you’re running way too old a distro for what you want. debian 12 has its merits as a server, you install it and leave it be and it just works.

what you want - fluidity with power management, dock/undock, etc - although achievable with tweaking this and that isn’t being worked on, not on X, not on debian 12, so it’s not like those things will eventually get there. so you need a semi-modern distro, like ubuntu or fedora or even trixie.

wayland isn’t new, it’s default on a lot of distros since 2021 or so, so you can be sure that your use case was previosly met and solved. costs you nothing to boot e.g. F42 off a USB and try it out (has to be 42 as earlier live sessions default to X11). if you have lots of RAM, add the rd.live.ram switch so it copies the image to RAM and everything is super-snappy for testing and it doesn’t touch your SSD.

who is gonna hold him responsible? what are you lame, stuck-in-1987, deluded, blind, good-for-nothing pundits talking about. who will do that? wait, is it “history”? yeah, bye.

piracy didn’t start with the internet and won’t end on it. like with porn, it always finds a way.

gnome sushi (installed by default in gnome) handles the press space to preview file. not a fully fledged editor but still miss the thing in plasma.

you’re a mad cunt mo chara

not to rain on the parade or nothing, but a protest that hasn’t the implicit threat of “…or else” is just a hang

appartently it’s part of the exposure series but the episode is not there (yet?)

anyone got the tvdb or whatever link for ITV1’s “America’s Veterans: The War Within”? can’t find it

kodi and its derivatives are not something you should be using. it’s shit software on so many levels and we should burn it in the deepest volcanos we got.

try one of these:

1. run lineageOS TV (konstakang images) on it and install regular ATV apps for the services mentioned. so, like googletv except there’s no spying and ads and shit.

2. create a normal linux box that has a DLNA sink e.g. using macast. there’s no remote control, you use your android/iOS device to send it stuff, like movie from Jellyfin or a youtube video, and it plays it back and allows some control (pause, play, rew/ff, etc)

3. dedicated Jellyfin box; same as 2) but boots right into jellyfin client. it can be run in TV mode where it reacts to only up/down/left/right/enter/back, via gamepad or remote controller. if yours isn’t recognised, you can emulate it with InputRemapper.

not familiar with how twitch does stuff.

you also have the option of installing a normal raspi distro and then using a wireless keyboard and mouse/touchpad to run it, but I am of the opinion that once the device gets placed by the TV, it loses all keyboard and mouse privileges and should only be operated via the TV’s remote.

we had the centralised model (big corpos hosting all of the stuff) because our devices were shit and internet access was rare and precious. nowadays, with ever-present internet, when my $50 pocket computer has 8 cores and 8 GB RAM, the laptop many times that, let alone the desktop, we should be moving to Pied Piper’s vision of a decentralised internet and dedicate all of our resources to that goal.

I’ve been a part of the fediverse some while now and I admit, I didn’t understand it fully. I operated under the premise that whoever put this thing together and then spent their time and energy promoting it has thought this through and then seeing more and more people jumping on, I took it as validation of that idea.

a few years down the road, I have a better understanding, and I don’t really like it. it’s wasteful and disorganized and I don’t see a way where some order out of this chaos emerges.

I thought it’s a sort of fail-over distribution of content. so if lemmy.bing is offline/gone, you can interact with lemmy.ding or lemmy.bong and access all data and post and comment and whatnot. not so, when ding is gone, it’s gone. its radiated content may be present on other instances, but still there’s a ton of issues that way.

instead, I believe a decentralised and distributed system, with no single point of failure, no admins spending their hard earned cash on maintaining lemmy or mastodon instances or, god forbid, dedicated hardware in the vein of i2p or similar, should be the end goal.

very cool, top of the line, if the battery is in good condition, it’ll serve you a long time. wish lenovo went with 2x RAM slots, not just 1x. keep a lookout for cheap docks if you wanna run it with external stuff (monitors, LAN, etc.) - game changer.

heads-up, although it says 4750, that’s a 3000-series Ryzen (Zen 2) and as such has intermittent linux issues wrt power management. a coupla kernel switches and/or other tweaks may be needed, dependent on the kernel your distro’s using. sold mine a while ago so can’t remember the deets, but overall the switches I needed for Zen 2 to reliably sleep and wake aren’t needed for Zen 3 (5000 series).

raspberries were viable while those were cheap. I think I got a 3b (plus?) in pre-deficit years for like $25 second-hand AND I got some shitty case AND a microSD card AND it could run off of a somewhat normal USB phone charger. so using those instead of a 10 year old decommissioned desktop was an awesome value proposition.

nowadays, those devices are encroaching on trip-digits territory and the power adapter is like $30. the computing power you can buy for a third of that designates raspberries exclusively for niche use cases where footprint and power consumption are primary considerations.

not to mention fake Jason Statham just rubs me the wrong way, like all them “visionaries”. he makes this sound like he’s the head of Feed Africa or something, on a noble mission to save humanity and whatnot.

you’re long past the “when they came for the…” phase. you figure out on your own if you’re gonna start shit.

I am honestly bewildered, how come nobody’s shooting at those bearded fat fucks? ain’t this the place with most guns per capita? “legal” and otherwise? and I don’t mean to enact change. or diminish their numbers. or accomplish some lofty goal.

just indiscriminate, random, asymmetric warfare that says: from now on, this is one of the options on the table. your stupid face in a tweetdunk isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you no more. from now on, when you put on your pretty man costume with the patches, you may be doing it for the last time.

fatass does this for a paycheck. guerilla does it for free, outta fervor and hate. wanna lay some odds?

I ran something similar a while ago; it automated the steps you’re describing so it downloaded every new video from the channels I’m subscribed to along with metadata. I gave that up as it’s hella inefficient. what I have now is just a media sink by way of macast and I can send videos for playback to my media PC. so if you don’t need those videos for archiving purposes, try it out.

don’t go with server variants of the OS. they are intended for boxes that work without display and keyboard, which you have. instead, install any normal distro you’re familiar with. it’s infinitely easier to fix something with the full GUI at your disposal.

this is just your first install, you will iterate, and through that process you’ll get better and leaner, in terms of underlying OS. think of it as training wheels on a bike, you’ll pull them off eventually.

wired connection only, leave wireless turned off, and assign it a static IP address.

don’t do containerS, do one container first. figure out where you’re gonna store the compose files, where it will store data, how you will back that data up, etc. then add another. does it fit into your setup? do you need to modify something? rinse. repeat.

casaOS, aside from it’s murky background (some chinese startup or sumsuch, forgot?) doesn’t provide that path forward nor allows you to learn something, too much hand holding.

good luck.

firstly, tlp is a powerful tool, but you need to configure it before letting it loose, identifying components you don’t need and can be powered down, figuring out power limits, etc. that’s too much work for me. also, if you’re on ppd, maybe try switching it with tuned and tuned-ppd, which are now default on Fedora.

can’t help with your specific machine, here’s what works for me. what I want is a powerful laptop that works as a workstation when on AC, sips power when mobile, and has no significant power drain when left in standby for days. so:

1. using Plasma, as it has (among many other benefits) different power settings for docked and on battery. so it has generous power settings on AC and then rather conservative ones on battery, and

2. implementing suspend-then-hibernate. the laptop sleeps normally when not used, but if not used in an hour or so, it suspends to disk and turns off all power - no more battery drain. on powering up, it resumes from disk back to how I left it - faster than cold boot!

this brings it super close to stuff I had back in the macOS days - a laptop that I can leave for days and when I pick it up heading out the door I know it has a charge.