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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Do you have a TV in the same room as your PC? Or maybe have you connected it to your Living Room?

    I’ve setup a Android TV image, installed Jellyfin and SmartTube.
    Paired with a cheap bluetooth remote, it makes a pretty sweet media consumption setup for the couch.

    Now obviously, you don’t need Waydroid for this at all, you could use native applications but

    • The native Jellyfin app for Linux is just a wrapper around the web UI, so you need a mouse to use it, making it annoying to interact with from the couch
    • You can use Kodi with Jellyfin plugins, but the default Kodi skin sucks so you’ll find yourself taking a loooot of time configuring a third-party skin before you’re happy with the UI
    • You can get browser extensions that trick YouTube into loading their TV interface, but the stock YouTube TV UI sucks compared to SmartTube

    So yeah in the end I’ve found this setup to be my favorite “10-foot UI” for media consumption yet.
    You turn your desktop into an Android TV box except it’s the fastest you ever used and it has 0 bloat.
    Only thing it won’t do is full quality streaming from Netflix or other streaming services because DRM, but I don’t really care about that.


  • To add on to this, I’m pretty sure Ly changed their service, I remember seeing a message about it during my last system upgrade and having to enable the new one, though annoyingly it seems they didn’t mention it on their release notes, only during the update message.

    Anyway, from the wiki

    Two steps are reqired to start Ly at boot. First make sure to enable ly@ttyX.service, then disable getty@ttyX.service where X stands for a number from 1 to 6.














  • TL;DR: Don’t open .lnk files.

    Here’s a list of blocked file names I’m using on my Qbittorrent. Contains executables and other junk I don’t want getting downloaded, maybe y’all get some use out of it too:

