Lol k.

Writes an inflammatory comment about “libruls”

Gets called on their bullshit

Gets mad

Conservatives continuing to be the most easily triggered bunch in the world.

Probably went to a Christian school where they teach the Earth is 6000 years old and Jesus was around at the same time as dinosaurs.

It’s one of the only non-Android TV, Apple TV, or Roku ways of streaming Netflix with a remote via HTPC. There are EXTREMELY niche uses for it.

How, exactly, is Wayland a mess? It has a good legacy window compatibility layer and is solving a lot of problems X11 had. Seems perfectly alright to me.

If purchasing isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t stealing.

They’re in the UK. They don’t have our stupid healthcare system.

This is an EV. There isn’t any emissions to be concerned about. At least not from the car itself.

Yeah I have 40+ family members and friends who access my library through Plex…it’s going to be a much more bumpy ride for me and that’s basically why I have this transition period.

One of my requirements was Steam (either locally or Steam Link) and EmulationStation. The Shield cost nearly the same money as the AMD Ryzen mini-pc I’m using, so I just decided to go with the more powerful device so I could run light to moderate Steam games at 1080p in addition to In-Home streaming. I use my gaming PC for WFH, so on days I work my kids wouldn’t be able to play games from Steam unless it was local.

I think out the door I spent about $230 for a Ryzen 5000 series APU machine with 512GB of SSD and 16GB of RAM. With the shield at ~$199, I went for the more DIY solution, which isn’t for everybody, but I’m an tinkerer.

Yeah I barely use Plex for music, so I haven’t run into this much. I use mine for TV and Movies pretty much exclusively.

For full screen web pages, I’m using Chromium and the --kiosk and --full-screen flags in the launch command. This removes the title bar and such and just loads the web site in full screen. I only use this and the AirMouse for Netflix and PBS. Everything else works with just the remote’s arrow keys (Steam, Plex HTPC, Jellyfin, ES-DE, etc.).

I’m using this AirMouse from Gimbi. This plus AutoHotKey to remap a few buttons and the 4 programmable buttons at the bottom for TV and soundbar controls work for me pretty well. I mapped the ! button to Alt+F4, the search button to the super key, etc. The programmable buttons are TV Input, TV Select, and Soundbar Vol+ / Vol-.

I think the wallpaper was a built in one for the Cinnamon desktop, but I’ll try and find it and link it here.

Kodi is awesome, but it’s not a solution for Netflix or Plex. I know there are plugins for them, but they’re terrible. Kodi is best when it’s playing local media and op wants Netflix and other streaming services working, too.

I started with Plasma Big Screen, but the browser is awful and the app selection is problematic. I ended up just going full DIY with Chromium running kiosk mode full screen apps, Plex HTPC, Steam Big Picture, etc. tied together with Flex Launcher.

With Plex banning people with large pirated libraries and their opt-out “watch reports” stuff, they’re showing signs of enshittification. I setup Jellyfin as a alternative option for my library just in case. I even have a domain and HAProxy handling TLS offload for Jellyfin.

I’m a Plex Pass Lifetime subscriber, but I like Jellyfin a lot. Once they get the HTPC experience a bit more polished, I might fully move to it and retire Plex, but I’m hanging onto Plex for now.

I considered this, but ended up going HTPC instead. The Shield is just too old and now they’re loading it up with more ads you can’t get rid of. Screw that.

Any Linux distro with Flex Launcher and an Air Mouse+Keyboard Remote.

This is what my HTPC looks like currently:

Clearly that’s America smoke, which is far superior.

If you have NVidia, I’d recommend Pop_OS!. The Nvidia controls in there for Optimus are the best that System76 has written.

Sonic Team is amazing. I’ve never seen a studio fail to make a good game for as long as they have and SOMEHOW still be told to make more.

The only good Sonic game in recent memory was a game that wasn’t even made by Sonic Team: Sonic Mania.