mortrek

mortrek , 27 days ago

I'd go for Jellyfin over Plex myself.

mortrek , 1 month ago

There's a dozen apps for it, but I wouldn't trust them to do a perfect job. At a bare minimum, you'd probably need to keep said app up to date at all times, and it'd need to be one that runs in the background or runs on every boot or something.

mortrek , 1 month ago

My favorite general image viewer is nomacs.

mortrek , 2 months ago

I guess an AOSP-based rom, if one exists for your phone?

mortrek , 2 months ago

Never connect your smart TV to the internet. Just don't do it. Get a third party device or ideally use an old PC with an appropriate HTPC Linux distro or something.

mortrek , 2 months ago

Reply to old reply, sorry. Technically blocking the IP isn't perfect either. In theory, as long as it has the wifi credentials, and your wifi has access to the internet, your TV will be able to access the internet if it really wants to. All it'd have to do is ignore the IP assignment or fake/change a MAC address during DHCP. I don't know why a "legit" TV would do this, but if you get some unbranded Chinese thing, or if any wifi device wants to be malicious, it can bypass DHCP+IP filters very easily.

mortrek , 3 months ago

That's the plot of the old 90s pc game Alien Legacy.

mortrek , 5 months ago

You basically just rephrased multiple scenes with Frank in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...

"I mean, I don't give a shit. If I was dead you could bang me all you want. I mean, who cares? A dead body is like a piece of trash. I mean, shove as much shit in there as you want. Fill me up with cream, make a stew out of my ass. What's the big deal? Bang me, eat me, grind me up into little pieces, throw me in the river. Who gives a shit? You're dead, you're dead! Oh shit! Is my mic on?"

or another episode: "When I die, just throw me in the trash!"

Just thought it was funny to find people mirroring Frank Reynolds in real life... although I always pretty much agreed with him. I'm more concerned with how traumatizing it'd be for my family to see me in a ditch, or being filled with cream.

mortrek , 5 months ago

I love Linux, but I never expect it to be mainstream or even extremely accessible to typical users. In fact, if it made it to mainstream, it'd probably get ruined somehow by corporate interference, monetization, etc. How you may ask? Well, corporations have a lot of money and influence and I'm sure they could "find a way" if motivated to do so.

mortrek , 5 months ago

They probably meant "everything that they use it for". Like, in my case everything on Linux works for me, but I don't play multiplayer games or use Photoshop. I have a single old monitor that can't do HDR. I don't watch Netflix. To be fair and pedantic, not everything anyone could possibly ever want to do works on Windows 11, either.