I figured this was the answer. It still makes me sad that I can’t legitimately stream content from the major streaming services in full HD on a regular laptop.

1080p all day. It’s a normal PC after all.

Right, but which streaming services are you watching?

So when you wanna watch Hulu or HBO, you just open up a web browser, go to the Hulu/HBO site, and play the content in the web browser in full HD? No bullshittery around limiting the playback to 720p in a browser?

Thinking out loud, is it possible to load the apps themselves (YouTube TV, Netflix, etc) onto Linux using an Android emulator?

Does your use case include watching content from Netflix and/or Hulu?

Piggy backing on this post to ask those running a mini-PC on their TV: How tf did you get content to actually stream in full HD? Whenever I try to use the web browser to watch hockey games through YouTube TV, or some random show through Netflix, I’m limited to 720p. Is there a workaround for this?

ETA I’m aware of an agent spoofer extension in Firefox, but it hasn’t solved this problem in my experience.

Dope. What game are we looking at in that photo?

That is cool, thanks for describing your setup. I currently have a single 1440p monitor and love having more real estate than a single 1080p screen, but have often longed for a second screen, even a 1080p screen in portrait mode perhaps, idk.

So your computer desk is in your living room and you just move the chair out of the way when you want to watch TV from the couch?

Are you gaming on that screen, video editing, or something else? Just curious about the use case for the 40 incher. I feel like I’d be in a neck brace w/ all that real estate.

Jen AI

IGFS when?

I can see how the “manual” workflow might be preferable to some, so I’d say this app is a good rec nonetheless, thanks!

One thing, though—I noticed East and West are flipped on the map, and I haven’t played with it enough to ascertain why that is. Is this by design?

EDIT: I guess this orientation makes sense if I orient myself facing south and looking up, in which case east would be to my left and everything inside the circle represents what is visible to me from that time and location, right?

I had found this app as well, but couldn’t get it to point & shoot so to speak. Seems I must manually tap and drag to pan around the map. Am I just doing it wrong?

I’ve seen this app recommended in other articles; unfortunately, it is unavailable on F-Droid, so I’ve yet to try it for myself, but thanks for the recommendation.

We walked uphill both ways.

Does PipePipe allow the user to log into their Google account, though?

Other responses have covered the “not without being logged into Google” part, so I’ll just add that if you don’t care about being logged into Google and the thing you want from a front end is Sponsor Block, then yes: YouTube in a browser with the Sponsor Block extension. On Android, the YouTube app w/ Revanced accomplishes the same thing.

Not strictly necessary, but being able to carry all my ISOs on a single USB key saves me from having to redo the whole USB Stick Writer thingy every time. Is there another tool out there that does this and makes it easy for the plebs like myself?

Gotcha. So is Wire like, the privacy seeker’s dream messaging app? No phone number, always-on encryption, zero-knowledge servers, open source… any caveats?

Interesting. Since the CEO of Telegram was arrested in France last month, I’ve read countless threads on c/privacy about which messaging app is best for privacy, and the two names that seem to come up the most are Signal and any Matrix client (e.g. Element); however, some commenters point out Signal’s phone number requirement and I forget what the other caveats are.

I don’t recall reading about Wire in any of those threads, but at a glance it seems to check all the boxes (open source, always-on encryption, etc).

Am I missing something? Any ideas why this app wouldn’t come up in such discussions?

EDIT: Hmm, I just went back and re-read a thread from last week, and Wire is actually mentioned. Maybe I’ve just always mentally skipped over it until now.