Comment by queenkjuul
14 hours ago
They're great but my friends get confused when they're staying and I'm not there. Not having a normal remote throws people. Getting a remote to work perfectly and usefully in Linux isn't all that simple. Plus it's not at all easy for it to manage external inputs -- a smart TV can just switch to the ps5 with a button, how would i do that from my Linux htpc keyboard?
Don't get me wrong, I'm never giving up my ublock-YouTube plus steam plus Plex Linux htpc but there's plenty of reasons they're not super practical.
Also doesn't Netflix still throttle to 720p on PCs?
>They're great but my friends get confused when they're staying and I'm not there.
How often that happens to be a pain point?
Pretty often, honestly. My friends and i all let each other crash at our places when we're in each other's town, and somebody is in my town visiting probably 3-4 times a year, and then my brother and sister come out 1-2 times a year each. So in a busy year that's almost once a month.
So enough that I'd like to find a good solution, even if it's not super high priority. My sofabaton Bluetooth remote was hopefully the savior but its Bluetooth mode is pretty bad and makes macros unreliable.