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Yeah generally I like to carry an hdmi cable and plug into my phone/laptop when I’m staying at a hotel. The tv doesn’t always have hdmi, or hdmi I can use, but it’s more secure. What you could do is use a service to download the video onto your phone directly with the vpn and then cast that from there, the tv just gets your local ip path, nothing to block, if you’re going that route obfuscate the video name so it’s like video_1.mp4 instead of the YouTube title

If it’s something like chromecast it’s not sending your screen locally to the device, it’s sending the source URL of the video itself, so VPN wouldn’t make a difference unless it was at the network layer the TV was using. That being said, did you try playing the same videos on your phone or computer without vpn? On cell? On their WiFi? If it doesn’t work at all on any it’s likely geo blocked as another commenter said. If it works on cell but not WiFi it’s likely their network is blocking them

Yeah the code only accepts one domain AFAIK that it uses for federation and everything in the UI/API. So even if you could host it at .onion, links, images, in-browser API calls, etc would all serve from the public domain if you wanted federation. The code would need to be written to support alternative domain access with an authoritative domain for federation. In theory you could put some sort of proxy in front that just rewrote everything the server output to replace with .onion and then intercept every request to change the header so the server thought it was coming from the standard TLD, but that’s incredibly fragile and a ton of work.

It is identical. The only difference is one is OpenAI branded and they vibecoded software to make it control parts of the codex desktop app

E.g. it’s an AI built discord clone with a nearly identical interface, not a chat platform “with discord features”

oh wow lol that’s not just “discord features” that’s o.g. “linux is not unix” built by claude. thanks for the share

Without having gone on that discord, like most discords, it would be my guess that 80% of the purpose of it is for shitposting, custom emojis, and sharing gifs.

Ironically few if any self hosted chat platforms share that focus, so that’s likely part of the gap. It’s either irc (very light on features, no ui for administration/customization for those not wanting to use admin text commands), matrix (very heavy, focus on federation, also has many commands that are only through text, very light support for custom emoji or built in gifs), or the crippleware open source business oriented chat platforms like rocketchat, mattermost, or zulip.

Honestly zulip is probably best but then you get into the wonderful world of mobile push notifications, capped at 10 users or unlimited for “eligible communities” there

Well… the AI did. They didn’t even bother to remove the em dash, so they didn’t write it