stove them out of sight? well, you can go for a mini-PC if price isn't an issue. but these things can be had for ultra-cheap, especially if you have one laying around or get one with a busted screen or sumsuch. an android box is a hit or miss, maybe it's good, maybe it's crap, maybe it's loaded with malware... the middle ground would be a Raspberry Pi, there are unofficial LineageOS Android TV builds.
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an old laptop/desktop (like 6th-gen Intel or newer) that boots directly into jellyfin-media-player in TV fullscreen mode. it supports any remote that can emmit up-down-left-right, enter, esc (like, via InputRemapper). disable transcoding on the server and play anything you want via direct stream.
what's the thing with tether supposedly reaching liquidity? like, HOW?
1- linux 10 years ago and now are completely different beasts; I'm mainly referring to issues with making drivers work. if you have vanilla hardware, boot off a liveUSB stick and the vast majority of stuff just works.
2- you are absolutely on point on linux being noob-adverse and its users (although predominantly well-intentioned) can't relate to people who aren't into complex setup, shell commands and such.
3- you'd do well to steer clear of unconventional distros and stick to the middle of the road solutions, which is, and for the foreseeable future will be, Ubuntu. once everything works and you're satisfied with the functionality, you're free to distro-hop and switch DEs and whatnot.
4- steer clear from multi-booting different OS, that's an advanced user scenario, and like with choosing your distro you need the vanillaest possible scenario - one disk, whole disk, nothing else.
I appreciate that funds might be tight, but a new SSD is under $20, used ones even less than that. disconnect all your existing drives (so you have a fallback solution), connect the new drive, install to it using the whole drive. your experience will change dramatically, we're talking like 20x faster; making stuff work on a slow-as-molasses USB stick is just a horror scenario.
5- if you want concrete advice, instead of general observations, include your hardware - CPU, graphics, storage; some things are easier, some not, some are not even worth trying.
hang in there.
I so want to make Kate happen, but everytime I try to replace vscodium with it I get showstoppers. presently it handles my ansible stuff OK and I still get issues with complex javascript and django stuff, but I'm not giving up, keep up the good work!
I do. I have a daily folder, weekly and reread, apart from the usual categories for long-term storage. "daily" gets the current stuff, "weekly" gets opened once a week, and "reread" is for stuff I read but didn't really absorb. thanks to firefox sync I can read all of that form tablet or desktop or whatever.
stole it from Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/today-in-tabs/
in the morning I middle-click on "daily" and it opens em all up - lemmy, mastodon, weather, stuff I'd like to buy, etc. and you go through them; got way easier with the new vertical bar + middle click for close the ones you done with.
look for docker-compose + whatyouwant specifically, it's way more straightforward. once you have one set up, it get easier adding on different software.
macbook boards are ultra-resilient, if you get continuous fan spin you can almost always get them to a useable state. in this particular case, the machine powered on, spun the fans, turned on the screen, displayed the white loader screen for a second and immediately powered off.
never heard of such a thing, their quirks and failures are pretty well documented (logi.wiki, r/macbookrepair, etc.), so I unplugged everything from the board (battery, keyboard, touchpad, HDD, ODD, wifi, camera, display, etc.) and connected it to power and - continuous fan spin!
then started reattaching one by one until it failed again and it was the keyboard. so, ran it with an external keyboard and checked everything and it's in excellent working condition. I used the opportunity to change the decade old paste on CPU & GPU and cleaned it from dust, insects, hair and other crap. I'm getting a new keyboard on monday ($13 new, $15 used) and assembling everything. maybe do a write-up.
added, never heard of the term, gracias.
tried to switch to it when I transitioned from Gnome to Plasma and gave up. it takes up to a minute to start up (!) as my library is on a network share, has spotty MPRIS support, it intermitently crashes just sitting there idle, and the radio player doesn't display artist and song. so went back to rhythmbox and I'll check back in a year or so.
then you got no problem, Jules.
as to wireless, that's solved with 3rd party drivers getting enabled in Ubuntu-like distros (which Mint is) and installing the driver from the drivers control panel pane. how do you install it without internet? you tether your phone to the laptop via USB and allow it to access the wifi. on Android that's done via the USB Tethering menu.
on fedora you enable rpmfusion and install broadcom-wl after you've done the full system upgrade post install and rebooted; otherwise you won't be able to boot.
it's possible you'll need firmware for the webcam; 2011-2015 models don't need it, no idea what the deal is for yours. and especially no idea for the abomination that's the touch bar.
after install, install and enable mbpfan or macfanctld (just one of those, depending on the distro) so your laptop don't explode.
I don't have experience with post-2015 models, so don't know what your issues with that model are. Wireless is easily solved with 3rd party drivers, don't know the state of more exotic stuff (touch bar?). The base functionality shouldn't be a problem. Have you tried booting it off the live USB?
Mint isn't appropriate for relatively new hardware, although you can certainty make it work and your laptop is right on the cusp. A bigger issue is that it's X11 as opposed to the default Wayland and not very up to date on modern laptop paradigms, like gestures, seamless transitions between states, etc., especially if you have macOS muscle memory.
I'd recommend Ubuntu as a first distro and once you have everything working, look into other options, like Fedora.
If you choose btrfs as your file system, you can install multiple OS with the same home so you can experiment away.
Raspberry Pi with a cute case then, and/or glued/velcroed to the back of the TV. they also support HDMI-CEC so your TV's remote can work.