That’s why we have Chuck and Nancy.

Good point.

Full disclosure: While I am very happy with my Kodi setup (see my other comment), I somewhat regret that I didn’t just fix the screen. I fixed the screen of my current laptop and I was surprised by how cheap and easy it was (even though I paid someone else to do it).

KODI.

I have a laptop with a broken screen attached to the wall behind my TV. I love my Kodi media station. It might take a while to setup and customize but it’s worth it. I could use the default android TV, but it’s completely commercial and miserable. I use Kodi for: weather, video games (retroarch and steam), music (radio, youtube, mp3s), podcasts, tv shows, iptv, movies, youtube… I never leave my Kodi to use the android TV (barf).

Also it doesn’t need to be just a media station. You machine can probably run a variety of network apps or whatever else alongside.

Yes, there is a YouTube addon for Kodi. I came here to recommend.

It’s not perfect for sure. There are some things that are annoying or difficult. I get the feeling that the developer is constantly playing cat and mouse with YouTube. But overall it blocks ads and plays my videos so I use it every day. I’m watching right now…

I think this is true of open source and open science more generally.

In the long run there’s no way that the actual desires of humanity can be out-developed by an extremely privileged group of front-runners, rent-seekers, enshittifiers, etc. (eg. proprietary software)…

Same. I tried a few other options from F-Droid/Droidify and Aegis was the easiest for me.

he could join in the conversation and have a very nice conversation and make friends.

Let me guess… You’re not from USA?

Yes, he’s doing something important by contributing to open source.

.NET Core is likely to be around for a long time.

You wish.

I spent the last few years at my former employer working on transitioning our server-side business layer components to .NET Core so they could run in Linux containers. Someone else got to deal with the Kubernetes aspect - thank goodness.

Why bother? Just to keep paying MS?

Yeah, the proprietary software grift is all about extorting companies with legal liability, hostage data, etc.

Are you assuming that Windows users would do the smart thing? They’ve already failed.

An unfortunate but completely predictable result of the debt manufacturing industry. Widespread and getting worse.

When capitalism ends. Or the planet… Whichever comes first.

Enterprise clients are paying for legal liability not for security, quality, etc. It’s pure theatre.

We should blame a shitty company for not being able to maintain their code.

Seriously if the world depends on some dumb company with some tiny number of people relative to the planet, then the world is dumb and fucked.

Forced updates a shitty solution to a much bigger problem: proprietary software.

Software should improve over time, not fuck you over

Gotta remember most lamestream software is controlled by capital. Fucking you over as much as possible is the primary goal.

And yet people really be believing that “markets” are magic.

The bagholders don’t decide when the shit is dropped. Obvi these “AI” grifters are cashing out while they still can.