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- Comment on Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves 6 days ago:
FWIW, I’ve been using Music Assistant with my Sonos speakers without issue.
HOWEVER, I’m using MA as part of Home Assistant, and have the speakers ck figured through HA, not MA. MA just sees the speakers as HA Media Players. That works really well.
- Comment on Here is a more polished release of nanogram. Fully compatible on raspberry pi now. 1 week ago:
Almost 9k lunes of python in a bash script. Lmao. No.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
Awesome haha. ALmost exact same setup here, incl. OpnSense with an isolation vlan in which (brother) printer and TV are.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
I only use the Nvidia Shield remote. It obviously does everything on the Shield, plus tv on/off, and volume. Then I remapped the Netflix button on it to open a little quick actions menu to select brightness/picture mode levels.
Haven’t touched the lg remote since
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
Incredible. What a shit idea.
Anyways, kids, remember: never let your smart devices talk to the internet. We actually love our LG OLED - it’s fantastic hardware. But it has not once, and never will, get the chance to phone home.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 3 weeks ago:
I’ve actually been having a great time with simple-nixos-mailserver.
Running with a dedicated ipv4 at a highly reputable hoster, to my knowledge, I haven’t landed in a spam folder yet!
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 3 weeks ago:
Wait, why? I thought I was generally gold at spotting these things, but here I’m struggling. The only thing that looks a little out of place to ne is the ring on his pointing hand, but that might genuinely be a dark band + shadow. What else have I missed?
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 4 weeks ago:
Oh, sorry, I did not mean to imply that there re no players (there are, e.g. Finamp), just nowhere near the same level of polish, features and stability.
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 4 weeks ago:
Jellyfin doesn’t have something comparable in the dedicated (OSS) world, but Symfonium takes a Jellyfin connection and is hands down the single best music player I have ever encountered on any platform.
- Comment on HELL YEAH Onee-san be like :3 5 weeks ago:
Plus oneesan is “older sister”.
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 1 month ago:
Yeah, all of the above, but also: blacklisting Pinterest from all my searches is almost worth the ten bucks a month on its own, lmao.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 1 month ago:
Planning to host a Nix caching server, and have CI build all package and NixOS outputs on every push to git, then in turn pushing the output artifacts to the cache. Would save me a good chunk of time when tinkering with VMs that haven’t seen manual updates in a while.
Only thing is, I’m not sure how to approach building and caching NixOS configs that receive agenix secrets in their input. Obviously those should not be cached…
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 month ago:
You do not need your fingerprint or any other biometric to use a passkey.
You do not lose access to passkeys when you lose your device.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 month ago:
Yes, and I do werether the recipient also knows how to use it.
So, for like, 1% of my mails.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 month ago:
More like: paying someone to maintain the hardware.
Anyways.
Just FYI, your mails with a provider like Proton are not E2E encrypted unless you exclusively wrote with other Proton customers (in which case I assume they are. No idea). Otherwise it’s just encrypted at rest.
I dint really see the benefit over doing it completely yourself, not even offering metadata to a provider, and also having encryption at rest, while maintaining full compatibility with mail clients 🤔
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 month ago:
I can access my password manager via the browser from any device.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 month ago:
Not a VPS.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 month ago:
You can store Passkeys in open source password managers.
I don’t know most of my passwords, so the step to passkeys doesn’t feel like a big one. I also really like the flow of pressing Login; Bitwarden pops up a prompt without me initiating it; I press confirm. Done, logged in, and arguably more secure due to the surrounding phishing and shared secrets benefits.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 month ago:
We host most stuff at home, and then additionally some services at Hetzner on an (auctioned) root server. Bloody nice to get really good hardware for cheap, plus unlimited data with either 1 or 10Gbit synchronous network speed, a dedicated IPv4,…
Stuff like my mail server lives there because it HAS to be available, and doing it at home, and doing it well, is next to impossible.
I’m planning a nix hydra + cache server, which will probably also live on the Hetzner server, simply because it’ll have pretty intense jobs to run a lot of the time and I’m not a fan of having the noise of spun-up fans at home.
Both solutions have their place, is what I’m saying / agreeing.
- Comment on Backups of Backups 1 month ago:
- every VM with state backs up its state to the NAS once a day
- client devices rsync most of their home folder to the NAS once an hour
- at 3:15 in the morning, a Borg backup job starts pushing the days changes to a Hetzner storage box
Through borg, I have the Option to go back to any point in time with the backups. I will probably never need this, hence why it happens in this step, not on the rsync job to the NAS.
Things like movies and tv shows are not backed up, they are replaceable. All in all, about 2tb of documents, pictures, and VM state is backed up to Hetzner, out of the 16tb on the NAS.
Pick and choose your battles.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 month ago:
Yeah. I just put the media location on my nas, and that is being mirrored to hetzner.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
FWIW, I went to school in mid-2000. My sibling even later. They still taught it back then, and at least here, I am pretty sure they still do. (And why would they not, after all…)
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
Literally noone I know in real life has any problem whatsoever reading analog clocks, no matter the “brain capacity”, neuro-typicality, state of drunkenness,… It is an extremely simple “skill”.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
Yeah, vibe of the time is a good description
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
Because it’s not! Glad to help you clear that up.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
Disagree - it rarely matters to me if it’s 13:24:56 or 13:25:05, but I do find the instant and intuitive gauging of time deltas super useful (as in, how long it’s going to be on to the full hour / two quarter past / … ). Not saying you can’t get that info from a digital clock as well, of course you can; but the physically of analog clocks lends a good bit of intuition, I feel.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
I feel like I’m going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,…
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like… A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 2 months ago:
Actually… Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.
But hey, at least the acknowledge that there’s the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 2 months ago:
Holy shit YES!
That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: www.home-assistant.io/blog/…/voice-chapter-11/#im…
Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!