dep via tde-users wrote:
One advantage of the RPi is that it's really easy to try stuff. If it breaks the system, I just yank the mSD card and replace it with a clean one made on the other machine, and take the broken one to the other machine and rewrite it with the clean system. When everything is right and tested, I write it to the SSD and have a new clean version. If after a couple of weeks nothing has beoken, I can migrate it to the SSD on the other machine.
This was too bothering for me so I put a TFTP and configured to boot from the server (I have RPi2/3/4 diskless).
Right now trying to fix the TV tuner issue and a totally goofy Netscape and Vivaldi problem. Netscape-Mozilla-Firefox v.126 runs Widevine perfectly well, so I can watch paid, subscribed stuff. But it has had a bug since 119 -- the screen blanker doesn't notice that it's running. So every few minutes in a movie or show the TV shuts down. Aha, I thought, well then I'll run Firefox ESR, which really does resemble Netscape . . . and won't, it turns out, run Widevine at all. The blanker bug isn't in ESR. Which no, is not named for Eric S. Raymond. So I thought maybe Vivaldi, which I like elsewhere, would do. It supposedly runs Widevine but it's pretty shaky about it. There are all sorts of folk tales -- really -- about getting Widevine to work on it, but I haven't found a reliable one.
I am not sure if it is Firefox issue at all. IMO the problem is (as mentioned elsewhere) that we do not use DBus. Firefox would use org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver interface to disable screensaver, dimming, hibernation etc. while you are watching something. I completely disabled the screensaver, but I was just looking (I mean exactly before I read this message) into the DBus spec and into the code (kdesktop_lock) and thinking how much effort would be to implement.