Xibo - Digital Signage which is slowly being rolled out across all of our sites. (I used to be the maintainer of the Ubuntu setup script back in the day). Source: over 1 year ago

Xibo Digital Signage -- Used to managed Digital Signage tvs in the hallways. Gets better with every release. Source: over 1 year ago

/u/slugshead mentioned Xibo. They've discontinued Pi-compatible versions but run on a lot of other things. Player(client) licenses per major version are perpetual, or at least very long. I've seen some weird issues with them, don't know if it's fixed (mostly has to do with display scaling, probably related to the consumer-grade smart TVs I have to run it on). Source: about 2 years ago

Xibo, FOSS and free if you self host https://xibo.org.uk/. Source: about 2 years ago

There are several roll-your-own. For example, Xibo. To get it totally free, you'll need to fire up a Linux master server, then learn the UI for creating content. Source: over 2 years ago

The "manor" example is one of the few points I've seen brought up in response, but it's far from clear-cut, as the forum posts linked above explain. Feel free to draw your own conclusions from them. I'm not convinced it was the best use of $15 million, but I also don't think that buying a medium-price-range conference center was an obviously bad idea, and the money came from private donors (not the standard EA... Source: about 1 year ago

Sure! None of the ways of donating that I know about (directly to the charities themselves, EA funds, others here) have a minimum amount or anything like that. Source: over 1 year ago

It’s easy to look for excuses not to give but donations can make a big difference, especially if targeted in the right places. See comments further down about Givewell and Effective Altruism. https://funds.effectivealtruism.org. Source: over 1 year ago

I give through Effective Altruism: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org. Source: over 1 year ago

Good news: If you want to support global health and development but not animal welfare, you can just donate to the Global Health and Development Fund! None of the money will go to anti-factory farming charities. Even better, you don't even need to go through EA: You could donate directly to charities recommended by GiveWell so you know exactly who's getting your money. Source: almost 2 years ago