Editing Introduction to a Self Managed Life: a 13 hour & 28 minute presentation by FUTO software (section)

==== My stoneage home theater software ====

I showed you what I use; a computer file explorer to browse to my video &amp; music files, and double click them to play them in VLC. There are several reasons this is horrible:

* '''File &amp; folder browsing.'''
** If your folders are a mess, it will be difficult to find your stuff.
** Immich tags photos by face &amp; description; we want something like this that’ll just make sense of our 160 terabytes of stuff.
* '''Blinding user interface'''.
** Computer operating systems are designed for use with a monitor right next to you, not a TV that is 3 meters away.
** You can change your display settings &amp; scaling, but making it work with a TV makes it awkward.
* '''Manual lookup of info''': finding ratings, credits, other info isn’t immediately accessible &amp; requires leaving the file explorer or VLC to find.

There’s nothing inherently '''''wrong''''' with this setup. It’s just not everyone’s cup of tea, so we’re going to set up something built for a home theater living room system. This can be done '''quickly and easily''' - unlike many other things in GNU/Linux!

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