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djdarren

@ djdarren @piefed.social

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  • I was happy to pay for YT Premium when there was a loophole so you could sign up from a far cheaper country. I paid about £6 a month for the family plan, purely so I could watch on Apple TV without having to tolerate adverts.

    Then they closed the loophole, shitcanned our premium, and demanded £20 for the same experience. We had Netflix at the time, which was cheaper. So I made a little app as a frontend for yt-dlp, and downloaded what I wanted to watch into my Jellyfin server.

    Fuck Google.

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  • With the glorious return of Tom Scott, I finally signed up to Nebula yesterday, and am pleasantly surprised at how many of my YT regulars are already on there. £30 for a year, no ads, and an Apple TV app.

    Which is £30 more than I paid YouTube, because the family plan is a ridiculous amount of money.

  • What's the best TV show from your country?

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  • The state of Linux music players in 2026

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  • Heh, clicked on that and saw my post at the top. That threw me for a second.

    As an update, I've since worked out how to get Navidrome working over Tailscale and an Nginx redirect from my VPS, so I now have Feishin installed on several computers, all drawing from the same Navidrome server at home.

    It's pretty cool.

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  • I was introduced to President last week. Their tunes have caused significant damage to my Good Headphones.

    It's Charlie from Busted/Fightstar, right?

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  • This episode of the Memory Palace

    I made my own podcast at the time and hearing this episode genuinely caused me to stop and wonder whether there any point in carrying on with it, because I could never produce something as beautiful.

    Also, this mini documentary about Nick Drake.

    It's an incredible piece of work. The sound design is stunning.

    Edit: Meant to ask, what's the show you enjoy, OP?

  • PewDiePie Promoting Self-Hosting, Blocking Ads, Shorts and more

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  • Hmm, I might look into that for getting YT on Apple TV without having to tolerate All Of The Adverts. Currently I manually download using yt-dlp and put them in a Jellyfin folder.

  • 'Bone-Chilling': Gamblers ‘Vowing to Kill’ Journalist Unless He Changes Iran War Report to Help Them Win Polymarket Bet

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  • I was interested to hear the news reader on BBC radio last week refer to "Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defence'. So apparently the BBC aren't buying into the rhetoric either.

  • What's an online service you happily pay for?

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  • Hetzner for my VPS Mullvad for my privacy

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    What is something society treats as normal that you secretly think is completely insane?

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  • My wife's 4K monitor died a few months ago. They'd been pondering a new one anyway, so that forced the decision.

    So I took the broken one to work and asked my electrician buddy if he could run a multimeter over it.

    One 8p capacitor later and now I have a 4K monitor as well.

  • What movie do you think is really underrated?

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  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Ford

    That movie is a legitimate work of art in which every performance is understated and every frame could be hung on the wall of any gallery. But because it's quite long, and because nothing gets blown up, no one really paid any attention to it.

    I genuinely only know about three people IRL who have seen it, and I'm one of them.

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • Eh, I gather the Linux based ones were actually pretty cool. But 99% of netbooks ended up being underpowered mini laptops running XP, so were doomed to failure.

  • illusion of Choice

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  • My wife wants to paint our bedroom drawers, so got some testers and painted a small section on each drawer. She called me in and asked which I preferred.

    I gave my answer.

    "No, it's none of them," she replied, "None of them are any good"

    I'm glad she asked my opinion.

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • Of all the PC manufacturers, Apple are the ones who are most likely to sweep away legacy standards.

    Remember when they ditched DVD drives altogether, and the tech world threw a shit fit. When was the last time you saw a new laptop with a disc drive?

    They did the same with the 30 pin connector. USB-A as well.

    Of course, they can get away with it because they can also dictate which machines get which OS updates, so can entirely block devices that don't have hardware they no longer want to support.

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  • Thing is, from Apple's perspective they don't really need users to plug anything in to a MacBook - particularly where this one is concerned.

    MacBook Neo exists as an entry-level device to hook new computer users into their services. You don't need an external hard drive, because for just £5 a month you can access iCloud Storage. You don't need to connect a music player, because for just £15 a month you can have Apple Music. You don't need to sync a Kobo, because you can read Apple Books on your iPad or iPhone. And so on.

    They made the same argument with the 2015 MacBook. It only had one USB-C as a nod to the fact that it needed to be charged somehow.

    Personally I don't like that view, but I'm not the target for this laptop.

    For a teenager whose primary use case is to complete their school work on this, that's entirely valid. And for the employee who's issued a low-cost computer so they can work from home.

    If the user needs more/better IO, then they can spend more to get more. But why equip an entry-level computer with four Thunderbolt 5 ports that will never be used? And why go to the trouble and expense of retrofitting an A18 SOC to provide those TB ports?

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  • So, most of my computing these days is done using Linux, however, my primary computer is a MacBook. The reason I haven't sold that MacBook in favour of a fully kitted ThinkPad running Linux is that I have yet to adequately replicate my radio broadcasting setup that works pretty much flawlessly in macOS.

    In particular, MIDI control.

    I have an app on my iPad mini called Knob Lab that gives me 12 virtual MIDI controls that I've mapped to perform various functions in Mixxx. I am damned if I can get the same setup to work on Linux. I've even found a similar (but not as good) app for an old Samsung tablet I have, just in case the barrier was iPadOS, but nope, can't do it from Android either.

    It's kind of annoying, because everything else works just fine.

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  • I've found that Linux supports multiple monitors better than macOS does. On macOS, if you invoke an app on Screen1, there's a 50% chance it'll open on Screen2 for no reason I've ever been able to figure out. Similarly, if I working in an app on Screen1 and open its settings panel, there's a non-zero chance of that panel opening in the far corner of Screen2, because fuck you.

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  • It supports Super Tux Cart, and what more could a games-loving child need?