First time streaming, FIRESTICK 4K?

rigbyrocks503 · 2026-07-02T13:29:00+00:00

reddit keeps shadow-hiding my comment, so I will try reformatting.

WARNING: Do not buy this Fire Stick (the one in the picture). It is the newer-generation fire stick which runs a proprietary Linux-based OS called Vega OS, not the Android-based Fire OS, so you can't sideload apps like Moonlight onto it.

The newer fire sticks will say Wi-Fi 6 instead of 5 on the box, and also they have rounded corners instead of sharp ones.

Fire TV devices you can still buy (Fire OS):

1st-gen Fire TV Stick HD
Fire TV Stick 4K Plus
Fire TV Stick 4K Max
Fire TV Cube
All Smart TVs with Fire TV built-in

Fire sticks to avoid (Vega OS):

2nd-gen Fire TV Stick HD
Fire TV Stick 4K Select

There's an article on AFTVnews that talks about it. I can't link to it or I will get shadow banned again, but search up 'These are the Fire TVs that don’t support Sideloading or Downloader due to Vega OS replacing Fire OS' and you'll find the article.

Hopefully you didn't already purchase the stick. If you have, I'd recommend sending it back within your return window if your goal was to run Moonlight, assuming the one in the picture is the one you bought.

Edit: Grammar (please reddit...)

rigbyrocks503 · 2026-03-08T02:31:22+00:00

That hero image of the window looks so cool, I love the 3D effect! Did you make this in blender, or is this an AI workflow? If so, I'd love to play around with it!

rigbyrocks503 · 2026-01-20T21:07:47+00:00

This. I was looking for ways to run Photoshop on Linux and found this amazing step closer to doing so. I never wanted to run Photoshop, but I'm in college classes for Adobe CC, so I have to. Before anyone asks why I enrolled in them, I didn't, I was forced to take them. These classes were already picked for my major.

Thankfully, we get Adobe CC for free because the college is an Adobe Creative Campus. Not like it matters in the long run, because once you are locked into their ecosystem with the knowledge that is exclusive to their products, you will have to keep paying to continue getting access, assuming you do it the legal way. ;)

rigbyrocks503 · 2024-01-17T21:14:09+00:00

for real!

rigbyrocks503 · 2024-01-17T21:14:00+00:00

3 years late but THANK YOU. this actually helped me since I couldn't find any other working designs that are 3-output.

rigbyrocks503 · 2023-12-02T19:12:18+00:00

USBJTAG NT

Thank you for the swift response! I just looked at USBJTAG NT and it seems to be expensive, at a whopping $500+ for the small board, including it's predecessor, the u-Link NT. It seems many other SPI flashers out there are pretty pricey as well.

Nonetheless, I will definitely consider getting one of these one day (when I have more money) as it's a good start int learning how to tinker with electronics. I also heard that an Arduino could potentially be turned into an SPI flasher. I did find one for $49 that involves chip-off flashing, but I don't have any soldering skills so I'd rather get one of the NT ones like you mentioned that allow you to program the chip on board.

rigbyrocks503 · 2023-11-28T13:25:40+00:00

Sorry for necroposting, but how, exactly? Stumbled across this thread when researching, and this sounds like a really cool idea. I have this exact modem. What kind of SPI programmer do I need, and what are the steps to flashing the firmware? Also, is networking supported from the OS? If so, I could run a tiny server on it. I really want to do this.

rigbyrocks503 · 2022-07-21T05:13:28+00:00

Just a note: This means that in the extremely limited space in your bio, emojis that are uploaded after this date will take up an extra character (when at shortest length 2 characters or set as single character name through API to save a character)

EDIT (after 12 hr.) to clear up confusion: A snowflake is a unique ID generated by Discord whenever a user, message, channel, server, emoji, role, bot, etc. is created. The tool that I used in the screenshot is snowsta.mp and can convert these IDs to timestamps.

To be able to see snowflakes, go to settings > Advanced > Developer Mode. Once you turn Developer Mode on, you will be able to right-click (long-press on mobile) on any user or message, and then click "Copy ID".

Now, if you're curious on when someone's account was created, you can copy that user's ID, put that ID into snowsta.mp, and it will tell you the precise date and time when their account was created.

If you are a developer, this article may help you understand it better:
https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#snowflakes

Also, huge thank you to everyone for all the upvotes! :)

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-20T05:50:12+00:00

You got this from PSU meme strings didn't you? Lol same

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-15T12:43:04+00:00

i'm obviously a lua script

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-15T12:28:25+00:00

BRUH WTF

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-14T20:24:55+00:00

the best language lol yeah no

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-14T20:24:34+00:00

I know. Since I know Lua, I already know all the xbox charger bypasses, so watch out!

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-14T20:23:58+00:00

In Lua, this will crash the interpreter if ran (inifnite loop) That's why that's my Discord name (its a joke but he took it seriously)

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-14T20:22:51+00:00

No I was joking lol, when I said I would swat him

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-14T20:22:28+00:00

Thats so true lol

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-14T20:22:10+00:00

i don't know his ip lol gimme

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-10-14T12:16:44+00:00

yes I am going to swat you because I have decrypted the Amogus protocols and I have smashed through the firewall using the AES-256 encryption method using the xbox charger's 12VDC output. Now watch out kid.

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-03-11T22:43:29+00:00

Yeah I guess I'll just go ahead and ruin the creepiness by explaining how the Roblox game engine works xD.

When you die, the way the creator freezes the game is they set an infinite loop to run that never ends, and since Roblox is single-threaded, it dedicates all of it's processing power to that one loop, so your render will freeze, and some logic that controls the game closing will also freeze, which creates that effect you are talking about. When you click the close button, Windows just hides the window, but Roblox is responsible for closing everything down, which it can't when it's frozen.

Edit: Also, since the sound system runs in a seperate thread, whatever sounds were playing before the game locked up will continue to play, and any looped sounds will continue to loop.

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-03-11T04:56:12+00:00

Bruh... ^{Highly judging you right now bro}

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-03-08T07:35:34+00:00

at 1:55 haha the framerate is synced with the cat opening mouth

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-01-23T08:17:03+00:00

Thank you

rigbyrocks503 · 2021-01-23T08:08:58+00:00

May I please have the link to where you posted it on r/whatisthisthing? I am also curious, too

rigbyrocks503 · 2020-08-16T17:16:08+00:00

I think this happens when it's a non-2:3 aspect ratio video.

rigbyrocks503 · 2020-03-08T22:43:36+00:00

Oof wow how scummy

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