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  • Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch

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  • I had an account day 1 when Spotify launched in my country. It was such a big deal to me, a person who spent their teens and 20s hoarding music. One service and it was most of the music I wanted. I could sideload my own music and shuffle it all together.

    I miss that little app store on the desktop client. You could join shared radio stations and vote on the next track while people wrote to each other in a chat.

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

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  • Yikes that's a major issue that I coincidentally bypassed by not using Lidarr for the past few months myself.

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

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  • Start out simple and stick with a basic BitTorrent client. Figure out where you want to download from and get a torrent client configured. I use an ISP that frowns upon piracy so here's a quick overview:

    1. Look for public torrent sites. I'm out of this game so I don't have any suggestions.
    2. Research private torrent trackers. I don't think I can provide any help with this, but there are other corners of Lemmy who can.
    3. Find a VPN. Everyone has thoughts on this and Proton VPN is the one I'm currently using.
    4. Pick a torrent client. I'd recommend qBittorrent myself.
    5. Configure your VPN to include your BT traffic.

    If/when you want to try Lidarr, you'll be much better off knowing the basics of BitTorrent because *arr software is confusing in its own regard. Lidarr is just a tool to organize your music library folders and also automatically queue downloads. It is not a requirement to enjoy downloading music.

    Usenet and soulseek are other alternatives.

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

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  • You'll have to be more specific. :) I think it works well for organizing a music library unless there are issues with this feature that I'm unaware of. Using it to queue downloads was painful for me, so I resort to less automated ways to acquire music files.

    Simply put, the *arr software concept works well for downloading movies and TV shows (Radarr and Sonarr). Music just seems to be a little more difficult and I have lots of issues with Lidarr finding music out on Usenet and trackers. I hope that's user error on my part.

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    YSK: Bandcamp is waiving its fees today and all money is passed to the artist (until 12 a.m. PST)

    daily.bandcamp.com /features/bandcamp-fridays

  • YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto

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  • Smarttube on Android TV OS

  • *arr stack newb, question about future expansion

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  • All *arr apps should use root folders to organize media. If I understand the question, here's the hypothetical situation:

    1. Create a root folder for *Arr App.
    2. Download media until drive is full.
    3. Create a new root folder that points to different drive.
    4. Configure *Arr App to move new downloads to new root folder created in step 3.

    You should be able to have multiple root folders, but I've only checked in So are. One problem you'll run into is that you can't break up music artists or TV show series across root folders.

    You might want to consider something like OpenMediaVault or Unraid to manage your storage. Either platform (or others) allow you to add drives as needed. I don't use either so I'm just passing that along as a consideration.

  • Jellyfin / Remote Access Help (windows)

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  • Not sure if my setup is unique or wrong but here's what I use:

    1. I registered a domain with Name cheap and created subdomains for the tools I wanted to access (i.e. jellyfin.domain.tld, sonarr.domain.tld)
    2. A DDNS client on my OpenWRT router updates the IP address for those subdomains. Traffic for each subdomain is pointed at my server.
    3. Nginx Reverse Proxy runs on my server. This provides HTTPS certificates and is pretty straightforward.

    I also use Tailscale for remote access and I'm not sure that my friends and family are ready for that. (Admittedly, I'm still on Plex.) Registering your own domain and using a DDNS service and reverse proxy will give your users an easier experience than Tailscale. I can give an easy-to-remember URL to folks rather than a new VPN platform to learn.

    If security is more important, Tailscale is the best option for remote connections.

    Why don't we need this for Plex? Because Plex has all of the above steps baked into its service.

  • This area of South Dakota voted for Trump by roughly 70%. Here's what they think now - YouTube

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  • It drives me crazy when Reagan is treated as a god :)

  • This area of South Dakota voted for Trump by roughly 70%. Here's what they think now - YouTube

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  • South Dakota is an interesting place. I live here and it's a Republican supermajority at the state level, so Trump supporters enjoy an extraordinary level of comfort.

    This place is the perfect example to show how the conservative political machine have taken root across rural America. It started with Nixon's silent majority and has only grown more powerful through the Reagan and Bush II administrations. All of the seeds that Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh sowed in the nineties have grown into an angry, bitter rabble out here.

    People here are led to believe that there are dark forces at the gates both domestic and abroad. Those liberals in other states want to convert South Dakota into a woke hellscape. The farm crisis in the eighties made people distrust Washington D.C. and foreign trade. Lots of people think we need to completely revert back to an imaginary time and place.

    I was born after George McGovern but it's fascinating to think of a time that this state would have a democratic, anti-war governor who would run for president. That was the seventies and we had democratic U.S. representatives until the Tea Party movement pushed them out.

