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		ssl-3 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamc... XBMC was stunningly amazing at the time. It lives on today as Kodi, including the GUI hacks, the weird flaky add-ons, browsing file shares on the LAN, and the strange piracy-adjacent community. It's all there, and on all kinds of devices -- just not on OG Xbox hardware.

rightbyte 9 months ago [–]

Ye I'm thinking about trying that one. I need to setup a Linux box as media center and game emulator for the TV to replace the crappy 'smart TV' OS.

ssl-3 9 months ago | [–]

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 for all of that stuff, that I got back before things turned weird(er) in the small computer space.

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