The reason they moved back is because Excel.

Those displays are not televisions - they are for menus at restaurants. They cost a fortune because they are low volume, high reliability devices that come with service contracts and repairable components.

OK how do I go about getting Roku to refund me for my TVs? That sounds like an excellent approach to take.

There is no hardware reset switch and in order to perform a software reset you need to get to the menu and to do that, you have to agree to the terms.

Yeah, computer monitors are manufactured to a different spec than television displays at the pixel level. This is usually called chroma subsampling.

Computer monitors typically are 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 which gives nice crisp and legible fonts. Anything less than 4:4:2 gives me a headache (also Windows…).

Television displays are usually 4:2:0. That’s fine for rendering large text that is visible across the room. But trying to edit a word document would be a terrible experience.

I believe they manufacture the television panels with fewer pixel address lines and that reduces the cost. Also, smart TVs sell ads and your usage patterns which are used to subsidize the cost of the tv.

That’s why computer monitors are so much more expensive than televisions.

HDMI CEC will let your other devices turn on the monitor and switch inputs as appropriate. You’ll need some kind of AVR to play audio. Plenty of low cost, highly capable solutions out there like the WIIM Amp that lets you use multiple sources such as your PC or a dedicated streaming set top box.

The downside is those are meant to be ultrabright for viewing in a highly lit restaurant counter with a really slow refresh rate and they tend to cost thousands of dollars. They are simply not meant for use as a display for movies and games.

Sounds like a good way to get a new tv and move away from roku. They’re really piling on the ads lately and making their os really slow.

Dang… mine is on 12.5.5 and the newest they support is 9.4.0

Several comments specifically talked about VMs for the various apps. And frankly I’m not super familiar with the limitations of containerizing apps either. That’s part of why I was looking for an immutable os + flatpacks / snaps - it’s much more similar to a normal linux system just organized in a way to not break shit.

Is there a performance impact on the jellyfin server by having the NAS on a separate machine? How long does it take to serve a 20gb rip of a bluray?

Honestly I had never built an NAS and installed an OS on it before. I’ve only ever used the junk that ASUSTOR puts out and I want to have control over things. So a good part of the reason I asked on here was to see what other people had done and why.

Oh I like the look of that.

It’s mostly for running media servers like jellyfin.

I want immutability because I come from a the debian world where everything just works. But I want the benefits of using modern versions of packages.

Yeah and if you do it enough times, the usb drives might assemble into grey goo.

That seems so… odd. It’s like building a working computer out of tens of thousands of usb thumb drives.

Yeah but it was an unsecure piece of shit for more than the past decade

“Drone, please sort the following letters alphabetically 5 times in a row. AZBDFASDAA1AAAAAAAAAAA”

Invasion averted.

Yeah that’s the case with programming… well anything. This at least gives you a way to automatically receive all of that data from any app without excessive prior knowledge. With a small amount of info you can filter for specific events and create all kinds of robust functionality. That’s the power of a set protocol - it is to make things widely compatible with one another by only depending on the dbus protocol and app name. Otherwise you may need to depend on some shared objects which makes deployment and maintenance a total clusterfuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer_programming)