    Since then, we have but a handful of left-leaning political leaders in the state. The Democrats are effectively powerless outside of larger towns and reservations. Neoliberalism died here about 20 years ago, so any establishment Democrat has a snowball's chance in Hell to run here.

    I'm rambling but I wanted to give some insight from someone who lives here. I'm not hopeful that much will change here politically. I've felt marginized by the national Democratic party since I graduated high school, so they aren't going to come "rescue" us from this mess. Talking about this place online only draws ridicule from other liberals and left-wing folks.

    There are some bright spots, as we had 5,000 people show up at one of our Hands Off rallies:

    https://www.sdpb.org/politics/2025-04-07/nationwide-hands-off-protests-draw-thousands-across-south-dakota

  • Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client

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  • Flauncher is a great pick too

  • Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client

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  • Roku’s Moana 2 controversy is part of a bigger ad problem

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  • I like Flauncher or ProjectIvy. I'm using the latter on the living room TV and it works great.

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  • More or less. There aren't as many bots, and everyone is generally aware of traditional Internet etiquette (i.e. don't be an asshole). Lemmy also feels as homogenous as early Reddit: college-educated white people in western countries.

    I started joining forums back in the late nineties and I've learned every place on the Internet is in flux. Things always change. Back in the day, stuff would happen like we would lose hosting because someone got sick of running a niche phpBB forum or the moderation team would change. When social media kicked off, changes were driven by money. Facebook was a big gaming platform in my college years (Farmville), which feels completely foreign to today's Facebook.

    The smaller the community, the more stable it is. Some of those 20-year forums still exist, albeit in a much more diminished state. If a site/platform gets popular, that's when things can change quickly.

    Lemmy has already changed since I joined and I'm sure it will become something different in the future.

  • Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware

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  • Thanks everyone, I feel much better about moving forward. I'm leaning towards Proxmox at this point because I could still run Windows as a VM while playing around and setting up a new drive pool. I'd like a setup that I can gradually upgrade because I don't often have a full day to dedicate to these matters.

    MergerFS still seems like a good fit for my media pool, simply only to solve an issue where one media type is filling a whole drive as another sits at 50% capacity. I've lost this data before and it was easy to recover by way of my preferred backup method (private torrent tracker with paid freeleech). A parity drive with SnapRaid might be a nice stop gap. I don't think I feel confident enough with ZFS to potentially sacrifice uptime.

    My dockers and server databases, however, are on a separate SSD that could benefit from ZFS. These files are backed up regularly so I can recover easily and I'd like as many failsafes as possible to protect myself. Having my Radarr database was indispensable when I lost a media drive a few weeks ago.

  • Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware

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  • Good catch, yes my drives are 12TB. My brain is still stuck in 2005. :)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • I still use Plex because they offer the product I bought, an easy way to stream content on my devices. Others have technical or philosophical issues, which I totally understand. Plex is the easiest option for my situation as of now. It is working great for me and my family.

    Nothing lasts forever so it's good to realistic about the future. If I start having technical issues, it's Jellyfin. If Plex doubles down on subscriptions, it's Jellyfin.

    If you're like me, a lifetime Plex Pass holder, I would experiment with Nginx Reverse Proxy now so you understand how it works. I have Overseerr running through a reverse proxy now.

    I think it's a matter of when, not if, Plex will make a business decision that pushes me off their platform. It's a company focused on profit and that's fine. And it would be good to be prepared for the future.

  • Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine

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  • Somehow you're both partially wrong. There are people who have been badly abused by the porn industry. There's always a need to make sure people are safe. But there's nothing wrong if someone wants to willingly perform in pornography.

  • After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal

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  • We're forgetting that Yuzu devs had Tears of the Kingdom and released a version that could run the game before it came out commercially. And to those who were behind a donation paywall too.

    The team got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and had to settle the lawsuit. They had too much cash on hand to appear like innocent homebrew developers. And how silly is it to be sharing such hot warez like AAA game leaks on a crappy platform like Discord?

    They served this lawsuit to Nintendo on a platter. I've been following the emulator scene since 1998 and have no love lost for their high-priced ninja lawyer warriors. Teams deserve donations but not based on the promise that users will get an updated emulator before games even hit store shelves. The scene has to protect itself by making good decisions that avoid further legal debacles.

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  • I think it's important to consider whether existing social media platforms can even support "free speech." And how does society even define the term?

    Regardless of that philosophical discussion, I don't think EFF is specifically debating the free speech principles of an average person who is acting in good faith. Social media platforms that are owned by companies like Meta allow well-founded groups to flood user feeds with bad sponsored content.