Bored. Give me a good "Living room PC" distro
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Points for something I've never tried.
Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done.
I use voidlinux. Best ever. -
Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done.
I use voidlinux. Best ever.Similar here.
MythTv + Firefox + VLC - all on Arch
Used to be easier when Myth was in the main repos, now I have to compile from AUR, but it's still ok
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I daily drive NixOS and use it in many other situations. However, I'm also a systems engineer and it's the distro I use for managing all the environments.
I'm sure it was a joke(ish), but definitely not for the light-hearted or fairweather penguins.
Definitely not for the light-hearted, but if OP is willing to take a month or so to learn Nixlang it actually gets quite easy and you can do pretty much everything with it. No need for Timeshift either. You'd have to really work at breaking it and once its set up that's it.
Not to mention if you upgrade your system/SSD you only need a few key nix files and some dotfiles to basically clone your whole setup, especially if you use home-manager
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Yes but we all know no one talks about Linux and is referring to Android.
@Ulrich I have an android tablet with an termio on it, basically gives me an x-term with an ssh connection. Can also look around locally. Granted they've really screwed up the file system layout, much like Mac fucked up BSD, but it is recognizably Linux. -
@Ulrich I have an android tablet with an termio on it, basically gives me an x-term with an ssh connection. Can also look around locally. Granted they've really screwed up the file system layout, much like Mac fucked up BSD, but it is recognizably Linux.
...cool?
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This is very cool! Thanks for sharing.
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Similar here.
MythTv + Firefox + VLC - all on Arch
Used to be easier when Myth was in the main repos, now I have to compile from AUR, but it's still ok
What do you record with mythTV?
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None. Move your living room to the forest and never look back. Be free.
Not free, hard to get food and necessities, but yeah, some days I wish it was that easy, though I'd be hella bored.
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What do you record with mythTV?
TV programs...
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TV programs...
Via online websites or via TV capture card?
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Points for something I've never tried.
I've been using Nobara. If you are looking for an open system to tinker with, it is a great choice. It runs with pretty bleeding edge packages though.
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Via online websites or via TV capture card?
Ah, I see what you're asking now.
I have a Hauppauge TV dual-tuner card for terrestrial TV.
Dual tuner so we can watch one thing whilst recording something else, or record 2 things at once.
Myth picks up the card and also uses that for the schedule guide, so we can just set up the scheduler with a TV series or some key-words and leave it to it.
We've not watched live TV for ages and it's weird sitting through adverts now when we're at friends / family
We also have GBs of films and music on the same machine, so it's our central AV device. The Audio is sync'd off to other devices from here rather than having a 2nd NAS for it.
I had a 2nd MythTv frontend on another box in another room for a while and that worked well too.
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Ah, I see what you're asking now.
I have a Hauppauge TV dual-tuner card for terrestrial TV.
Dual tuner so we can watch one thing whilst recording something else, or record 2 things at once.
Myth picks up the card and also uses that for the schedule guide, so we can just set up the scheduler with a TV series or some key-words and leave it to it.
We've not watched live TV for ages and it's weird sitting through adverts now when we're at friends / family
We also have GBs of films and music on the same machine, so it's our central AV device. The Audio is sync'd off to other devices from here rather than having a 2nd NAS for it.
I had a 2nd MythTv frontend on another box in another room for a while and that worked well too.
I've not had a TV for like 10 years, just using youtube and torrents, but this seems interesting for an idea... I wonder where my aerial connection port is...
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Points for something I've never tried.
I use Q4OS as it is super light but Debian based. Install KDEConnect and I run a dumb large TV as my TV and control it from my phone. If younwa5ch YT, run Freetube.
