I just wished they were more relevant in german politics.

It's the typical dilemma. Vote for a party you know won't get enough votes to do something or vote for the least bad of the established parties.

He’s right on all counts. Larian is – today – in an unparalleled position as a developer of RPG games. They have great experience, multiple studios, a supportive community, and a huge IP.

All of that, except maybe the supportive community, are traits which the huge gamestudios/publishers like EA and Ubisoft also have. I'm pretty sure it would be hard for ubisoft to claim inexperience when developing the next assassins creed for example.

I think the main difference, as mentioned in the article, is the vision. Ubisoft wants to make the next games in their money making franchises. Larian wanted to make a good game.

Torx is great but fuck security torx

Honestly, what else would it be? Text takes ridiculously little storage compared to a single picture of a decent resolution.

Theoretically youtube doesn't offer as high a quality as flac or wav files do.

Practically for most people it probably doesn't matter

I just tried converting that to euro to have a better frame of reference for your 200k. Are those really equivalent to about 8 Euro or did I make a mistake with the conversion?

I like fancy insults

Hasn't that project been around for quite a while already?

Just finished Life is Strange and Life is Strange Before the Storm.

Both are great games with a really good soundtrack but I personally preferred the story of the first title.

There's a mod on nexusmods to skip the startup intros. That might help in speeding things up a little

+1 for navidrome.

I'm also using that and have it exposed to the web using a cloudflare tunnel. What I didn't like in the beginning but really appreciate now is that the service itself doesn't have a lot of permissions and cannot delete files or change their metadata. I'm hosting it in a docker container and everything except the config file is mounted read-only.

I'm not sure how relevant that is but it gives me more peace of mind exposing it publicly.

The difference is that these programs are not preinstalled. They are shortcuts to install said program.

At some point I wrote a docker container (with some help from a friend) which regularly executes yt-dlp to download my youtube playlists to my media server.

I mostly do that because I have limited mobile data and want offline copies of music

It's been a while since I last looked into those.

If you aren't looking for neural networks I found sklearn to be quite capable and easy to understand.

I also tried tensorflow and pytorch a couple times (not enough to get really proficient in them) and I think I found pytorch the hardest to wrap my head around. It's been quite a while though so maybe it's better to listen to others with more experience in that regard.

That's a good point. Another one I have is sort of failure tolerance. I used to have a really unreliable router which would often crash and could only be reset using a full power reset. While it was in this state, wifi obviously stopped working but my zigbee devices where still available. I used to have a zigbee button linked to a smart plug for toggling my router off and on again.

This shouldn't be a concern for most people obviously but I wanted to share my experience.

Another point I want to mention is that zigbee works at 2.4Ghz just like basic wifi so they can still interfere with each other.

Zwave on the other hand uses another frequency (I think it was around 860MHz) but is more expensive.

Physical since I carried it over from my old phone which didn't support eSIM.

I did get an eSIM some time ago for a short vacation in switzerland though. The activation went surprisingly smooth even though I had to wait a day before they verified me. The verification delay was probably because I used a foreign ID to register at a swiss provider for that eSIM.

Wonderful tool. I've had mine long enough that the black finish has given way to silver fur to my keys rubbing it off

I use symfonium which is connected to my navidrome music server

Oh yeah, I found that too. I just wasn't certain whether this still works, considering the original post is from 2011.

Performance is good and streaming works well. Not a fan of the webinterface personally but there are client programs available for all platforms since navidrome exposes the subsonic api.

Personally I use sonix on windows and linux as well as symfonium (paid but really great app) on android.

The only thing I am missing from it is better user management so that I can restrict specific users from accessing parts of my library.

Regarding access from outside my network I specifically wanted to avoid needing to be connected to a VPN so that's why I use a cloudflare tunnel. Since my upload rate is not very good I have a Pi-Hole DNS server at home so that queries to my domain while in the home network don't need to leave my network.

On the topic of note taking programms.

