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Your best bet is to just avoid the need altogether. I use an nvidia shield with clipious, smarttube, and jellyfin. There is a qobuz app that is okay and a USB Media Player Pro that is pretty bad. I haven't tried any apps for subsonic streaming.

I'd bet there is a tidal app, but I think tidal also integrates with Plex?

For when I want to "cast" a random video file, I use VLC on my PC and on my shield to stream to the TV, and it works well enough.

I haven't found a good solution to have similar functionality as Google cast for other people to use, but none of my guests have ever been upset that it wasn't available.

Since this change is entirely a result of the bad behavior of the maintainer and would not have happened otherwise, this a perfect example of why we fundamentally cannot separate the work from the people who make it.

Even if you do not agree with the social backlash this person is getting, that backlash has real effects on the work.

I, for one, no longer trust that hyprland will remain a well-maintained piece of software given that the maintainer would rather increase their maintenance burden and diverge from using common tools instead of cooperating with the community.

A UPS would be a good idea for your computer and networking gear. You can use a NUT server to monitor the power usage of many UPSs, but not power on/off. For your other devices, the best you can probably do is the TP Link HS-300 which has 6 sockets. I personally have 4 in my home and they're great.

Isn't LibreCAD GPLv2?

I use NixOS on my workstations, and I'm slowly migrating many of my server VMs over to it.

NixOS w/flakes + home-manager + impermanence on zfs + disko w/ nixos-anywhere is amazing and gives an insane amount of declarative control over your system.

That said, the current state of the leadership gives me pause to recommend it to anyone, and I do have a few devil's advocate responses to some of what you said:

Every package has its own dependencies, so you can install a 7 year old firefox alongside the latest, and have no interference.

Unless the dependency is Qt, then it better all be the same version.

Abandons the HFS, but can still fake it for apps that need it.

Using ldd and nix-alien to patch in dynamic libraries still sucks, and often doesn't work without a lot of extra effort. If what I want isn't in nixpkgs, and I can't get nix-alien to work on the first try, I just end up not using whatever I was trying to run.

That's been my experience

You can snooze alarms, play/pause/ff/rw media, and mark messages as read

That's what I use. It's way more stripped down than a modern smart watch, but it has good battery life, a transflexive LCD, can discretely give me notifications so I can keep my phone on silent, and can show me the weather at a glance.

There are more things it can do, I just find my phone is better for the majority of them.

That sounds great! I'd definitely be interested

As someone who is actively working in this space: yeah, it's definitely not enough. This is the bare minimum. We need sweeping regulations nationwide. Unfortunately, this is becoming less and less likely. The best we can hope for at this point is for states like Colorado and California to put in the work to measure and regulate this stuff as best as possible and get enough data on Texas and New Mexico to shame them into doing something about it.

I literally bought a used pixel 3a bc of your last post. Really stoked for this!

It does, but for the same reason as what happened to OP, it's best to separate DNS from domain registrar.