Idk if libreboot is coreboot+ a specific payload.

But in edk2 which is used in dasharo you can set some UEFI boot targets and disable usb boot yes, of course also set a firmware password.

There is also HEADS which is another payload of coreboot and can use a hardware security key to need to approve boot drives. Makes most sense with very stable distros like Qubes though as you dont constantly re-sign everything

What you need is a mini PC with good hardware decoding ability, a linux distro and a web browser.

Many would use a raspberry pi or similar device, as they are quite performant afaik and really small and efficient. Though, they are ARM which means some niche software or even entire widevine DRM (used in browsers for spotify, netflix etc) might not work.

So instead, something cool: you can get a chromebox with socketed RAM on the used market. I have one from Acer that has an m.2 slot, 2 ram slots, plenty of USB and even thunderbolt! And the best part, basically all x86 ChromeOS devices can be corebooted with mrchromebox.tech 's work.

(Using an m.2-to-multi-sata-adapter, PC power supply, sata-to-fan adapters, pc fans, sata cables and a custom rack you can make a NAS out of any of these chromeboxes, which runs regular Linux, can have plenty of RAM and has open source firmware!)

So you not only have a small linux pc, but it also runs free firmware and you can disable the intel ME!

And then some Linux distro with Plasma Bigscreen. It is not full fledged but apparently works good with KDE Connect. But you can also use regular KDE or GNOME (with GSConnect or something newer I cant find).

for streaming (if you really want to endure that) you could use Firefox, or with Brave you could even create Webapps. Those are separate .desktop files and might automatically show up in plasma-bigscreen!

As distro just something that reliably auto-updates. NixOS for sure but manual setup, Fedora Kinoite would work too. A universal blue based TV variant would be really cool (because Fedora cant legally ship patented codecs for h264, h265, aac etc). You could always take the kinoite-main image and layer the additional packages.

Install Kinoite normally, then rebase. Not sure if the first one is still needed.

rpm-ostree rebase --reboot ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/kinoite-main:latest

reboot

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/kinoite-main:latest

This repo seems to contain all the things needed to configure a base fedora kinoite system to work with plasma bigscreen. A few files and a few packages.

Crazy, you cant even report sites on Qwant?

But you can on DuckDuckGo

Yeah the rest will depend on your client and if there is any that actually supports this.

Found the one person where sleep works on Linux

Yeah might well be. Clients are mostly way better off than servers, but multi monitor is fundamentally different between X11 and Wayland

Basically X11 doesnt even know multiple monitors, which is why mixed FPS, scaling, colorspaces etc are not possible. It is basically just one larger display with a weird shape.

Yes

*on Wayland I assume

Linux Mint is old and outdated, installing KDE likely defaults to the X11 session (because Kubuntu still defaulted to that for a looong time. Now they have 6.6 lts which might actually be really good)

I am using this comment to trick my lemmy client into going to the community, sorry

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No, please not another Bazaar

https://codeberg.org/boredsquirrel/dupes#bazaar

For 0,01% of combustion engines maybe. Also the article is extremely vague.

Combustion is inherently extremely inefficient

What is this about?? I have absolutely no idea

Yes very weird. It was merged into master the same day but has not arrived on any of my machines which are all on unstable.

Yes but that is the big benefit of flatpak

Set aside that all the dependencies used by verified flatpaks are not verified so it is kind of a weak measure

Thanks, very useful list!

Still waiting on NixOS unstable 😭

Immutable in the actual sense yes, it is basically a product and every other software is installed aside from it.

But you can also have better managed systems like nix or ostree, that reduce entropy or at least make it fully declarative so theoretically finding and reproducing issues is easy

Never used homebrew, that doesnt sound good.

I am trying to use nix and firejail only, but it is pretty rough and barely documented which is kinda insane as firejail is THE tool. Unlike crabjail, bubblejail and what else is out there

Also, do you need that long battery life? If yes, ARM or really new intel processors with energy saving cores seem to be the way to go.

Check how much of the hardware Asahi linux supports. But I would avoid buying Apple hardware for this. It is not repairable and they might refuse to help if you run Linux or something. Luke Rossman can tell you about how shit apples customer support is.

No, official packages mean packaged upstream by the creators of the software, so if issues occur you can talk to them directly.