SteveDinn
@SteveDinn@lemmy.ca
Software developer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dad to 2 kids.
Find me on the Fediverse in other places:
- Mastodon: @steve@social.dinn.ca
- Pixelfed: @steve@pixelfed.dinn.ca
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 2 months ago:
I abhor those Temu YouTube ads.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 2 months ago:
TikTok is correct. Ban them all.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
If AI is better than the existing -prompt systems, then I’ll take it, but I doubt it will be.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 months ago:
I see what you did there.
- Comment on Looking for a music server 4 months ago:
Navidrome is still the best music server, even with all of its limitations. For what it’s worth, the developer is currently working on features intended to support multiple music libraries. It’s going to happen eventually.
- Comment on Chris Pine Was Surprised by New ‘Star Trek 4’ Writer Hire Because ‘I Thought There Was Already a Script…I Was Wrong or They Decided to Pivot’ 6 months ago:
Seems like Chris Pine is getting surprised a lot these days. Maybe we shouldn’t be asking him about these things.
“Chris Pine Is ‘Stunned’ by ‘Wonder Woman 3’ Getting Axed” variety.com/…/chris-pine-wonder-woman-3-canceled-…
- Comment on Something like multi-library support for self-hosted music? Trying to recreate iPod feel 8 months ago:
I use it! It is miles better than other Jellyfin apps for music, but there are still things I wish it still had.
- Comment on Something like multi-library support for self-hosted music? Trying to recreate iPod feel 8 months ago:
I maintain a Jellyfin instance for audio that points at the same music library as my Navidrome instance does just so I can use the Jellyfin client for Android TV. I would absolutely LOVE to have a subsonic-compatible Android-TV-focused app, so I could finally single-source my music. It’s just not friendly to guests to have them have to log in somewhere using their own device to my music server and then have to cast to my main entertainment system at home, when Android TV is just sitting there, acting as nothing more than an old-school Chromecast.
So, don’t get me wrong, Jellyfin is THE BEST video server software FOSS or not, IMO :)
- Comment on Something like multi-library support for self-hosted music? Trying to recreate iPod feel 8 months ago:
I currently use Jellyfin and Navidrome. JF just seems really awkward for music. It’s like it tries to treat music and video like the same kind of entities, and they just aren’t.
I really really want a better FOSS -compatible music app.
- Comment on Something like multi-library support for self-hosted music? Trying to recreate iPod feel 8 months ago:
I feel this comment so much. Like you, I’m a Symfonium user, after reluctantly admitting that DSub has stagnated. I really wish someone would just assume that mantle.
Tempo is probably the best of the current FOSS subsonic-compatible apps, and it ticks most of the boxes, but it still has a way to go to become my daily music app. I posted a review/wishlist in its GitHub discussions for what it could implement to be great in my view, but development seems really slow for it. It might be just one guy, I’m not sure.
Here’s hoping things get better!
- Comment on why don't people say mega meters 8 months ago:
Scientific notation for everything: 5 x 10^3 m. Seriously though, I think it would be easier to think about it in megameters if it were more standard.
- Comment on Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible 9 months ago:
GoToSocial is pretty good, but it has some fundamental limitations like being unable to follow hashtags and not having a web client of its own. I currently have a self-hosted instances of both Mastodon and GoToSocial (for testing purposes), but I mostly use the Mastodon one.
- Comment on A specific practical objection to modern blocking culture 9 months ago:
I can’t see it in the Canadian Google Play Store :(
- Comment on Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? 9 months ago:
This is why. theverge.com/…/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sun…
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
The first thing I do when researching a new electronic thing is to search “[brand] home assistant” to see if there is already an integration for their stuff. If not, I usually keep looking.
- Comment on HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges 10 months ago:
- Comment on HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges 10 months ago:
Oh, I fully blame HP for this, but I am also just asking the question. Now that you mentioned colouring pages, I remember that I used a printer pretty heavily while my kids were home during quarantine.
For the odd time I have to print something, it’s more worth my while to just go to Staples or whatever and get it printed for me there.
The only other thing I cam remember printing in the near term has been amazon return labels.
- Comment on HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges 10 months ago:
Somebody tell me again why we, as a society, still print things? Other than publishing, why do we need printers?
- Comment on Which controller did you start with? 11 months ago:
Also worked for the Commodore 64 and Vic20.
- Comment on Tempo - an open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android 11 months ago:
I have investigated many, many subsonic compatible apps for one as full featured as DSub. Tempo looks great, but does it have a Chromecast and Android Auto clients? Those are both necessities for me.
The fact that DSub has all of these and have really been in active development for years speaks volumes about its quality.
I will keep a close eye on Tempo, though!
- Comment on Not even once. 1 year ago:
I heard she was also the drummer for Sex Bob-omb.
- Comment on he finished Paper Mario 64 1 year ago:
Nothing spurred my son to read (and then read better and faster) more than the fact that it was required to play video games.
- Comment on Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see. 1 year ago:
Bebop from Ninja Turtles.
