Relax, it is in fact just a media streaming application. It is an application that streams media. It does nothing else.

It’s a server application that just streams your media. You’d still need some kind of device to install the client on.

Jellyfin is just a media streaming application

Must get very small, very quiet, require zero ongoing maintenance besides an automated update mechanism, and have a single unified UI across all apps that the user can’t easily escape out of.

Yeah and the experience just wouldn’t be very good. I have a lot of experience with mini PCs auto loading into web dashboards and it never works quite as well as you want it to

I’d like it to be sponsored by no one but the people that make it personally.

Looks very promising

People have been trying to do that for a long, long time, with various levels of success. There are a dozen options out there to try, but the scope of that kind of project huge compared to a simple streaming appliance OS.

I’ve never used it before but it sounds like you’re sorta describing NixOS? That might be an option to sorta Jerry-rig this idea together.

Yeah JF + Tailscale in one of them $20 Walmart Google TV boxes works well enough but like, I’d love to drop the Google part entirely.

One of the things on my FOSS wishlist is an open source alternative to Roku/GoogleOS/Apple TVos, etc. there are lots of FOSS apps on these various platforms, but those apps almost always have varying levels of quality and availability across them.

Right now the closest you can really get is media center PC, but what I really need is something relatively plug and play I can send to family members, preconfigured.

As it turns out Americans don’t like being sent to prison on felony charges

AC units without inverters specifically

It’s not even a clone, it’s literally a rebadged HTC

These are forks of BookLore, which was the vibecoded one.

Book Orbit just added this functionality in the latest release. Grimmory I believe has this too.

I don’t think it’s a matter of Opera being untrustworthy as much as it is the fact that they’re a Chromium-based browser, same as Edge.

The AI didn’t choose to rate people 4 out of 5, it changed the scale so that 4 out of 4 was the highest rating.

Well like you said they’re “Following that trajectory” but as we all know they have not reached that destination. Just today I was using the newest version of Opus and had it assign ratings to things between 1-5 and then it analyze them and it proceeded to rate everything on a scale of 1-4. That’s not the level of consistency and accuracy required by the controlling computer of a starship brother. I guess they have a couple hundred years or so to get there, if they don’t just run out of money first I guess.

Well I suppose when that trajectory leads to a destination where they become less easy to trip up we can revisit this.