Gabadabs

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If it were me, and I wasn't looking to use tofu, why not just do the rice/vegetables that would go in one? Things like Carrots, Avocado, Kimchi, cucumber, lettuce, pickled onions?

YouTube's default UI isn't too bad, in my experience, admittedly my tv is on the small side. I use slightly increased scaling to make things bigger. I use jellyfin and it's default web interface works well on a tv, I haven't tried the desktop app but it's there. I used to use Kodi and while it did present a much more TV centered UI, getting each app working was a matter of managing different third party plugins that would break on me frequently. I used to use Freetube, which both blocks ads and includes sponsorblock. It lets you use YT mostly without an account, including subscriptions, playlists, watch history, etc. It takes some fiddling to import your subscriptions if you do use a YT account.

Using the mouse and keyboard on my phine via KDE connect is my default and works well for the less TV centric UI.

I personally just adjusted the default KDE desktop to look decent on my TV, since I set it up before the current release of bigscreen did. Bigscreen just seems like less tweaking overall, which seems to fit what you're looking for. I've tried other options like Kodi, Android TV and ultimately been left disappointed. Using KDE connect (or a controller with steam input) and a browser is definitely a bit janky, but it does give you the freedom to use whatever media platform you like without worrying about whether there will be supported apps or plugins for your smart TV/Box. You aren't going to find a TV Box/Smart TV that isn't spying on you, at least out of the box. I fought this for a long time trying to find something that worked better for me.

If you're looking for something legitimately privacy friendly, your options are super limited. I've settled on a PC with Linux. I just found a cheap retired office PC, and I control it using KDE connect on my phone. I'd recommend trying out plasma bigscreen. You don't need to do much tinkering, just install the package and select it as the session on your login screen. https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

That "abomination" fake meat is mostly pea protein. Look dude, you genuinely don't know what you're talking about. And that's okay, if you've got the drive to be curious and learn more about things. I don't eat meat because I don't want to support an industry that treats living things, with feelings and desires, as products for us to consume. You should look into the conditions in animal agriculture.

I've used both pretty extensively (years daily driving each) but these days I just use stock KDE, with maybe a couple little adjustments to the taskbar. I like both. I can adapt to different desktop workflows, GNOME's is good, but I found myself always using plugins to make it work more like a windows desktop. I generally like the KDE suite of default applications a lot more than GNOME's, like Dolphin is just a better file manager than nautilus. And if I'm going to use KDE applications and a windows-styled desktop layout, at that point I might as well just use KDE.

It's a computer, whatever headset you want to use will likely work. You'll have to pair it if it's Bluetooth, but after you do it should automatically connect. There's a Bluetooth menu on the quick settings menu.

You can start voice calls in steam as well, it's got a full set of social systems. A lot of PC players prefer discord calls though, you'd have to set that up in desktop mode and add it to your steam library so you can launch it from steam big picture mode, the default mode in steamos (at least in my experience on steam deck).

I haven't tried fluxer but it'd be the same idea. On a controller, doing voice chat over steam is probably easier.