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  • Sell it. Put your money earned to buy a general computer to tinker with instead.

    If you have the skills you’ve already been tearing it down, soldering some pins, and compiling your modified uboot/EFI firmware and flashing it. The hack above has only like twenty people in the whole world who know how to do.

    If it was a TV box and still functioning, there are people out there genuinely have a valid use case for it, to watch TV of course. Don’t ruin it.





  • I haven’t used Arch in a decade, but as unstable as Arch is, I don’t think Arch doesn’t have dependencies poorly defined like that.

    Say, firefox-1 does not depend on libssl-1, but now you upgrade it to firefox-2, you won’t succeed if you successfully downloaded firefox-2, but failed to download libssl-1, because pacman shall fail, while saying the reason being failed to download all of its dependencies.

    If you start with a system with both firefox-1 and libssl-1 installed, upgrading firefox-1 to firefox-2 sure would have no problem, because its dependencies are already fulfilled.

    If your system is breaking, it’s probably due to some other issue, but it could not be pacman’s.