Hi! My goal: I want to set up a beamer projector in my flat and connect that to some kind of ‘always on’ machine with which I can stream (currently Netflix a bit but that really is not a priority as I am thinking of cancelling it) but would also like it to be a torrent client (I have a VPN) to download some media. Though something like popcorn time would also be nice, though that’s also something that I would only use behind a vpn for obvious reasons.

I have a pi5 or and some older NUCs hanging around that run well with Ubuntu. I know that something like kodi does not play nice with Netflix (iirc because of drm).

Should I use the pi? Or better an Ubuntu and do the power management best I can myself?

What would you guys say is a good way to try this out?

Edit: TIL I thought beamer is a word that German borrows from English, so I assumed it’s the same. Nope, in German ‘beamer’ has very weird roots (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoprojektor) so Germany stole an English word ‘beam’ but it meant project… Weird

  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
    20·
    6 months ago

    FYI: What you call a “Beamer” in German you would call a “projector” in english. I would edit the post, or else people will think you want to set up star trek technology. ;)

    • zweieuro@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      Okay I never knew that, I would also accept tips for setting up a star trek beamer though xD

      • Cobrachicken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Ray guns everywhere please. Stepped into that beamer trap once, only for my non-DE colleagues to tease me forever with it.

      • B0rax@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        The German language is strange like that… often using English words for an entirely different meaning.