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im searching for a case i remember hearing in a sponsorship, can anyone help me in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don't know what sponsor you mean, but my Spigen SlimArmor case has little bubbles in the inside of the corner so it can squish more in those areas

Looking for a better HTPC setup in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

For the sake of anyone who finds this looking for a proper answer, SteamOS/Bazzite/ChimeraOS are all suitable for this purpose. I didn't consider them when writing this because I thought they were primarily game focused, but for non-games like Jellyfin or a web browser, you can just add them to your steam library as non-steam games.

Kiosk OS? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If your doing this on a pi with raspian, both of these packages should be available. You can run sudo apt install cage cog in a terminal to install both of them.

Kiosk OS? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I don't know of an OS or distro dedicated to this, but it should be pretty easy using cage-kiosk, a window manager that only allows for a single window, and cog, a very basic web app container.

Install cage and cog on whatever distro you want, setup autologin, then in your ~/.profile add something like

cage -- /usr/bin/cog https://example.com

It should boot directly to the webpage at that point. Make sure to set up ssh before you do all this! System management might get tricky if you dont

Mull and Android WebView in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Android browsers can provide what are called "Custom Tab Intents", meaning that other apps can request to open web pages in a webview-like custom tab. This depends on browser support, with WebView being the fallback when your default browser does not support it.

Please, do not use Brave. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're looking for a chromium based browser, I like Cromite (successor to Bromite). Otherwise, Iceraven and Mull are two Firefox forks for Android that work well in my experience.

Looking for a better HTPC setup in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, most of the websites I use on my TV are pinned on my home screen, and I have wvkbd (on-screen keyboard) bound to the select key on my controller for the times I do need to type

Looking for a better HTPC setup in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a bluetooth keyboard/trackpad combo, and the experience is not good. If I wanted to use a computer, I'd just sit at my desktop. I'm mostly looking for gamepad/controller driven software, but I appreciate the reply.

Looking for a better HTPC setup in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have something similar to this, but 99% of the time I don't need a keyboard, just a mouse and a couple specific keys. Would much rather use a controller personally

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Looking for a better HTPC setup (lemmy.maples.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all! I'm planning on redoing my setup on my PC hooked up to my TV. What I have now works, but I want something a little more streamlined. I mainly use it for watching videos on Piped (YouTube frontend) and tv/movies in Jellyfin, but I recently set up Sunshine/Moonlight for game streaming, and my current setup doesn't allow me to use my existing controller for games.

Right now, I'm using sway on Arch. I have AntimicroX setup to bind a controllers left joystick to mouse, right joystick to scroll, and the buttons to some unused function keys. I also have keyd set up to bind those function keys to combos, which get handled by binds in my sway config. I have it setup so the start button opens my program launcher, the triggers control volume, etc. I chose to do it this way because Kodi/OSMC/Elec do not have a functional web browser, which I need for Piped. I did test using Kodi just for media viewing, but my entire media library (which I currently access with jellyfin) is HEVC, and nothing would play in kodi. I would love to use AV1 instead, but I don't have any hardware than can encode it and software transcoding my whole library would take forever, so I'm limited to using Jellyfin Media Player.

My current upgrade plan is to use Flex Launcher running in cage for a home screen with icons for Firefox, jellyfin, and my games. For web browsing I could use a script that launches AntimicroX+keyd before opening Firefox, so that I can still have controller based web browsing. Jellyfin Media Player supposedly supports gamepads, so that should just work.

Before I set up this mess of an environment, does anyone have any suggestions? Is there an existing solution that supports the features I want? Or if you were setting this up, would you use any different approaches or tools? Thanks!

Edit: I'm not looking for keyboard recs. I already have a mini Bluetooth one for tvs and it's not the experience I'm looking for.

What is your preferred daily driver distribution? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Arch for the last 8ish years. I'm interested in switching to something immutable and with a declarative package manager, but every time I try something else I end up back on arch. It works and has all the packages I use ¯_(ツ)_/¯

What Reddit client did you use before the API changes? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Relay, then Boost, ended on Infinity.

What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FACT: 100% of people that consume Dihydrogen Monoxide die.