Specs seem bad. Only 720p from the looks of it no mention of latency which makes it questionable for gamers. Better off getting a gaming monitor at that point over it.

I don’t think this is even worth buying and seems the type of junk TV that would be sold on black Friday as a deal.

If you are fine with controller, Steam’s Big Picture mode comes in real handy for launching and playing games without needing a keyboard.

But something like the k400 which has a touchpad does come in useful for navigating the desktop. Not great for games, but serviceable for typing and controlling the mouse if you ever feel like using the PC to browse the web or launch video files on the TV.

For keeping things neat I got a cheap packet of cable clips with adhesive and stuck them along the bottom of the baseboard.

Yeah when I went from only Android to picking up Apple hardware I was shocked at how ad and subscription infested the Apple app store was after hearing for so long how much more polished it is.

And there isn’t even a foss app store like F-droid to turn to. Was such a headache just trying to find a calculator app that didn’t have ads and wasn’t a subscription back when iPadOS didn’t come with a calculator.

Apple and Google appstore sucks, but the obstacles Apple puts in so something like F-droid can be used makes it suck even more.

Linux on minipc with a cheap wireless keyboard like the k400 is a great combo. Won’t be seeing ads with that, since on browser you’ll have ublock origin for things pihole can’t block.

If your TV isnt too far from your desk getting a fiber optic hdmi cable and a powered usb extension cable if needed might be more convenient and let you keep your PC where it is now. Fiber optic hdmi cables can get pretty long without issues.

I have one that is 22 meters long that supports HDMI 2.1 that I use to send a 4k/120 hz signal to the TV with VRR.

I think laptop or mini pc is the best. Casting might not be an option, but its nice not having to deal with apps at all if you want to watch something on the TV, and picking up a cheap wireless keyboard with touchpad makes it a nice combo.

Safari has the worst adblock options of the browsers I’ve tried. So absolute bottom choice from me.

Brave is brought up as an alternative to Firefox but that has the same AI and also crypto on top of it.

If brave is able to have their own adblock integrated into the browser by default despite Google being behind much of Chrome I think Firefox forks should be fine. Sucks everything seems to have AI these days shoved in, so it’s hard to escape whether it is Chrome forks or chromium alternatives.

I have one m.2 and multiple sata ssd, since on my motherboard occupying the second m.2 slot would drop the pcie lane for my GPU due to sharing bandwidth.

Do newer boards not have that problem?

If you don’t consider linux viable then why would android be for PC users?

Take PC gamers for instance. Some games like Valorant or Battlefield not being supported by anticheat on Linux keeps them on Windows. You think they are going to be rushing towards Android as their OS on PC only to find 0 of their steam library games being compatible? Rushing to the great wonder that is the Google Play store for games?