b56 @danyaalraza