freebee
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- Comment on 9 hours ago:
That’s because they are big mechanical whirring machines. Solar panels are dead quiet and don’t throw intermittent shade and have a very low risk of causing damage in the surrounding. There’s good reasons they are forbidden for the average household to put on top of the chimney…
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 3 days ago:
Musicbrainz Picard, there is no better user friendly solution.
Yes, it can seem like a lot of work, but you can also look at the flip side: you can learn a whole lot about the music you like in the process.
If music metadata is missing for stuff you have and like, add it to musicbrainz yourself. No, it isn’t particularly fun, but someone has to do it. I do it sometimes for more “local” albums of which I own the physical record or CD.
If shit is really messed up and you have a historic collection of mp3s from back in the days when getting a full album took a long time: don’t be scared to throw stuff out and source it again. It’ll likely be much higher quality for same or smaller filesize and have better metadata from source already, which makes using musicbrainz a lot easier.
- Comment on Sep 12, 2025 - Self-Host Weekly by Ethan Sholly 6 days ago:
The only thing I’m looking/waiting for is a jellyfin audio player that automatically goes to full screen visualisation or lyrics after a determined amount of seconds of music playing + no user inputs… Wish I could do it myself and contribute to the project, but alas.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 weeks ago:
The reason that works is the gates. I dunno in Britain, but in Germany the gates at stations are very uncommon, even for underground stations. Pretty much every station is freely accessible to anyone. Think at this point installing gates in so many places is more expensive than for example running a Tracking-Ticket system. It would also always still exclude busses, normal streetcars etc. Netherlands has the gates and you can just use your banking card as you say, but gates are only installed for the real trains, not trams or buses. While the ease of use of the tracking ticket for me is the super smooth integration of all forms of regional and local public transport.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 weeks ago:
Publicly owned / run public transport often also has very complicated tariff structures. I’m in Germany. There are many different Verbunds (regions), they all have their own app, their own prices, their own logos, etc. With the fairtiq, using public transport becomes like the Deutschlandticket, but for once in a while users, while Deutschlandticket subscription is for regular users. It effectively takes away the headaches here for having to know/choose which tickets, navigating new apps or machines, because every region has different price structures and regions are divided in various zones etcetera. With fairtiq you can use a bus to a city Bahnhof, a regional train to another city and then a tram to your destination. That covers 3 companies, also when it’s not privatised but publicly regionalised. Such a ticket really does make it less complicated for the end user to do such a travel when they don’t do that often, and they will often be cheaper off than if they had purchased 3 separate tickets.
Creating a one big catch-all public transport company for an entire country (public or privately run, doesn’t matter much in this case) creates a whole lot of different problems everywhere. Try getting a local tiny thingy fixed in Sheffield if the decision to do so first has to go to London for 3 approval stamps and an allocated tiny budget.
The problem you’re having, I think, is that they seem to want to replace all existing ticket options by this tracking one. That’s a very bad idea indeed, for one you’re luckily still not obligated to carry a phone with you at all times. The paper alternative should stay possible, but the fairtiq style ticket does have benefits both for users and for public transport companies.
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying it’s better from a privacy point of view. It’s clearly not. And it is more complicated behind the scenes to track 3.000.000 people than to print little pieces of paper. But, they aren’t lying when saying it is indeed less complicated to the end user, Instead of figuring out ticketing systems and pricing scales from various companies, regions, with different regulations about exceptions on prices or how many people are a “group”, etc to find the ticket / price that is the best deal for you, you just “activate” when getting on a vehicle and “deactivate” when done traveling. I’ve used it, it’s called Fairtiq here and it really is waaaay less complicated to use for average end user than any other ticketing system like counters, machines, websites. They track you, the data is hopefully also used for optimising public transport towards measured demand, and in return for tracking they promise you’ll always get the best possible price for whatever route you travelled. It’s not the worst way to use tracking technologies.
