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Well, the N100 does have a lot more breathing space in terms of computing power, so it's maybe a better bet for something you want to use for a decade or more, and that remote control I linked to above does work fine, except for the power button (which will power your Linux off but won't power it back on).

I actually tried an Android TV Box (which is really just and SBC in the same range of processing power as the Pi) for this before going for the Mini PC and it was simply not as smooth operating.

That Mini-PC has enough computing power room (plus the right processing extensions) that I can be torrenting over OpenVPN on a 1Gb/s connection whilst watching a video from a local file and it's not at all noticeable on the video playback.

These psychopaths have called Jewish Holocaust Survivors "anti-semites" for criticizing Israel.

Besides, there is no such thing as a racial groupmind ("Jewish hive-mind") through which the actual trauma transmits.

Many Jews suffered in the Holocaust but many more did not, plus it's been 80 years, so very few Jews alive today have actual trauma from it.

The whole idea of racial trauma is just the Racists trying to leverage for their own personal benefit the suffering of others who share with them nothing but ethnicity, which is why Zionists and Israel have been so big on it: as Genocidal supremacists they're probably the worst, nastiest Racists around in the present day so of course they would claim their entire race is a victim on the backs of the suffering of somebody else to get support for their own actions no matter how malevolent.

(In fact supremacists always claim racial victimhood even without victims: the Nazis did it for the "Arian Race", the KKK does it for the "White Race" and so on)

Kodi install instructions are here

I don't use docker, I use lubuntu with normal packages. So for example Kodi is just installed from the Team Kodi PPA repository (which, granted, is outdated, but it works fine and I don't need the latest and greatest) and just set it up to be auto-started when X starts so that on the TV it's as if Kodi is the interface of that machine.

Qbittorrent is just the server only package (qbittorrent-nox) which I control remotelly via its web interface and the rest is normal stuff like Samba.

After the inital set up, the actual linux management can be done remotelly via ssh.

That said, LibreELEC is a Linux distro which comes with Kodi built-in (it's basically Kodi and just enough Linux to run it), so assuming it's possible to install more stuff in it might be better - I only found out about it when I had my setup running so never got around to try it. LibreELEC can even work in weaker hardware such as a Raspberry Pi or some of its clones.

Also you can get Kodi as a Flatpak which works out of the box in various Linux distros so if you need the latest and greatest Kodi plus a full-blown Linux distro for other stuff you might do the choice of distro based on supporting flatpack and being reasonably lightweight (I actually originally went for Lubuntu exactly because it uses a lightweight Window Manager and I expected that N100 mini-pc to need it, though in practice the hardward can probably run a lot more heavy stuff than that, though lighter stuff means the CPU load seldom goes up significativelly hence the fan seldom turns on and so the thing is quiet most of the time and you only hear the fan spinning up and then down again once in a while even in the Summer).

As for docker, there are a lot of instructions out there on how to install Kodi with Dockers, but I never tried it.

Also you might want to get a remote like this, which is a wireless remote with a USB adapter, not because of the air-mouse thing (frankly, I never use it) but simply because the buttons are mapped to exactly the shortcuts that Kodi uses, so using it with Kodi in Linux is just like using a dedicated remote for a TV Media Box - in fact all those thinks are keyboard shortcuts (that remote just sends keypresses to the PC when you press a button) and they keyboard shortcuts for media players seem to be a standard.

It really depends on what you're doing with it and on what old PCs you have available.

I have an N100 Mini-PC at home in my living room connected to my TV which is both a home server and a TV-Box using Kodi (I even have a remote for it).

Having modern image and video decoding in hardware is pretty useful when I'm using it as a TV Box (there is zero stutter with it), whilst the rest of the time the thing mostly sits doing some low CPU-intensive server tasks (mainly torrenting and SMB server stuff).

Also, it's a small box that fits fine on my TV stand without standing out and runs silent pretty almost all of the time.

Further, I don't have any low power consuming old PCs around - the best are some chunky old notebooks, the rest are old gaming PCs which eat more power idle than the mini PC does at full load - and even the notebooks aren't that low power as all that.

Mind you, for many years I used an old Asus EEE PC (a very small notebook running Linux) as home file server (with external HDs) and had a separated dedicated hardware TV Media Server box playing files from it, but eventually that PC stopped working and I found out I could just use my Router as a file server.

Last but not least, judging for how long I kept using my TV Media Server boxes (which over almost 2 decades I had 2 different ones and which as dedicated hardware could not easilly be upgraded when new video compression standards came out) 10+ years is definitelly my time-frame for using that Mini-PC.

All this to say that you should consider using old hardware, especially if you have some around and it's task appropriate (like I did before using an old Asus EEE PC as a home file server), but also take in account what you're going to do it and consider if new hardware won't be better over the timespan you will likely be using it and if the being able to get a more task appropriate form factor (like how having a little box-size Mini PC lets me have it in my living room on a TV stand next to my TV and my fiber router) is worth it.

