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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • I’m using Proxmox with a NixOS LXC for Jellyfin/*arr. The media is stored on a single btrfs HDD, because high uptime (RAID) isn’t necessary for me and it’s media I can simply redownload.

    I’m looking into switching to NixOS on bare metal, because I don’t need the UI of proxmox and most other features.

    Symphonium is great for music, even though it’s closed source and paid. I’m mostly using Spotify though.

    Findroid is an awesome native Android app for watching tv/movies, altough it doesn’t support transcoding.



  • I feel like most of these “10 alternatives to xyz”-articles are basically a summary of alternativeto.net. Or they’ve just listed all projects they’ve found with a quick search. I’m almost certain they didn’t install them most of the time.

    This also applies to “comparison” sites, which usually are a list of Amazon affiliate links. At this point, I don’t trust websites with affiliate links anymore, as they’ve never actually tried the products. Sadly those spam sites make it difficult to find actually good reasearched tests.

    Back to itsfoss, they write many articles, and some are good, but they still are blog spam.



  • Off topic: ff2mpv is awesome. It supports many video sites (I believe everything youtube-dl does) and opens the video on a page/link in an external mpv window.

    This helped me mirror a video without downloading to read the embedded subtitles (why uploads a mirrored video with subtitles?). Also playback speed and all other advanced features mpv supports are really useful