They are truly amazing, I had a Labrador eat an alkaline battery once, didn’t find out about it until I found it in the yard days later.

We did fully explain the dogs history to the new owner at least. Honestly at the time I dont think I had it in me to put him down tell you the truth.

Yep. We found a more suitable home for him.

Speaking from experience. I adopted a pitbull about 10 years ago. Spent countless hours training it, sent it to a daycare to make sure it was socialized.

Strike 1 was when he got kicked out of the daycare for fighting. Strike 2 was when out of nowhere he bit my friends dog. Strike 3 was when he turned on my border collie and nearly killed her. She was the dog he grew up with and spent every single day with. I had to beat him with a grill spatula to get him to let go, and I was bitten in the process.

My observation with the breed was that they have an instinct built into them and when it triggers they become possessed and they lose all control. Humans don’t usually trigger it, but other pets tend to.

I didn’t even make it an entire day of searxng, front the literally fist search I tried I was getting blocked haha

The RPi might be part of your issue. I started out with one, and it was so slow I couldn’t stand it. I’m running a beelink n100, uses a little more power (idles at maybe 12 watts).

And ya, the streams are very unreliable. If you want to go full libre, you’ll want to source your own content with sonar/radarr, and if you are using Linux desktop, Plex really isn’t a great option, they hardly support it. You’ll want to switch to Jellyfin and use their plugin for Kodi, it works really well. Plex has a plugin for Kodi but it’s unofficial and is very unreliable last I tried.

Also keep in mind that at the moment you will lose HDR unles a you use something like LibreELEC.

In short, right now my implementation is PopOs, Kodi Flatpak with Jellyfin Add-on all sourced using Usenet (Sonarr/Radarr) on a beelink n100 with a flirc remote. With this setup I get the least amount of complaints from the wife and kids. When I want to watch sports I pull up Firefox and stream from there.

If you do use Kodi I can also recommend the Artic Fuse 2/3 skin. It gives you a look very close to Plex, in fact I think it looks better.

You mentioned you are using openwrt, you can host wireguard right on your router. If you only have one LAN it’s very easy to configure, there are a few examples on YouTube.

Ya, LibreElec is what you are referring to probably. That was actually the first thing I tried and wow was it unstable. Averaged maybe 5 or 6 crahes per day. And their forums were near useless, the devs there were closing nearly every ticket due to piracy.

Once I got onto a standard distro things improved dramatically. First I tried the Plex desktop app. No hardware decoding, so the thing couldn’t really play 4k at all. Then I tried Jellyfin. That couldn’t play anything period, and the remote didn’t work.

Kodi worked immediately, minus audio passthrough. Took hours to figure that out.

Once you get it all working it’s awesome and it’s what I use to this day. But I would only ever suggest it to someone if they are willing to go 100% pirate and willing to troubleshoot. It was literal weeks to get all the quirks worked out.

Not who you were responding to, but it took me weeks and several iterations to get an acceptable working HTPC for the family. Sure what you described can get you up and running in Netflix in a browser rather quickly, but try handing that solution over to a 6 year old and see how that goes. That experience is nowhere near what you get with say a Google tv, where everything just works right out of the box.

Linux can’t do streaming on the major apps over 720p, there are no apps designed for the TV, you have to use the browser. The Jellyfin desktop app is pretty bad on Linux, and so is Plex.

The solution I finally landed on was Kodi with the Jellyfin add on and a flirc remote. That works well. But it’s not something you are going to get working in 30 minutes, and you have to go full pirate. It is a terrible experience compared to Google tv otherwise.

Either they all should be able to juice or none of them. In fact, Mark Hunt sued the UFC over this very thing. The UFC was scheduling him to fight juiced fighters and it shortened his career.

And that was the basis for Mark Hunts lawsuit against the UFC

I came really close to using one until I found out about the idle power usage.

If you created them through simple login my understanding is you are fine

Look into Borg backup you will get encrypted backups you can send over ssh and it will be faster, and you get de duplication

It also plans routes longer than Google maps, and 90% of the places you want to go don’t come up in search.

I belive that’s only if you have simple login. If you are using say proton unlimited, no, you don’t keep them.

Same with Proton. Went balls deep in their aliases only to realize later I was trapped when the price went up the following year.

Not OP but I think Facebook also trapped a lot of users with marketplace. I don’t use it but my wife does. Where we live you ain’t selling anything if it not on Marketplace. Unfortunately it’s a useful service. I’ve got 3 kids so our house is a revolving door of Marketplace.

Plus worst case you can always just pirate it.

It says passed, not passed away. Well done OP.