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After this series ends the youtube AT crowd are going to have to re-do all their Simon videos.

It's an amazing ride so far. Ep8 was devastating.

Stroganoff 2: Electric boogaloo

Actually the history of Stroganoff is a messy one, it definately originated in russia, but we dont really know where or when, some are tomato based and some have no cream at all, some have freaking pickles in it. the true origins of the dish are lost.

The modern western strog is closer to chinese strog than any of the slavic strogs. Japanese strog is its own thing that seems to be based on an older recipe likely replicated from memory or from a vague description.

Hold up, Stroganoff 2 just dropped

(it's chicken thigh strog on rice, that's stroganoff 2, try it, it's magic)

make sure to lick the letter seal really good and wet so the stroganoff doesn't fall out.

It's tonight for me. Might have stroganoff for dinner

Man I could go for a Strog right about now too

I also run my HA on a nuc (beelink mini s12 with n95) proxmox with the subscription nags disabled, installed HA via the install script rather than from scratch, also have a Linux VM running a kiosk browser for a non-interactive dashboard feed (unifi cameras, power, weather, reminders etc) into my video distribution system that also runs a fileflows node in the background for quicksync video encoding tasks to be offloaded to it from my main server

I was having stability issues with the pi based setup I had before, as well as performance limitations I wasn't expecting considering how simple my setup is, though i do have a complex nodered setup running all the logic as I prefer to do it in there rather than in HA directly.

Yea there's very little public information on hacking anything other than android boxes and most of the more extreme stuff will break apps like Netflix or Disney+ so the best thing to do it leave it effectively stock, load on a hacked youtube client, with a dummy google account if you really want it private and your personal streaming client of choice (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi etc) and then do some filtering/ad blocking in your network to lock it down.

The only caveat with an SBC is codec support varies greatly between distros you use on them, and you have to work out your own control/remote situation. I moved away from them for media a few years ago because I was sick of having to tinker and reinstall things because some codec was broken or the screen was tearing, or an update broke something requiring terminal access to fix. If you want a proper home theatre setup with full HDR and lossless surround support it's not worth the trouble.

NSPanel Pro is easy to unlock, debug mode is enabled by first setting it to a cloud account but you can just use a dummy account for it. it is just android so enable ADB then load a lightweight launcher, change some defaults, remove some fluff and go from there.

The regular NSPanel is not android but can still be modified as it is ESP32 based.

if you really want e-ink, an older e-reader with hackable firmware could be a good way to go, but without a printer you'd have to pay for a printing service to make the mount, which would likely take a few iterations to get right so it wouldn't be particularly cheap. I want to see something about the size of the Boox Palma or Hisense A5 but with a wallmount, POE and some basic sensors.

You can jailbreak many older Kindle models, some require soldering to an internal serial port but then you can load a custom browser with a fullscreen mode, I even had a VNC client on mine to access a VM for a full PC interface.

I've only seen that on brands like NEC, Benq and some dedicated education or business models. Sony and Samsung just have modified versions of their standard OSs on much of their range.

commercial displays are often smart these days too, sometimes just with a more limited default app setup aimed at signage and such and usually a more commercially focussed warranty.

The cheaper dumb commercial displays as others have said can have severe limitations in image quality.