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Has an onboarding wizard, includes text, voice and video calling, OMEMO encryption, group chats etc.

But more importantly, what have you tried and why didn’t they work for you?

The name is really just branding - Chromecast, Google Cast and Google TV have all been used for radically different Cast Receiver products. The important part though is that my device doesn’t have Android TV installed on it; it doesn’t have Apps and I can’t install VLC on it.

(If you meant VLC was on the mobile device, I believe this is a separate system where you stream from the mobile device to the Cast Receiver thingy. The big value of Chromecast (the standard) is that the mobile device doesn’t do any real work, just tells the Cast Receiver where to look for the stream. If I misunderstand the situation let me know, I’m eternally hopeful)

Yeah, I’ve got an actual Chromecast, not a Google TV, so I can’t install anything on it. I have enough computers around that buying anything new would be redundant, but nothing works quite like a Chromecast.

The only reason I’m on a Google rom is because I can’t get confirmation that I can cast Netflix to a Chromecast with microG. It’s the only Google ecosystem thing that matters to me. If they try to break my phone then I finally get to get over that hump, no loss. Almost everything in my phone is F-Droid (“side-loaded” is such a loaded phrase)

I’m also hopeful that this move will get struck down given the recent anti competitive practices cases they’ve lost.

It’s easy to win a war when your enemy is strangling themselves to death.

In some places that’s legal. In no places is that moral

developer (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible.

What are those letters?

What are you talking about, all of those are banned.

This is not open source software, it’s licenced under the Anti Capitalist Software Licence.

I still appreciate it in this list, but the caveat is important

Zotero: a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF and ePUB files.

Lots of software has credits, historically they were often hidden in Easter eggs. Small software still often credits their creators e.g. in the Help>about menu item.

But games are different, they are primarily an artistic pursuit.

The jellyfin shim may only be for Jellyfin clients, not for arbitrary clients. I thought it used a generic standard but now I’m not sure.

Kodi is the closest that I know of to what you’re asking for but it definitely won’t work for everything even if you do get it behaving.

Part of the problem with Ring is it’s generally not self-surveillance. The cameras point onto the street and other people’s residences. You get surveiled because some other random person thought it was a good idea.

Casting to Google Cast devices is pretty locked down, but most things that can cast support a handful of different standards, so casting to other things is usually possible.

Plasma Bigscreen doesn’t have the functionality natively, but jellyfin-mpv-shim and Kodi can be cast to.

The cube feature and a bunch of wobbly window stuff are currently in Plasma 6

I’m using this on my HTPC. It’s currently anemic but functional. I’ve got high hopes

It’s an alternative shell for Plasma, so theoretically you should be able to do anything in it that you can do in Plasma.

On my Arch box it installed a minimal set of Plasma utilities to support it, which means my setup is still very limited (and I can’t turn off screen lock!), but I haven’t tried if it would change if offered a full Plasma install.

I can most certainly launch Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin etc.

It’s not replaceable? That’s disappointing. I expected better of controller manufacturers since they’re not space constrained.

I’ve been an Arch user for more than a decade and I’ll usually be first in line to defend it from dodgy claims about unreliability.

But that forum response is bizarre. Literally the last two RSS items right now are about how splitting packages will require intervention for some users (plasma and Linux firmware). VLC is an officially supported package, and surely this change would impact almost every VLC user?

New opt-depends is a nice pacman feature, but it hardly implies that things have been removed from the base package.

You can do this on Arch too and it will work great until it doesn’t. Manual interventions are rare and usually don’t affect everyone.