overview for somnuz

Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Black Mirror was supposed to mostly be a cautionary tale, not instructional.

Ad Blocking Infringes Copyright? Ancient Sony Cheat Lawsuit May Prove Pivotal in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Hey there! They are simply being inclusive, blind people are potential customers too and should not miss on any “opportunities”..

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There should be a special division in all patenting offices called Burning With Fire ™

1

Kodi / OSMC (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by somnuz@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

0 comments fedilink

I have Kodi installed now, I will probably test OSMC later today, are there any other programs similar to them that I could test?

What I am mostly interested in:

fullscreen mode (dark mode / theme preferably, even if I would have to make it manually somehow)
option to navigate my drive or external drive
xbox controller support
subtitles support

What I want to accomplish is quite simple, every now and then I want to play a movie from my pc on my tv (connected via hdmi) and I don’t want to use mouse or keyboard while watching it to pause or turn the volume up a notch.

Kodi is kinda okay for all that but it feels a little wonky and pretty often makes a mess with my files, creating duplicates or ghost files on lists..

Thanks for any help!

cloudfare bad in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait.. so why is it 69/23 for me?

Think about it in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well, yes. This exist — I am really grateful for that, but.. This audio library now contains 15M positions. It is a big number, no doubt about it.

Then, Spotify has over 80M files in the library with around 4M podcasts.

Estimated existing music amount is unclear but around 90-200M and growing all the time.

And suddenly 15M is getting somehow small in terms of preserving, and this is with music only.

With movies I even remember some interviews with Tarantino and Nolan talking about how badly some movies are being mistreated, lost cuts, not even close to proper/safe long time storing, fires, accidents and so on..

Think about it in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] somnuz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only thing I would (totally naively and magically) wish for is some kind of really well organized and curated time capsule mainly for movies and music preservation.

I don’t want all the music and movies for myself, I wouldn’t be able to watch/hear it all but I wish for anyone from any time in the future — to have a simple/legal option to just dig anything out, public domain or whatever will work best.

People have created some amazing gems.