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What kind of "Remote" would one use to mimic say an Android TV box or normal cable company Set-Top experience?


I have this one, acts like a mouse (gyroscope) and keyboard (arrows, back, home, vol+- on the front side, almost-full qwerty on the back).

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006860823468.html


My suggestion would be an airmouse remote, possibly with an built-in keyboard. This is because sooner or later you will want to use a web browser to stream content, and a mouse is incredibly convenient for that.


There are many bluetooth remotes you can use for this. You may want one that has a built-in keyboard, or just one with arrows and a handful of buttons.


This is listed on the linked page. KDE makes the excellent KDE Connect. You can also use a TV remote, game controller, or keyboard and mouse.


I use kde connect with my android for my htpc. Works nicely enough on stoxk kde.


Unified Remote with my phone https://www.unifiedremote.com/


Look up "USB RF remote" on eBay. There are two common ones you'll see everywhere. I have one for my Kodi system.


If your HTPC supports HDMI-CEC, it will just pass-through the inputs from the TV remote, no additional ones required.


I use KDE connect, it has a really nice remote input feature.


Doesn't flatpak solve this?


Another solution is Conty[0] which is a download-and-run containerised Steam based on Arch; I use it to run games on Slackware without multilibs, and it's worked flawlessly so far.

However, it seems Arch are also dropping multilibs as a dependency of Wine, and moving to WoW64[1], with "reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly".

What this implies for Steam on Arch (and hence for Conty) I'm not sure, though as of May some Proton versions have a PROTON_USE_WOW64 env var according to [2], so maybe multilibs can already be avoided running Steam natively anyhow.

0: https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty

1: https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-...

2: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6889 (comment from artemyto on May 3)


Yes, that's what I do on Arch. I don't have multilib enabled and manage to run everything just fine.


All i know is my downloads folder moved under ~/*/snap/Firefox and i don't like it lol.


Right? From some snap-installed app I'll save something to /tmp, not be able to find it, and then have to go on a safari trying to figure out where my file went.

It really gives me the impression that the effort is mainly about achieving some sort of theoretical or business goal, with user experience being secondary.


> the effort is mainly about achieving some sort of theoretical or business goal

snap app store is proprietary and controlled by Canonical


Asus has had some of the worst naming conventions on their laptop over the years.

Good luck figuring out which Zenbook UX3XX compares to which, with every configuration under the moon available.


Slogging my way through Data Structures and Algorithms in Java 6th Ed.



I've had my backgroumd as pure black on every machine I've ever used... Even my phones.


Dark gray for me.

Save memory too.

This decision seems dab to me, as the feature had to pretty simple to keep in.


> This decision seems dab to me

What does that mean?


Crazy autocorrect issue. I typed “dumb”. Weird.


Autocorrect is always ducking amazing :D


so cool :) !



i feel like these have been "coming soon" for a couple years now. its a great idea, wish it had more traction.


I have one. They're real.


I was a fan of Wunderlist until MS scooped them up and churned out To-do.

I ended up moving to Google Notes. I mainly use the widget as a way to keep myself reminded of things I want to do (with no deadline). My GF and I share a note for Groceries which works well.

Too little to late 4 me sry MS. Lack of alphabetically sorting my list was enough for me to switch.


Do you mean Keep?


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