This is the way.

Zen’s UI is great, and it has better defaults for privacy than Firefox does, as well as having its own mods repository on top of all the standard Firefox webextensions. (Try “better find bar”, “floating history” and “floating status bar” if you haven’t already, they make the last few bits of the UI look consistent)

I’ve had a pipeline in mind for exactly this purpose that I want to build when I get around to it:

• Download the audio file from RSS feed
• Self hosted AI transcription model (with output that includes timestamps)
• Self hosted LLM to recognise ad sections and return the start and end timestamps as json
• ffmpeg to slice those timestamps out and stitch the rest back together

In theory, this should be able to remove ad and sponsor sections of any length completely automatically and there’s nothing to stop it working on videos too

Every user has to self host their own?

Did… Did you see what community you’re in?

Ooh, that is neat! I’ve been using Lemmy for months and didn’t know this was a thing. You’re my first tracked upvote now :)

Ooh, thanks for pointing that out. The image was uploaded in November 2021 so it’s older than I realised

It’s WSL, I think the logo is relatively new though or maybe not official idk

I’ve found Android TV to be the most usable TV OS tbh. I use Konstakang’s LineageOS Android TV 15 image on a Pi 5 which is source available (non commercial only licence). And Projectivy Launcher (closed source but is by an indie dev and better than the stock Google one). The Pi is CEC compatible so I can control it with my TV remote no problem, and I use Moonlight to stream games from my PC.

If you already have hardware, there may be an Android x86 TV release somewhere but I haven’t personally tested any, and you have to make sure the apps you want support x86 (all the open source ones like Jellyfin should)

Edit to add: I also personally haven’t found a need to install GApps as all the apps I use are either open source, or were made to work also on FireTV so don’t rely on GApps APIs. (Use SmartTube instead of YouTube, it’s a better experience anyway)

Is that a really young Brodie Robertson on the right??

A quick search says there are 55,000 games on Steam. 19,000 is just over a third of all Steam games guaranteed to work on Linux with no issues.

I built a near identical server for my parents and just sync my nextcloud folder to theirs using syncthing

Remember back in school there would always be that one kid who was able to get the teacher talking and going off topic so the class had to do less work?

Basically learn to do that in your interviews. If you’re lucky enough to know the name of your interviewer beforehand, stalk their LinkedIn and try and find something they’re interested in. People love talking about themselves. If you can manage to get your interviewer rambling about something they like, they will come away feeling it was a good interview, and you’ll probably learn a hell of a lot more about what the job is actually like on a day to day basis.

I’ve found that the smaller the company, the higher the success rate doing something like this. Larger companies tend to have a more rigid interview structure or have multiple interviewers at once.

I explicitly wanted a google one, not some Samsung-shit who add their own garbage on top of Google’s garbage.

Samsung TVs run Tizen which is their own OS, rather than a skinned Android TV. It’s pretty minimal so you need some other box or stick if you want a good watching experience, but it doesn’t do anything hostile as long as you turn the tracking bs off at setup, and there are no ads in the UI (at least on the 2019 model my parents have).

There’s no truly open source TV OS though :( I miss Firefox OS

Honestly, good for you. I switched about a year and a half ago after using Windows literally all my life (well, from when I was 5 years old in primary school anyway).

Never looking back. I now know what a good PC experience is like. One that doesn’t bombard you with ads for its own browser and requests to track you every time it stops in the middle of what you were doing to force an update that only makes your experience worse.

I personally use Nobara on my main PC and OpenSuse on my laptop, but whatever you go with, I wish you a good time. (And know that if you don’t, there’s always a distro out there that will fit your usage better!)

I remember trying the Android TV 14 image a while ago and it was basically unusable as you describe, the new Android TV 15 image has fixed virtually all those issues for me. YMMV but IMO it’s worth experimenting and seeing if it works for you, there’s a chance I just got lucky though

I’m currently using a raspberry pi 5 flashed with Konstakang’s Android TV image, it works pretty flawlessly and takes less than an hour to set up, assuming you have the APKs of everything you want to install. You don’t need to mess around with Google play services because most TV android apps are also designed to run on firesticks which don’t have it.

The one issue I have encountered is that the Jellyfin client very occasionally won’t play some 4k HDR media in the default player (all my 1080p stuff works fine) so I also installed MPV and I turn on alternative player in the Jellyfin settings in the rare case something doesn’t work.

Zen is based on Firefox, it supports 100% of firefox addons, as well as supporting its own community mods system for changing the browser itself

• When the lines hit your eye
• And it makes a big tri
• That’s Pythagoras

Ok the last line needs some work

Zen is literally the best browser around right now, I do understand the UI isn’t for everybody but if you vibe with it, it rocks

I use sunshine and moonlight using a pi 5 running Android TV as the client. It works perfectly for the occasional video stream but latency for games is a bit rough. You’ll probably be fine playing something relaxed like Stardew Valley but platformers (I’ve tried Ultimate Chicken Horse) and racing games (Mario Kart Wii running in Dolphin) are just bad enough to be unplayable. This is with both devices connected over Ethernet (albeit through a powerline adapter and my router is fairly cheap) so WiFi will probably be worse.

Not sure if sunshine and moonlight just have loads of overhead or if there’s a part of my setup causing the latency.