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It’s been a while since I’ve last posted but I have returned with the story of my work on the Github desktop Flatpak. If you haven’t figured out by the title this is going to be a two-parter. The first part(what you’re reading now) is going to be up to submitting the Flatpak to flathub. The second part will be about fixing issues after getting on flathub. Well, let’s start with what a “Flatpak” is.

A few days ago my parents asked me to give them a cheaper more DIY alternative to a chrome cast/android TV boxes. During my research I remembered reading a article about Plasma big screen TV(PT). The latest endeavor of the KDE foundation which brings a android TV style interface to the Linux desktop. PT also touts features such a using Mycroft-Ai as as assistant similar to how google assistant is on android TV.

If you are reading this blog on netlify please head to our new domain nullrequest.com. At the start of october the netlify subdomain will be taken down. In this post I wanted to talk about why and why not you should self host. When I decided to self host it wasn’t at the drop of a hat. I spent a long time thinking about if it was worth moving to my own hardware.