In summary, before you get hardware you should ponder a bit about what you intend to do with it before you decide what to get, don't be afraid of using stuff you already have and also don't be afraid to get new stuff if it's actually justified by hardnosed reasons rather than merely some variant of the "new stuff smell" psychological effect when buying new.

Because shit like that has been called "Pathing AI" for ages.

(For example)

Also I'm very familiar with Machine Learning having actually learned it 3 decades ago when it was mainly just Neural Networks (there were other techniques schu as Genetic Algorithms, but ultimately NNs became dominant and is most of what we today call Machine Learning) and its most advanced commercial use was to read postal codes in mail envelopes for automated mail sorting.

The acronym AI has been thrown around for decades, even before Neural Networks were invented and well before Machine Learning was even called "Machine Learning".

I work in Game Making.

There's a ton of stuff in it which has been called "AI" for literally decades and almost none of it is Machine Learnrning: for example the A* pathing algorithm for characters in a game is called "AI", as are Steering Behaviours that can be used in things like simulating bird flocks, and both are entirelly algorithmic, not ML.

In my own experience ML is seldom useful in games, mainly because algorithms are lighter and generally work more reliably.

You're confusing use of "AI" in the Marketing of the present day tech bros trying to make money pumping up a Tech Bubble on top of certain very specific forms of Machine Learning, with the actual general meaning of the acronym.

Sadly most of his "brothers in arms" feel nothing but joy when they "wipe out the vermin".

Well, back in the day and before they invaded Poland, the British elites loved the Nazis (as shown for example here), and they've been siding with various lesser clones (such as Pinochet in Chile and Afrikaners in South Africa) ever since, so it's not at all surprising that when the most Nazi-like ethno-Fascists since the actual Nazis went full gear into executing their own "final solution" for the "vermin" in Gaza, the British elites would activelly support them.

Having lived before in Southern and Northern Europe, I lived in the UK for over a decade and when I left it after the Leave Referendum (maybe my best decision ever) I believed it was the country in Europe most likely to turn Fascist and, so far, they keep on providing evidence that they're well into that path and it's not even the Italian-style "mild" Fascism but the hard German-style version, only with the British twist of using posh-twat deceit techniques to disguise its true nature, like somebody covering a steel fist with a velvet glove.

Plenty of good people over there (as proven by their 600k people march against Genocide), but British Power and Money elites are natural supremacists (both wealth and power over there are usually inherited and they actually have complex structures - involving "Public" Schools and Oxbridge - to make sure the scions of the elites, no matter how inept, end up heading companies, the Press, Politics and the Justice System) who absolutelly believe that some people are born inherent superior (themselves, of course) to the rest and have a "right to rule", and that when slick deceitful posh talk does not suffice to make the riff-raff comply with their dictates, then using Force to keep the plebes in line (wrapped in the "velvet" of Legalism, of course) is natural, starting with the "rabble rousers" but going as far as needed until the plebes stop trying to dispute their dictates.

Basically we're watching realtime as Britain slides back to the way of doing things from the days of Workhouses, indentured servitude and child chimeney sweepers, only this time around Britain doesn't have the power to pillage other nations (or in fact the social and intellectual capability to achieve even a fraction of what their ancestors did) so the local Elites are plundering the rest even harder to keep themselves living in the luxury they're accustomed to.

American is fucking itself with a bang, Britain is fucking itself with a fizzle - which is quite stereotypical.

Whenever I read here Canadians here hoping for EU membership, I think about this: I'm sorry mates but you having chosen the insanelly unsafe rules of the US for all kinds of things, most notably food safety, means your regulations are totally incompatible with merelly Single Market membership (which would literally allow free export of that dangerous shit to the rest of the Single Market), much less EU membership.

Decades of regulatory alignment with the US means that all manner of Canadian products are dangerous and shouldn't be allowed into the EU, and now that your southern neighbor has shown its true colors beyond any doubt you should start unravelling that regulatory shit-show and align more with EU style regulation but, having lived in the UK when Carney was the head of the Bank Of England, I doubt he's the man for it: it's my impression that he's a man who knows who butter his bread - and that ain't the common folk - and it's for them he works.

Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.

Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and the shallow, greedy present day society, billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - seen mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.

There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn't broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.

The tendency for Authoritarianism and Racism never really left Germany: remember, Nazism was stopped by outsiders, not Germans, so mostly they changed the symbols and stopped outright saying certain things even whilst still thinking and practicing them - doing what it takes to make it seem like they changed, not actually changing.

So it's no surprise that on a racially charged subject involving a Genocide were tens of thousands of children have been murdered for their ethnicity, the German Authorities not only in quite an extremely Racist way sided with the Genociders very overtly because of their ethnicity, but also moved back some more in the exercise of the power of the state towards doing things like in the "good" old days.

The mindset of Racism and Macht macht Recht never actually went away.

That's because you're probably not used to people from STEM areas who tend to be thorough rather than risk that some things might be mis- or not at all understood: the less one is sure about the level of knowledge or ability to keep up of those on the other side, the more thorough the explanation becomes.

Also the deeper you think about something the more elements there are to explain.