Is there anything like onenote that is linux compatible, especially for handwritten notes? The closest in regards to decent handwriting support I could find was xournal++ but that felt kind of limiting to me especially without the infinite canvas and the ability to switch notes within the program (think onenote sidebar)

What software did you use for the magic mirror?

Personally I've had a lot of success with abtorrents. They don't have everything of course, but especially more well known series are usually present. The search is a bit wonky though

Never heard of telemetry on e-readers.

Personally I keep wifi turned off on mine anyway to preserve battery life and keep forced updates away. The only time I had wifi on was when I set the device up because that requires an account (for kobo readers). There is a quite technical way to bypass that though as far as I know.

Edit: After reading up on it, it seems like there is actually telemetry on kobo devices...

Time to find a way to disable that shit

I have a similar setup but with a lenovo tiny pc.

Another advantage is that I no longer have to worry about sd cards randomly dying

For some reason plex doesn't support it yet, though jellyfin does at least

The entire internet depends on machines running linux as servers. I highly doubt that any company has the power to change that

I really like the more open nature of jellyfin and they seem more ready to embrace new features than plex. For example, last I checked, AV1 encodings are not supported by plex but are by jellyfin.

The only reason I use plex anyway is because I have the problem, that subtitles go out of sync when using the jellyfin app which is pretty much unacceptable when watching anime with subtitles only

In a similar fashion, I have a gerber dime on my keychain. Slightly different tool loadout from what I could spontaneously see.

Can definitely confirm this. I started with a Proxmox system which had a TrueNAS VM. TrueNAS just used a USB HDD for storage though. Setting everything up and getting the permissions set correctly so I could connect my computers was a pain in the ass though.

Later I bought a synology and it just works. Only thing I would recommend is getting good HDDs. I bought Toshiba MG08 16TB drives and while they work great, they are obnoxiously loud during read and write operations. They are so loud, that even though the NAS is in a separate room I have to shut it off at night.

Meanwhile the Seagate Ironwolf drive I used for TrueNAS was next to my bed for multiple months and was basically silent.

If you ever have a problem or a feature request, there is a forum in which the developer is really active. So far I've made some bug reports and a small feature request and all where answered within a couple hours (though the request was obviously not implemented that fast :D)

How does Jellyfin handle large playlists? I originally used plexamp but that was getting laggy when I had a playlist with about 800 songs open

Running a webserver is not the same as hosting a service. For the software examples requested by OP, an ESP32 is useless

I wanted to write a minecraft mod. I have never written a minecraft mod but I got interested in actually learning to program after I realized I had no idea what I was doing. Also english and computer science where the only 2 subjects in school I was pretty good at

I have 2 questions:

Do I understand the colors correctly in that /home is deprecated and shouldn't be used? What's the alternative in that case?

Where would you guys put configuration files for services? /srv seems like an adequate directory

Wow. I was not expecting such a comprehensive answer. This mostly matches up to my experience with plexamp where the UI gets really sluggish while symfonium handles things just fine.

I am currently using 2 16TB drives in Raid 1 and was planning to move to Raid 5 (or maybe it was 6) if I need more storage by adding a 3rd drive.

What would you recommend instead?

Do you mean Kate, the girl who is trying to commit suicide by jumping? As fas as I know, there is no path where Max dies.

Basically, they enable you to have a different, randomly generated and very long password for each service with minimal impact to your usability.

Personally I use keepassxc with the accompanying browser addon. When I unlock my PC and need a password, I have to enter my master passwort to unlock the database. Afterwards, until I lock my PC again or manually lock the database, I can click on a single button in my browser window to automatically fill out my login information. I do not know any of my passwords beside the master passwort.

I have yet to need the forget password option after switching to a password manager since I can always look up my passwords.

I use symfonium too. Great app. I've stumbled across some bugs here or there but that might be due to my setup and if I actually bothered to report them, I imagine the developer would be quick to fix them. At least he was fast to reply the last time I opened a ticket.

One great thing I like about Symfonium is the aggregation of multiple libraries. You can add a plex, jellyfin or subsonic API compatible server (like navidrome) simultaneously.