chronicledmonocle @ chronicledmonocle @lemmy.world

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For full screen web pages, I'm using Chromium and the --kiosk and --full-screen flags in the launch command. This removes the title bar and such and just loads the web site in full screen. I only use this and the AirMouse for Netflix and PBS. Everything else works with just the remote's arrow keys (Steam, Plex HTPC, Jellyfin, ES-DE, etc.).

I'm using this AirMouse from Gimbi. This plus AutoHotKey to remap a few buttons and the 4 programmable buttons at the bottom for TV and soundbar controls work for me pretty well. I mapped the ! button to Alt+F4, the search button to the super key, etc. The programmable buttons are TV Input, TV Select, and Soundbar Vol+ / Vol-.

I think the wallpaper was a built in one for the Cinnamon desktop, but I'll try and find it and link it here.

Kodi is awesome, but it's not a solution for Netflix or Plex. I know there are plugins for them, but they're terrible. Kodi is best when it's playing local media and op wants Netflix and other streaming services working, too.

I started with Plasma Big Screen, but the browser is awful and the app selection is problematic. I ended up just going full DIY with Chromium running kiosk mode full screen apps, Plex HTPC, Steam Big Picture, etc. tied together with Flex Launcher.

With Plex banning people with large pirated libraries and their opt-out "watch reports" stuff, they're showing signs of enshittification. I setup Jellyfin as a alternative option for my library just in case. I even have a domain and HAProxy handling TLS offload for Jellyfin.

I'm a Plex Pass Lifetime subscriber, but I like Jellyfin a lot. Once they get the HTPC experience a bit more polished, I might fully move to it and retire Plex, but I'm hanging onto Plex for now.

I considered this, but ended up going HTPC instead. The Shield is just too old and now they're loading it up with more ads you can't get rid of. Screw that.

Any Linux distro with Flex Launcher and an Air Mouse+Keyboard Remote.

This is what my HTPC looks like currently:

Clearly that's America smoke, which is far superior.

If you have NVidia, I'd recommend Pop_OS!. The Nvidia controls in there for Optimus are the best that System76 has written.

Sonic Team is amazing. I've never seen a studio fail to make a good game for as long as they have and SOMEHOW still be told to make more.

The only good Sonic game in recent memory was a game that wasn't even made by Sonic Team: Sonic Mania.

If it stops the legislature from being paralyzed and gives Democrats leverage, it's certainly better than the alternative. But no.....it's not ideal.

Yeah I'm going to do that when I use my machine next. Was just nice having it as a favorite shortcut on the side and only mounting it when I needed it.

As with anything GOP-related, if they're projecting it onto Democrats, they're guilty of it themselves.

Grooming children? Catholic church, which is largely Republicans in America

Anti-LGBTQ+? The number of GOP members who have been caught with same sex partners of both underage and adult varieties makes that laughable.

Pro-life? Several GOP members have secretly paid for abortions.

Economy crashes or stalls? It's because of policies that a Republican-led government made before handing the mess off to a Democrat.

I'll bet cash money this guy has a clan outfit in his closet.

I have both but prefer NFS over it for speed. SMB before multichannel used to choke pretty hard on Linux. It's better now, but NFS is still the better protocol.

If you switch to Proton Experimental, it works. Says so in the article.

I recently switched from being a long time GNOME user over to KDE Neon. It has been a nearly flawless experience.

My biggest complaint so far is the lack of NFS support in Dolphin, which I use for my NAS. GNOME Files had native support for NFS. Now I have to manually mount from CLI and then it'll show up in Dolphin (eventually I'll setup fstab, but haven't done it yet).

You're failing to understand because people are near-braindead levels of stupid. Democracy only works when the populous is generally well educated. We've been shooting ourselves in the foot in regards to education for a long time in this country that most people come out with the intelligence of a 5th grader, then say stupid things like "Trump is better than Biden".

While I agree, "I'm better that the other guy" might not motivate enough people to the polls. It SHOULD because Trump is a fascist nutter, but people are so stupid it's incredible.

Same, homie. Same. As a Texan, I'm consistently pissed.

FFS Texas stop it.

I don't know that it's that dire. "More deadly" doesn't mean a disease will kill more people. A virus or bacteria has to be infectious enough to spread quickly, not kill enough people that are infected to allow people to spread it without causing it to die with them, but still be deadly enough to be noteworthy. COVID ticked all of those boxes. Bird Flu might as well, if it becomes human-to-human transmissible (which seems more likely every day), but I guess we'll see.