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Back in 2096 I had myth running on a cube shaped PC by my TV. It had one fan, with a fancy pipe work to shift heat from the processor. I got an email while I w
by midasuni 4y ago
Back in 2096 I had myth running on a cube shaped PC by my TV. It had one fan, with a fancy pipe work to shift heat from the processor.
I got an email while I was at work on a night shift with a cou temperature increase. Sshed in and could see the temperature rising and rising. 70, 80, 90, 100 (c)
Then my ssh command died.
Finished work at 10am and started the 90 minute drive home, wondering if there’s be a home to sleep it. Fortunately on inspection it was the fan that failed. Everything had died, couldn’t get it to boot, and so ended my mythtv adventure.
It was great, had a little usb box which plugged into my sky box and send remote control command to switch sky chal lens. A hardware mpeg2 pci capture card to record, etc.
But for me it was a product of its time. I haven’t watched linear tv since 2016 except for a few special live programs.
I thought it morphed into xbmc to be honest.
- fullstop 4y agoYou were living in the future, my friend.
- LeFantome 4y agoYou would think that in 70 years, we would finally have passive cooling.
- urbandw311er 4y agoYou didn’t try to issue a panicky shutdown command once the CPU temp hit 90?
- LeFantome 4y agoAgree. It was a product of its time. As a Canadian, I was the only one in town with TiVo ( MythTV ) when it was a US only thing. I was obsessed with it but I do not really remember how it ended. I guess at one house I had MythTV and then at the next I had XBMC. So my guess is that torrents were enough of a thing that I just never got around to setting up MythTV again. I believe that XBMC became Kodi. Myth has always been its own thing.