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djdarren

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  • YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable

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  • I have a script that takes a YT URL on my clipboard and uses yt-dlp to download it to my Jellyfin folder so I can watch on my Apple TV on The Big Telly.

    Fuck adverts.

  • Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?

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  • My work PC and gaming PC are Kubuntu, my media server is Debian, and my Home Assistant server is macOS, because it's an M1 mini. So yeah, kinda. I thought about putting the server on Kubuntu, but in the end figured I'd go for as stable as possible.

  • Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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  • IMO it's the exact opposite; we talk about this because we want the best protocol to win, this time, while knowing full well that usually it doesn't.

    Honestly, I couldn't give a shit. Like I couldn't give a shit about celebrities and journalists signing up to Mastodon.

    The Fediverse with which I interact is vibrant, and full of (mostly) good people, all sharing knowledge, jokes, art, etc... I don't personally care if Taylor Swift signs up, because the people who currently live on here largely play by the rules, and the vibe is good.

    I don't care if Bluesky's protocol ends up 'winning', because it doesn't affect Mastodon. Or Lemmy. Or Pixelfed. Or Peertube. Or whatever federated services anyone else uses.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • I actually have no idea how it all works. It just does.

    Asahi is incredible for general use computing on M1/2 machines, and perhaps even in use as a general purpose home server. But it's still very much a fun exercise in what might be possible rather than a solid option, in my opinion.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • I have an 8GB M1 mini in service as my Home Assistant server. 4GB to UTM to run HAOS, the rest for macOS and Ollama running a small LLM for speech to text. I'm genuinely amazed that it hasn't fallen over. Tried the same thing in Asahi but without macOS' memory management and access to GPU acceleration, it just wasn't feasible.

  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • I last tried out the beta version of it on Graphene a couple of months back and it was rough. In fairness though, I was mostly using it to figure out how to use it to install a full fat Linux distro, which is probably a niche use.

    My phone's just updated, so I'll give it another spin when I get home tonight and report back.

  • Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'

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  • The performance with regards to Home Assistant is spot on.

  • Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'

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  • I have an M1 mini with 8Gb of RAM that I use as my Home Assistant server. I've given 4Gb to HAOS running in UTM, and let Ollama use the rest to run a modest LLM for speech to text. It's flawless.

    I'm not suggesting that 8Gb is the gold standard or anything, but for some applications it's still perfectly usable.

    I have an M2 Air with 16Gb, and for what I need it to do, I couldn't have any less, but the target market for a bargain basement entry level MacBook almost certainly won't ever notice. It'll literally just be a portal to access iCloud and whatever browser they use to get on their socials. And if they do find they need more, then Apple will happily sell them a new laptop.

    Don't get me wrong, I think Apple's approach to RAM pricing has been criminal for years, and as a company they're really figuring out how to plumb the depths of scumminess, but on this I don't really see the issue.

    With that said, the cost of an extra 8Gb to them is literally pennies, so withholding it is shitty. But it won't really make that much difference to the average performance of the computer.

  • What are some hugely important music albums?

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  • In terms of bringing existing black music to white audiences, sure, but Elvis and Jerry weren't really doing anything that wasn't already being done.

  • What are some hugely important music albums?

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  • I heard Remanufacture before I heard Demanufacture, so there'll always be a larger part of my heart devoted to Rhys Fulber's remix of Self Bias Resistor than the original. But yeah, Demanufacture is an incredible record. That era of industrial metal transports me back to some incredibly sweaty venues.

  • What are some hugely important music albums?

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  • As much as I enjoyed Pet Sounds when I was younger, it wasn't until it was pointed out to me that it was one of the first albums by a big act to not be written around live performance that I began to realise its significance. Almost every other album released on major labels at the time was in service of selling tickets to live shows, along with copies of the records. They were full of songs to sing and dance along to.

    Pet Sounds was an album that was best enjoyed at home on a decent sound system.

    Pet Sounds is a work of art that happens to contain some incredible pop music that must have pissed off the other members of the Beach Boys as they listened to it and tried to figure out how the hell they were supposed to perform it live. But Brian made a damn good go of saying what he needed to say with it, and that was what was important to him.

  • What are some hugely important music albums?

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  • Rage Against the Machine's first public show is on YouTube. It's remarkable how they arrived almost fully formed.

    The debut album was released 13 months after that performance, but tracks like Know Your Enemy sound almost identical to the recorded version.

  • What are some hugely important music albums?

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  • I've never been huge on hip hop, but Illmatic was one of the ones that slipped through my metal net. Wonderful record.

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  • I get up at 5:30 for work, so I consider 8:00 a luxurious lie in these days.

    Was trying to get hold of my kid yesterday, who didn't wake up until 2pm because he'd been on the town the night before.

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  • A good Saturday afternoon for me is driving to a nearby beach via a chippy, and just sitting in the car watching the world go by, and remarking with my partner on all the Very Good Dogs we see while we eat chips.

    It's pretty much one of my favourite things to do.

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  • Google don't hinder shit with my yt-dlp script and Jellyfin server.

  • Using Yattee, Invidious & Tailscale to give Google the finger

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  • Huh, hadn't thought of that.

  • Using Yattee, Invidious & Tailscale to give Google the finger

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  • Pretty much.

    It reads the clipboard, adds the URL to a yt-dlp script, downloads the video, then switches to my YouTube Jellyfin folder and copies the download across. But instead of opening a terminal in that folder and copy/pasting the script from a .txt file I used to use, it's just one click. Three if you count clicking the share button in Freetube and then clicking the 'copy link' button.

  • Worst day of my life

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  • I wish someone would shove some gay down my throat.