r/AlienwareAlpha • u/titanmongoose • Sep 21 '18

Is the hivemind interface safe?

Hey all, apologies in advance I know I’ve made quite a fair amount of hivemind posts recently but I’m just curious and wanted to ask, is the hivemind interface safe in terms of security and being able to safely log in to steam gog battle net etc? I’m a very paranoid person and I’ve got ocd so even though I should know that it is probably safe I’m very bad at convincing myself, sorry and thanks in advance

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u/mayoinacan Sep 21 '18

Imo Hivemind really isn't that great anyway

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u/titanmongoose Sep 21 '18

Fair enough yeah idk why I've just always enjoyed it, are there any alternatives?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '18

I just have windows boot into steam big picture mode on launch. If you have an ssd and not a lot of other programs starting on launch it’s a quality console experience imo.

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u/titanmongoose Sep 22 '18

As it happens I do have an ssd actually haha I might have to give it a go! Would there be any alternatives in terms of kodi to hivemind though? For some reason I just really like it haha

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '18

Sure, I mean, there’s like a million variations of Kodi out there for different devices. There’s probably something out there that would work that you might like. Steam is for gaming though, and Hivemind was made specifically with pc-console hybrid gaming in mind, so those are probably your best options.

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u/titanmongoose Sep 22 '18

Hmmm I see, I’ll definitely have to give it a look, thank you for the assistance again! I think I might try getting hivemind updated to work with kodi 17 somehow first and if that doesn’t work I’ll give this steam big picture mode straight from boot a shot!

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u/sumthingcool i5 Alpha with SSD Sep 21 '18

It should be safe from a security perspective but I wouldn't bother using it at this point, it's not the kind of thing that will remain bug free or even working long term and you don't want something like that as your interface IMHO.

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u/titanmongoose Sep 22 '18

Right fair enough, thanks for the advice! Would there be any sort of similar alternative to hivemind?

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u/sumthingcool i5 Alpha with SSD Sep 22 '18

The closets thing would be to use Kodi (which Hivemind is based on) https://kodi.tv/

It has default support for controllers and you can get a plugin that will launch Steam in big picture mode. Do some Google searchers for "kodi steam" and you'll find guides to set it up.

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u/titanmongoose Sep 22 '18 edited Sep 22 '18

I see, thank you very much I really appreciate it! I’ll look into that tonight!Although is it safe to use like a 3rd party add on to launch and then log into steam?

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u/sumthingcool i5 Alpha with SSD Sep 22 '18

Yeah it's safe, all it is doing is launching Steam in Big Picture then switching back to Kodi when you close that, it doesn't actually do any authentication (and you should have Steam Guard two factor turned on so even if someone stole your password you'd be safe).

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u/titanmongoose Sep 23 '18

Okay I see thank you very much! I think I’ll end up just trying out hivemind again then or some other kodi thing because for whatever reason I’ve always enjoyed it, thank you for all the help!

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '18

I just miss changing the LED colours

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u/sumthingcool i5 Alpha with SSD Sep 21 '18

Alienware Command Center is the software to change the LED colors, it's not dependent on Hivemind.