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Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

Open source is certainly in a great position now but there are some things it’s just not doing that I’m frankly too dumb to do myself. For example, there’s no open source answer to appleTV. The closest thing we have is androidTV and it’s just awful.

I would love to see a TV-centric desktop environment you could run on top of any typical Linux distro. Something implementing live tiles like old windows phone had, a web app that you could access with a smartphone and use to control it like a remote, single-task interface rather than a task-juggling interface we have on normal DEs, sigh. I have a vision I cannot possibly create because that would take incredible skill that I just don’t have to make and I can’t just whine that nobody is making it for me.

Meanwhile, all my Apple stuff works together in a way I generally approve of.

I need to transition away from this at some point but there aren’t always open source solutions for this.

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francois@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As a TV centric distro, there is libreelec libreelec.tv You can use it to stream media from jellyfin, plex or other streaming platforms with plugins

It runs kodi that you can also use in other distros as a package

Kodi supports hdmi-cec, which allows to use your TV remote to control kodi, the hardware needs to be compatible too though (raspberry pis are compatible) There is also a mobile app, Kore, to control kodi on local network

The UX may not be as slick as androidtv/appletv but it is customizable

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essell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m planning to switch my Plex setup to Jellyfin on this new platform. I tried it on my NAS and it almost cooked the very meager CPU 😮

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- muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Jellyfin is HEAVY when doing trickplay scans. But outside of that, it’s really not that demanding. I’m running on an N100 right now but I’ve run it fine on stuff as weak as a rk3399.
  
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meltedcheese@c.im ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@muusemuuse @essell Maybe this? There seem to be a number of possibilities. Let us know what you find out. #HomeAutomation #Maker #SelfHost
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