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Cake day: September 16th, 2025

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  • One should also consider the privacy implications of the devices (and services) they use as well. Android TV will have all of Google’s tracking implemented, along with advertising sprinkled through the system.

    I pulled my Android TV off the internet a few months ago and now just use an old laptop running Linux Mint (there are probably better distros) as my TV box. A wireless keyboard with trackpad serves as the remote. Services can be accessed through a browser (Brave or Firefox with uBlock) or an app, if available. Sure, there’s not 4K Netflix, but my wife doesn’t care if she can see Rory’s pimples or not on an episode of Gilmore Girls.




  • Fixing a Nvidia driver mismatch that was causing the newest kernel module to not build properly (that might not be the right terminology) and not boot was on my list, as discovered after a node reboot that wouldn’t start.

    It was fairly straightforward, though finding a way to fully remove some of the old DKMS stuff took a bit of digging (manually delete a couple files). The new driver installs went smoothly and the improved GPU passthrough in PVE 9 made the passthrough config tasks pretty quick.

    I also got go2rtc set up and piped my cameras through that instead of having individual connections for things like Home Assistant and Blue Iris NVR. I’m still struggling to get the motion notifications in Home Assistant to work though. Followed a tutorial on (that other site) and got the MQTT message coming in just fine, but the node-red flow isn’t working…an issue with entities, so still some tinkering left to do there.