Re: This was quite a night/morning ...

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

So, PBS released a new "Frontline" ep, about the Gaza war.  I was
thinking of streaming it with my computer, to my television screen as a
second monitor, but openSUSE was not having that work correctly.  I
tried two pitiful distros that I quickly disposed of, before trying what
I'm writing this on, Debian 12.  Seems to work perfectly with the TV as
a monitor, *but* I needed to get the NVIDIA proprietary drivers
installed, because Nouveau was laggy AF with my 4K main screen.  Problem
being, my user account wasn't allowed to use sudo, for some reason, I
guess I'm not used to these more techie distros, but it's been a good
learning experience.  I Googled and did some reading, and eventually
resolved that, and it's just a matter of continuing to set things up,
e.g. Wine.  Suck on it, Win11/DFS.

 
Got Wine done.  Quite pleased with myself.

>
I'm not clear what you accomplished.  It sounded like you chased your
tail all day and night.

It took a bit to come to the conclusion that I should try Debian, but
once I did, and handled its issue with sudo, boom.

Are you saying you beat the GuhNoo crapware and you're streaming
Frontline wirelessly from your desktop computer to your TV?  If so, good
job.

It's not wireless *from the computer to the TV*, no, it's WiFi whether
the computer is streaming it or the Fire stick.  But there's a DVI-I-
to-HDMI cable I've had for ages that sends the stream to the TV set.

Why did you need Wine?

Primarily for Forte Agent, you know that.

Your first post in this thread came via Thunderbird.  Did you install an
entire distro just to setup this streaming situation?

openSUSE quirked on it, I watched that show with my Fire stick, but
that meant I had to use the TV's own speakers, now I could do it with
my headphones playing the audio.

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Joel W. Crump

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Section 1.

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abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
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Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
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