If you really want to give it one last chance before leaving my advice would be to have a 1-on-1 talk with her.

Start out by saying that:

• You understand that she works in a different way to you.
• You feel more secure when your private and work lives are separate.
• You feel you are able to do your best work when you can focus on the task without distraction.

“Feel” is an important word here. You’re not trying to be confrontational. You’re trying to express your position so she can understand you and how you work better. You’re trying to show her the right way to manage you, rather than pointing out the wrong way.

Then ask a couple of questions:

• Does she want you to communicate more because she’s worried that you’re not communicating issues that she needs to be aware of in her role? If so, that’s a valid concern. Maybe organise a fixed time each week to discuss such issues so you can plan for it and come prepared.

• Does she think she can accommodate how you like to work?

I expect she values “openness” but that doesn’t need to be sharing your whole life with the people you work with. So meet her half-way, be open about what you’re working on and the problems you’re facing. She may be able to help you by resolving your dependencies on others, or getting you what you need.

Anti-cheat “compatibility” means allowing software kernel level access and after Crowd strike I think that tide will be turning even on Windows.

Anti-cheat will change. Not Linux IMHO.

…because removing somebody’s kernel maintainer priv and the industrialised genocide of people is remotely comparable.

Ewwww! Hard pass.

I’ll keep with the old way thanks. Sure, pytorch installs are a pain in the butt, but that’s why I’m pretty sure a pre-packaged version is not going to make life easier. I also despise electron apps.

I realise as somebody who isn’t afraid of a little command line Linux, I’m not the target audience. However, is anyone who is using diffusion models right now… especially someone who isn’t scared off by noodles… asking for this? The software is for experimenters who enjoy building their own flows. It’s mode of operation is “some assembly required”.

But you live in a world where there are few union jobs

I live in a country where ¼ to ⅕ of all workers are in a union, anybody can join a union and the current party in power receives major funding from the unions.

Maybe that gives me a different perspective.

That explains why chesticles appear to change in size from one day to the next.

So that one doesn’t talk to the Jellyfin process. It just understands the way Jellyfin organises things on disk. Right?

You then access the files via NFS, SMB or WebDav (the horror!)

Just checking I understand.

A few things for me:

• I had most of the parts to build a low power machine that’s passively cooled. No noise whilst watching video.
• I can have a locally stored library so don’t need a NAS running 24/7 elsewhere in the house supping power.
• I can have multiple things running on it like games as well as media giving me a PC gaming console (fans come on at that point).
• Never have to drive it through my phone or a tablet. It’s just on the TV remote. Ease of use is great.
• No money to Amazon, Google or similar companies that just want to data farm me.

Kodi works very well for me with a local library. Serving it from Jellyfin was a mess (Jellycon). I think primarily this is a Kodi problem as really it should support DLNA servers much much better, and then a add-on wouldn’t be needed.

I was asking the op what desktop environment they’re running, in response to their question

…and I was informing you that, given they are looking for an alternative to Kodi, they may not be running a DE.

There are differences in pronunciation, at least for my southern British dialect. “Your” is said “yorr”. “You’re” is said “yeur” and is far closer to the “you are” it comes from. It’s just said at speed blending the words.

Unions.

Generally I’m in favour of them. Workers need to have a voice in how the companies they work for are run. It’s far too easy for management to screw people over otherwise.

However, sometimes companies need to take drastic action that could have a high impact on workers. Unions can stand in the way of such change because “They are protecting their members”, but undermining modernisation or causing wages to be higher than necessary can destroy a company.

At that point everybody has lost.

None.

If somebody is using Kodi they’re probably running in a kiosk style. On my install I don’t even have XOrg or Wetland installed. Kodi is just running on kernel level graphics buffers (GBM).

Yes jellyfin is a server, and the question asked was what to replace Kodi with. Kodi is a frontend. Jellyfin doesn’t solve the problem.

Kodi is a frontend.

Jellyfin is a server.

Jellyfin is not a replacement for Kodi. Jellyfin would replace OPs WebDAV server, but that’s not the question being asked.

To be fair I didn’t know that existed because I don’t use windows. I would expect it would be fine if I did. However, I use Linux.

Fire stick is not a HTPC

…and it’s unusably buggy in my experience.

So recommend a client suitable for a dedicated HTPC? I’ve yet to find one, as the Kodi add-on for jellyfin is buggy in my experience.

So how do you interact with the jellyfin server from your HTPC?

Ok but Jellyfin is a web service. Not really suitable for a Home Theatre PC. If there was a frontend application that worked in a kiosk type way, then it would replace Kodi.