The Boomer Box

The Boomer Box Anonymous 2026-02-08 15:11:57 No.rHw6I9Wh (edited) [Report] [Reply] [Edit]

After my Father retired I have slowly watched him turn from being a politically distant, rational, and moderate man to becoming a intensely activated, hateful, and emotional man.

I know its cause is the steady diet of Fox News and YouTube autoplay, as that is all I see he watches. His YouTube feed on the Roku is filled with AI generated bullshit, and he just passively absorbs it all.

I want to prevent this. I know this is happening to thousands at least. So I am starting the 'Boomer Box' project. A box of pleasant nostalgia to keep the Boomer stimulated and entertained without warping their identity.

The goals are as follows:
1. A large catalog of high-quality nostalgic shows and movies
2. Access to web broadcasts of 'decent' news stations
3. Be easily reproducible for non-techy sons and daughters. Easily deployable on low-spec low-storage hardware (Think shitty laptop with an HDMI port)

Right now this is just an idea, but I will continue to update this post and my replies as I work on actualizing it.

Nostalgic Boomer Shows Anonymous 2026-02-08 15:30:26 No.Hilq2hSU [Report] [Reply]

1950s:
Andy Griffith Show
I Love Lucy
Perry Mason
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Dragnet
Gunsmoke

1960s:
The Twilight Zone
Star Trek
Batman
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Addams Family
Gilligan's Island
Bewitched
The Jetsons
The Beverly Hillbillies

1970s:
Are You Being Served?
Monty Python
MAS*H
Columbo
The Rockford Files
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Muppet Show
Charlie's Angels

1980s:
Cheers
The Golden Girls
Magnum PI
Knight Rider
Quantum Leap
The Dukes of Hazzard
The A-Team
MacGyver
Miami Vice

Boomer Appropriate but recent:
tbd

Nostalgic Boomer Movies 2026-02-08 18:58:49 No.xlDrgnF3 [Report] [Reply]

Planet of the Apes
Die Hard
Apocalypse Now
Jaws
Vertigo
Rear Window
Alien
The Shining
12 Angry Men
My Fair Lady (1964)
Blow Out (1981)
Rocky
Bridge on the River Kwai
Blade Runner
Robocop
Total Recall
Conan the Barbarian
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Mad Max
Paths of Glory
All Quiet on the Western Front
Dollars Trilogy
ET
Ghost Busters
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Princess Bride
The Thing
The Terminator
AirPlane
Predator
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Risky Business
Amadeus
The Blues Brothers
Gremlins
Full Metal Jacket
Trading Places
Platoon
Scarface
Big Trouble in Little China
They Live
Network (1976)
The Killer (1989)
Repo Man (1984)
To Live and Die in L.A.
Ran (1985)
Re-Animator
Das Boot
Dragonslayer
Wargames
Beetlejuice
Spaceballs
Some Like It Hot
Strangers on a Train
Smokey and the Bandit
Soylent Green
Watership Down
Grease
Enter the Dragon
The Warriors
American Graffiti
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Dirty Harry
Solaris (1972)
Saturday Night Fever
Days of Heaven
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Marathon Man
Carrie
Patton
Life of Brian
Serpico
Badlands (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
Blazing Saddles
The Exorcist (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
Stalker (1979)
Taxi Driver
The GodFather
Spartacus
The Great Escape
The Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Once Upon A Time in the West
The Birds
Le Samouraï (1967)
From Russia with Love
West Side Story (1961)
Harakiri (1962)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Magnificent Seven
Goldfinger
The Dirty Dozen
The Pink Panther
The Manchurian Candidate
Dr. No
Jason and the Argonauts
Zulu
Mutiny on the Bounty
Cleopatra
Oliver!

News Broadcasts Anonymous 2026-02-08 19:36:39 No.Oav1cr6w (edited) [Report] [Reply]

PBS NewsHour
BBC International
DW News
France 24 English
Al Jazeera
TVP World (Poland English International News)
CGTN (Chinese English International News)
NHK World (Japanese English International News)

Maybe Russia Today?

--- Edit 1 ---
Best sources for live news:
TVP - https://tvpworld.com/51656539/tvp-world-live
France 24 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap-UM1O9RBU
BBC - https://freeworldtv.live/uk-tv-channels/bbc-news-online.html
Bloomberg - https://freeworldtv.live/us-tv-channels/bloomberg-online.html
DW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5GXucy2EU

And PBS newshour as episodic

Anonymous 2026-02-10 13:05:35 No.lEQMnOkp [Report] [Reply]

Well, you are switching flavor of Propaganda from one to another. I’d recommend most basic channels like AP, DW, BBC, and PBS.

Anonymous 2026-02-22 16:13:10 No.0T2L0DvO [Report] [Reply]

AP doesnt have a 24/7 broadcast, but DW does, BBC does. PBS has a good news hour but is not 24/7.

I think PBS news hour should be available as like, an episodic for each day, but the boomer seems to have a need to just have the news continually on some days.

I think France 24, TVP, BBC, and Bloomberg will meet these needs while being high-quality with a minimal bias.

Anonymous 2026-03-03 21:37:31 No.RiK44iCn [Report] [Reply]

So far for this I'm using Jellyfin as a server that I will host this media on, and I'll put the Jellyfin client on an Android TV. I'm going to pick the ONN Android TV because it's cheap and is a common piece of hardware with decent community support around it.

This guide here for instance details how to debloat the thing. I intend to uninstall all default Apps but the Jellyfin client.

What I've learned so far is I've really underestimated the size of local media. Im going to have to rebuild this server fairly soon with large full-size hard-drives just to fit all that I've specified in my earlier posts. Maybe some of those 24tb seagates LOL.

For now I'm getting a few seasons of the highlights to have something 'good enough' to keep the boomers attention and not go back to hardcore porn or fox news.

Post a Reply