Arkhive

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[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maine I think loops back around to y’all territory…

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

4get.ca has been great for me.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

Hi! Recovering Reddit anarchist here! Although if I’m honest it probably wasn’t until after leaving reddit I really started to understand what anarchism meant, and more openly align with it.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah good to know. I’m using Hyprland on my main device, but never even considered installing anything other than the default on the Garuda box.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Not immutable, but I slapped Garuda on a 2016 gaming laptop to give it a second life and it’s been great for the most part. I got a bit fiddly with it and had to fight my way through some partial upgrade issues, but know I arch based distros better and it’s stable as can be. I honestly don’t update it that often since it just serves are my TV box, and I’m seriously considering swapping to a Nix install now that I’ve mostly stabilized my package list for the purposes of gaming and video encoding. Proton is one of the only things I think get regular updates on that device, but those are entirely handled by Steam, so immutable is very attractive to me for a gaming only system.

I’ll also add that my primary device has arch on it and I do most of my gaming (but also work) there. It’s great, and I can’t help but feel a lot of the distros that are “made for gaming” suffer from a lot of the issues that windows does. They are trying to be preconfigured to work with any and all hardware. This leads to bloated package lists, and just extra guffins to work around as you trouble shoot. I’d say my arch install took a bit longer to get gaming super stable, but I’ve also had to fix much fewer issues compared to the Garuda install.

All the people mentioning Bazzite are making me eye it to replace Garuda tho.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

Ptoughneigh

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I’ve integrated a Boox e-ink tablet with my Linux system using syncthing. Note taking is a treat and can be done right onto PDFs or e-books.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you so much for the info!

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

This. This exactly. I’m friends with few people, but I’m very good friends with them.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know a bit of ASL and am learning more! That was my other thought for live captioning. I’d like to eventually get gesture based input working to, but that will be a dive into computer vision and all that. I’d still be interested in the name of that extension!!

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Could I inquire what accessibility tools and software you use? I generally want to be well educated on these things, but I’ve been considering something like this for myself. Real time captioning software or something like that. I often have headphones or earplugs in for sensory reasons. Even gaming sometimes I’d prefer to not have to hear discord and still communicate with people.

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Degoogling Android TV? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Basically the title but I have a few requirements I’d love to meet.

I have a “Smart Soundbar” that I actually quite like the audio of, as well as serving as an HDMI hub and switch, with a decent remote ect. Basically I like the hardware quite a bit and it is generally high quality, particularly the audio quality, it’s from a reputable home audio company, blah blah blah.

I got it as part of some promo with my ISP so it has their slightly customized version of Android TV on it. I’ve already gotten side loading apps working, I have my YouTube client and VPN running, Jellyfin, all that. Now I just want to get rid of all the google apps and ISP tweaks. I would also love to maintain some sort of casting option akin to chromecast or AirPlay. Is there an Android app that turns a device into an AirPlay receiver? I have one for Linux.

I realize the “best” option is to not connect the thing to the Internet, but that defeats the purpose of having access to say the Netflix app with my VPN running. Or giving relatives a “Netflix” like experience with my Jellyfin server running offsite.

Just looking for any advice on maintaining functionality of the high quality speaker and generally good Android TV interface while clawing back some privacy. I’d be willing to flash it with something totally different though if anyone know how to do that.

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