Nicro

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[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good to hear. Having a raspberry and kodi focused base with an open Linux backend sounds good. Will try that later.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is sendtokodi, which uses yt-dlp. I'm a bit surprised that there are no newpipe-extractor clients for Kodi, since there should be hooks for everything you'd need. Then again, I don't know how well it works outside of Android.

 

Heya, I'm currently running Libreelec 12 on an Argon One RPi 4B, but hit a snag when I wanted youtube playback. The "official" youtube addon needs an API key, which just adds complexity when you don't use a google account. I'm fond of Newpipe on android and thought it would be a nice addition but there is no flatpack support. I've hit the limits of LEs atomic nature a couple times and so, wanted to check out alternatives. My requirements are:

  • working Argon One integration (remote and power signaling)

  • Kodi autoboot

  • docker/podman

  • waydroid/flatpack for Newpipe

  • ideally backed by an unrestricted Linux install for background services

Obvious contender would be OSMC, but whenever I search for setups and experiences, people just complain about all the stuff that doesn't work, and there is no listing available for what comes included in the appstore/repo.

I could also go manual with RPiOS/Debian/Ubuntu, but I would like a set-and-forget kodi-box and taking a more generic distro might complicate things.

Can I get some opinions on OSMC, as well as what you are rocking on your Kodi-setups. Thanks in advance.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on how far you want to go. From what I've been able to tell, they pedel a lot of flashy metrics and still had a bunch of google calls. Some of which you can manually remove, same as LOS. I would avoid buying into their cloud and keeping an eye on things yourself, if you want to install it. I saw them rebrand a bunch of OSS tooling as their own products back then. Don't know if things changed since then, but I don't trust the marketing.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm on Tuxedo now, really nice so far. Thanks.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm currently on Tuta, because I can't imagine Mail without a free tier. It's run out of Germany(EU). Its 3€ a month for the normal tier, free takes away most features. Like Proton, you need to use their (OSS)-Client, for encryption reasons. It's currently growing and I hope they don't go crazy anytime soon.

I was looking at Posteo, but I don't want my entire internet identity to be gone, if I ever can't pay for it.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

I'd be a good start, if content platforms had to apply the same guidelines to ads, as they do to content. It's kinda telling that people on the platform need to not swear, while the ad below goes "You can't last 5 seconds in this NFT gambling waifu gatcha collector aimed at teens." or just offer money freud scams directly.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I was avoiding Debian for the staleness, but it might be what I go for. I use ungoogled chromium, and all but the flatpak version seem to lag behind. I don't like the packaged dependencies for each app, since there tend to be a lot of redundancies and bigger deltas. Though if you fully commit to flatpak, with Debian as a stable base, that might be good. The more I try to customize Mint, the more it fights me.

 

Heya, I'm currently on Opensuse Slowroll with KDE-Wayland and came from Leap for more recent updates. Even if Slowroll promises monthly big updates, the rolling snapshots still seem to replace most of the system weekly with ~4GB downloads. I don't like that. I looked at Fedora, but found that I would like .deb-compatibility, if I'm already switching. Debian stable is as stale as Leap from what I can see. Debian testing is in flux, and people don't agree on stability. Kubuntu has built-in reliance on snaps, which makes me hesitant to switch. I'm currently trying Mint-Xfce with post-install KDE, it doesn't seem to have wayland support.

Are there any good daily-drivers with sane updates and good support, I should try? I'm not willing to do proper Arch yet, never mind that that would be bleeding-edge-rolling. ^_^

Edit: I'm now on TuxedoOS, it's snapless Ubuntu with official KDE-wayland support. It handles Nvidia automatically and only corrupted it's home-partition once, so far.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

An advantage of Tuta and Proton is, that there is a basic free tier. Your Mail is a center-point of your online activity. Hoping it to never happen, if you ever can't afford the (cheap) price, you won't lose access to your mail. Which would suck, for all accounts linked to it.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From what I've seen, the argon does passive-cool alright too. With Flirc I'd need to keep the mini-HDMI-dongle and buy a separate IR dongle, that takes up a usb-slot and doesn't have a low-power MCU. My Pi is currently in a no-name passive-case already. Unless I misunderstood you, I don't see the advantage.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Yes, that's what I meant by "widevine tax", the certification is done by Google for a fee.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah, it's kinda telling, if you look at my prime subscription for example. I can either:

  • Hook into the web-service with Kodi, breaking TOS and theoretically risking the account. While Google, missing their widevine tax, limits the quality.

  • Pirate the same content without an account, at full 4K.

It's truly a service problem.

[–] Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

I do have a Jellyfin server, this is mainly about being able to use the subscriptions I happen to already pay for. Decoding on the pi is actually quite decent with hvec and x264.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

I bought a monitor since the smarts in my smart-tv died, making the entire display unusable. Now I wanted to use a separate SBC for smarts in the "dumb" monitor. I would have gone for a modded fire-stick, but Amazon in their infinite wisdom, sunset all versions except the 720p potato and the smart-speaker-cube. I'm currently using a RaspberryPi 4 and looking at argon one for a remote control case. Googles widevine does limit the DRM on some content I "own" though. With Amazon on course to EOL the more sane sticks, are there any well-moddable streaming-sticks/boxes, that bring the relevant codecs and DRMs?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

The EMMC on my PC-TV finally broke down and I'd like to replace it with something that doesn't run an OS or will predictably fail with a countdown. But dumb TVs are hard to come by and monitors come at a premium at that size. I want to run a PC (DP/HDMI) and an SBC (HDMI) with it. I also have an S2 satellite cable, but that's secondary. I'd like to have ~43", 16:9, 4K but without an embedded smart-hub, ideally running of eeprom-firmware, or just anything independent of write-cycles. But I can't find any good options online. Are there companies for this. Comments and recommendations welcome.

Edit: I'm EU, hence the DVB-S2 cable. Scepter would be great, but doesn't run on EU power.

Edit: I've pretty much settled on a philips 439P1/00. I'll give it another day, but it seems good. The PC over DP is my main focus and I can connect my own SBC for streaming. It lacks freesync but has adaptive sync and basic HDR. Being an office-monitor, it has no smarts and at ~600 bucks with consumer warranty and support it fits what I'm asking for well. Industry-signage wasn't really an option.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Nicro@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Hey there,

Due to having an unlocked bootloader, I fail safetynet. So Google-Pay is locked out, even if I wanted to use it. I find cash or cards to inconvenient, since my dexterity is impaired.

So I looked into getting an nfc-token to pay with and found that my bank is partnered with Fidesmo. This would allow for mobile-pay without an extra party involved. They seem fine from what I found online and they do publish some client-code on Github, but I had never heard of them.

Does anyone have any info on them?

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