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Stroganoff 2: Electric boogaloo

Actually the history of Stroganoff is a messy one, it definately originated in russia, but we dont really know where or when, some are tomato based and some have no cream at all, some have freaking pickles in it. the true origins of the dish are lost.

The modern western strog is closer to chinese strog than any of the slavic strogs. Japanese strog is its own thing that seems to be based on an older recipe likely replicated from memory or from a vague description.

Hold up, Stroganoff 2 just dropped

(it's chicken thigh strog on rice, that's stroganoff 2, try it, it's magic)

make sure to lick the letter seal really good and wet so the stroganoff doesn't fall out.

It's tonight for me. Might have stroganoff for dinner

Man I could go for a Strog right about now too

I also run my HA on a nuc (beelink mini s12 with n95) proxmox with the subscription nags disabled, installed HA via the install script rather than from scratch, also have a Linux VM running a kiosk browser for a non-interactive dashboard feed (unifi cameras, power, weather, reminders etc) into my video distribution system that also runs a fileflows node in the background for quicksync video encoding tasks to be offloaded to it from my main server

I was having stability issues with the pi based setup I had before, as well as performance limitations I wasn't expecting considering how simple my setup is, though i do have a complex nodered setup running all the logic as I prefer to do it in there rather than in HA directly.

Yea there's very little public information on hacking anything other than android boxes and most of the more extreme stuff will break apps like Netflix or Disney+ so the best thing to do it leave it effectively stock, load on a hacked youtube client, with a dummy google account if you really want it private and your personal streaming client of choice (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi etc) and then do some filtering/ad blocking in your network to lock it down.

The only caveat with an SBC is codec support varies greatly between distros you use on them, and you have to work out your own control/remote situation. I moved away from them for media a few years ago because I was sick of having to tinker and reinstall things because some codec was broken or the screen was tearing, or an update broke something requiring terminal access to fix. If you want a proper home theatre setup with full HDR and lossless surround support it's not worth the trouble.

NSPanel Pro is easy to unlock, debug mode is enabled by first setting it to a cloud account but you can just use a dummy account for it. it is just android so enable ADB then load a lightweight launcher, change some defaults, remove some fluff and go from there.

The regular NSPanel is not android but can still be modified as it is ESP32 based.

if you really want e-ink, an older e-reader with hackable firmware could be a good way to go, but without a printer you'd have to pay for a printing service to make the mount, which would likely take a few iterations to get right so it wouldn't be particularly cheap. I want to see something about the size of the Boox Palma or Hisense A5 but with a wallmount, POE and some basic sensors.

You can jailbreak many older Kindle models, some require soldering to an internal serial port but then you can load a custom browser with a fullscreen mode, I even had a VNC client on mine to access a VM for a full PC interface.

I've only seen that on brands like NEC, Benq and some dedicated education or business models. Sony and Samsung just have modified versions of their standard OSs on much of their range.

commercial displays are often smart these days too, sometimes just with a more limited default app setup aimed at signage and such and usually a more commercially focussed warranty.

The cheaper dumb commercial displays as others have said can have severe limitations in image quality.

well anything based on android TV can be easily modified with sideloaded APKs for excellent compatibility and upgradeability, there are also some package sideloading techniques for LG and Samsung but they are less open and there is less to do when you do jailbreak them. the issue with this, even on the top of the line TVs is that the hardware eventually gets out of date, and format/codec support is locked to that hardware so an external device is always a better option.

Buy the TV with the image quality you need and want in your price bracket (don't look past TCL and Hisense these days), then plug in any of the top external streaming device and just leave the TV offline other than to check for firmware updates occasionally.

The Nvidia Shield pro 2019 is getting old but it is still the king for home media servers using plex or jellyfin, only weakness is no youtube HDR but thats not a big loss. great support for dedicated theatre setups with Dolby Vision, Atmos, DTSX etc...

Chromecast google tv is actually pretty good for most people for "normal" use with the standard streaming services and is pretty good at plex or jellyfin if you get an ethernet adaptor for it. DV and Atmos support is there but isnt perfect.

