Finally! I've been wanting this for years. I have my living room surround sound system hooked up to my Apple TV and it's super annoying to have to leave the screen on when using the Apple TV for music because turning off the TV turns off the surround sound.
There may not be many people who need this app, but it's appreciated by those of us who do.
Quick solution to this is to save a 100% black image in your iCloud Photo Library , and set that image as your Apple TVs screen saver.
I use that in both my Apple TVs and I can listen to music while the screen is completely black. Bonus points is that you get notifications of song changing on top!
It will definitely be appreciated around these parts. I use the sound bar to listen to music whilst pottering about (it's easier than headphones or carrying a speaker around with me) and I never need any visuals.
I’m about to graduate with a computer engineering degree. I’ve messed around with ChatGPT a fair bit.
If I ask it about topics in my curriculum, it’s either wrong or it spits out a high-level overview of some extremely basic concepts that’s less useful than the end-of-chapter summaries in my textbooks.
I’ve been using the Beelink for a few months now for general-purpose computing (web, Excel, VSCode, etc.) and it’s better than it has any right to be for its size and price.
Cool project! I’ve been using a Notion database for exactly this problem. The only feature I can see from a quick glance that this has and Notion doesn’t is quickly exporting to browser bookmark format. Any other cool features I’m missing?
Notion Databases are neat! I’m not familiar with them, I just glanced over some of the documentation. I think its safe to say Notion Databases would let you create your own Linkidex (or your own todo list app, or your own food macro tracking app, etc) as long as you are willing to spend the time building and maintaining it, which you must if you have already put in the work!
May I ask what made you choose notion vs any alternative? Do you like having complete control over the shape of your data, do you like the UI, or is there something else about it?
Notion is an interesting tool because it’s so general-purpose and flexible. In the past I used different tools for bookmarks, notetaking, project organization, recipes, reading lists, etc. I got tired of everything having different UI and features and ended up moving all of that to Notion.
I think the main features that led me to choose Notion were:
- Fully cross-platform (web, desktop, mobile)
- Browser extension (PC & Mobile) to quickly save pages to any database
- Ability to create searchable databases with custom fields, tags, multiple views, and other advanced features
- Ability to easily move an item from one database to another, for example moving an article from “Reading List” to “Saved Articles”
- Every database entry is also a page, so an entry in “Saved Articles” can have notes or links to other similar articles
- Very easy to share a database or page, similar to Google Drive
Of course, it’s not without its problems. Because it’s so general-purpose, it can feel unfocused and clunky at times. There are also concerns with having so much data in one tool, and it took a while to get everything set up. But being able to use the same tool to bookmark an interesting article to read later, do my finances, and find a favorite recipe for dinner has been a great experience.
It is of course fully possible that there’s a better alternative that I’ve missed, but it’s served me well so far.
I just spent the past three months building a custom GUI framework in C# using OpenTK, which is basically just a C# wrapper for OpenGL. It's inherently cross-platform because of .NET. [1]
After finishing, I regret spending so much time on it. For my use case, I think it would have been a better use of time to just use Electron. At least until .NET MAUI has Linux support, which is looking very promising.
[1] I haven't tried MacOS because I don't have a Mac and I believe it has OpenGL compatibility problems. It works great on Windows and Linux though.
There may not be many people who need this app, but it's appreciated by those of us who do.