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tomkatt

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  • 'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloat

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    What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?

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  • If you haven't already, check out Upgrade, by Blake Crouch. Good book, similar premise.

  • Cory Booker crosses 17-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics - Final time - 25 hours, 6 minutes

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  • That's great. So... what exactly was accomplished?

  • I may need to upsize from my TKL

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  • You'll have to pry my 70% and 75% keyboards from my cold dead hands. Smaller keyboards are much more ergonomic if you need to also regularly use the mouse.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • See my previous comment, I'm 100% on board with Lyrion server and client these days.

    I only use Plexamp now for local music when I'm driving.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Disclaimer: Plexamp used to be great, but it's stagnated badly. It was a good reason to buy plex pass at one point, though I don't think it's worth it now.

    I'm not familiar with Symfonium, but the major defining thing with plexamp is the DJ features for exploring your local music library.

    Unfortunately, some months back Tidal support was removed from Plexamp and that was kind of a deal breaker because now it's only local library, and its "killer app" feature was using the DJ mixes in conjunction with Tidal to do real time mixes with your local and streaming music together.

    I've switched to using Lyrion instead, along with the Blissmix and "Don't Stop the Music" plugins with LastFM support. It integrates with Tidal, Deezer, or Qobuz (and I think Spotify, but not sure, I only use hifi streaming services). They work similarly, and in some ways better because you have full control over Blissmix's functionality for chroma, timbre, tempo, album and track repeats, and more. Also, Lyrion can stream directly over DLNA to a client, whereas Plexamp was just Airplay/Bluetooth/Google Cast (I have Apple stuff, but Airplay is terrible quality).

    It's sad, but plexamp is just my "local download" player now on my phone for when I'm driving, since it downconverts flac to Opus at higher quality than MP3 and at smaller sizes.

    I highly recommend trying out Lyrion. I've used nearly everything for music in the past, including even having a year of Roon, but Lyrion has replaced pretty much everything.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • They have sales, and it's not really worth paying the "MSRP" price. My wife got Plex Pass for $80 back in 2023, and I got it late last year for $90.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Plexamp is (or at least was) pretty awesome. It requires plex and plex pass for its full features. Jellyfin doesn't have anything remotely comparable (though you could always just run Lyrion).

  • Trump’s Call to Annex Canada as a State Should Have Invoked the 25th Amendment

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  • Bear in mind that in the early years of the USA, the vice president was generally the person who was running against the sitting President for the seat. It was another built in check to power, though unfortunately not codified. The idea of just picking a VP candidate came much later.

  • Republicans get behind effort to make hating Elon Musk domestic terrorism

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  • “Who is behind it? Who is funding it? Is there a link with Democrat-leaning NGOs [non-governmental organizations]?” Greene wrote Wednesday on X, hinting at some kind of nefarious conspiracy.

    Have you considering the 2 million or so federal workers who were fired thanks to DOGE with Musks face plastered all over it? Pretty big axe to grind there.

    Fucking jackasses.

  • I went to a GOP congressman's town hall. The rage over DOGE is a force to be reckoned with.

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  • Nah, this isn't true. I'm a Coloradan and registered independent. I generally vote blue, and am very socially liberal and a big believer in safety nets and social programs, providing a floor, and I'm a proponent for the idea of a national basic income, universal healthcare, and free or subsidized education. I just don't feel that the Democrats have actually represented me or my interests in a very long time. I was originally a registered democrat, but have been a registered independent now for well over a decade.

    If we had an actual progressive party that would be something, but this milquetoast middle-of-the-road Democratic party we have today is essentially the Republican party of my youth. The dems are very conservative these days, and only left-seeming because the Republicans have continually shifted toward insane alt-right extremism since the mid/late 2000s.

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  • Enjoy the block list.

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  • Not going to be playing "honest question" with you, since it's obviously not honest, and you're not open to changing your viewpoint. No, sometimes it's about critical care in life threatening situations, often involving pregnancies that cannot be brought to term anyway. Women are literally dying from preventable issues due to pregnancy complications. And that's not even getting into the concept of women's care for horrible situations like rape.

    If you can't see the issue here, you're part of the problem. I knew that already, but thanks for confirming.

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  • What am I missing?

    You're missing the fact that currently in many states in the US, a Tesla has more civil rights than a woman, and it's bullshit.

    Also ignoring the removal of inclusion programs, and a number of other things wrong with the US in recent past that you would almost certainly be aware of unless you're living in a cave in the wilderness with no internet connection. Which I doubt, since you're posting here.

  • I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks - Ars Technica

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  • That's great, until you want to switch devices while still keeping your progress.

  • I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks - Ars Technica

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  • I knew it was gonna be Audiobookshelf as soon as I saw the headline. Great software. My wife has all her books hosted on it on our NAS, and it barely takes any resources. I have it hosted alongside Plex in a VM on a teeny tiny Ryzen 5500u Mini-PC.

    Edit - I'm even more amused that I have almost the same configuration as the article author, Proxmox server hosting the guest, just mine's an Ubuntu 24.04 server VM instead of LXC. That little server hosts Plex, Audiobookshelf, Lyrion, and AssetUPnP, pretty much handles all my media stuff, plus a separate Home Assistant VM, and has resources to spare.

  • What is the etiquette for skipping after-work events?

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  • “No” is a complete sentence, and colleagues aren’t necessarily friends. If it’s not paid, it’s your time to do with as you please.

    Just say no thanks or say you’ve got other things you need to do.

  • Self-hosted home server project - call for competent advisory opinions

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  • You didn’t mention your budget. That will impact things.

    If you have a closet with a rack you have a lot of options, hardware-wise. If you’ll be running this in your living room, for sake of your sanity, something like an AMD mini-PC with a small NAS for additional hosted storage via NFS would probably be your best bet.

    A PC with Proxmox could do this handily. I have a cheap Ryzen 5500u mini PC hosting my Plex server, audiobookshelf, home assistant, and DLNA server (AssetUPnP). It’s only 6 core/12 thread and32GB RAM but still has resources to spare. You could totally do an 8c/16t one and throw more RAM at it.

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    Edit - oh, and don’t forget that if you’re going to be hosting a public instance, you’ll need a good internet connection (with good up and down speed, generally fiber is good for that) and a public IP.