You can use any DE you want on just about any distro you want

I have a google TV device and I didn’t even know they had a free option FROM google, but Pluto and tubi already have ads so not really surprising google would too… I just use jellyfin and smart tube, haven’t seen ads in ages.

It is on f-droid too. This isnt being “unhinged” its just calling out google for their hypocrisy and pointless "privacy” policies and citing lots of examples.

I’ve had good luck using phind.com for things when I need help because it actually cites sources which give you further context.

How do you mean they are spamming?

Mint is a good alterative. It has an xfce edition.

Using a live usb is the correct answer since compiling a custom initramfs would require one anyway and just add more steps… Not sure what gives you the impression using a liveusb is “more complicated” but its not.

Keep trying, check protondb for the games you want to play, popos is probably the best, or garuda has support for nvidia out of the box

If nothing else just try back once or twice a year whenever you see a new release from the distro you want to use. The 1660 is a pretty common card so in general it should be well supported.

This is a tough situation because the more changes to settings you make the more unique you will appear. Less is more in this case, libre wolf or Mullvad are both good Firefox based browsers with good defaults. My biggest recommendation to add is a cookie auto delete plugin, or if you dont need to keep anything logged in even better just have it delete cookies on shutdown.

Can you upgrade the desktop? What speed is your laptops WiFi?

I just use rsync manually until I have syncthig working but these don’t really solve slowdown issues and aren’t mounted. I would look into a better NIC and/or storage for the desktop or possibly your router.

Try using something like iperf to measure raw speed of the connection between your 2 systems, see if its what it should be (around 300-600mbps for wireless to wired locally) and try to narrow down where the bottleneck is.

I use boost and voyager

Pitch is basically twitter but on Tor.

Depends on your use case but I found a plugin to use openai for dictation in obsidian

Glad you found what you need. Ive never needed any browser plugins to use JDL2, it just works with copy and past and monitors your clipboard,

Jdownloader2 is the the best, I’ve not used anything else for years.

Well I know the older 2021 models could be flashed with lineageos and the 2023 might also but its not really an ideal OS for a TV and not really optimized but there is nothing really stopping you from enabling debug mode and unlocking the bootloader on it.

I haven’t done a deep dive but I know my way around adb and disabled almost all the apps i didn’t want and I don’t notice any abnormal activity going on when its supposed to be idle for example.

I didn’t want to link to or reddit but you can find guides on how to remov what little bloat it does come with.

Onn TV box from walmart is $20

There is also a 15 stick version…

You could find lower end/older devices that will work too but when you can get a new 2023 box that’s up to date and not full of bloatware or spyware, why would you want to risk it?

A raspi isnt what id consider low end or cheap in regards to jellyfin, but it will def work fine.

Use https://dockstarter.com

Follow https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Dockstarter/

I would also suggest prowlarr instead of jackett.

If that’s too hard then I think you should consider renting a seedbox that has easy one click install options for all the ARRs.

You could ask the same about “free market” capitalism, it’s impossible to have a successful truely capitalists economy too, the US is a mixed economy, China is also a mixed economy… Any future “socialist” based country would still have a mixed economy… The issue is not socialism vs capitalism, it’s a question of how much regulation is needed for the economy in order to minimize the suffering of people overall while increasing the average quality of life.

Some things are better handled collectively and with strong regulations; you probably want your heart surgeon to have a medical license, but you also probably don’t want to have to give up your house and life savings to get said surgery, you probably don’t want the plastic manufacturing company up river from your drinking water to just do what’s economically most profitably and dump their waste into the water, but you probably don’t want to pay the price for bottled water to nestle every time you turn on the tap either.

Since you’re on a reading kick maybe look into some of the past attempted creations of liberatian “utopias” and ask youself why anyone would be foolish enough to think that model might work,

I’d suggest to start: A libertarian walks into a bear.

So like… Public messages they posed on public servers are being published…and a company other than discord is profiting from this? Oh no! I better be careful what I post on discord… Next thing you know they’ll start selling Lemmy data too.

If you haven’t already tried it I would also highly recommend phind.com for troubleshooting or coding questions.

Also for a nice quick access to gpt from your terminal grab “tgpt” and you can ask questions directly from your terminal.