Ok here’s what I do … but be aware that I’ve had this same set for about 10 years so I’m sure everyone will bag on it but it works. On my main HTPC (the living room 60" screen) I have run Ubuntu as the background OS and auto open Kodi with the Confluence skin. I’ve added a few add on’s for streaming and an add on that spans a Steam instance in Big Picture for my steam games and an add on for Lutris for other games. Lutris takes a bit of fiddling with to get it to run your games (a lot of set up scripts and downloading runners for emulators, but nothing to bad). I added a MCE remote and a IR receiver to move around in Kodi and attached a couple of Xbox Bluetooth controllers for gaming. I boosted my set up by moving my Kodi database on to my server with mySQL so that the librelec’s running in the bedrooms all share the same database but that’s a fancy touch that took a hour or so of set up that you don’t need to do.

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Today was weird I don’t normally get purple first.

How I Met Your Mother. I swear to god that show was huge in the late aughts and really reignited NPH’s career. Flash forward to today and the only time anybody ever even mentions it, is about how a bad ending can ruin a whole series and even there it comes in second to Game of Thrones.

I’m a huge Rudd fan but you have to admit he wasn’t progressive. The man ran on a technocrat platform and was just as in favour of the status quo’s policies as Gillard. He wasn’t exactly a Burnie firebrand

Ah yes that old chestnut. The ALP isn’t perfect so we shouldn’t vote at all. You do realise that we have to vote here in Australia so vibe based voter suppression techniques don’t really work here. The perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of the good.

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I’m not a nerd! I’ve had sex!! with a girl!!! once…

Hey Crabman!

Isn’t he related to the crack head mayor?

Mr. Roger’s would be disappointed in you.

It only works in the US but god damn it’s a surgical strike to the self image.

I watched WandaVision as it came out and I really enjoyed it. The ending was a bit weak but really the end was just standard ok Marvel movie stuff which was a bit of a letdown from the white hot first episodes. Don’t let that stop you from continuing into Agatha which was incredibly good. Much better than WandaVision in my opinion. Also you don’t really need to watch MoM just look up Wanda’s part of the story and you’ll be fine.

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Come on writers that’s such an obvious trap!

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It a saying from Ubuntu (the philosophy not the operating system) “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” in English it’s “I am because you are” It’s a simple and concrete way of saying how we’re not judged by how we treat others but we are who we are through our interactions with others.

Honestly I’ve only browsed through a bit of philosophy and I’m sure I missing a heap but it really struck me.

That fascinating. I wonder if it’s a cultural thing or a grammar thing? Most Asian countries have a stereotype of being polite so I’d take a guess at the grammar of Asian languages making it harder to put a mood changing word in a question maybe,

That orange man has never said Please in his entire lifetime

I just looked up please and thank you in ASL and now I know. Thank you.

It’s hard for most people to remember that the perfect should never become the enemy of the good. Sure remaking our entire capitalist system to put people and the planet first would be great but just making someone out there feel less alienated and alone in their troubles is a good step. Every journey starts somewhere and just because the next step isn’t in to paradise doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take that next step. But also just keep moving forward.

Thanks Romanian sounds quite challenging