<div dir="ltr">Get a raspberry pi for the front end (kodi), low power low maintenance you can power it from the tvs usb port and use the tv's remote (if you have CEC)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 October 2015 at 23:03, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:18:17 +1300, you wrote:<br>
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><br>
>Mark Kendall wrote:<br>
>>> I really do have to wonder why anyone on a myth backend machine would<br>
>>> move from an LTS version of ubuntu to a non LTS version.<br>
><br>
>> Some people want to tutu, some people want to be bleeding edge. In my case<br>
>> I’m a software engineer whose server is also my primary server and desktop<br>
>> .....<br>
><br>
>You need a separate mythbox. Or you need a separate dev box.... same<br>
>effect.<br>
><br>
>My backend does only two things - both of which are fire and forget.<br>
> * Myth backend functions<br>
> * backuppc<br>
><br>
>My desktop does all the hard work of testing things, and my general<br>
>purpose server does mail and disk shares and web serving etc.<br>
><br>
>Separation is a good thing, increases SOAF and CAF etc. (that's new PC<br>
>version of WAF :)<br>
<br>
</span>But separate PCs increases your power bill and takes up more of your<br>
house. And an extra PC is going to cost $$$ to buy and then more $<br>
every few years to update.<br>
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