ctry21
@ctry21@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What do you use for music library streaming? 14 hours ago:
+1 for Navidrome. As simple as pasting the album into the directory and it sorts the rest. I use subtune on my phone to access it and it works great.
- Comment on Where to begin? 15 hours ago:
I think portainer is probably the best tool for this since you can easily go in and pause/start services as required. Just make sure to go into the containers on portainer and check the restart policy is set to “unless stopped” so you don’t get unwanted restarts after a reboot or anything like that.
I don’t think portainer has any automation options but you could possibly write a short cron script to run
docker compose downin the directory of each compose file to shut them down once a month, and pair that with the uptime kuma container to get a notification when your containers are down so you can go into portainer and restart the ones you still need. Though I’ve never had any real issue with running lots of containers at once – there’s 20 on my raspberry pi right now and it’s still got just over a gigabyte of RAM left. - Comment on Your fav guide/method for securing Jellyfin? 3 days ago:
I’ve tried tailscale and cloudflare tunnels in the past and ended up just using PiVPN to set up a WireGuard VPN on my Pi5. Tailscale for some reason was very slow for me, and cloudflare tunnels have a 100mb limit iirc which isn’t ideal for streaming. PiVPN is quite straightforward, it sets everything up for you and all you have to do is forward a UDP port. That was the bit I was most worried about, but, unless I’ve misunderstood something, because a UDP port will just ignore invalid requests to the outside world it will appear closed so it’s not very risky. It then generates a key for each device which you can scan from a QR code onto your VPN client. I have my phone set to auto-connect to the tunnel when I disconnect from my home wifi network and the tunnel is fast enough that I’ve accidentally turned off my phone’s wifi connection before and streamed a TV show through the tunnel over mobile data and not noticed any difference in speed.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 5 days ago:
That’s good to hear! I’ve ADBed almost all of the Google & Samsung stuff off my phone already so I’m well used to fighting with Aurora to download certain apps by now. Nearly all my apps are from F-droid as well so that will make the transition a lot easier, and I do a lot of self hosting so I’m not relying on any proprietary services that are going to demand play services be installed. Balatro on my steam deck already steals enough of my time, so honestly if my phone won’t let me install it that’s probably for the best.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 5 days ago:
Going from One UI 6 to One UI 7 on a Samsung has made me very excited to go get a used pixel or fairphone and install a custom ROM instead. Absolutely abysmal update.
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- Comment on VPNs are not Kryptonite to age assurance. 1 week ago:
This is from the Age Verification Providers Association, who have a vested interest in forcing more and more people to use age verification. Most of these companies charge per check performed so they’re losing money every time we use a VPN to bypass it. I wouldn’t trust a thing they say, but it is worrying that they’re pushing to go further because they were successful lobbying for the age verification checks in the first place, and our tech secretary is an idiot. If they do convince the government to pass a law forcing companies to try and detect VPN usage, that will be devastating for online privacy even outside of the UK. That they now want websites to ask for a users location is quite scary.
- Comment on Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter 1 week ago:
The frozen food specialist said that anyone who spots a suspected shoplifter in its stores should inform the nearest Iceland employee who will verify the incident before adding the reward to the individual’s loyalty card for immediate use.
Posted this because it sounds like one of the boring dystopian things ever. Plus the perverse incentive to snitch on people for a pound off your groceries is quite horrible.
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- Comment on UK arrests 365 backing banned pro-Palestine group 2 weeks ago:
They should copy the blank paper protests that happened in China. I wouldn’t put it past this government to claim that holding up a blank piece of paper outside parliament is somehow terrorism at this stage and it would show how ridiculous this is.