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My personal experience writing a multi-platform desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) was rather painful. Tkinter was my first try, but deployment on macOS was a nightmare. I ended using PySide, which ticked all the boxes, but my biggest gripe is that you end with a lot of code that is not very "pythonic". Flet looks like a nice alternative.

Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code in c/python

[–] norambna 2 points 1 month ago

It goes from 3% slower to 30% faster.

DOOM® CAPTCHA in c/webassembly

[–] norambna 1 points 2 months ago

It has touchscreen support!

Loads of problems with Jellyfin in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, Kodi (via LibreELEC) and then JellyCon on top.

For other Amlogic ARM devices, like the Minix U22X-J (Max) or Ugoos AM6+ I mentioned above, CoreELEC is the LibreELEC alternative.

Loads of problems with Jellyfin in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Chances are very high that Kodi will detect your own TV's remote and you can use that! https://kodi.wiki/view/CEC
If that doesn't work, there are many cheap options.

I also use the official JellyFin client on my android phone with MPV as player and that also works perfectly fine. And the Jellyfin Media Player on my laptop is also flawless.

In my experience, the older Chromecasts are probably the only clients with problems.

If I had to buy a client device, I'd probably go with a Minix U22X-J (Max) or Ugoos AM6+ https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/amlogic-ng-and-dolby-vision/24738

Loads of problems with Jellyfin in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I've been using Jellyfin for over 2 years. My main clients are a Raspberry 4 and a Raspberry 5 using Kodi + the Jellyfin plugin. This combo has been flawless.

I also have an older Chromecast and I experience there similar problems with subtitles.

Is there an Ubuntu variant these days that works on 32-bit? in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

MX Linux is a nice Debian based distro that still supports 32-bit. Or you could use just Debian.

Python 3.14.0 alpha 1 in c/python

[–] norambna 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Python 3.14 Release Schedule: https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/

3.14.0 final: Wednesday, 2025-10-01

Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? in c/[email protected]

[–] norambna 2 points 6 months ago

I have spent a lot of time playing GB/GBA games and Advance Wars is among my favorites. I love the "hot potato" mode for playing with a friend with just one device.

Django Chat: Fall 2024 Podcast Relaunch in c/django

[–] norambna 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Relaunch? I never listened to it’s old run, anyone have thoughts on it?

Django Chat is a great podcast!

What languages/frameworks for small, very low usage apps on limited hardware? in c/programming

[–] norambna 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Python / FastAPI will be better than Java in your situation and is easy to learn. Go should be even better and is also relatively easy to learn!

radiac/nanodjango: Run Django models and views from a single file, and convert it to a full project. in c/django

[–] norambna 2 points 7 months ago

https://mastodon.cloud/@radiac/113096990972136170

Nanodjango 0.8 is out, adding async view and ASGI support. Now you can write async single file scripts that look like Flask or FastAPI, but with all #django features like models, auth, admin etc.