Photoframe, a Minimum Viable Product, done wrong

I have a spare laptop. I’m not going to spend ages cutting it up to make an actual photo-frame, and neither will I build one from scratch with a Raspberry Pi Zero. I’m just going to put it by the TV and see whether my wife and I look at it. Requirements: Show pictures after power on Get pictures from the NAS Auto-update them ...

How hard is a bloody digital photoframe?

How many pictures? I like taking pictures. How many pictures? Well, you know, some. $ find ~/pix/cam -type f | wc -l 10167 $ du -sh ~/pix/cam 47G ~/pix/cam That does not include pictures taken on my various mobile phones. And how many have I printed? Well, I think I have less than twenty framed. And I made two photobooks, and I’m not sure when I looked in them last. 😬 I try to finesse them down, weed out the crap (there’s a lot of bad pictures), crop, enhance, etc. And that’s hard and is a never-ending job and I’m just looking at them on my computer then, and my wife doesn’t see them at all. So, let’s show ’em off. This is a solved problem right? Right? ...