SteveDinn

@SteveDinn@lemmy.ca
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Software developer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dad to 2 kids.

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I might be ok with this if they also had "ebb" pricing. If I could walk in at 8pm and get a burger for a buck, it might be worth it never to go at lunchtime again.

This, of course, will never happen.

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I don't think it's the software that's keeping it in the background. The instances I visit have seemed very functional. I think it's the simple fact that hosting large amounts.of video is really expensive in terms of storage space, bandwidth, and processor time (for transcoding). For a recreational self-hosting individual, it's just too much.

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If Scientology is against something, we should probably try to implement it at all costs. I consider this to one of the general tenets of humanity.

I think you all just have weak thumbs. I've always opened them just as the package says to. Never had a problem.

As a kid, I would have thumb wrestling matches with my older brother, and sometimes, on weekends, I'd hitchhike. I used my thumbs a lot. I've had to replace 4 space bars on my keyboard.

Never skip thumb day.

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I'm not sure if the ADHD got worse or it was just the consequences that got worse. Either way, I've had to try to find coping mechanisms. I make a lot of lists and use the reminder app on my phone a lot.

The first thing I do when researching a new electronic thing is to search "[brand] home assistant" to see if there is already an integration for their stuff. If not, I usually keep looking.

I could honestly care less about the video games, but the Bandcamp news is devastating. Is there anywhere else where you can buy lossless DRM-free music?

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+1 for long-ass backup script. First dump the databases with the appropriate command. Currently, I have only MariaDB and Postgres instances. Then, I use Borg to backup the database dumps and the docker volumes.

Database SQL dumps compress very well. I haven't had any problems yet

Navidrome is still the best music server, even with all of its limitations. For what it's worth, the developer is currently working on features intended to support multiple music libraries. It's going to happen eventually.

Nothing spurred my son to read (and then read better and faster) more than the fact that it was required to play video games.

Just put a candidate endorsement in porn to make it political.

Tiny aerosolized particles of toilet tissue from constantly unrolling it.

Does nextcloud deck have recurring tasks yet? I didn't think it did.

Comic with 4 panels. A man talking to a printer.

Scientific notation for everything: 5 x 10^6 m. Seriously though, I think it would be easier to think about it in megameters or gigameters if it were more standard to do so.

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Thia sucks, I have an S23 and I'm up to date with patches, but I don't see this option.

Edit: Just realized that I'm only on OneUI 6.0.

I always thought that the word "island" was just short for "isolated land" -- There has to be some reason there's an 's' in there right?. But some etymologist told me it didn't come to be in that manner.

I currently use AntennaPod with NextCloud's version of GPodderSync; which is...adequate.

My ultimate solution would be one where a self-hosted app that tracks and download my podcasts, and then proxy them with some sync mechanism to an android app, but keep them as separate shows with artwork and stuff rather than consolidate them into one feed. I could then choose to listen on the self-hosted web interface or the Android app, and they would be kept in sync.

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Testify!

asdf

Doesn't it bug you that the LMDE logo in neofetch has the top line messed up? I have all my local systems patches and there is a PR up on their repo for it.

I use AntennaPod as well. I cast from it all the time.

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I feel this comment so much. Like you, I'm a Symfonium user, after reluctantly admitting that DSub has stagnated. I really wish someone would just assume that mantle.

Tempo is probably the best of the current FOSS subsonic-compatible apps, and it ticks most of the boxes, but it still has a way to go to become my daily music app. I posted a review/wishlist in its GitHub discussions for what it could implement to be great in my view, but development seems really slow for it. It might be just one guy, I'm not sure.

Here's hoping things get better!

I see what you did there.

I hear you. I was using a OnePlus6 until a couple of years ago when changes at my mobile provider requires that I change. Ended up getting an LG Velvet that I'm still using.

I have never used a Samsung phone either, though it's looking more and more likely that one of them will be my next phone.

I currently use Jellyfin and Navidrome. JF just seems really awkward for music. It's like it tries to treat music and video like the same kind of entities, and they just aren't.

I really really want a better FOSS -compatible music app.

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If using open source projects and sharing my experience by helping others on forums and logging detailed bugs when I find them counts as contribution, then everyday.

I'm a software dev myself, but I have enough on my plate with my day job and two kids that have to be taken to all manner of activities. I don't know how all these people find the time to work on free software, probably for little to no compensation, but my hat is off to all of you, wherever you are.

I've been using it for about 1.5 - 2 years. It's always been there for me.

puTTY, my favourite terminal program for windows.

Looks creepy AF in both photos.

I have investigated many, many subsonic compatible apps for one as full featured as DSub. Tempo looks great, but does it have Chromecast and Android Auto clients? Those are both necessities for me.

The fact that DSub has all of these and hasn't really been in active development for years speaks volumes about its quality.

I will keep a close eye on Tempo, though!

Also worked for the Commodore 64 and Vic20.

GoToSocial is pretty good, but it has some fundamental limitations like being unable to follow hashtags and not having a web client of its own. I currently have a self-hosted instances of both Mastodon and GoToSocial (for testing purposes), but I mostly use the Mastodon one.

I maintain a Jellyfin instance for audio that points at the same music library as my Navidrome instance does just so I can use the Jellyfin client for Android TV. I would absolutely LOVE to have a subsonic-compatible Android-TV-focused app, so I could finally single-source my music. It's just not friendly to guests to have them have to log in somewhere using their own device to my music server and then have to cast to my main entertainment system at home, when Android TV is just sitting there, acting as nothing more than an old-school Chromecast.

So, don't get me wrong, Jellyfin is THE BEST video server software FOSS or not, IMO :)

I use it! It is miles better than other Jellyfin apps for music, but there are still things I wish it still had.

I'll usually do steps 1 and 2 for a reasonably complex review. I'll reference the diff from the website (for work, this is Azure DevOps, for personal, GitHub or similar) while I inspect and run the modified code locally.

I am using a normal desktop case with an external usb-c 8-bay JBOD drive enclosure from Mediasonic. I'm using mdadm to combine the drives with RAID-6. I know I'm not getting the performance that I could with native SATA, but it can still saturate my 1Gbps network, so it's good enough for serving video, audio, and some other web-based apps.

I wanted to follow up here because I became aware of a pretty good solution for this. It's called pine pods and it's an open source self-hosted service that also syncs with GPodder (or Nextcloud's version of it) so it will keep AntennaPod and itself synched.

https://www.pinepods.online/