If you can figure out a way to add an LG TV connection that will also change the TV’s inputs, I’m there. Otherwise, the age old problem remains.

I’ve been meaning to check them out! Cheers!

As someone who had been doing exactly this setup for a years, even before streaming was a thing, the key issue is the lack of ease.

When I was watching my own collection just streamed through local intranet, using VLC and a “remote mouse”, the problem always came down to the interface or the remote. It is vastly easier to navigate through menus, etc. on a TV using a remote than even a remote-shaped keyboard. Even when you had everything set up reasonably well in Kodi or something, there was always the issue of having a remote to control the TV and then a remote to control the TV’s PC. Using a keyboard, even one of the small mouse-keyboard combos is a hassle and is ripe with issues when trying to manage anything that needs to be navigated at the PC’s resolutions, especially if you are 8-10ft away from the screen on a sofa. Then, trying to let friends and family use your setup is not even worthwhile. It’s easier to just say, “I don’t have TV” than try to explain.

Case in point, a few years ago, I discovered Jellyfin and it completely changed the way that I watch media. Instead of ensuring that the TV laptop was properly connected to my main desktop where all the drives were connected, and running all shows and movies through numerous playlists, I had Jellyfin doing all the heavy lifting. When it came to adding Jellyfin to my TV, I added the app to the TV, and it all worked exactly like Netflix. One remote, one simple interface, working on nearly every device (PS5 interface can get fracked 😤).

No more ensuring that every TV in the house has a cheap laptop connected to it. No more buying the extra TV-PC remotes with scattered connections and continually having to reconfigure each time I decided to try something else in the setup. No more ensuring that playlists were accessible to each laptop, updating all the laptops, Windows internal connection randomly stopping on the downstairs laptop, trying to duplicate favorite film and TV to extra drives to have on hand in case I’m watching something with friends and the network folders stop registering randomly. Everything just works. Add Jellyfin app to the TV or Roku, or iPad, or whatever, and I have access to my entire collection with ease.

I’ve been doing this for literal decades at this point, and the ease that comes with “install the app and watch” is the reason that people don’t just connect a PC.

Rude. Ruined the whole dang vibe!

PR, so you’d have to build Wine manually to make this patch work, but still incredible progress.

My hope is that within the next year or so, we’ll get some of these major Windows/Mac only apps running without having to run through virtualization.

Running windows is like playing with an action figure. You take it out of the box and it does what it’s supposed to. Linux I consider more like a Lego set. Sure you have to put some stuff together before you really play with it, but it’s YOUR creation by the time your done with it and you can modify to suit your use case

I really love this analogy, and plan to steal it for future use.

How??!? She died!

J/k, I played Max straight and still let the whole town get blown away.

I’m intrigued that this story seems to keep going on forever, apparently. Are they going to turn this into some Assassin’s Creed sort of franchise, where we get a new one every other year?

People are slow to adopt an OS update that makes their phones worse??

That’s odd, right? Downright puzzling.

But, only after not getting an answer from Copilot.

That’s what I have and I love it because it feels solid to use. I bought an expensive Backbone because it was marketed pretty well, but it just felt so flimsy that it had to be returned.

Ah! This is very likely it. I can see all my past comments if I tap on the Comments link. I guess the other comments that fall off are less than >50, so maybe there’s some cutoff.

Devs: If we could tweak that, I know that I would appreciate it.

Man, can’t have nothing!

Michael Scott vibes.

“Brand New Plasma TV. Fits right into the wall.”

Oof!

“The mighty tiger takes a drink at a favored watering hole.”

Isn’t the Chromium project still open source? I guess forking things and building from there doesn’t happen anymore?

I don’t even know how to use Android without Nova…

Why does nothing good ever last?

Are you telling me that after buying that random $400 coat glimpsed in the last 4 years of N7 Day teases, there’s still nothing to show for it?!

Because that would be shady for them to be selling $400 coats that are “featured” in ME5 if this game doesn’t actually happen, and we know that game companies, Post-ME3 BioWare especially, wouldn’t lie to us!

A Google search preview from the official Barcelona Asus store “Asus by MacMan” has accidentally revealed what many feared: the ROG Xbox Ally X will retail for €899, while the standard model sits at €599.

These European prices translate to eye-watering figures globally, potentially pushing the premium handheld well beyond the $1000 threshold in certain markets.

Now, let’s all calm down. This is based on leaked data.

If I had to guess, Microsoft leaked this themselves so that they could gauge just how much we balked at the price, and then come down to something more reasonable, making the still over-priced unit look like a better deal in the end.

Until we see the actual device for sale at this price, let’s set down the pitchforks for another day.

Child endangerment is the Jedi way.

That’s why they are given laser swords that can cut through anything at age six!