Current gen AppleTV is pretty good for all general playback, but is less hackable, so app support is limited to whatever is in the store, jailbreaks might be possible in the future as usual with apple devices, but I havent researched them.

the cheaper android boxes like the xiaomis and the microbrands on amazon all vary in quality and some are downright dangerous, but if you know android you can probably clean them up by stripping out crap with ADB commands.

I currently have an unlocked NSPanel Pro running Fully Kiosk browser for a HA dashboard in one room, but it's not perfect and its a bit overpriced for what it is, also it;'s wifi only which is a bit of a let down for a permanent control device.

I did see on aliexpress today some new 7-8" android tablets with integrated wall mounts, POE power and data, a basic camera for presence detection etc but minimal sensors otherwise, for somewhat reasonable money, but they're 3x to 4x what a basic equivalent tablet costs.

I've also dabbled with E-Ink displays but they are expensive and most of the hobbyist grade displays you can control with an ESP or PI don't have any lighting so they cant be used in the dark. and they would require a lot more DIYing than an android tablet running a kiosk browser. I've not seen any off the shelf android e-paper devices designed for home control, look at the pricing of devices like the Onyx Boox tablets (I have an Onyx Boox note3 and love it, but it cost me more than an ipad at the time), you will see it's a pricy tech to the begin with and low volume niche products also drive up prices a lot. the cheaper e-reader devices are less hackable for DIY.

Was great, but it got a little weird towards the end like it wanted to do more with its world and new characters but didn't.

gotta get behind him, one good kick to the abdomen and your intestines will be hanging out where they don't belong.

those fuckers are strong and their claws can be deadly.

I loved Clannad, but I do tend to enjoy slower shows quite a lot, I see clannad as a sort of protoype of Bunny Girl Senpai, they're extremely similar if you think about it.

Afterstory is a totally different beast and more or less comes out of nowhere to hurt you, but only if you actually connected with the characters in S1.

I definitely see what you are saying, however the Mentalics have existed in Asimovs universe since before the Empire or the Foundation. They are being represented with some new powers, but the mental influence is a very important ability that ties the whole story together in the end.

I think their only major misstep was revealing demerzel as both a robot (s1), and as the orchestrator (s2) too early. They haven't however shown just how far their influence has gone in guiding history just yet, nor how that ties into the creation and application of psychohistory.

They are smooshing the timeline around and boiling all of the books down into one slightly weird slurry, but apart from the obvious changes to make the long timeline more TV friendly (genetic dynasty and characters like Gaal acting to connect different eras across time jumps with familiar faces) everything that is happening is taken from some part of the asimoverse but often exaggerated a little bit for spectacle.

I think S1 ended up as a 6/10 for me and S2 as a 7/10

It is a Baz Luhrmann film, he definitely has a style and it isn't for everyone.

Look at Moulin Rouge and Elvis, they are hyper stylized, over the top and thus they get mixed reviews.

I recently replaced a pi4 with an intel n95 based mini-pc and it's been an absolute joy. I moved a few of my services and VMs over from the main server. It runs my Homeassistant via HAOS in a VM significantly faster than the pi4, another VM with access to the IGPU runs a 4k dashboard feed into my video distribution matrix, a few containers for simple things like MQTT and Adguard Home (like pihole) and it has room to do more.

The whole computer with 16gb of ram and 256gb SSD cost about the same as a pi4 8gb did when the shortage was at its worst.

The other option of course, is a cheap older optiplex, for under $200 you can get quad core sky lake or kaby lake generation processors, 16gb of ram and room for a couple of SSDs, a bulk storage HDD and a couple of low profile PCIE cards.

I started with a bunch of cloud connected expensive wifi devices that would have all sorts of issues on the consumer crap wifi router I had at the time.

The amount of money I spent on those devices would have been much, much better spent on something non IP based like zigbee or zwave devices with a hardwired hub.

These days I finally have a more pro grade network setup that handles all the Wi-Fi IOT devices I have just fine, but it could have been so, so much simpler.