I showed my wife an alt ending I had found that ends the story without the bad stuff and the dumb stuff

Currently I’m working on a Plasma Bigscreen build that still gives some privacy and 1080p Netflix/Disney+/Crunchyroll etc by using extensions/WebApps and getting S-Tube and other android apps (including tv web browser) via Waydroid + Flauncher, all controllable through a simple IR controller.

If you pm me I’ll set it as a reminder for when I finish to share the package. It’s designed for an Odroid C4.

As for dumb tvs or more privacy friendly tvs, you can find them if you know where to look. Here’s some options from LG:

https://www.lg.com/us/business/digital-signage

They had a dumb 65" 4k OLED too but it’s currently out of stock.

In case y’all want to hear it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8vjwhY-6c

That’s for him, his app, their data brokers, and their 198 ad partners to know!

Or you too if you buy the data 😇💸

I don’t think it’s legal for Russia to attack Ukraine, in Ukraine.

Also stop bullshitting, Ukraine is achieving peace and defending itself through missiles, bombs, and bullets, not lawyers.

And they definitely haven’t done so peacefully. So my point stands

Why not nationalize all of the health insurance companies, fire all the executives, and turn it all into a public health insurance agency?

Why not just have Russia end the war in Ukraine and Putin steps down and allows a real democracy to happen?

… Yeah, do you see the issue with your statements now?

In that case you might be interested in Tiny 11 which someone else mentioned. Since you like collecting, you may also be interested in ReactOS and Zorin.

That no longer works.

Tried it on my girlfriend’s new gaming laptop about 4 months ago and it did nothing, so just went back to using my custom Rufus install.

Well now there’s also Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC edition you can use

Desktop has both Mint and Bazzite. I use both daily.

Mint can’t natively control my display or sound, and it has had issues with internet and the Nvidia graphics card before.

Bazzite can natively control display and sound, and I haven’t had to use the CLI even once.

New Lenovo Laptop I tried both too. The mousepad and fn shortcuts for brightness and sound didn’t work on Mint. Fedora mousepad works perfectly and fn shortcuts work

Old 8 year HP 4gb ddr4 laptop neither worked well, so went with a lightweight distro that was debian based.

Old 12 year HP 16gb ddr3 laptop; mint gave internet LAN issues and DVD drive issues, keyboard shortcut for brightness issues. Fedora XFCE no issues.

Friend’s 4 year old Asus laptop; Mint gave issues with WiFi, Nvidia graphics card, and controlling screen brightness. Fedora no issues.

Another friend had similar issues with their laptop on Mint but said no issues on Zorin btw, and Zorin also worked better on their mom’s old desktop. Both are debian based interestingly enough, but Zorin is sort of paid so makes some sense I guess?..

This is all anecdotal of course, but at least based on what I’ve seen, Mint has never been as beginner friendly as it seems compared to Fedora in that it usually requires more tinkering. You even see that here with the pro mint comments suggesting some use of a CLI.

Weird everyone suggests Mint, when it’s way less user friendly then KDE Fedora. I mean, I guess on old hardware Mint is good, but anything newer (like the last 4-5 years) Fedora is pretty much set and forget.

Same with gaming, Bazzite is a WHOLE lot better than Mint.

Even then it happens, since I have them installed in separate SSDs. It’s an easy fix though, at least. But I’ve been lazy and just load the other distro with the boot loader lol

This is also sort of true if you have 2 Linux distros (like debian and fedora) when it comes to grub every now and then.

Tryp BazziteOS next instead of Pop. It’s a Linux OS that’s designed for gaming and comes with all drivers, emulators, proton, etc out of the box. Also based on Fedora, which in my experience does better in the gaming department.

Kodi / Libreelec are in the same vein as Android TV. There extremely neutered operating systems that can basically only do that one thing, so if they failed at it, well…

You can really edit documents, run YouTube with a decent UI, possibly use sponsor block, can’t do video game streaming.

Actually, I take it back, Kodi etc are more limited than Android TV on the Pi, since at least that supports Steam Link and Moonlight streaming.

So yeah, like Android, it can play the video. But it can do anything else like if I were to run any actual distro.

I didn’t know VLC worked with IPTV. I’m guessing through plug in?

VLC was giving me issues too when playing video as well though, but only on some distros

That’s extremely useful to know about yt-dlp.

I’ve only ever used it to download videos permanently fire offline viewing when traveling. I never knew it could work as a temp cache as well.

I’ll probably make a comment linking comments here with good solutions soon.

Ask that’s left is to figure out a decent IPTV program. Really liked Hypnotix but it seems it’s just too much for the Pi

Moonlight is for game streaming. Basically if you want to run anything newer than an N64 on a Pi, you can stream it with moonlight from a more powerful computer. It’s easy on local network, but can take a little bit more know how to set up for remote play (looked like if you want to play something on your phone away from home for example).