BruisedMoose

@BruisedMoose@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I take a hybrid approach. I’ll buy a movie from my local shop and then go sailing the seas for a digital copy. Much…grayer… but close enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Navidrome does not alter your files by design. I use MP3tag to do all my editing. Operations are a bit slow when the files are on my server, but otherwise I have a decent flow down.

  I don’t love Navidrome’s preference for Musicbrainz tags, but I know I can change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosting Guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CasaOS in a similar vein. Casa is just an app that can be installed on Linux though.

  When I started, I wanted something to obfuscate all the Dockishness because I didn’t get it and just wanted to get going. It helped me get familiar with common Docker things and while I’m very far from being any sort of expert, I’m comfortable enough in a compose file now.

  I still have Casa running, though I rely on it less and less. At some point maybe I’ll move everything out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decided to pick up Final Fantasy VIII on sale for Xbox last weeiend, no I’m just getting started on that. The difference in character models from VII to VIII is crazy and almost hard to believe that it was the same hardware.

  I know I owned this on PS1 at some point, but hell if I remember anything about it other than the frigging gun-sword.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you guys using to sort and name music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can move files to new folders with Mp3Tag, too. It's normally all I use for managing my files and metadata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, haha. I thought you were telling me I should rethink using a DNS adblocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you care to expand on that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better: system-wide DNS adblocking on Android. Get rid of in-app ads too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm in camp #2. Only my Gmail address can access my apps from outside my home. It's a little bit of a pain to configure the rules, but once it's done it's done. I've been happy with it.

  You do need to have a domain name though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin / Remote Access Help (windows)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once upon a time. But my understanding of this:

  https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

  Is that so long as you don't use their CDN for your content, which is where the bypass cache rule comes in, you're okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin / Remote Access Help (windows)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given your requirements, IDK why people are recommending different VPNs and such. No way I'm going through that with my mom.

  For me, the easiest route was Cloudflare Tunnel. No need to fart around with exposing ports, has some baseline security, TLS, easy for my users.

  The only thing you'll want to be sure to do is create a cache rule to bypass caching on your jellyfin domain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't get me wrong, I think we're mostly in agreement. Though I'm not sure how big a portion of pirating is done by the self-respecting sort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like "It's the HOMEBREW channel. Not to be used for playing copyrighted software."? I mean, I appreciate that they want to play fair with other open source projects and developers, but isn't the entire emulation community essentially "built on lies and copyright infringement"?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it's worth, CasaOS isn't actually an operating system. It absolutely works as an easy way to install and manage your self-hosted apps if you aren't comfortable with the command line, but you still need to have a working Linux installation.

  Yunohost is kind of similar as far as making things easier, but it operates as a standalone OS, so might be more what you're looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to self host⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with this. I'm running CasaOS on a Pi4. Having the initial ease of one click installs gives you a great start, then you'll start to find that you need to manage some port assignments, then you'll start learning about Docker environment variables, then you'll be managing custom installs.

  Awesome-Selfhosted is a great resource. Just browse and try something interesting.

  My own recent journey went like this:

  Run AdGuard
  Add DokuWiki, Navidrome, Mealie
  Set up Cloudflare Tunnels
  Add FreshRSS, Homer, SearchXNG

  I also have Nextcloud on a VPS, but the fun is on the Pi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! It just threw an error at me when I launched it, but I'll see what I can do. Based of the warnings in the admin panel, there isn't anything critical for me to address, I just hate that orange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it's winter and I mostly don't want to leave my house, I busted out an unused Raspberry Pi 4b a couple weeks ago. Started with CasaOS and AdGuard. Have now added a few other services including Navidrome to serve up a lot of local-area music for myself and friends. Got a Cloudflare tunnel set up, then some authentication through CF as well. And finally secured a static IP from my ISP. This is the farthest along I've ever gotten with any of this and it's been going great. Nearly every hurdle I've encountered I've been able to work through.

  Two things causing me grief today though:

  1. I also have Nextcloud hosted on a VPS and I cannot get to the point of running occ commands. First it wasn't found, then no php cli, then just errors. I gave up.

  2. I'm using Homer because it's just so simple, but the theming and CSS is driving me nuts. Sure, I can change colors, but will this little bar in the neon theme change from 4em to 100% for me? NOPE. Override fonts? Nosir. All good though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was really impressed by this feature when I signed up recently! It baffles me a little bit to see newspapers and things not taking advantage of it.