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I have a JF instance running on Proxmox as well, but it hasn't won me over yet. Still, I know a lot of folks do prefer it to Kodi and others so there must be something to it.

As others have said, just buy a TV that meets your A/V needs and don't connect it to the internet.

I know everyone talks about Jellyfin these days, but Kodi is an excellent option too if you don't need streaming to multiple devices. I use Kodi via LibreElec on an rpi4 and it's been great. All media is stored on my home server and shared over Samba, but you can easily store it locally on the box if you don't have a server.

For music streaming, I run a separate instance of miniDLNA on my server, since I like to browse-by-directory for my music instead of relying solely on metadata. This also allows you to stream to any DLNA-friendly device on the LAN.

I've digitized my disc collection and just keep the physical media as a backup. The local library has a huge selection of media too...and if we don't use it, we'll lose it.

I was recently one of those people. 🤦

Made the mistake of thinking French roast would be a nice and bold cuppa, so I bought a couple bags of beans at Costco... absolutely terrible coffee.

No worries, the screen should always lock after sleep or idle regardless of SDDM. KDE uses a separate kscreenlocker app for that functionality once your desktop session has started. It's worth noting the kscreenlocker doesn't rely on the SDDM theme in any way, as the two are completely separate processes. So, your lock screen will always match your active KDE theme.

Just a suggestion...if you've enabled disk encryption during installation, consider enabling autologin for SDDM so you're not having to enter two credentials at boot. You'll rarely ever see your greeter again, so it won't really matter which theme is used.

And if you did not enable disk encryption, consider doing so as the security and privacy benefits are significant for most users.

That sounds like a time saver for sure. I imagine that some of those elements (grammar rules) are widely available everywhere, while others (practice dialogues, activity suggestions focused on the use of language) would require a fairly specific training model.

Thanks for sharing! I'm probably too set in my ways to ever utilize AI for things like this. I never use virtual assistants like Alexa or Google either, as I like to vet and interpret the source of information myself. Having the citations would be handy, but ultimately I'd want to read them myself so the IA/VA just becomes an added step.

If a layman may ask, what are folks even using AI/LLMs for mostly? Aside from playing around with some for 10-15 mins out of simple curiosity, I don't have a practical use for platforms like ChatGPT. I'm just wondering what the average tech enthusiast uses these for, outside of academia.

Like X11, xwayland is not as secure as a pure Wayland environment but I think it's important to note that hundreds of thousands of desktop Linux users are likely still running X11.

So, in my opinion, it is not ideal to run xwayland but still completely acceptable for most users who don't have special security requirements.

Overall a good watch, but his continuous reaching under the table is a bit awkward lol.

Yep, you would just run a couple of commands in a terminal which would reset your layered apps and rebase to a ublue build of your choosing:

https://universal-blue.org/