SpatchyIsOnline
@SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 1 week ago:
I saw the thumbnail in the preview and my brain immediately started singing
We flew a kite in a public place we flew a kite in a PUUUBLIC PLACE
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 2 weeks ago:
Data centers use massive amounts of power. Reducing that power consumption would be a net positive on the environment.
That said, looking at the site, I can’t see anything that suggests they’ve done any research into that. Instead they seem to be promoting their research into keeping kids safe online, with the only mention of the OSA being a short description in their recent June report with no comment about anything to do with it’s obvious shortcomings.
- Comment on Healthline won't let you access their anti-sucicide article if you decline their tracking 3 weeks ago:
Remember it’s not just ads. This info is sent to insurance companies too
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 3 weeks ago:
Most people wish that game could be erased from the timeline IRL too
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 5 weeks ago:
The server should still support mods fine. You’ll need to find a launcher that supports your OS, your mods and drasl-based authentication.
Texture packs will be fine, you can change them in game
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 5 weeks ago:
Something that may influence your decision: Minecraft by default requires a Microsoft account.
Look into Drasl if you want to set up a Minecraft server without needing one
- Comment on WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version 1 month ago:
Does this mean they’ll finally be adding calls to the web version?
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 month ago:
You might like this (if you’re not already familiar with this masterpiece) youtu.be/_-BjC1GHwPY
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 1 month ago:
I’m no expert, but I read that self hosting your own instance doesn’t actually help with privacy since the search providers still track those requests and if you’re the only one using it, that’s just tracking you with extra steps.
Of course if you use a public instance, you have to then trust that the instance isn’t tracking you
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 1 month ago:
Remember Microsoft Tay? Remember how it got turned off in minutes for saying stuff like this? This is the timeline we live in.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 months ago:
Hmm funny how Sam Altman is one of the few people responsible for creating that problem and now he’s selling the solution to it
- Comment on Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain 2 months ago:
maps.app.goo.gl/xu6tCpa7BeuL4mvT8
This is the business on Google Maps if anyone wants to leave them a nice 1 star review
Google probably tracks the link reviews are coming from to detect review bombing though, not sure if we can find a way around that.
(Note: a previous, now deleted, comment I posted contained a link to the wrong business, please don’t use that link if you still see it for some reason)
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 2 months ago:
I worked around that by making a smart playlist in Navidrome with all my tracks sorted by date added. In Tempo you can then download the entire playlist.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 2 months ago:
I have just set up Navidrome from the first time and I’m using Feishin as my Linux desktop client. I installed it via nix because it isn’t in the Fedora repos as far as I could tell
- Comment on Docker is renaming a mounted drive 2 months ago:
It sounds to me like one (or more) of your containers is referencing something on your storage drive, but Docker is loading before your drive gets mounted. When Docker sees that the folder its trying to access doesn’t exist, it creates it, blocking your drive from taking that name.
To fix it, you would need to make sure your storage drive is mounted before Docker starts, how you do that is down to you and your particular setup though.
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- Comment on UK to ban sale of disposable vapes in response to soaring waste and safety risks 2 months ago:
I’m not sure if this ban is actually going to work. I’ve heard rumors that manufacturers of these are just going to start putting USB ports on them and making them technically “refillable” with no plans to actually really support that so people will keep treating them as disposable anyway.
- Comment on How I use Pinchflat to avoid podcast ads 2 months ago:
I’ve had a pipeline in mind for exactly this purpose that I want to build when I get around to it:
- Download the audio file from RSS feed
- Self hosted AI transcription model (with output that includes timestamps)
- Self hosted LLM to recognise ad sections and return the start and end timestamps as json
- ffmpeg to slice those timestamps out and stitch the rest back together
In theory, this should be able to remove ad and sponsor sections of any length completely automatically and there’s nothing to stop it working on videos too
- Comment on Submitting an App for iOS approval 2 months ago:
Every user has to self host their own?
