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AOOSTAR launches a cheaper WTR MAX 11-disk NAS with an Intel Alder Lake-U processor

The AOOSTAR WTR Max is a feature-packed network-attached storage device with support for up to six hard drives and five SSDs, support for up to plenty of RAM, and plenty of ports including OCuLink, USB4, two 10 Gigabit LAN ports and two 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet.

When AOOSTAR first launched the WTR Max last year, it sold for $699 and featured an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8845HS Hawk Point processor. Now the […]

AOOSTAR G-Flip now available with Ryzen 7 H 255 for $339 and up (Mini PC with flip-up display)

The AOOSTAR G-Flip is an unusual mini PC that has a 5 inch touchscreen display on the lid, which can flip upward so it’s visible from the front. When AOOSTAR first launched the G-Flip series nearly a year ago it was only available with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor. But since then the company has expanded the lineup with models featuring Ryzen 7 8845HS Hawk Point and Intel Core […]

Lilbits: Perplexity’s AI-based web browser, an open source Flipper Zero clone, and another Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC

AI company Perplexity has officially entered the browser business. While the Comet web browser is based on Google’s open source Chromium browser, it’s built to let AI do a lot of the work for you. Instead of entering a URL or typing a search query, you can tell the browser what you’re looking for by text or voice and it will try to find it for you. It can also summarize the content of […]

#ai #android #aoostar #aoostarNex395 #clockworkpiUconsole #comet #computeModule #flipperZero #flopperZiro #google #hackingTool #lilbits #miniPc #notificationOrganizer #notifications #openHardware #radxaCm5 #strixHalo #webBrowsers

Read more: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-perplexitys-ai-based-web-browser-an-open-source-flipper-zero-clone-and-another-ryzen-ai-max-395-mini-pc/

Lilbits: Perplexity’s AI-based web browser, an open source Flipper Zero clone, and another Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC

AI company Perplexity has officially entered the browser business. While the Comet web browser is based on Google’s open source Chromium browser, it’s built to let AI do a lot of the work for you. Instead of entering a URL or typing a search query, you can tell the browser what you’re looking for by text or voice and it will try to find it for you. It can also summarize the content of […]

#ai #android #aoostar #aoostarNex395 #clockworkpiUconsole #comet #computeModule #flipperZero #flopperZiro #google #hackingTool #lilbits #miniPc #notificationOrganizer #notifications #openHardware #radxaCm5 #strixHalo #webBrowsers

Read more: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-perplexitys-ai-based-web-browser-an-open-source-flipper-zero-clone-and-another-ryzen-ai-max-395-mini-pc/

Lilbits: Install Google Play on Amazon Fire tablets, postmarketOS update, and a new color ePaper display kit

This week a lot of folks have been unwrapping Amazon Fire tablets, setting them up… and figuring out that some of the apps and games you want to run on them aren’t available out of the box.

Fortunately there are a bunch of ways to make an Amazon tablet more useful. You can sideload applications that aren’t available in the Amazon Appstore. Or you can even install the Google Play Store and add a custom launcher application to make an Amazon tablet feel more like a standard Android tablet… even though it’s running Amazon’s fork of Android called FireOS.

In today’s tech news roundup, I’ve got links to some of the articles we’ve published over the past few years that describe how to hack an Amazon Fire tablet. And in more recent tech news, the latest release of the postmarketOS mobile Linux distribution brings camera support to some phones that originally shipped with Android, AOOSTAR has a new mini PC with discrete graphics, JSAUX has a new dock for handheld gaming PCs that includes built-in cooling fans, and there’s a new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W-powered color E Ink display kit.

Amazon Fire Tablet hacking roundup

Amazon’s Fire line of tablets are some of the cheapest Android-based tablets that are worth buying. The Fire HD 8, Fire HD 10, and Fire Max 11 have decent displays, affordable price tags, reasonably good battery life, and performance that’s more than good enough for reading eBooks, streaming videos, surfing the web, or even light gaming.

But while the tablets run an operating system that’s based on Android, Amazon’s FireOS is different in a few important ways. It has a custom user interface designed by Amazon that puts the company’s apps and services front and center. And it ships with the Amazon Appstore instead of the Google Play Store. Not only are fewer apps and games available in Amazon’s store, but if you already paid for an app or service on your Android phone, you’d have to pay again to get it from Amazon… unless you install the Google Play Store yourself. Because an open secret about Amazon’s tablets is that it’s possible to install Google’s app store on them. Keep in mind that there might be some compatibility issues – not all apps distributed in the Play Store will work perfectly on Amazon tablets. But many will.

