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- Comment on Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons? 3 months ago:
If you use the public instance you don’t need to set up or host or install anything. You can selfhost it if you want, but the public instance works just fine.
One person goes to the web page and starts a room. The other can join the same room by knowing the name of the room. (It will generate a link when you create a room to make it easy to send to someone so they can join by just clicking the link.)
- Comment on Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons? 3 months ago:
Consider giving MiroTalk a try. It has several versions but the P2P version would probably be perfect for your scenario. It’s free, runs in your browser, doesn’t need an account, and doesn’t have time limit shenanigans. I’ve used it in lieu of Discord calls before and don’t have any complaints.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
They could create a new flag for Abandoned Early Access games. If an Early Access game hasn’t been updated in a long time, that could trigger an automatic email to the publisher saying “Hey your game hasn’t been updated in a long time and could be changed from Early Access to Abandoned Early Access. Consider updating the game or store page to keep Early Access status. If you would like to switch to Abandoned Early Access, you can ignore this message and it will automatically update in two weeks or you can manually change the status on your game’s Steam page.” Wouldn’t really need more employees to handle this unless the current employees are all too busy to implement something like it.
- Comment on Funkwhale + Portainer? 4 months ago:
I swear there was at least one more server I looked at but passed over and I cannot recall the name.
Maybe Jellyfin? It’s best at movies/shows but it also handles music (and more). The native music experience isn’t great but it works. For Windows/Linux/Mac you can use Feishin (I use and mostly recommend it, also you can use the web app version). Android has Symfonium I use and highly recommend it, also it works with FAR more than just Jellyfin). I don’t use iOS but I just looked for an iOS app and found AmpFin (not to be confused with Finamp).
You said your users have their own libraries. Jellyfin works great with this. Out each in its own folder, create a new library for each in Jellyfin (pointing to each folder), and you can choose which accounts can see which libraries (and optionally let them manage libraries too so they can delete songs or modify metadata for the libraries they have access to).
I’m a fan of Jellyfin if you couldn’t tell…
- Comment on [Help] I can't make Radarr's hardlink work 4 months ago:
I didn’t realize this when I first set up Radarr/Sonarr and they ended up copying every single file instead of hardlinking. By the time I realized, I had like 400gb of duplicate files. Ended up running fclones and getting it all back.
- Comment on "Portainer restructuring and layoffs" (cross-post from another site) 4 months ago:
I started with Yacht and moved to Portainer. Yacht’s ui was just too heavy and unresponsive for me. I got logged out of sessions without it actually telling me almost every time I used Yacht. I would have to log out and in again just to use it (a process that often freezed up as well for reasons I cannot comprehend). I finally had enough and switched to Portainer; not a single complaint since.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
Pretty sure they ran a shitload of ads on tiktok using vc money before the app even released.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 5 months ago:
The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services (including the Pirate Bay and Torrentz) for illegal copies of TV episodes, which they then downloaded and hosted on Jetflicks’ servers, according to federal prosecutors.
They probably used Sonarr and Radarr and called it a day (or similar off-the-shelf tools available on GitHub). It’s not very sophisticated at all. That combined with Jellyfin and a VPN (or Usenet or a country that doesn’t care about piracy) and you have your own up and running. You could also just use free sites with an ad blocker instead of paying $10/mo like the service this article is about charged.
Unrelated to all of this: rentry.co/megathread
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
It’s probably not a bluff. They’ve pretty much saturated the U.S. market; there’s not much room left to grow here. It would make more sense to focus their efforts on growing in other regions where they have plenty of headroom to increase their userbase and monetization. Depending on how things play out, they could match their current revenue in a matter of years and still have room left to grow. There’s also the potential to re-enter the U.S. market down the line. Why would they throw that all away and essentially create their own competitor by selling their core technology and diluting/confusing their brand with whatever U.S. company they sell to?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I use Flow Launcher with Everything and love it (both installed via Scoop btw)
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
When I installed Nobara Linux on my younger sister’s old hand-me-down laptop, I spent more time trying to get the WiFi card working then I did installing the new SSD and operating system. And this is a distro focused on making Linux more “works out of the box” than Fedora (which it’s based on). This isn’t something she would have been able to figure out on her own. I switched the laptop from Windows 10 because of how slow it was, but slow is better than no Internet if you aren’t a tech nerd who can figure out what random ass commands to run to finally get WiFi working.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 8 months ago:
- Comment on Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers 9 months ago:
To clarify, they’re not going after patent trolls afaik, just going to court when they’re targeted by them (instead of forking up a payment to the patent troll company to avoid that). Iirc, the last patent troll they took to court ended up collapsing and isn’t operating anymore.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
Can’t wait for them to try this, it flops, half the staff gets laid off, the CEO steps down with a golden parachute, the CEO trades places with the CEO of another tech company, that new CEO makes an even worse decision, another half of the staff gets laid off, the new CEO gets a raise, Microsoft buys both companies, Google makes a competing game studio that gets killed before their first game release, and Apple releases their first video game for $3000 that only runs on M2 and above.
- Comment on Anyone knows a good lightweight self-hosted alternative to GitHub? 1 year ago:
I recommend against gogs. It’s missing lots of features that I expected and I ended up switching to gitea anyways. Gitea works well for everything I need and forgejo is a fork of gitea that I might switch to in the future.
- Comment on Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens 1 year ago:
This seems to me like an exception that would realistically only apply to the CIA, NSA, and sometimes the FBI. I doubt the Department of Housing and Urban Development will get a pass. Overall seems like a good change in a good direction.
- Comment on Here comes another Netflix price hike 1 year ago:
Obligatory Jellyfin > Plex recommendation and TRaSH-Guides plug
Jellyfin is a completely self-hosted Plex alternative that works really well. Plex has been around longer and thus has more dedicated apps, but Jellyfin can’t ever disable your account or block the server you pay to run it on .
I’ve been using Jellyfin for over a year and have no complaints.
- Comment on Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration 1 year ago:
Golang v1.0 was released in March of 2012. Not sure I would consider it a new language.
- Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only 1 year ago:
- Comment on Selfhosted backup solution with GUI 1 year ago:
Kopia actually has a GUI option too! I use it all the time! I pair it with a docker webdav server running on my server pc across the room.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
You could also imagine a malicious actor phoning home to that API to drive up “installs” for a game and make a small studio or individual deal with massive fees. If a company is making these kinds of changes against the better judgement of their user base AND their internal analysis (lots of stock was sold two weeks ago), I’m doubtful they even care to properly deal with those kinds of problems.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 1 year ago:
I agree. Right now, websites maintain tracking infrastructure to build a profile of individual people as they move across the web. All of that comes down to one thing: targeted advertising. If companies had some way to know what types of ads to show users without tracking them, it would be way easier and cheaper. It would also be better for users since they wouldn’t be invasively tracked all over the web. Privacy Sandbox seems to meet those goals. It does all the tracking locally and sends the end result (advertising topics of interest for this user) so the website knows what kinds of ads to show you without actually doing the tracking. This is a more privacy-focused way of doing targeted advertising for both websites and users. From what I can tell, it’s a win-win. Most of the people I see complaining seem to hate it just because it’s an advertising feature implemented by Google, but to me it seems unambiguously better than the current standard.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 1 year ago:
My go-to terminal text editor is micro. It’s intuitive, has sensible controls (looking at you,
ESC:qa!), and supports plugins for expanding functionality. It’s the only terminal text editor I’ve used that does what I expect and I regularly use it instead of vscode. Nano is my backup and Vim is my enemy.
