Nothingwise

joined 1 year ago
[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Batocera works really well, has a 10ft UI, and includes:

  • Kodi to stream local media and can act as an Airplay receiver. I use Jellyfin as a server but I bet Emby would work just as well.
  • the ability to run Flatpaks
  • a nice 10 ft UI as the default and allows for customization
  • emulation backends and moonlight game streaming
  • the ability to pair Xbox, PlayStation, or any other Bluetooth controllers

Get a usb IR receiver like FLIRC or something similar with HDMI CEC to control everything via standard remote.

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (10 children)

This is the first time I’ve heard anyone say Kodi has a learning curve. I’m curious what you found difficult?

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

The mini pc is the most flexible. Batocera works really well and includes:

  • Kodi to stream local media and can act as an Airplay receiver
  • the ability to run Flatpaks
  • a nice 10 ft UI
  • emulation backends and moonlight game streaming
  • the ability to pair Xbox and PlayStation controllers

Get a usb IR receiver like FLIRC or something similar with HDMI CEC to control everything via standard remote.

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Vote. Shit won’t change if you don’t make yourself heard.

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 173 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

Firefox + uBlock Origin + arkenfox user.js gives you privacy, security and anti-tracking. The only way to fly IMO.

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Scoop is preferred as it provides versioning and user installs compared to winget which are typically machine wide and require administrative roles.

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Bitwarden for password management and Raivo OTP for 2FA\MFA.

Fantastic, lightweight, open source, and secure.

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Per one of the Arkenfox maintainers: “There's nothing wrong with mozilla's telemetry - it uses PRIO, and it uses GLEAN, and it doesn't collect any PII, and it helps decisions upstream (and I'm not talking pedantic UI changes) that benefit everyone. Opt-in doesn't work. I'm sure you can google why. There is no reason to distrust Mozilla here - you're using their product” https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1659#issuecomment-1518353397

That being said, if anyone wishes to block the telemetry you can do so by following the Arkenfox recommendations and setting up uBO: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions And/or a network wide DNS blocker (which OP did).

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Do yourself a favor and check out https://raivo-otp.com It’s FOSS, extremely easy to use, native, and customizable.

[–] Nothingwise@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This article sums up what has happened a few times already: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This isn’t any different.