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Great to hear! I’ve updated the post title and linked to this comment


I see the original post got removed by moderators to prevent panic. Would you have an update that you can share in this thread? I’m happy to edit the title of this post too :)


@alam@lemmy.world is also on the threadiverse, and may post updates about this as it develops
Thanks! I was looking up Niiofetch but it kept giving me results for Neofetch lol
Neat! I’m somewhat familiar with homebrew but I haven’t kept up with it in years. I didn’t know you could put Linux on it too
I wonder how it would do as a media center for the living room. I’d much rather use a Wii remote to navigate on a TV instead of buttons.
Being able to play Jellyfin off of it somehow would be amazing, I imagine it will need a custom app. Possibly based off of this thing? https://www.wiimc.org/about/
Do you have a link to read more about what this is 😄


I’m looking forward to seeing if it snaps onto the play button after opening some content, that’s the main issue I had on Android TV


I only used Stirling briefly before I learned about BentoPDF, so I don’t think I can give a fair comparison. I picked Bento because it felt faster and “simpler”, and I prefer not having to worry about accounts/upload/storage.
Other concerns with Stirling:


Nice, and thanks for posting here! We have a lot of discussion about projects, and it’s helpful when the creator/developer is around to respond to comments directly 😄
I saw the update on GitHub about the goal of working on it full time. I also swapped over from StirlingPDF and I’m excited to see where this project goes. Best of luck :)
Sherpa links to this page, if anyone wants to preview what the voices sound like
https://huggingface.co/spaces/k2-fsa/text-to-speech
From the ones I’ve tried so far, csukuangfj/vits-piper-en_US-amy-medium|1 speaker sounded the most clear and natural for GPS / driving directions. If someone finds other good ones, I’d appreciate it :)


Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.
Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526


Your account is marked as a bot, you can change that toggle in your account settings
If you add three back ticks (```) to the beginning and end of the list, it will format as a code block instead of a bunch of links
browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate


You mentioned being annoyed at Plausible. What did you not like about it?
I haven’t tried Plausible, but it seemed popular


The articles I’ve seen say that it was for the past 10 years of work, some amount of which was unpaid
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/
With the revamp, Mastodon has the potential to expand its business, product, and mission, without being dependent on a single person’s leadership. It will also give Rochko a break, as he’s been singularly focused on Mastodon for the past 10 years.
Going forward, Rochko will continue contributing to Mastodon as an adviser. He has also been compensated with a one-time payment of €1 million, given that he took less than a fair market salary over the years while building Mastodon.
I don’t have insight into the decision making process that went into deciding on that amount, maybe it’s less than what he should have been compensated for, maybe it’s more. But it sounds like they reached that decision amicably


You can view the source for my comment and copy paste :)
Do this in order:
Install with LUKS full-disk encryption and Btrfs subvolumes for and @home so snaps are atomic.
Enable automatic snapshots with Timeshift or snapper.
Export your package lists:
dpkg --get-selections > packages.txtpacman -Qqe > pkglist.txtflatpak list --app > flatpaks.txtPut your dotfiles under version control and manage them with chezmoi or GNU Stow.
Use Flatpak for GUI apps, containerized toolchains (podman) for dev environments, and keep only system-critical packages in the distro manager.
Back up with Borg: borg init --encryption=repokey /path/to/repo ; borg create repo::$(date +%F) /home /etc --stats ; borg prune --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6
Keep a small, bootable USB with the exact kernel/tools you use so you can unlock LUKS and mount Btrfs snapshots.
Test restores quarterly: restore a snapshot to a spare partition and boot it. Do that for a year and tell me reinstalling is fun again.


Looks good!
I have one suggestion, the white text on bright green on the website is hard to read. Maybe you can pick different colors, or put borders around the characters.
I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?
For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact