I have a dedicated gaming PC running Bazzite and it’s been perfect so far. I wanted a console but PC and got it.

Tailscale + Rustdesk has worked for me so far.

Simple, easy, free and just works.

Step 1: buy a Professional Domain like antibot-enterprise-pro.com

Step 2: CNAME it to techaro.lol

Step 3: Profit!!

Optionally just sell them the rebranded Anubis with a different name for 500 a month, pay 50 to techaro, rest of it to a queer friendly charity.

And what did your tcpdump reveal?

LG levels of bullshittery? Or Sony style fingerprinting of anything on the screen?

Most of the apps I use directly support casting to their respective ATV apps.

YouTube 100% works with any device, but I don’t have a daily driver Android so can’t confirm other apps.

TBH most apps exist natively on the Apple TV so “casting” something to it is a non-issue. It’s more of a Chromecast thing to use your phone as the source, leaving the relatively underpowered Chromecast puck just for pure video streaming.

Apple TV on the other hand is massively overpowered for most stuff people use it for.

Apple TV 🤷

No ads, very little base level telemetry. Very good app support because of the large install base. I still run the first gen ATV 4k and just this latest tvOS version is the first update it didn’t get. Everything still works as normal.

Rumours say there’s a new one coming this month, but we’ll see.

If you are more of a hacker type, the Nvidia Shield is relatively ancient hardware wise but still top tier if you throw away the Google shit and spend some time with 3rd party tools.

And you can get 4k Chromecasts for like 19€ used, even the ones with the remote included.

Need to look into your ebook flow.

I… dislike Calibre because of the “unique” UI setup and the fact that it’s next to impossible to self-host on a NAS.

But sadly it has every feature ever, which makes it essential and irreplaceable.

Asian supermarket and specifically the toasted kind

You need a few drops of it, the taste is pretty intense

Toasted sesame oil, sunflower oil, a bit of salt and pepper and fry it a bit to get it a bit crispy - or just warm it up a bit if in a hurry

Broccoli

It’s super good if you just cook it right

Yea, Jellyfin might be good tech but the fans are insufferable

Maybe if you’re stupid and don’t go directly for the billionaires

Now guide your parents through installing Jellyfin on their TV so they can connect to your instance.

That’s why people get Plex.

Basically the local models don’t (and can’t) contain the full knowledge of the universe.

BUT they can call tools pretty well and if you give the harness the capability to search Wikipedia for example, it becomes a lot smarter

Qwen3.5 and Gemma4 are the best ones for tool calling that don’t need massive amounts of memory

Nothing you can run with affordable hardware. The SOTA stuff requires hundreds of gigabytes of memory - and not RAM, GPU memory.

But you can try with stuff like gpt-oss or qwen coder

His star was just rising and the way he died was so fucking stupid and preventable.

No drugs or partying, just a piece of shit American car…

I do run Jellyfin too, it’s pretty handy at getting metadata for stuff locally so I have something outside of Plex’s internal databases.

And IIRC I have used Jellyfin in the past to watch some more esoteric stuff that Plex (and its official clients) couldn’t play.

But there’s no way in hell I’m opening it to the outside world.

I paid 79€ or something for Plex Lifetime well over a decade ago and it’s by far the best bang for buck I’ve ever got.

It’s also dead simple to share it with friends and acquaintances safely. I know how to manage VPN tunnels and all that shit. I’m not setting that up for my aunt who lives 4 hours away. We did manage to get Plex running on her TV over the phone though.

A 20€ plan of Claude Code for a month will teach you all of it.

It’s pretty much just scripting ffmpeg and feeding the screenshots to a local model via an API (or use a CLIP model)