tomkatt
@tomkatt@lemmy.world
- Comment on A mechanic that ain't cursing is a mechanic that ain't working. 6 days ago:
Not a mechanic, but I work from home and my wife gauges how busy I am by the intensity and frequency of the swearing. Post checks out.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 3 weeks ago:
I’m just glad Veruca Salt made the list.
Also, I dunno if I’d lump Sublime into the “happy/horny” category. They’re more on the “sad/horny” side of the chart.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
See my previous comment, I’m 100% on board with Lyrion server and client these days.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
Disclaimer: Plexamp used to be great, but it’s stagnated badly. It was a good reason to buy plex pass at one point, though I don’t think it’s worth it now.
I’m not familiar with Symfonium, but the major defining thing with plexamp is the DJ features for exploring your local music library.
Unfortunately, a few months back Tidal support was removed from Plexamp and that was kind of a deal breaker because now it’s only local library, and its “killer app” feature was using the DJ mixes in conjunction with Tidal to do real time mixes with your local and streaming music together.
I’ve switched to using Lyrion instead, along with the Blissmix and “Don’t Stop the Music” plugins with LastFM support. It integrates with Tidal, Deezer, or Qobuz (and I think Spotify, but not sure, I only use hifi streaming services). They work similarly, and in some ways better because you have full control over Blissmix’s functionality for chroma, timbre, tempo, album and track repeats, and more. Also, Lyrion can stream directly over DLNA to a client, whereas Plexamp was just Airplay/Bluetooth/Google Cast (I have Apple stuff, but Airplay is terrible quality).
It’s sad, but plexamp is just my “local download” player now on my phone for when I’m driving, since it downconverts flac to Opus at higher quality than MP3 and at smaller sizes.
I highly recommend trying out Lyrion. I’ve used nearly everything for music in the past, including even having a year of Roon, but Lyrion has replaced pretty much everything.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
They have sales, and it’s not really worth paying the “MSRP” price. My wife got Plex Pass for $80 back in 2023, and I got it late last year for $90.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 5 weeks ago:
Plexamp full features are only available with Plex Pass. Jellyfin doesn’t have anything remotely comparable (though you could always just run Lyrion).
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 5 weeks ago:
I made a post about the shader I’m using on the Steam Deck with an album of screenshots hosted outside of Lemmy upload (on Lensdump) and seems to be better, I think Lemmy is doing something to the image with compression.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 5 weeks ago:
I grabbed some more comparisons, this time from my tablet using the CRT-Consumer shader. Notice stuff like the bloom from the window and shading around the curtains, the kitchen appliances and plants, general shading around dithered stuff like the tent, and the trees on the world map.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it looks a bit different on my Steam deck and TV, maybe because they’re OLED displays. It doesn’t come across as dramatic as it is in person on the screenshot. In person there’s more bloom and higher contrast, the characters look more… planted in the world, I guess is the best way to explain it.
Like, is you look at the rounded parts of the big robot there’s a bit more depth and contrast that give it more rounding and image depth in shadows, but again, the screenshot isn’t doing the effect justice.
Also, the still image doesn’t help because the shader also impacts how the game looks in motion.
I took the screenshots on my Steam Deck, but hadn’t actually seen them until I uploaded here.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have nostalgia for the game, tried it a few years ago but bounced off. Not sure why, just wasn’t in the mood for a HRPG at the time I guess.
I recently gave it another go, been playing it on my Steam Deck and it’s been great. I’m a few hours into it in the future currently and I think it’ll stick this time, it’s great.
Only thing is the game feels like it was really made with CRT behavior in mind. Like the game has some amazing shading and almost 3D depth to a lot of the art but without CRT shaders you don’t see it at all. If you play the Steam version, reshade goes a long way. I’m using a combination of CRT-frutbuhn, EasymodeCRT, and vibrance and it looks amazing.
- Comment on Favourite Mario Kart game? 1 month ago:
MK7 has been my favorite, especially with the CTGP-7 mod.
- Comment on Self-hosted home server project - call for competent advisory opinions 1 month ago:
You didn’t mention your budget. That will impact things.
If you have a closet with a rack you have a lot of options, hardware-wise. If you’ll be running this in your living room, for sake of your sanity, something like an AMD mini-PC with a small NAS for additional hosted storage via NFS would probably be your best bet.