    Super long list

    *(sample).*
    *.0xe
    *.73k
    *.73p
    *.7z
    *.89k
    *.89z
    *.8ck
    *.a7r
    *.ac
    *.acc
    *.ace
    *.acr
    *.actc
    *.action
    *.actm
    *.ade
    *.adp
    *.afmacro
    *.afmacros
    *.ahk
    *.ai
    *.aif
    *.air
    *.alz
    *.api
    *.apk
    *.app
    *.appimage
    *.applescript
    *.application
    *.appx
    *.arc
    *.arj
    *.arscript
    *.asb
    *.asp
    *.aspx
    *.aspx-exe
    *.atmx
    *.azw2
    *.ba_
    *.bak
    *.bas
    *.bash
    *.bat
    *.bdjo
    *.bdmv
    *.beam
    *.bin
    *.bmp
    *.bms
    *.bns
    *.bsa
    *.btm
    *.bz2
    *.c
    *.cab
    *.caction
    *.cci
    *.cda
    *.cdb
    *.cel
    *.celx
    *.cfs
    *.cgi
    *.cheat
    *.chm
    *.ckpt
    *.cla
    *.class
    *.clpi
    *.cmd
    *.cof
    *.coffee
    *.com
    *.command
    *.conf
    *.config
    *.cpl
    *.crt
    *.cs
    *.csh
    *.csharp
    *.csproj
    *.css
    *.csv
    *.cue
    *.cur
    *.cyw
    *.daemon
    *.dat
    *.data-00000-of-00001
    *.db
    *.deamon
    *.deb
    *.dek
    *.diz
    *.dld
    *.dll
    *.dmc
    *.dmg
    *.doc
    *.docb
    *.docm
    *.docx
    *.dot
    *.dotb
    *.dotm
    *.drv
    *.ds
    *.dw
    *.dword
    *.dxl
    *.e_e
    *.ear
    *.ebacmd
    *.ebm
    *.ebs
    *.ebs2
    *.ecf
    *.eham
    *.elf
    *.elf-so
    *.email
    *.emu
    *.epk
    *.es
    *.esh
    *.etc
    *.ex4
    *.ex5
    *.ex_
    *.exe
    *.exe-only
    *.exe-service
    *.exe-small
    *.exe1
    *.exopc
    *.exz
    *.ezs
    *.ezt
    *.fas
    *.fba
    *.fky
    *.flac
    *.flatpak
    *.flv
    *.fpi
    *.frs
    *.fxp
    *.gadget
    *.gat
    *.gif
    *.gifv
    *.gm9
    *.gpe
    *.gpu
    *.gs
    *.gz
    *.h5
    *.ham
    *.hex
    *.hlp
    *.hms
    *.hpf
    *.hta
    *.hta-psh
    *.htaccess
    *.htm
    *.html
    *.icd
    *.icns
    *.ico
    *.idx
    *.iim
    *.img
    *.index
    *.inf
    *.ini
    *.ink
    *.ins
    *.ipa
    *.ipf
    *.ipk
    *.ipsw
    *.iqylink
    *.isp
    *.isu
    *.ita
    *.izh
    *.jar
    *.java
    *.jpeg
    *.jpg
    *.js
    *.js_be
    *.js_le
    *.jse
    *.jsf
    *.json
    *.jsp
    *.jsx
    *.kix
    *.ksh
    *.kx
    *.lck
    *.ldb
    *.lib
    *.link
    *.lnk
    *.lo
    *.lock
    *.log
    *.loop-vbs
    *.ls
    *.m3u
    *.m4a
    *.mac
    *.macho
    *.mamc
    *.manifest
    *.mcr
    *.md
    *.mda
    *.mdb
    *.mde
    *.mdf
    *.mdn
    *.mdt
    *.mel
    *.mem
    *.meta
    *.mgm
    *.mhm
    *.mht
    *.mhtml
    *.mid
    *.mio
    *.mlappinstall
    *.mlx
    *.mm
    *.mobileconfig
    *.model
    *.moo
    *.mpa
    *.mpk
    *.mpls
    *.mrc
    *.mrp
    *.ms
    *.msc
    *.msh
    *.msh1
    *.msh1xml
    *.msh2
    *.msh2xml
    *.mshxml
    *.msi
    *.msi-nouac
    *.msix
    *.msl
    *.msp
    *.mst
    *.msu
    *.mxe
    *.ncl
    *.net
    *.nexe
    *.nrg
    *.num
    *.nzb.bz2
    *.nzb.gz
    *.nzbs
    *.ocx
    *.odt
    *.ore
    *.ost
    *.osx
    *.osx-app
    *.otm
    *.out
    *.ova
    *.paf
    *.pak
    *.pb
    *.pcd
    *.pdb
    *.pdf
    *.pea
    *.perl
    *.pex
    *.phar
    *.php
    *.php5
    *.pif
    *.pkg
    *.pl
    *.plsc
    *.plx
    *.png
    *.pol
    *.pot
    *.potm
    *.powershell
    *.ppam
    *.ppkg
    *.pps
    *.ppsm
    *.ppt
    *.pptm
    *.pptx
    *.prc
    *.prg
    *.ps
    *.ps1
    *.ps1xml
    *.ps2
    *.ps2xml
    *.psc1
    *.psc2
    *.psd
    *.psd1
    *.psh
    *.psh-cmd
    *.psh-net
    *.psh-reflection
    *.psm1
    *.pst
    *.pt
    *.pvd
    *.pwc
    *.pxo
    *.py
    *.pyc
    *.pyd
    *.pyo
    *.python
    *.pyz
    *.qit
    *.qpx
    *.ram
    *.raw
    *.rb
    *.rbf
    *.rbx
    *.reg
    *.resources
    *.resx
    *.rfs
    *.rfu
    *.rgs
    *.rm
    *.rox
    *.rpg
    *.rpj
    *.rpm
    *.ruby
    *.run
    *.rxe
    *.s2a
    *.sample
    *.sapk
    *.savedmodel
    *.sbs
    *.sca
    *.scar
    *.scb
    *.scf
    *.scpt
    *.scptd
    *.scr
    *.script
    *.sct
    *.seed
    *.server
    *.service
    *.sfv
    *.sh
    *.shb
    *.shell
    *.shortcut
    *.shs
    *.shtml
    *.sit
    *.sitx
    *.sk
    *.sldm
    *.sln
    *.smm
    *.snap
    *.snd
    *.spr
    *.sql
    *.sqx
    *.srec
    *.ssm
    *.sts
    *.sub
    *.svg
    *.swf
    *.sys
    *.tar
    *.tar.gz
    *.tbl
    *.tbz
    *.tcp
    *.text
    *.tf
    *.tgz
    *.thm
    *.thmx
    *.thumb
    *.tiapp
    *.tif
    *.tiff
    *.tipa
    *.tmp
    *.tms
    *.toast
    *.torrent
    *.tpk
    *.txt
    *.u3p
    *.udf
    *.upk
    *.upx
    *.url
    *.uvm
    *.uw8
    *.vb
    *.vba
    *.vba-exe
    *.vba-psh
    *.vbapplication
    *.vbe
    *.vbs
    *.vbscript
    *.vbscript
    *.vcd
    *.vdo
    *.vexe
    *.vhd
    *.vhdx
    *.vlx
    *.vm
    *.vmdk
    *.vob
    *.vocab
    *.vpm
    *.vxp
    *.war
    *.wav
    *.wbk
    *.wcm
    *.webm
    *.widget
    *.wim
    *.wiz
    *.wma
    *.workflow
    *.wpk
    *.wpl
    *.wpm
    *.wps
    *.ws
    *.wsc
    *.wsf
    *.wsh
    *.x86
    *.x86_64
    *.xaml
    *.xap
    *.xbap
    *.xbe
    *.xex
    *.xig
    *.xla
    *.xlam
    *.xll
    *.xlm
    *.xls
    *.xlsb
    *.xlsm
    *.xlsx
    *.xlt
    *.xltb
    *.xltm
    *.xlw
    *.xml
    *.xqt
    *.xrt
    *.xys
    *.xz
    *.ygh
    *.z
    *.zip
    *.zipx
    *.zl9
    *.zoo
    *sample.avchd
    *sample.avi
    *sample.mkv
    *sample.mov
    *sample.mp4
    *sample.webm
    *sample.wmv
    Trailer.*