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SpatchyIsOnline

@ SpatchyIsOnline @lemmy.world

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  • How do you successfully maintain a calorie deficit over the long run?

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  • I did a keto diet for a bit back in the summer. It worked very well for me and I lost 10kg in about 7 weeks. The diet made me feel full for a long time so I was also on one meal a day and not snacking. It's not something I think I could keep up long term, the variety in what you can eat isn't enough for me, although since coming off the diet, I haven't put any of the weight back on so my metabolism must have changed somehow as a result.

    Not saying it's for everyone, but I was surprised how well it worked for me.

  • Tempus v4.6.0 android subsonic client

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  • Thanks for the recommendation, it certainly seems like an interesting project, although it's current capabilities are almost backwards from what I actually want. My current workflow is:

    • Listen to my library in Navidrome via Feishin/Tempus
    • Scrobble my listens to ListenBrainz
    • ListenBrainz generates my weekly recommendations playlist (things not in my library)
    • I listen to the playlist on the ListenBrainz site via YouTube embeds
    • Any songs I like, I download high quality FLAC files of using slskd by buying legitimately

    Just being able to see my recommended songs in Tempus would remove some of the barrier of having to log in to ListenBrainz every week (which I often push to the bottom of my to-do list and end up missing recommendations). I don't even really need to stream them directly in the app, just being able to see them and open the YouTube link would be a good start.

    I get that this might be a bit of a niche way of doing things and everyone will have a slightly different idea though, I don't really expect my exact personal workflow to be catered for by open source devs.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Windows 11's UI is fine.

    I have so many issues with Windows: the privacy invasion, the ads, the upselling of MS's services, the need for an online Microsoft account, that I haven't used Windows in over 2 years. But I see so many people saying it has an ugly UI - it's UI is literally fine, I would have no problems using it if a Linux DE happened to come up with that design before Microsoft did.

  • Tempus v4.6.0 android subsonic client

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  • It might be a bit out of scope (at least for now) but something I'd love to see eventually is the ability to pull down weekly recommendations from ListenBrainz and view them natively in-app. Even if they just linked to the YouTube video, it would make self hosting music feel like it had the last remaining benefits of streaming services.

  • Would you pay for online services like search and email if they offered a better experience than Google?

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  • £12-ish a year on mailbox.org

    I made the switch about 6 months ago and I'm very happy with them

  • Jellyfin Dongle

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  • It supports HDMI CEC so I just use the remote that came with my TV

  • Jellyfin Dongle

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  • It's a little bulkier than a Chromecast but for my TV at home I use a Raspberry Pi 5 with Konstakang's Android TV LineageOS images installed. It works pretty well and I could see it being fairly portable.

  • Tempus v4.2.4 android subsonic client release

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  • Thank you for your work on this! I switched from Tempo to Tempus after seeing one of these updates a few weeks ago. It's great to this is being maintained!

  • How to download Google Takeout zips?

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  • It might be too late for you, but for anyone else who stumbles across this:

    The easiest way to transfer emails is just log into a client like Thunderbird, let it download them all, select all, then drag and drop them all to your new provider. If you have a lot of historic emails, filter by year and do one year at a time

  • What are you guys using to sort and name music?

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    • Continually increasing subscription prices
    • Ripping off artists
    • Introducing AI bullshit
    • Blocking explicit songs unless users verify their age with a third party

  • Hell, introduced it myself

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  • Do you know who wrote the buggy code?

    Of course I know him. He's me

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack

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  • I scrobble all my navidrome activity to listenbrainz, which gives a weekly playlist of recommendations. You might have to wait a few weeks before it can establish your tastes depending on how much music you play.

  • boolean yes

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  • In Luigi's Mansion 2, there is a boo who speaks in binary called Boolean... At least, in the British release. In the US localisation, its name is "Combooter" which is a far less satisfying pun.

  • Your Lemmy/Reddit/Fetlife/etc profile is tied to your real name and browsable. How screwed are you?

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  • Technically it kind of already is. My username is the one I've used with little variation for 13 years, including my youtube and my website where I show my face. Everyone I know IRL knows my username, some of my friends even call me Spatchy and it would feel weird if that particular group didn't (to the point I occasionally have to remind them it's not my real name).

    I'm still weirdly obsessed with not sharing my data with companies even though more of it is public than is probably sensible.

  • Reading Emails

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  • I use Thunderbird on both desktop (Linux) and mobile (Android). I currently have five accounts in a unified inbox:

    • Gmail (2 accounts): 'professional' one I give to people and the other one for generic account signups - currently migrating away from both of these.
    • Mailbox.org: the replacement for both my gmail accounts as mailbox.org allows aliases. They are completely EU based and don't sell your data. Costs a small fee of €15 a year.
    • Zoho: for my own domain which is public and attached to my various projects as a developer contact address
    • Microsoft 365 🤢: Had to add this one literally today because I'm going back to uni in September. Hate that they use microsoft, but thankfully the uni enabled IMAP/SMTP instead of only allowing Microsoft's proprietary OWA protocol.

    As for general usage, I treat my inbox like a to-do list. Once I've completed all tasks relating to an email, it gets deleted if it's not important or archived (usually if it's anything to do with money like a receipt or invoice). I usually only have at most 3-4 emails in my inbox at once.

    The only thing that annoys me about Thunderbird is that occasionally if I delete a message, it will leave a blank 'ghost' message where the old one used to be that has a date of 01/01/1970 which only goes away when the program is restarted.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • Japan also has 2 incompatible power grids, with the north running on 50Hz and the south running on 60Hz

  • WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version

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  • Does this mean they'll finally be adding calls to the web version?

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  • Yes, because if you can figure out which part of the procedure broke down leading to that switch being flipped, you can figure out ways to prevent that from happening again. That's much harder to do with just audio.

  • Why do people switch from chrome to Brave browser and not to Firefox?

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  • I’m curious where the security theater accusation comes from

    Closed source ad-block that allows "unobtrusive" ads by default. They also ran a scheme a few years ago that replaced ads on web pages with their own and paid users tiny amounts of cryptocurrency for viewing them.

    All this is marketed by them as browsing securely