Andrzej3K [none/use name]

They’re shallow but the bottom is all full of shopping trolleys and broken glass and shit

Nvim all the way

I’m in favor of renaming but could they not have included a vowel or two

If you had to bet money on it, you’d say he’s definitely out of there at the next election. But, it being Sanchez, you wouldn’t bet much — nobody expected him to be president after the last election either!

Ah ok that makes sense. I believe plasma does HDR out of the box too, amongst other cool things

What’s wrong with Cinnamon? I use it because we share a computer and it was the closest thing to Windows look-wise for non-linuxy family members. Interested to hear what advantages plasma has though!

https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle

I use hd-idle for my home server. As mentioned elsewhere, you do have to be careful spinning up/down disks frequently. If you’re using a Linux Mint, that tells me this is a desktop, so you probably shouldn’t do it at all. My server is idle for hours at a time though, so it makes sense in this case. I believe hd-idle defaults to spinning down after ten minutes of idle time.

Shield TV is a very solid choice, can confirm. It’s great for 16bit emulation too

There was a brief golden age when all these services had web APIs so you could plumb them all into Kodi and have a unified experience. But yeah, these days you have to use a browser, watch in 1080, and find a way to make that into a user friendly, remote control experience. Also bear in mind that the streaming provider will change things just to fuck with you.

Alternatively, while Android TV is far from perfect, you do get the official streaming apps in their official form, and you can stream your pirated stuff on the side. I think it makes sense to separate downloading from your tv box anyway. Alternatively, I believe there are pretty good torrent streaming options these days that may be worth looking at.

So the main problem with a Linux TV box these days is that you can’t get a decent experience with legit streaming services thanks to hardware DRM. So the best thing to do really is to have a Linux server (any mini PC will do), and to stream from that to the Android TV box via Jellyfin. I would recommend using Proxmox, as you can have Jellyfin, your downloaders, a nextcloud instance if you like, all in their own containers with a nice web UI to manage them.