I was truenas on bare metal for the first year or so, but now I run a truenas VM in proxmox, then use those pools as mounts onto the proxmox. it is really cool!

Until I was in the middle of figuring out how to automate backups of my vms, which paused TrueNas, which was the destination of the backup, was a fun 20 minutes getting it all back running this evening lol

really?? 70? that is really awesome. things have changed so much since you came into this world.

pangolin is really cool!

Ohhhhhh YES AWESOME!

you got that hooked up to a PBX?

that is nice! its… sexy?

hello fellow “never EVER let a console go” gang

Over the years i had friends come over for retro video game / lan parties and they sometimes left their consoles. Picked up an extra dreamcast and an original playstation that way.

I want to get my grandmas old china cabinet and put some LEDs in it and have the consoles on display!

heck i bet that is awesome looking. Does it still work?

Majora’s mask was excellent! finally was able to beat that game

this is great! i was intrigued by nix and nixOS early into my linux venture and this has probably pushed me to start moving my stuff from Debian, though i am kinda addicted to proxmox.

but the way you’re doing truenas is how I’m running my stuff too. way more planning on your end really cleans it all up!

i keep wanting to rip the guts out and install a 40 inch tv with some self hosted stuff in the cabinet, amplifier etc.

it would be cool! but also that thing is cool as it is

i have an old magnavox TV from the early 70s, with the wooden slat curtain thing you pull in front of it.

Old 8 track players,

my great grandfather was an electrical engineer and made some custom lighting controls in wooden boxes, with dials and meters and switches, he did made it all for his church!

from that same grandfather, he had some portable reel to reel tape recording stuff, an old portable projector that comes in a cast iron cowl.

tons of stuff that everyone makes fun of me for holding on to.

well it’s really developed to be a 10ft interface, so yeah the touch controls aren’t ideal. handles just the same as it does on TV, on a phone with a remote or game controller though?

i just use the individual streaming apps on the phone if it’s in my hands.

the OP asked for a device recommendation, My point was that it can be any device that runs the same program that works easily from the TV.

all these windows 10 PC’s going in the dumpster soon could be given a new life with LibreELEC.

but i am curious though, are there other single apps on phone that work better with local media and streaming services?

love LibreELEC, it is cool to be able to spin up dockers right next to it

i got ratioed for my love for kodi 😅😭

with a jellyfin/emby addon heck yeah!!

also they could all be set up to to use the same DB

kodi.

kodi kodi kodi.

kodi on everything, headless kodi, kodi on phone, on linux computer, LibreELEC on an old chromebook,

addons for other streaming services, for immich, for subsonic music, jellyfin and emby.

so much more also.

customize the gui to your hearts extent, or just fall in love with every piece of media in your ecosystem easily visible in a unified interface that works with remotes, game controllers, air mouse. keyboard. App on phone, web interface from another machine

once you get the first one perfected, back it up and immediately have it on the next machine.

YouTube is a little bit of a bitch but there’s ways around that sometimes

help me understand

so if you are still tripping, how so we try and convince you you’re not?

that doesn’t sound nice lol

!!!

hope this helps!