friend_of_satan comments on Turns out Spotify can't open-source Car Thing because it's a potato

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years 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.

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[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] ThetaDev@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years 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

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