Here’s a roundup of some of Liliputing’s guides to making Amazon Fire tablets more useful:

• Hack your Amazon Fire tablet with Fire Toolbox (Install Google Play, disable Amazon apps, and more) – This all-in-one tool has a lot of nifty functions. But it may be overkill if you just want to install the Play Store. So check out some of our device-specific guides below:
• How to install Google Play on Amazon Fire tablets (2023) – Originally written for the Fire HD 10 (9th-gen), this article provides step-by-step instructions for installing the Play Store manually or with Fire Toolbox on most recent Amazon Fire tablets.
• How to install the Google Play Store on the Amazon Fire Max 11 (2023) – This guide was written shortly after the Fire Max 11 was released, and provides instructions specifically for installing the Play Store on Amazon’s most powerful current-gen tablet.

• How to install Google Play on 12th-gen Amazon Fire tablets (2022 models running Fire OS 8) – While this guide for installing the Play Store on Fire 7 tablets was first published in 2022, it was updated with information relevant for all tablets running FireOS 8.

• How to sideload apps on Amazon Fire tablets (install apps that aren’t in the Amazon Appstore) – Don’t want to install the Play Store, but have an app or game or two that you want to install? This guide may help.
• Amazon Fire tablets: How to disable the Continue & Discover row on the home screen – Don’t want to replace the home screen & launcher app, but want to reclaim some real estate on the default home screen? This guide can help.

• How to use an SD card with Amazon’s Fire tablets – This guide describes how to use a microSD card as either removable storage, or as if it were internal storage (allowing you to install apps to the SD card, among other things).

Inky Frame 7.3″ is a 7-color ePaper display powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W [ CNX Software]

Available now for about $94, this kit features a 7.3 inch, 7-color E Ink display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, microSD card reader, and battery connector.

v24.12: The One With Androids & Cameras, But It’s Mainline Linux [postmarketOS]

PostmarketOS 24.12 is a mobile OS with a mainline Linux kernel. It brings initial support for using cameras on some phones (Pixel 3A, Fairphone 5, and Pocophone F1), UI updates, an updated wallpaper, and other improvements.

7-in-1 RGB Cooling Docking Station for handhelds [JSAUX]

This $60 docking station is designed for handheld gaming PCs. Sit your handheld in the cradle and use a USB-C connector to add Ethernet, HDMI, and more USB ports… as well as two cooling fans that help keep the PC from overheating while docked.

AOOSTAR GODX is a mini ITX mini PC with Ryzen 9 6900HX and Radeon RX 6600LE [AOOSTAR]

While the hardware is a few generations old at this point, it’s still a lot of power for a compact PC, including discrete graphics and support for up to three 4K/120 Hz displays. Available now for $529 and up, the system also supports up to 64GB of DDR5-4800 dual-channel memory, and two M.2 2280 slots for PCIe 4.0 storage. It has two 2.5 GbE LAN ports as well as USB4, USB 3.2 Type-A, DisplayPort, and HDMI ports, and it measures 200 x 193 x 80mm. Update: The AOOSTAR GODX is available from AliExpress for $503 and up. 

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#amazon #amazonFire #aoostar #aoostarGodx #dock #eInk #epaper #fireMax11 #fireTablet #fireToolbox #inkyFrame #jsaux #lilbits #miniPc #postmarketos #raspberryPiPico2W

AOOSTAR AG02 is an open air external graphics dock with a 500 watt power supply

Earlier this year AOOSTAR launched the AG01 external graphics dock that allowed you to connect a desktop graphics card to any laptop, mini PC, or handheld with a 64 Gbps OCuLink connector.

Now the company has replaced the AG01 with a new model called the AOOSTAR AG02. It’s up for pre-order for $219 and expected to ship in mid-January. There are two significant differences between the new model and the original that should make it a more versatile eGPU dock.

The first is that the dock now has a 500 watt power supply built in, enabling support for desktop graphics cards with a TGP of up to 350 watts. The AG01 had a 400 watt power supply and was only compatible with cards up to 250 watts.

The second difference is that AOOSTAR has added a USB4 port. So while you’ll still get the best performance if you use an OCuLink connector with support for data transfer speeds up to 64 Gbps, you can also use a USB4 port to connect devices that may not have an OCuLink port. The USB4 port also supports 100 watt USB power delivery, allowing you to send power to a connected device.

AOOSTAR also replaced the “silver metal” chassis of the AG01 with a new “gray metal” case for the AG02 model.

Otherwise, the physical design is pretty similar. This is still a 225 x 110 x 60mm (8.9″ x 4.3″ x 2.4″) box with an exposed PCIe 4.0 x16 connector on the top, allowing you to plug a desktop graphics card directly into the top of the dock. Since the GPU isn’t enclosed by a case, there’s no need for additional cooling fans or any other hardware, but that also means that there’s nothing to block the sound made from the graphics card’s fans so noise levels will likely vary depending on the card you use.

While the new dock should work with higher-power graphics cards than the original, AOOSTAR doesn’t recommend using anything with higher performance than an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070S or AMD Radeon RX 7700XT, as the the bottleneck at that point would be the data throughput rather than the graphics card.

#ag02 #aoostar #aoostarAg02 #egpu #graphicsDock