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  • I went down the Pi 4B with Kodi path. It wasn’t very reliable. It was just sometimes when I went to watch something, it just was broken. And I had to go through troubleshooting instead of watching whatever I had turned it on for.

    I ended up with an Amazon firestick. Even using Kodi (and smarttube) on that works faster and more reliably.

    But then I have the Amazon firestick nosing around in everything I do lol. But I did disconnect my TV from the internet…






  • No1@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat to try in a linux distro ?
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    2 months ago

    Couple of things that might be useful:

    • Setup remote desktop access using VNC/RDP. It can be useful to access your PC etc while using your phone or other devices. Or accessing a raspberry pi on your main PC
    • Setup a virtual machine and install Windows in it. It might be a good way to think about migrating to linux as your main OS
    • Steam. See how performance on Linux compares to Windows for your games.




  • No1@aussie.zonetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlUse a password manager
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    3 months ago

    I’ve got a random username if the stupid website/app allows it. Most don’t. It has to be your email address.

    And a minimum random 20 char password for each website/app. Again if the stupid website/app allows it.

    Secure your (I don’t mean you personally) fucking website/app and credentials storage and stop making your weaknesses my problem.

    Most places, and all of my stupid financial websites/apps, only have phone/SMS as the second factor. And yet there are plenty of horror stories about people ‘losing’ their phone numbers.

    Oh wait. There is one financial site that has developed its own authenticator app. I really expect that to go about as well as storing passwords in cleartext.

    Then there’s all the shit websites/apps that I don’t give a fuck about that now insist on having 2FA set up. They’re not interested in the security, it’s just to get your email and phone number to onsell your data to whoever.

    It’s fucking security theater.