Libelec (kodi) is fine if only playing local media but its use for anything else except realdebrid is extremely lacking. On the plus side it will run great on an Rpi5 and if you go that route you can probably even use your TV remote because Libelec has excellent CEC support.

Jellyfin/Plex is something your TV also probably has an app for, so you wouldn’t even need a media center, just a media server.

Plasma Bigscreen is making slow gains, but in a couple of years will probably be the definitive Linux media center PC.

Also a bit unconventional, but Bazzite can load directly into Steam’s big picture mode. From there you could set shortcuts for Jellyfin or Plex HTPC.

They seem to be working on uh, syncing all the sync features. There have been some updates recently.

My understanding is that it wasn’t so much his “choice in tools” it was privacy concerns surrounding that choice.

I think CWA is the one to watch. It’s progress has been slower but steady.

Crazy. It had a meteoric rise.

I guess CWA is the one to use now. In a way I’m glad the space will have only a single major player.

Damn 99% of the time someone says not to use an open source product it’s because of some obscure drama unrelated to the actual program.

But in this case the dev appears to not just be using AI code (not great but debatable) but using mostly AI code and using AI to reply to bug reports. Not something the average person wants to be running in a live environment.

I haven’t used Booklore but the excitement around it was nudging me there. I think I’ll stick with CWAs slower rollout.

I can tell I’m in a bubble because I was shocked Bazzite wasn’t the top recommended distro basically everywhere someone might search “Linux gaming distro”

LOL I knew if I put “VPN” as the first thing someone would reply before reading the whole comment

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/proton-vpn-passes-its-fourth-consecutive-no-logs-audit-heres-what-that-means-for-your-data

Use a VPN and also only share the most common, unoriginal thoughts, parrot the opinions of influencers, and never ever reveal anything that might hint at what makes you a unique soul flickering through the universe.

(basically act like a redditor)

Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?

Is there a list of sources this pulls from?

So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a form of Chromium?

It was my understanding that moving forward full fat UBO would not work on any modern Chromium browser, but I’m admittedly not enough of an expert to know better.

It’s Chromium based, doesn’t that mean uBlock isn’t going to work as well?

I’ve never woken up the next morning regretting greasy food

+1 for Bookstack. Very simple and easy to learn.

The highly abridged version is that Red Hat pays for and helps with developing Fedora and makes their money from providing support to companies that use it.

If they stopped supporting Fedora (would kind of kill their business model but let’s pretend) anyone could “fork” it and continue working on their own version just like other distros.

They pretty much just remove you from all those different people finder websites. Not the data brokers that Meta (etc) sell to/from.

It’s still beneficial if you can afford it, but more likely to protect you from targeted scams or stalkers etc. than anything Big Tech.

Immutability just means the system files can’t be edited easily. Basically every time you update you’re updating the entire OS all at once. Which is a good way to keep things stable while also modern!

Unless there’s an application not available via Appimage or Flatpak (“app store”), most users will never even come up against the immutability aspect.