Comment chains like this really highlight that the Lemmy userbase heavy skews towards a tech savvy crowd that enjoys tinkering with stuff. And that this userbase is really out of touch with “normal” people who aren’t particularly tech savvy and who want things that Just Work™. Having to set up a whole system just isn’t an alternative to a Fire Stick to >90% of people.
For the technically inclined but not quite techies, they can just install LibreELEC on an SBC (which can be but needs not be a Pi) or a Mini PC.
Of course that still won’t be simple enough for the vast majority of people out there, but it does lower the barrier somewhat because LibreELEC is all preconfigured to turn the SBC/MiniPC into a media device so people don’t need to know Linux (though it is Linux and if you do know Linux you can do in it all the other stuff you can do in Linux).
I second that. It feels like a lot of people in the Fediverse expect normal people to have intermediate programming knowledge to use things. “Normal” people without technical knowledge are entirely convenience focussed. Stuff needs to work out of the box and controls need to be intuitive. Installing stuff needs to be with a press of a button and not typed out.
Comment chains like this really highlight that the Lemmy userbase heavy skews towards a tech savvy crowd that enjoys tinkering with stuff. And that this userbase is really out of touch with “normal” people who aren’t particularly tech savvy and who want things that Just Work™. Having to set up a whole system just isn’t an alternative to a Fire Stick to >90% of people.
For the technically inclined but not quite techies, they can just install LibreELEC on an SBC (which can be but needs not be a Pi) or a Mini PC.
Of course that still won’t be simple enough for the vast majority of people out there, but it does lower the barrier somewhat because LibreELEC is all preconfigured to turn the SBC/MiniPC into a media device so people don’t need to know Linux (though it is Linux and if you do know Linux you can do in it all the other stuff you can do in Linux).
I second that. It feels like a lot of people in the Fediverse expect normal people to have intermediate programming knowledge to use things. “Normal” people without technical knowledge are entirely convenience focussed. Stuff needs to work out of the box and controls need to be intuitive. Installing stuff needs to be with a press of a button and not typed out.
Agreed. To few people manage to take another perspective and distance from their use case and technical abilities.
Agreed. Plus, I’m too in that <10%. We are just a smaaaaaal niche