We're northern prairies Canadian for context, so my bigger projects are on hold until it's finally warm enough outside not to hate being alive out there. Basically starting tomorrow! Hopefully no more false starts to spring weather.

My father wanted to stop paying Americans for his media consumption, especially sports but has not much tech literacy. He's better off than most of his peers at age 68 but piracy isn't part of his knowledge base and my mother was against pirate devices in their house until...well, Trump 2.

So I built him a mini PC for his TV and taught him how to use/update Stremio on Debian and the necessary plugins/debrid service. He has to write down instructions but rarely does he get stuck and ask for help so long as the GUI of anything he's using doesn't suddenly change drastically on him. Having no blackout games and video on demand recordings of recent games without having to manually DVR if he misses one live has him ecstatic.

It's set up to use the Stremio beta Flatpak while browsing using web.stremio.com instead of actually using the app frontend because the built in players are utter crap. Now everything just opens in external mpv with an ideal .conf file we made.