Did… Did you see what community you’re in?
- Comment on What's a good HTPC OS and software? 3 months ago:
I’ve found Android TV to be the most usable TV OS tbh. I use Konstakang’s LineageOS Android TV 15 image on a Pi 5 which is source available (non commercial only licence). And Projectivy Launcher (closed source but is by an indie dev and better than the stock Google one). The Pi is CEC compatible so I can control it with my TV remote no problem, and I use Moonlight to stream games from my PC.
If you already have hardware, there may be an Android x86 TV release somewhere but I haven’t personally tested any, and you have to make sure the apps you want support x86 (all the open source ones like Jellyfin should)
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 months ago:
I built a near identical server for my parents and just sync my nextcloud folder to theirs using syncthing
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 4 months ago:
ReVanced mods the official YouTube apk, meaning you maintain syncing watch history, subscriptions, likes, comments etc. Which iirc NewPipe doesn’t. Whether you care about that is entirely up to you though, NewPipe is certainly better if you care more about privacy
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 4 months ago:
I remember trying the Android TV 14 image a while ago and it was basically unusable as you describe, the new Android TV 15 image has fixed virtually all those issues for me. YMMV but IMO it’s worth experimenting and seeing if it works for you, there’s a chance I just got lucky though
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 4 months ago:
I’m currently using a raspberry pi 5 flashed with Konstakang’s Android TV image, it works pretty flawlessly and takes less than an hour to set up, assuming you have the APKs of everything you want to install. You don’t need to mess around with Google play services because most TV android apps are also designed to run on firesticks which don’t have it.
The one issue I have encountered is that the Jellyfin client very occasionally won’t play some 4k HDR media in the default player (all my 1080p stuff works fine) so I also installed MPV and I turn on alternative player in the Jellyfin settings in the rare case something doesn’t work.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 5 months ago:
I use sunshine and moonlight using a pi 5 running Android TV as the client. It works perfectly for the occasional video stream but latency for games is a bit rough. You’ll probably be fine playing something relaxed like Stardew Valley but platformers (I’ve tried Ultimate Chicken Horse) and racing games (Mario Kart Wii running in Dolphin) are just bad enough to be unplayable. This is with both devices connected over Ethernet (albeit through a powerline adapter and my router is fairly cheap) so WiFi will probably be worse.
Not sure if sunshine and moonlight just have loads of overhead or if there’s a part of my setup causing the latency.
- Comment on Someone help me understand the sonarr to jellyfin workflow 5 months ago:
I use Glutun for this
- Comment on Managing Subscriptions: Rocket Money Alternatives? 6 months ago:
I read about ActualBudget and although it’s not the most useful thing for me (I only have one bank account and my finances are about as simple as you can get), I spun up a docker container for it anyway out of curiosity. It allows you to categorise all your transactions and set up rules with simple name matches and even regex for more advanced matching. It took me a couple of hours to create all my rules but future transactions should now be categorised automatically. There’s also a tab where you can setup charts and graphs to see visually how much you’ve spent on certain categories in the last X days and so on.
It might be overkill for what you’re looking for, but you might find it useful or just nice to have for other reasons, and it certainly should cover your use case.
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 7 months ago:
Remember: If they can use ANPR to send you a large fine, they could just use it to charge you for the parking in the first place. The only reason they don’t is corporate greed.
- Comment on Old fashioned 8 months ago:
I would argue that keeping your own digital library on a home server is “better” (more convenient) than a bunch of discs that will also degrade over time.
- Comment on New plans to ensure the BBC’s financial sustainability set out by the Culture Secretary 8 months ago:
There are only two actions that require a TV license:
- Using BBC iPlayer for any reason
- Watching live broadcast TV from any source
YouTube does not have a broadcasting licence (granted by Ofcom) so YouTube live streams do not count as broadcast TV.
At least I’m pretty sure that’s how that works