A PC with Proxmox could do this handily. I have a cheap Ryzen 5500u mini PC hosting my Plex server, audiobookshelf, home assistant, and DLNA server (AssetUPnP). It’s only 6 core/12 thread and32GB RAM but still has resources to spare. You could totally do an 8c/16t one and throw more RAM at it.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 month ago:
Music is absolutely solved.
- Qobuz store
- Bandcamp
- Tidal media downloader
- Deemix
Screw streaming. Local is always better. Purchase and/or download FLAC. I’ve got nearly 1 TB of music on my NAS and my collection is regularly growing. From Qobuz and Bandcamp, anything you purchase is owned, and DRM free.
- Comment on Current chain of command 1 month ago:
Reported. This community is for shitposts, not real facts.
/s
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
This is freaking awesome. Only a few years ago it was exciting to see a fusion reaction last a fraction of a second.
- Comment on Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? 2 months ago:
I bought my deck predominantly to play PS2 games and it’s great at it. Unfortunately, my Steam backlog showed up and reminded me it has other uses so I haven’t spent that much time emulating on it.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 2 months ago:
The Nova 3 released in late 2020, it hasn’t existed for 8 years.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 months ago:
You and I read a very different comment, apparently. There was nothing there saying new is bad. Maybe read it again.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 months ago:
No book turn animations in Neo Reader, but other apps might, like Moon+ Reader. I prefer the Boox interface and warm light, and it’s much more customizable. Also, being android based means access to alternative reading apps, and even manga.
Not sure if you can still buy the Nova line, I’ve had it since 2020. I bought the Paperwhite Signature as an “upgrade” but the Boox screen is larger, the warm light is nicer (warm orange/tan, the Kindle warm light is pee yellow).
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 months ago:
And mine are digital, DRM stripped, stored locally, backed up to my NAS, and cloud.
Don’t be a Luddite.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 months ago:
I rarely use my Paperwhite Signature since I like my Boox Nova 2 more. The Kindle is mostly just for the serial note to strip DRM now via Calibre.
My wife recently joked that it’s my “Kindle Paperweight.” With this announcement I doubt I’ll buy anymore books from Amazon.
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 5 months ago:
Actually, I’m gonna add another really simple option: Lyrion (Formerly Logitech Media Server). My wife swears by this one, supports local library, integrates with LastFM, and if you use Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, or Spotify, you can integrate your streaming service with your local library for radio mixes.
Can install it right on a laptop or PC and connect to wherever your music is (local on the machine, on a NAS, etc.).
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 5 months ago:
Not necessarily overkill, you can run Plex on almost anything. I used to run it on an old NUC6 I had laying around, then upgraded to a NUC8, and more recently I setup it up as a VM on Proxmox on a Ryzen 5709u mini-PC.
Virtualizing it has been good for my purposes since now it’s running alongside AssetUPnP and AudioBookshelf, and I’ve another VM on the host running Home Assistant with still plenty of resources to spare. Crazy we can do that now with a “server” that literally fits in my palm.
But virtualizing it makes hardware acceleration for video transcode be I more complicated, just a heads up. I play everything native so don’t use it, but YMMV.
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 5 months ago:
There are lots of solutions, but as others have noted, Plex with Plexamp is great.
I’d recommend getting a NAS for storage and running mirrored disks. This way you’ve got some redundancy in the event of a disk failure.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
It depends. I’m not saying I never pirate books. I’m not going to just support a publisher milking a book that should belong to the commons.
Also, some publishers have taken to raising ebook prices to as high or higher than hardback costs. For those I might buy one book by an author and pirate another. I won’t justify it other than to say I only ever bought paperbacks anyway and still remember those being like $3.99 to $6.99, so I’m not paying $18+ for an ebook novel because of publisher greed.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
Nah, no need to be a shitheel. I’m cool with paying for books, authors gotta eat. I wouldn’t refund a book I’ve read.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
MOBI has been deprecated for a long time. Standard formats now are AZW3 (KF8) and KFX. They’re a bit more advanced than MOBI, and thank goodness, since it was a terrible format. AZW3 is essentially a MOBI/EPUB container, and I believe KFX is equivalent to EPUB2, possibly with some EPUB3 features.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
Takes a small effort to set up (install Calibre, install NoDRM plugin, apply Kindle serial to plugin), but once it’s done, the rest is literally drag and drop, it removes DRM from your books automagically.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 6 months ago:
Like hell I don’t. Calibre plus NoDRM says otherwise.
