I’d lean towards the pi being the problem, but you can test the network throughput with iperf, and would want to test the videos outside of Kodi on the pi, so you could also check top and see what the processing looks like.

If I remember my pi 4 hardware decoding specs correctly, I believe h.264, MPEG 2, and VC1, and some support for HEVC. If I had to guess, you may have some codecs that aren’t handled by hardware acceleration, and instead just CPU.

My best rec would be to use either a dedicated stream box (like a fire stick, Nvidia shield, etc) which has better codec support, or pick up like a little Intel n100 based system, which will handle a drastically wider set of codecs with full acceleration support.

Right now I’ve got a Roku and a Google TV Chromecast, and I’ve been trying with various environments on an old Lenovo m910q so I can find my favorite fit of UI/distro. The Roku and Chromecast never stutter, and I don’t do transcoding for inside the home. Works with 4K HDR HEVC no problem.

Edit: Autocorrect annoyances.

Tiny/mini/micro makes up my server environment (and two customs using old cases and replaced parts).

Storage is a 1520+ and the two customs, with the 1515+ for backups I don’t want to lose (syncs to two other locations).

Tiny/mini/micro is the majority of compute tasks, mostly proxmox, LXC’s, and a few VMs.

The little machines have plenty of processing power, usually nvme but I can add it on if needed. Combine it with network storage, and you don’t need anything else imo.

Bonus is they are small and cheap as off lease machines being auctioned off.

Considering the campaigns response, I think they are smart enough to see it for what it is.

100% it impacts voters of all parties

Since Republicans would lose more ground that way though, they will continue to push unrelated issues for single issue voters, and continuously make it “not the right time!” to address FPTP.

And while that sounds nice to reform immediately, that isn’t how things would work given our Constitution. So I don’t think it would realistically work out

Doesn’t the “can” make it clearly an option?

Because it would split the party enough that Republicans would gain further control.

Unfortunately, the best way to move things further left is not “yet another party”, but decimation of the Republican party and then fracture (with FPTP is replaced). With FPTP in place, any party further left than democrats will just fail, because Republicans will dominate and further restrict voting to maintain control. We are seeing that very thing right now with election commissions in GA.

The only other option is the tankie hope for a civil war, which I am so much against I would not only argue against, but would actively fight against that sort of destructive approach which would serve only to harm and kill imo.

So what to do? Support people in primaries who are as far left as possible. Participate in the process, including primaries. Vote in local elections. Volunteer.

Be the left you want to see in the Democrats.

If you don’t put the https:// in front of 12ft.io, clients won’t format the link correctly and will see the https:// for the daily beast as the start of the link.

So please use https://12ft.io/https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-mixed-up-willie-brown-for-former-sen-nate-holden-in-helicopter-story-says-holden instead.

A path only open by Republicans losing this election, which is a critical point that can’t be missed.

Honestly I wouldn’t use Endeavour for my work machine, I’d stick to Debian. Work, to me, needs to be extremely stable. The only time I’ll run something other than Debian for work stuff is to test a specific distribution for a specific need.

Home PC I’m more flexible on, I’ve just been using Debian/it’s derivatives for so long it’s second nature for me. If there was something that felt as current and flexible as Endeavour, but based around Debian, that would be my choice in a heartbeat for home use.

But aside from the stuff that runs Oracle Linux (vendor system), every other system (be it a desktop, LXC, or server) is Debian based. Doesn’t break unless it’s the hardware, and I’ve got HA to deal with that.

Instance.

If it’s for work, it used to be all RHEL (or Oracle). I’m stuck with Oracle for one specific type of system, but all the RHEL is getting replaced with stable AF Debian now. Which is great, since I prefer Debian to pretty much anything else, especially for servers.

Ubuntu I have no interest in touching anymore unfortunately. It was snaps that did it for me. It’s unfortunate because it used to be a distro I really liked, but boy has canonical just been working things downhill the past several years (for me at least, I’m sure others are fine with it).

Desktop I keep swinging between Debian and endeavor, to the point where I just have them both as VMs and just swap which is active with the GPU passthrough…

I’m perfectly fine waiting for the inevitable comment by the wonderful Lucy Lawless calling out the little “Peanut”.

A long while ago, I used to use kdissert (now semantik) to make all my white papers, from mind map to document, generating latex out, fine tune, and just gorgeous.

Then I was forced to put them in word and hand it off to our graphics design people to put it into InDesign.

I think I’m going to try semantik for more than mind maps again.

Tristate area, commute to NYC, only option is a private carrier. Prices change based on the cost of fuel mostly, varies from $500-700/mo.

And yes, it’s absurd.

Edit: I should add that’s the discounted monthly option for 40 trips (so 20 days of commuting). If I pay each day, it’s $100/day, which is what I do now since I don’t commute in enough anymore to be worth any of the discounted commuter options.

About $7k in mass transit costs for me.

And then they wonder why I said “none” to “how many days a week will you be in?”

He has multiple pensions from his different jobs.

That’s out of 53 now actually.

Excited to check the new version out!

I’ll take a look at the GH issues in a bit (super fun work day full of mariadb, disk resizing, and an unfortunately large amount of ec2 efforts…)

It’s not like I don’t have thunder installed (I’ve actually got it on a few devices), just I don’t open as often. Main reason historically has been content display - usually less link previews, and more often attached local media. Haven’t rechecked in a bit, but I think it’s been a couple months since I had seen an update in fdroid, which is usually my signal to check out the latest.

Feature-wise? Multis would be amazing. Especially with federation where multiple servers have related communities, being able to group what I want to see is awesome. Raccoon just added a (partial, new, maybe problematic) version. Ideally this should be server side, but I don’t expect it’s a high priority item.

In terms of what I can recall off the top:

• Images would get squished in full height mode
• Clear read posts is a super useful one in Voyager, a nice-to-have for thunder
• Had an issue with messages, unable to reply from inbox maybe? Can’t remember exactly what it was.

Regardless, when the updates roll out to the fdroid repos, I’ll be updating and checking it out. I’ve got logins at multiple instances, for different tasks (programming, memes, being hopeful that we won’t have a criminal as president, etc), some clients can be better than others at commenting or browsing or just the way markup looks. So it’s less to me about “best” and more “what I feel like using right now” if that makes sense. Which could be the same thing, but isnt always.

Always happy to try out a new rev though!

I think I’d be concerned more about a return to the one drop mentality.