If you ever need information on development, the best place to check first will always be official docs, Good luck on your project!

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/networking/high_level_multiplayer.html

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/exporting_for_ios.html

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/exporting_for_android.html

Yeah but if you make it an open format other hobbyists could make their own hardware/software about it.

Mostly a fantasy medium, but if people start using it for art, then hey neat.

No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a sbc with a DVD drive becomes a player.

Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.

Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.

Would mostly be used by hobbiest making their own burned discs and small artists releasing stuff.

Was thinking you know its bad when Linus thinks you’re too toxic…

I’ve always kinda thought about implementing a software and standard for 1080p av1 on DVD. Would be neat as a project, obviously no commercial use would exist.

Either way you can get some really impressive encodes out of av1, really neat tech.

You telling me we wouldn’t also find a good use for collaborative spreadsheets?

Realtime collaborative documents. One thing that comes to mind is notes for my DND party.

Would be nice to keep em somewhere everyone can access and add to, no extra client software install required.

I’ve been looking at hedgedoc for this exact purpose, but then everyone in my party would have to learn markdown, and they’re not all tech savvy.

Personally I keep whatever VM I’m torrenting from running through a separate router that forces it through the VPN. Whether that be my pfsense box or a qube on qubes os.

Do you guys just not have homelabs?

Ah assumed when you said VLC, you where just plugging the laptop into the TV via HDMI or something.

I also read you mentioned you where able to login but not see files, so wrong route to go down.

If you don’t wanna run a server all the time for movies then vlc might be the better option, though I don’t see why jellyfin shouldn’t technically work.

If your libraries aren’t populating after being setup, maybe check file permissions for the ‘jellyfin’ user?

Oh yeah no I’ve seen as home servers with a built in UPS. Their usecase sounded like they where using their daily driver laptop though.

Why are you trying to run jellyfin server from a laptop? I mean you can, just seems like an odd choice.

Also make sure ufw isn’t getting in the way. Wouldn’t be shocked if Ubuntu keeps that enabled for security.

Yes but enterprise LTSC (and others) isos can be harder to obtain legally.

Massgrave has mirrors of retail and OEM isos, and the other site I provided has checksums to verify their integrity.

Sure.

You can verify windows ISO’s with file hashes from here if you’re paranoid.

*won’t

I very seriously doubt most people are physically or mentally incapable of taking an hour or two once to teach themselves how to preform a basic maintenance task on a machine they use daily.

Just as car owners should know how to put on a spare tire or replace a headlight, you should understand basic computer maintenance if you’re an adult who relies on one.

No you should install your own OS.

Even if you’re using windows you should at least be using a cracked version of LTSC so you can stay away from win 11 while still catching sw updates.

Mostly the ones about the age of consent.

No, my point was that people don’t need higher resolution TV’s, they need good transcodes that don’t look like shit.

Streaming services run at bitrates/codecs that look like dookie compared to bd rips even on my shitty $100 sceptre 1080p Amazon special TV.

Who the fuck is gonna buy an 8K oled panel when no ones willing to conveniently provide content that looks good on it, or even content that pushes their current TV to its fullest extant?

Its not like anyone can afford a GPU that renders modern games at a playable framerate to that either.

That’s because the answer isn’t higher resolutions, it was legally enforcing h.265 to be open source. Now the solution is AV1, but video codecs shouldn’t be locked down like that.

To act like that was ever in favor of “protecting the sciences” is a fucking joke.