charles
@charles@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 1 week ago:
My recommendation for research papers would be Zotero. You have the option of using their cloud (free and paid tiers are available) or you can simply point it at where you’d like to store your documents (this will be up to personal preference, I’ve seen it done using sync tools and self-hosted “clouds” such as Nextcloud).
I’ve personally been using Zotero for just over 6 or 7 years and it’s honestly been such a game changer for my productivity. Not only does it help keep track of my research, but it also has a very robust plugin ecosystem (such as automatically fetching missing DOIs, more advanced file renaming, fetching stats on papers such as how frequently it’s been cited, etc.).
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
Just purchased Stationeers and that’s likely it for me. I’ve been meaning to pick it up forever and it rarely goes on sale, so it felt like a safe choice!
- Comment on Plex server patching required 2 months ago:
You do realize that Jellyseerr is a fork of Overseerr which was created for Plex. So this is in no way a unique feature or even an advantage of Jellyfin over Plex…
- Comment on Become back status quo 2 months ago:
Only because there’s not been any significant interest to change that. There are alternative already, American Express (which only issues cards for its own bank currently, but do have market share outside the USA), and Discover in the States. They both operate both sides of the system (issuing cards/credits and managing the underlying transaction network) whereas Visa and Mastercard only operate the network.
Visa and MasterCard are by far the largest, but there’s no reason that alternatives can’t succeed (even though it is unlikely).
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 5 months ago:
If you have music on your server, I’d strongly recommend checking it out. I believe it was started as a side project by the Plex devs and it’s a way better music player than the one built into the Plex apps.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 5 months ago:
You’re 100% correct. I always find it funny how hardcore some people are with jellyfin vs Plex. I’ll probably end up getting downvotes on this but imo Plex is way simpler to setup and keep running, and as a lifetime pass owner, I’ve very rarely felt like my experience has been deteriorated by any of the changes that the jellyfin crowd freaks out about. Plus plexamp is honestly such a great music player. I’ll happily keep running Plex for the foreseeable future.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 5 months ago:
Other than ZFS as someone mentioned already, they also offer dual drive parity now. IMO it’s a good balance to also allow a very flexible and easily expandable array.