Yeah, unfortunately the TV app (Xbox for me) offering is really poor.
I've been playing with Kodi with the Jellyfin plug-in but it requires such brittle tower of themes and plug-ins to look like Plex that I've yet to make the switch.
The homescreen on the Xbox app is now full of "Apple TV", Trailers, free TV and the like. Enough of it that you can't see you own stuff on the homescreen.
Last time I searched I couldn't turn it off. But maybe I missed that setting.
Honestly it was quite a whiplash to go from what looked like a good article to something that seemed completely made up. But I would chalk that up more to my reading comprehension than your writing.
Right, are any of the things mentioned in the GP really required if you only want this init?
I know they've attached all these projects to the systemd brand because they thought it would beneficial but it's hard not to wonder if we could avoid all those discussions if the umbrella project was called something different...
Thanks I'll give it a shot when I have a free weekend.
I think I may have complicated things by using linuxserver.io images which already require some id mapping trickery on the rootless podman side as they expect to run as root...
Ooh, I need to look into that id mapping technique.
I attempted to port my homelab quadlet setup to a disposable VM on proxmox with the state folder mounted via virtiofs and after losing a weekend I realised that it essentially wasn't compatible with rootless podman id mapping and I gave up.
Gemini CLI at work has the same issue: it'll prefer hacking your workstation over just asking you how to proceed.
I think the harnesses are setup to have a bias to action otherwise the LLM would just stop all the time when doing trivial task but it also mean they'll keep going when the "obvious" path is to just prompt the user.
They used to have their own "youtube script interpreter" that was kind of fascinating.
But yeah as you said they switched to proper js runtimes recently.
For me, and despite the constant enshitification of Plex, the apps are still better.
But I'm really close to the tipping point, I've been tinkering with making Kodi not suck but custom themes really seem like piles of unsuported plugins.
Not sure why this is so down voted.
I have a touch bar era Intel Mac, I regularly check the state of Linux on it and they are still somewhat poorly supported.
Some drivers are out of tree, audio and sleep doesn't necessarily work, etc...