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djdarren

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  • 1 year into navidrome with dilligent tagging and rating, and this is how someone has the perfect theme song when they walk into a room, every SINGLE time.

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  • This puts me in mind of the smart playlists I built in iTunes. Several playlists of 3/4/5* tunes, plus a few other rules to bring lesser played tunes to the surface. These all fed in to one bigger 50 track playlist that would pick something like 30% of its tracks from 5*, 25% from 4*, 20% from 3*, then make up the rest with the other stuff. Oh, and it would filter out any track that wasn't 5* that had been played in the last two weeks.

    Then, when I was rocking my iPod, if I was digging something that wasn't rated, I could spin up a rating and it'd get shifted to the corresponding list ready to drop into the pool for future enjoyment.

    It was properly great.

    I guess you can still do it with Apple Music, but it's not as much fun when your library is thousands of songs you added and never listened to again.

    Anyway, I'm going to see if I can recreate it with Navidrome. I've got 14k tracks in there and a willingness to listen to them all.

  • Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network for free?

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  • Just be aware that if you want anyone else to connect to your Jellyfin, you'll still have to route it through a domain and reverse proxy, unless you're comfortable letting them log in to your tailnet.

    It's a bit of a fiddle to set up, but once it's done it's quite satisfying.

  • Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals

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  • Recommendations for music-setup?

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  • I use Navidrome, and have set up Lidarr to feed it if I'm feeling a little hook-handed, if you get my meaning. Lidarr was a bit of a bollocks to set up, but once it's running it's pretty neat. I access it via Tailscale so can add stuff to the library wherever I am.

    As for accessing it: again, I use Tailscale to run it through a reverse proxy on my website, so I connect to it using a subdomain. But as long as I've got Tailscale active on my phone, I could always access it that way. As others have suggested, I use Symfonium on my phone, and I use Feishin on everything else.

    It all works pretty well, to the point that I don't really use Apple Music anymore.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • It might not be "absolute cinema" and had maybe 5% of the budget of Chernobyl, but given that people have suggested Ted Lasso, I'll go one step further into the realm of fuzzy feel-good TV and drop a mention for my favourite TV show of all time.

    The Detectorists

    There isn't a single moment in that programme where any of the characters are mean to each other (save for the when dealing with a rival club). It's just 20 beautiful episodes of people looking for gold, living their lives, and doing their best to be supportive.

    And it's incredibly funny.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • As someone who hates football, Ted Lasso was wonderful because at no point was it ever really about football.

  • Whose opinion do you trust most?

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  • sorry

  • Whose opinion do you trust most?

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  • Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads, and more by hundreds of dollars

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  • Funny enough, the other day when the Steam Machine pricing was announced, I noted that where Valve are charging £90 per 500gb for storage when upgrading from 500gb to 2tb, Apple were charging £267 per 500gb for the same upgrade in an iPad Pro.

    That has now changed.

    Apple are now charging £300 per 500gb when upgrading from a 500gb ipad to a 2tb iPad.

    Three. Hundred. Pounds.

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  • I'll never forget booting into an SSD for the first time on my 2011 MacBook Pro. It was absolutely mind-blowing how much faster it was. A few weeks later I upped the RAM to 16gb and it was like I was carrying a supercomputer.

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  • I miss who I was in those days. Or more to the point, I miss not worrying about bills, the state of the world, the health and well-being of my family. I miss that my biggest concerns were around school exams and girls.

    And yeah, I do miss the culture of the time, and the general attitude of hopefulness that seemed to pervade. But times change, life moves on, and as they say, the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  • we're living in the future

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  • I had a tooth extracted a couple of months ago, and even though it wasn't my first rodeo (brush your teeth properly, kids), I was still amazed at how barbaric the process is. The dentist was only just short of standing on my chest so he could properly yank at it, all the while shards of exploded tooth were flying around the room.

    Fair play though, he did it quickly and cleanly.

  • 'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

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  • I've replaced a decent sized SSD with gigabit internet. Don't need to store a bunch of huge games locally if it only takes 10 minutes to download them.

    :edit: this was clearly a joke. Mostly*. Sorry for forgetting the /s _ *that is pretty much where I'm at these days, since all I have is a 250gb SSD and can't afford a bigger one.

  • PCB prices are up 40% because of a material most people have never heard of

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  • In fairness, it's almost impossible to find a photo of a real PCB. They're just so very rare.

  • macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era

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  • Dunno. Apple do what Apple do. Presumably there was a cost benefit to soldering/unsoldering components.

    As for mine: it's pretty solid. It's a 2014/with a 3ghz i5 and 8gb of Ram, and honestly, the RAM will be the issue if I spin up much more.

    It's currently running

    • Immich
    • Grimmory
    • Mealie
    • Invidious
    • Jellyfin
    • Navidrome
    • Nextcloud
    • SearXNG

    and constantly hovers around 6.5gb in active use.

    That era of Macs were mid-SSD, so mine came with the option for a Fusion drive that wasn't originally specced, so I bought an adapter and now it has / and /boot on a 250gb M.2 and /home on a 1tb SATA SSD. And a 2TB external HDD is where Nextcloud lives. Honestly, I almost never have any trouble with it. It falls over once every six weeks or so, but a quick reboot and its back up on rails again.

  • macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era

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  • For a bit of fun I recently installed Horizon Zero Dawn on my M2 Air using Crossover, just to see how it fared.

    I got a perfectly respectable 25fps, or thereabouts.

    This is a three year old, fanless, entry-level laptop, playing a game that's not even written for its architecture at a rate that's entirely playable. It's actually crazy how good that hardware is.

  • macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era

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  • The last Intel mini from 2018 is still going for serious money because it's the last one with upgradable RAM, albeit with soldered storage. The 2014 (which I have, running Debian as my home server) has upgradable storage, but soldered RAM.

  • Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries

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  • I was on holiday on Greece when they dropped the iOS update that opened up third party app stores, so installed it over shitty wifi to see what I could install.

    Nope, my account is British, so no go.

    Fuckers.

  • YouTube hikes Premium subscription cost again while adding advanced video features

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  • Oh man, does that mean my sub to yt-dlp is going to go up as well?

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  • Personally, I don't really give a shit about how many users there are on the various Fediverse platforms I use.

    As Mastodon is the one that gets 90% of my use, I'll talk about that in particular.

    I've been a regular Mastodon user since the great influx of late 2022. In those 3.5 years I've somehow managed to convince more people to follow me than I ever did in 15 years of using Twitter. I follow almost 700 people, so my feed always has something new to show me. Always. I don't follow any journalists, I don't follow any 'celebrities', save for one or two comedians. At no point have I ever thought that Mastodon needs more users, because - for me at least - it's plenty busy enough, and does what I need it to do. It lets me interact with regular people talking about their regular lives and regular interests, and that's wonderful to me.

    I'm at a point where I don't really care to understand why a platform must be the number one most popular, if what it already is is sufficient.

    That said, it would be useful if more official resources had a presence on there. Local councils, government departments, etc... And companies who appear to have offloaded most of their customer service to social media, but stopped at X and Facebook.

    The one thing I've never really understood is why that sort of thing has yet to take off. News outlets, for example, could spin up a server on their own official domain, and provide accounts to employees. So someone posting from a @news.bbc.com instance could, at a glance, be understood to be a genuine BBC reporter.

    However, personally I avoid news like the plague these days, so for me that's neither here nor there.