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I did have a look into Plasma Bigscreen! It looked very cool. I was tempted to just use a Logitech K400 as a "TV remote" with a CEC adapter to make my keyboard control TV volume.

Jack@jackwright.online

I'm thinking of getting a new TV, but, wow. Modern smart TVs are a privacy joke. I think I'm going to meet in a pragmatic middle: buy a new TV, keep it PERMANENTLY off the network, and then use an Apple TV box.

Jack

@jackwright.online

21 Sept

I thought, the trackpad + keyboard combo would actually be a pretty nice experience controlling a TV. So I was going to try it! Plasma Bigscreen is OSS, by KDE. I was going to use Nix, which would give me the latest software and kernel. Vacuumtube for YT. Sponsor block too. Seemed cool.

Jack

@jackwright.online

21 Sept

Last step: hardware. 😭 I was looking at Intel N150 mini PCs, but the price is outrageous. N150 would have been great because it has hardware deciding support for all the latest video codecs like VP9 and AV1.

Jack

@jackwright.online

If the cost of buying a mini PC wasn't so much, I'd have considered this as my next TV experience. It would have been so versatile and powerful and I think quite seamless. But alas, the market shot me down. :(

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