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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 08:36:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Someday someone will invent a way to let you watch video files on your TV and it'll just work and it won't do weird things like "you can't watch stand up comedy" (plex) or "only 30% of your files will play" (dlna) or "if you have a video split into two halves, it can only see the first half" (jellyfin)

   That'll be a cool day.

   • Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 08:41:49 JST Patrick

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     @foone I've been using a crappy giant smart television hooked up to a computer via HDMI. One input away from all the files you could ever watch, also it makes computer gaming a treat.

     Wireless mouse and keyboard are pretty cheap these days too.

     An idea at least.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 08:41:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Patrick

     @PatrickoftheG yeah I keep meaning to do that. just some linux with a remote and VLC

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 08:53:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     clearly some should crowdfund the VLCBox
     it's a little box that runs VLC (WITH UPDATES) and nothing else. it just talks to ethernet or wifi and shoves videos out an HDMI port

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 15:09:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Kawaoneechan

     @kawa good point

   • Kawaoneechan (kawa@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 15:09:47 JST Kawaoneechan

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     @foone surely you mean a VLC cone.