Turns out Spotify can't open-source Car Thing because it's a potato (www.androidauthority.com)

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

With a weak Amlogic processor, 4GB of eMMC storage, and only 512MB of RAM, the device is too underpowered to run anything more demanding than its intended lightweight web-based media player.

Microcontroller hobbiests are over here salivating at those specs with the included screen and rotary controller

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I’m just waiting for someone to integrate it into Home Assistant as a dashboard. Slim profile, tactile buttons, and a nice sized display would be a fantastic home dashboard screen.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

But it can't run Crysis or Chrome with 28 tabs. Thus, useless.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, you can run a modern audio streaming client on an ESP32 with 16MB of flash and 8MB of RAM , look at the LoudESP project

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Sounds like it could run winamp, vlc etc just fine. 512mb ram is plenty.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

If its just a web player with a custom skin why do they need to EOL the product? This doesn't make sense to me.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry but this smells like bullshit. I'm pretty sure the thing is as powerful as my first android phone

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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