Can't "handl"e x265 as in it can't "play"?
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Raspberry Pi 3-B is $35. You can get a half TB micro-ssd for $30. Plenty of cash left over to splurge on a fancy case off etsy if you want.
You could get the latest, Raspberry Pi 5, for $80 and still be under budget but they removed the 3.5mm and HDMI port in version 4 for a single usb-c out that can do AV.
You cannot have signal and telegram but also no web browser or anything else.
First you're looking at flashing a phone with a stripped down custom android OS like lineage but even those come with a browser installed as a bare minimum of functionality. Then your looking at side loading those two apps without installing google play services, which you might be able to do with telegram, but not with signal. IIRC signal requires google play services installed. You can try to flash the pico version of google but I think you dont want to go that far.
Use systemctl
:
- to turn off lightdm,
sudo systemctl stop lightdm
. This will also shut down xfce if it was started with lightdm. - to permamently not start lightdm at boot,
sudo systemctl disable lightdm
. - to start xfce whenever you want it just run
start-xfce
.
Note: this will mean that you computer will boot directly to tty instead of any graphical display, which I assume is what you wanted.
Gonna have to follow Lula on this one.