It's kind of funny but I have also posted about a custom "tv station at home" as well. It seems like as the (((noticing))) about how fucked up and degenerate basically everything has gotten, people that know what they are doing are building self-hosted, self-controlled versions. I am now thinking about how I would go about creating something that operates like "plex friends" but you create your own "channels" and share them with anyone you want to (P2P and decentralized). That way you could make something that "feels like tv" but no advertisements and you can flag content or such. The more we advance the more it seems like we just re-invent the same shit we had but taking out the things we hate. Archive: https://archive.today/UBKbv From the post: >>[Trwmato] wanted to spend more time listening to a normal radio to cut back on phone use. But the programming wasn’t quite right so, of course, the solution was to spin up a custom radio station! The station in question uses a Pi Zero to poll podcasts and news from RSS feeds and automatically mixes them with local content and sends it out via Bluetooth. An FM transmitter allows it to still work on the FM radio, too. Grabbing podcasts isn’t very difficult, thanks to podget. The real logic is in how long to retain things and creating a playlist that both prioritizes fresh content while not repeating things too often. Did we forget to mention the whole thing is a collection of shell scripts?