voidlinux now exclusively. previously: fedora, redhat, gentoo, ubuntu (briefly when it first released), yggdrasil, SLS

No-one mentioned ‘jq’ yet.

Maybe there’s a reason for that!

pw-record

Last time I looked into Chuwi, there was a lively linux wiki/forum somewhere on their website. There may be clues there and maybe an opportunity to ask a question to their engineers (unofficially, of course).

There’s also https://linux-hardware.org/ which might have something.

Just mount the ‘remote’ file system via NFS (or samba, if you must) and play the media on the ‘local’ machine as if it were a local file. Done. What am I missing?

I use mythtv (FOSS) and it’s fine as a PVR (schedule, record and playback broadcast TV) with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun network-attached tuner. It also has playback for downloaded files but I prefer to use mpv for that. Mine is still connected to the internet and I use firefox/transmission for youtube and other functions.

No idea about plex or jellyfin.

Maybe https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

If you’re in the US, refurbished thinkpads are probably the best option. Not so much here in Australia (but you mentioned GBP so perhaps you’re in UK). Whatever. I bought a refurb Dell Latitude 3120 for AU$229

mfg yr 2021 Intel® Pentium® Silver N6000 @ 1.10GHz 8Gb RAM Intel UHD graphics Intel Wi-Fi 5 9560 (160 MHz) Bluetooth 5.0 Display: 1366 x 768 11.6" touchscreen 2-in-1 Disc: M.2 256Gb PCIe NVME Class 35 SSD 1.35kg

Runs voidlinux like it was born to it. It’s my travel laptop.

I’ve been saying this for 30+ years, but no-one wanted to listen.

Wow! acronym soup. I understand almost none of that.

voidlinux: gave me much better battery life - I assume because it starts as a minimal system and one adds only the essentials to do the job - compared to the soup-to-nuts distros that pile everything in so that newbies are acccomodated. Of course, the voidlinux approach needs more linux skills - but it’s not that hard and the doco is great.

Also, I love the back to basics runit init system and runsv service runner (I’m old so I like that stuff) and the ultra fast xbps packaging system.

Thanks (to all the authors) for your hard work and contributions.

BTW - thanks for Mistral. Another tool in the box!

Quite right!

You need to take it all (AI or internet searches) with a huge pinch of salt. Even ye olde text books were not infallible and often out of date, so sodium chloride was also required even then.

The code either works or it doesn’t - it’s all in the testing. If you deploy AI suggestions without thought you deserve the consequences.

so just use chatgpt or gemini - pretty sure they sucked in all of reddit to form their KB