OK gang my point is not that this is impossible to DIY. In fact we really enjoy you all sharing your setups and appreciate everyone taking the time :3

We just like for something like this as a cheap (enough) commercial product to finally catch on. At the end of the day folk just want to have a TV, plug something into it, and have it work.

We were already tired of the overpriced TV boxes that shady broadband companies forced into everyones livingroom. Nowadays that horrible experience comes physically fused to every TV further out in the markey than a sane person could reasonably be expected to look.

It just super sucks to see so many pay for devices that actively fight you in general. Most electronics already inherently feel like an accesability issue simulator to most people anyways. It being deliberately opaque, confusing and facilitating dark patterns on top of that is such a PITA. Not to mention if you already have inherent accesability difficulties from any number of conditions.

Browser shortcut/PWA, and also DRM isnt a problem because google offers linux its DRM services for free.

I did also not rule out expandable local storage for offline media. Or connecting to a jellyfin instance.

Can’t we just have small Linux boxes with Plasma Bigscreen or something with cec support setup so the tv remote still works already :sob:

Wasn’t Servo Mozillas attempt to solve that before they laid off all Servo staff and gave the project to the Linux foundation?

Note for people seeing this: Seal looks unmaintained but i have been informed of a similar app called ytdlnis

Peertube instances can be, like lemmy, federated with other instances. Meaning looking at one instance should show both its local content and the content of federated instances.

The official Peertube android app (no login required but needed for subscriptions afaik) shows you one instance at a time. You can change the selected instance, but im not sure how the app handles your logged in account instance and selected instance not being federate with eachother.

Peertubes official global search called sepiasearch will always link all results of your query to the original instance either way. There might be some nifty api thing that makes this play nice with peertube clients but im not sure.

There are unnoficial peertube apps with different approaches but the ones i tried (newpipe and thorium (reccomendations welcome!)) follow a similar pinciple to the offical android app but without account capability.

I hope that helps you with how peertube is ‘intended’ to be used. The way peertube gets the actual video file from federated instances is a bit beyond me but as far as i understand it its very close to torrenting.

This keyboards closest row to the screen has a chromebook layout, while the pinebook has a regular F-key row.

Thank you for the reccomendation, Seal has been amazing! Sorry i wasn’t that helpful when you needed it ^^`

Not what youre looking after but- I use newpipe as a peertube client, but since it supports youtube as well you can search yt music specifically and download a track in up to a 128kps .m4a of 160kps .opus file. I then use vlc for android to play em, and it works just fine :3 You may find a offline music player with a ui similar to vi as well!

Some minor gripes is that these files seemingly dont come with metadata, and you cant download a whole playlist or album at a time, both being huge bummers :/

There are (unofficial as far as i know) peertube mirrors of LWT. Here’s the two I’m aware of:

• vid.freedif.org/video-channels/lastweektonight
• tube.fede.re/accounts/lastweektonight

Edit: found another one https://tube.fede.re/video-channels/lastweektonight_channel It seems like it hasnt uploaded newer episodes for a while tho