A while back, I bought an LG OLED TV — no complaints at all. It’s big, it lazes the retinas, it looks nice even in the daylight. I have a Denon AVR home theatre receiver. For a long time, I had a Linux PC on an HDMI passthrough to the TV. It recently stopped working and nothing would ‘kick’ it. After some searching and forum diving, it’s the old HDCP issues rearing their ugly heads. Lots of folks just suggested “plug direct into the TV”, which sort of circumvents the whole point of the receiver being the ‘point of control’. I couldn’t come up with any other solutions though, so that’s what I did. That PC is something like an AMD FX-6300 or something equally archaic at this point. Not really sure what I want to do — there are lots of mini-PCs available now for reasonable prices. I have a nice Home-Theatre inspired case already, but don’t really want to splurge on AM5 hardware (or invest in the now obsolete AM4).
When they were new, I bought a Prusa Mk3 3d FDM printer. It was fun, occasionally finicky, and lasted ~5 years. It needed about $150 in parts to repair a goober-induced problem, so it’s been otherwise idle for a few months now. I decided to pull the trigger on a Prusa XL semi-assembled kit. Happy Birthday me, I guess. It’ll be fun!
I’m also working on an RPi-based, Python-powered “documentation station” for one of my aunts. The goal is to display a slideshow, offer the ability to pause, and then press a key and dictate vocally what the contents of the paused picture are, and then save the audio in a folder referencing the filename of the original picture. We can then decide what to do with the audio later — feed it to AI to transcript it and make books / chapters / etc, do some kind of interactive web-index of the stuff — I don’t really know yet.
There’s always Lego ideas and projects percolating around in the background. I really need to come up with a useful-for-me method / paradigm of parts storage.
Man, I really need to move.