Because I have to go through it to get to my android TV and Linux machine, until glasshouse it was driving me nuts how poorly designed the LG home app was. I just want to click a button and get the input selector!
The LG G5 stock remote doesn't even have a input button... Or a mute button, But it does have, six apps I never want to use, a AI microphone button that isn't useful, an accessibility button (which wouldn't actually be useful if I needed those features, you have to hold it to get a useful menu, which I am sure is easy for people who have trouble with remotes.
I rebound the accessibility button (located top right, where you expect the input button to be) to trigger home assistant to send an IR signal to open the input menu, disabled the random apps (though I did consider assigning those to inputs) and made the ai microphone button a mute button.
Its a bit silky I need a WebKit vuln and a vibe coded homepage to get the TV to the same UX of 10 years ago, but I got there in the end.
All I want is to select my computer or streaming box and turn it off and on :/
Wouldn't you just re-encrypt the secrets with a new host key? That's what I usually do (boot once to generate keys, update the secrets, rebuild and switch remotely to the machine)
Fair point, but we still need people (like Linux enthusiasts) in Australia to buy these phones and complain to the manufacturer to add support for any missing features needed for 000, and work with the carriers to whitelist the devices. If no one buys these devices in the first place and no one complains about it, Linux phone makers would have little incentive to resolve the issue.
Maybe the Aussie Linux users could get together and work together with Linux Australia[1] to act as an intermediary and work something out.
I don't believe Linux Australia is the first port of call. Rather, conferences/meetups that are supported by Linux Australia would be the way to go. Basically, it needs to be very grassroots, and start with (capable) people who are genuinely interested in this and not distracted by other things that are a waste of attention. Any other strategy will likely be even more difficult and less likely to take fruition.
The crap part is a lot of niche phones got banned because you need to prove it can call triple zero not by default, so it'll be a real pain, and carriers don't really care.
I was deploying some dotnet app and it broke because the devs baked a config key into the image that was otherwise unset, which enabled it trying to start a SSL endpoint without a cert, thus breaking the app.
They're not all tooootally atomic, I have clustered things like libation+audiobookshelf, ollama+ds4+litellm, but I like that I can manage things almost entirely at the network and host level, generally atomically per service, and especially between services (eg homeassistant and the local ai).
It's DEFINITIVELY overkill, and fills up fast, but nix making everything near fully declarative to roll fwd/back or shuffle between proxmox hosts at any time makes for a clean and easy mental model. Both for me and the AI, because it can infinitely retry a nix flake config until it gets it perfect.
Sounds like a poster child for LXC containerization with Proxmox — all the host-level management of a non-ephemeral VM (including snapshots!), without the every-machine-has-its-own-kernel overhead.
I do have a couple LXC for the things that need tight GPU control. Ollama and DS4 permanently, and an ml-workbench that steals the 3090 from my Cachy gaming VM when I get it in my head that I could try implementing some cool gsplats paper haha.
I could definitely slim things down without disko, virtio, etc, and especially whole separate kernels.. but it's also not such a huge diff that I mind. I'm not adding new services all that fast anymore now that I've got my basics + wishlist set up, so I'll grab another box from the local pc recycler if I ever need space for another ~30 VMs some day rather than when I need space for another ~40-50 LXCs.
And in the meantime if OpenAI publishes a scary brag about how GPT-7 popped a shared kernel on accident I can be relieved that my private bookmarks repo isn't vulnerable while the internet burns down.
The LG G5 stock remote doesn't even have a input button... Or a mute button, But it does have, six apps I never want to use, a AI microphone button that isn't useful, an accessibility button (which wouldn't actually be useful if I needed those features, you have to hold it to get a useful menu, which I am sure is easy for people who have trouble with remotes.
I rebound the accessibility button (located top right, where you expect the input button to be) to trigger home assistant to send an IR signal to open the input menu, disabled the random apps (though I did consider assigning those to inputs) and made the ai microphone button a mute button.
Its a bit silky I need a WebKit vuln and a vibe coded homepage to get the TV to the same UX of 10 years ago, but I got there in the end.
All I want is to select my computer or streaming box and turn it off and on :/
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