- Comment on Alternative to NordVPN Meshnet? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah sad they’re stopping it. I used it to easily access all services when not home… Jellyfin, audio bookshelf, dashboards, nextcloud… All worked rather well on it with very little effort (just had to turn the meshnet feature off and on again on phone once in a while). I don’t think there is any other company offering anything as simple as this was…
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about yunohost, but dietpi doesn’t feel restrictive. You can use the dietpi software manager, but you can also install whatever else you want next it using apt, docker, etc, adjust systemd, Cron, rsync etc outside of it. They just don’t guarantee they might sometimes break a thing you run outside of what they offer when you run dietpi updates?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Started playing Pikmin
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 weeks ago:
Bicycle road rage does exist, between road bikers and regulars, between fast electric and regulars and in general because plenty assholes do also ride bicycles if the infrastructure is good enough.
Other than that, all valid points!
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
It’s very young and got very popular suddenly, someone will make a nice stable UI for it at some point…
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
It was the cheapest way to improve noisy cobble or other stone roads with fancy newer asphalt technology. Until it got patchy, then it gets expensive after all…
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Mario Kart Wii stood the test of time really really well
- Comment on Expanding storage on simple home server 5 weeks ago:
HDD is cheap and enough, but SSD is silent.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 5 weeks ago:
This vehicle shouldn’t be street legal for regular folk based on its shape and height, software is just a minor detail.
- Comment on Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System 1 month ago:
+1. Very easy, very stable.
- Comment on Asking for suggestions on managing media 1 month ago:
Some of it is likely still quite findable and assuming quite a few titles are many seasons of 1 show: use your known channels and redownload in more recent repacks would be the easiest, least hassle least risk of quality loss. Use Sonarr and/or jellyfin exports to identify shows with high GB per minute of runtime…
- Comment on easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization? 1 month ago:
For getting nice metadata musicbrainz is the best out there imo. Sort your collection, anything new you add, run it through musicbrainz. If your music is missing from musicbrainz: add it! It is the most complete, free accessible database there is. Discogs for example is more complete but not the same level of free to access.
Beets is supposed to be good but I find it complicated, steep learning curve.
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 1 month ago:
Bruges is a museum.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 1 month ago:
Wow.
This works crazy fast and performant. Keep up the incredible work!
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
There’s still a second natural entry, it is being critical and annoyed by corporate greed in apps, streaming services, ads, accounts for everything etc. The privacy/piracy entry.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 months ago:
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 2 months ago:
You can buy a used office computer from businesses that are upgrading (downgrading) to win11 for less than 50 bucks. They tend to be relatively low power, relatively quiet, lots of PCI slots and USB ports so there are many upgrade options, yet low entry price for a decent computer. If you plan on using as a jellyfin server: either mind the chip now for transcoding capabilities (there’s lists out there) or know that if you want that, you’ll have to put in a GPU at some point if the onboard can’t transcode well.
I have a mix of external and internal SSD’s. Some are running way not as fast as they theoretically could, but it all works well enough for me. You can start with what you have, storage is still expensive.
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 months ago:
For brushing in Asia, please upgrade your Oral-B account to the Oral-B premium account for just 5 € / month!
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 months ago:
Exactly this, but it will be sold the other way around, you’ll get a gift or a discount if you log+link data
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 months ago:
An over engineered toothbrush is a dental product just as much as a very cheap one and there are for sure greedy people interested in trying to get people to log their brushing data on a corporate cloud and later link together their insurance and their dental habits at some point and there are for sure people willing to pay for detailed brushing data. It’s just the very beginning of it all still. Give it 20 years, your insurance company or dentist will ask you how come you’re not logging your brushing.
- Comment on Splitting comic books into panel 2 months ago:
What’s the name of the app you tried?
- Comment on Splitting comic books into panel 2 months ago:
the coordinates aren’t there i think, but there are github projects out there that “detect” the panels and suggest split based on that. For most of the panels of most of the comics, that would be more than enough to do a clean split. I just can’t find a real relatively easily deployable service that incorporates it.
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- Comment on I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start? 4 months ago:
Fujitsu Esprimo here… 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, … Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports… Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up
