I’ve got an X220 as my secondary laptop, currently running Debian. It’s had several mods/upgrades and it’s still a very useful machine.

Every smartphone platform has media player apps available that can play locally stored media files. Seems a better idea to me to use the device already there just in a different way.

There’s also plenty of great media player hardware on the used market if people really must have a dedicated device for this.

I was at an expo once and a marketing guy I was with said similar as we passed a VR booth. He said that VR users looked like people flailing their arms around with buckets in their heads, and that it would be very hard to sell the experience to outsiders who hadn’t already tried it.

Unfortunately it also seems the use cases are still fairly limited even when people do try it.

I’m using Jellyfin with 2 Apple TV 4Ks, one newer and one older. As other commenters have said there is no complete official Jellyfin app for Apple TV.

Swiftfin is the in development new app for Apple platforms, but it still very incomplete. Basic video playback works, but there are a lot of missing features like music and live tv support. The interface is functional but still fairly crude, and in the current version there’s a lot of ugly overflow issues in the UI. Video playback has always been reliable for me though. It will improve as development progresses but for now it’s very much a work in progress.

The other option is Infuse, which has a much nicer and mature UI, but also isn’t fully feature complete for Jellyfin. It also a proprietary app with a subscription to unlock all features. I’ve tried the free version and it seems to work well enough, video playback was smooth.

I think there are few other small apps but I haven’t tried them.

I wish there were better options for clients as the Apple TV is the best streaming box I’ve found but the Jellyfin support could be better.

I just hope the shockwave doesn’t knock down the rest of the economy with it.

AFP has been long overdue for retirement. I do wish Apple would improve their SMB implementation though, it’s had performance issues and weird bugs for ages.

This has always felt like something that doesn’t belong in a web browser to me.

I’m using a Drayton Wiser thermostat, which uses WiFi but has a fully local integration via HACS. Has worked great for me so far.

Maybe it’s just me but it’s felt like a particular bleak January and February this year.

Happy to see some sun even if that also comes with the start of allergy season.

I have a smart water meter installed by the utility provider with a cloud integration, unfortunately the readings have a 24-48h delay so it’s no use for real time monitoring.

Unfortunately many parts of Sailfish are proprietary though.

Quite a different result from what the polls were predicting.

As a British person that’s something I thought I’d never see.

Arrested on his birthday too.

Well that’s something I thought I would never see.

The school thing is a good point. We called hot meals at school dinners, that were served by dinner ladies.

But we also had packed lunches that we ate out of lunchboxes.

BPAs have been shown to absorbed through the skin. Headphones are increasingly worn for long, continuous periods. Unlike other plastic objects which are handled for shorter periods.

I’m not entirely convinced of the danger myself (tinnitus seems a bigger worry for headphone use to me), but I thought it was a matter worthy of further discussion.

Tea. Dinner only used for Sundays or Christmas.

Mostly Zigbee. Depending on the sensor, location and activity I’m getting between 6-18 months per battery, but I do have a lot of sensor, so there’s a regular churn of batteries.

Having passive sensors for smart home use would save me lot of time and money changing batteries. Interesting to see where this goes.

I didnt realise how rich some of my friends were until I went to their house. The uniform made us all equals in the classroom

Uniforms have never done that in my experience, because there are plenty of wealth signifiers outside of uniforms kids will still notice (pencil cases, bags, PE trainers, mobile phones etc), and even the uniforms themselves are not worn equally. The rich kids have clean uniforms that get regular replaced each term, the poor ones had dirty and ill fitting hand-me-downs.