Batocera works really well, has a 10ft UI, and includes:
- Kodi to stream local media and can act as an Airplay receiver. I use Jellyfin as a server but I bet Emby would work just as well.
- the ability to run Flatpaks
- a nice 10 ft UI as the default and allows for customization
- emulation backends and moonlight game streaming
- the ability to pair Xbox, PlayStation, or any other Bluetooth controllers
Get a usb IR receiver like FLIRC or something similar with HDMI CEC to control everything via standard remote.
This is the first time I’ve heard anyone say Kodi has a learning curve. I’m curious what you found difficult?
The mini pc is the most flexible. Batocera works really well and includes:
- Kodi to stream local media and can act as an Airplay receiver
- the ability to run Flatpaks
- a nice 10 ft UI
- emulation backends and moonlight game streaming
- the ability to pair Xbox and PlayStation controllers
Get a usb IR receiver like FLIRC or something similar with HDMI CEC to control everything via standard remote.
Vote. Shit won’t change if you don’t make yourself heard.
Firefox + uBlock Origin + arkenfox user.js gives you privacy, security and anti-tracking. The only way to fly IMO.
Firefox + uBlock Origin + arkenfox user.js gives you privacy, security and anti-tracking. The only way to fly IMO.
Firefox now isolates third-party cookies by default for all users. This means that you only need containers if you want to do something like:
- Logging in to multiple accounts on the same site
- Browsing sites that use cookies to limit how many articles you can read
- Having private tabs in the same window as your regular tabs
If you want to remove the extension but not lose the functionality, it's possible to use about:config to manually enable containers by setting
privacy.userContext.enabled and privacy.userContext.ui.enabled to true.
You can then edit your containers from about:preferences#containers
Scoop is preferred as it provides versioning and user installs compared to winget which are typically machine wide and require administrative roles.
Per one of the Arkenfox maintainers: “There's nothing wrong with mozilla's telemetry - it uses PRIO, and it uses GLEAN, and it doesn't collect any PII, and it helps decisions upstream (and I'm not talking pedantic UI changes) that benefit everyone. Opt-in doesn't work. I'm sure you can google why. There is no reason to distrust Mozilla here - you're using their product” https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1659#issuecomment-1518353397
That being said, if anyone wishes to block the telemetry you can do so by following the Arkenfox recommendations and setting up uBO: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions And/or a network wide DNS blocker (which OP did).
Do yourself a favor and check out https://raivo-otp.com It’s FOSS, extremely easy to use, native, and customizable.
This article sums up what has happened a few times already: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
This isn’t any different.