Just today I installed Azuracast on my server, pointed it at my Navidrome library, and now I have my own radio station. Once it’s all configured I’ll hook into it from my laptop for my weekly show using Icecast, which I’m really forward to doing. Because I’m cool.
Plex and Chill Jellyfin and Impregnate Jellyfin and Masturbate
For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.
My company recently switched out all of it’s older Dell for newer ones that are capable of running Win11 (because existence is pain). As a result, I now have three Dell micro PCs two of which are on DDR4, one is DDR3. All of which cost me nothing.
I’ve already put Proxmox and OpenWRT on one and shitcanned the crappy Linksys my ISP gave me, and am about to put another into service as my home server. The third one has yet to reveal its use to me, but it’ll come.
I currently have eight computers of various specs, sizes and configurations, and am happy to rehouse a bunch more.
I boot my work PC when I get in, then go off to make a coffee. It boots to log in reasonably well, but then takes a good five minutes to run the start up script that connects it to the company’s shared drives.
When I could use Linux at work the machine mounted the drives at boot so they were available immediately. I’ve gone backwards despite being ‘upgraded’.
Annoyingly, as of a couple of months ago I now have to use Win11 at work, and it really is fucking horrible compared to every other machine I use. And the version I’m using is corporate as fuck, so has very little of the bloatier shit.
It’s just so sluggish on the low spec hardware I have to use (a Dell desktop with 8gb RAM and an i3). I have Debian running on an older machine with the same specs which is SO MUCH faster in every way.
I used Macs for 20 years, so like to be able to click the mouse wheel to expose all windows. It’s a fiddle to set up in Linux, but works well once it’s set up. It’s also a fiddle to set up in Win11, but it also feels like it’s going to crash the machine every time I use it.
Similarly, I’m used to tapping the Win key, then immediately typing in the menu for the app I want. Every time I do it in Windows I end up dismissing the Start menu because I’ve begun typing too soon. Every. Time. I want to put the fucking thing through the window.
OH, and because it’s a bloated mess that can’t run on 8gb of RAM, it’s taken up 22gb of the 250gb SSD as a sysfile.
I fucking hate Windows.
Hey, many of us in England enjoy its use too, not just our Cunty Cousins to the north.
Excellent, thanks!
I was just wondering if I could point it to folders that already exist on my server. In particular, my Syncthing folder.
Owncloud is very handy for sending things to people in a pinch. I have it running in Yunohost on my VPS.
This comment led me to investigating copyparty for myself. It looks good.
Do you know if you can specify existing folders?
I’ve been pondering doing this to a broken iMac I’ve got.
It got donated to me by someone who needed to thin out his studio a bit, so it didn’t cost me a penny. But I took the screen off to give it a clean out and repaste, apparently didn’t tape it in place securely enough as a temporary measure, so the screen fell off. And smashed.
I did some swearing.
However, it’s still a surprisingly handy spec. 3.5ghz i5, 24gb RAM and a Radeon GPU. So I’ve been wondering about pulling the guts and turning it into a desktop, then making it my home server to replace the 2014 Mac mini I currently use.
ponderings intensify
This isn’t helping my desire to pick up a Surface for Linux-noodling…
And why we need people who can hammer it home to our political classes that it’s vitally important not to be stuck in an Apple/Google/Microsoft trap.
This is my growing experience of using GrapheneOS.
Mostly everything works just fine. But certain apps don’t, because they’ve made a choice to use Play store integrity. And there are more and more of them, including the UK government ID app. So I can’t use my phone to verify my identity because I use a version of Android that’s more secure than Google’s.
And yeah, I can see it going this way with Linux. If you can’t be verified using macOS, Windows, or ChromeOS (or whatever the new thing is) tools, then you become a second class digital citizen.
My home server is 100% up, because I never check it and that’s how it works, right?
I’m a welder-turned-health and safety manager. What I’m learning from self-hosting I’m using to make our h&s reporting more efficient than it was before.
To be honest, they’re not really problems as such, more a case of resetting expectations back a few years.
While I had gotten very used to being able to pay for everything with Apple Pay on the 13 mini I had previously, all I’ve had to do with my Pixel 9 is buy a magsafe wallet (and magsafe case for the magsafe-less phone). And for everything else, there’s a web site. It’s kind of annoying having to use an SMS 2FA code EVERY TIME I log into my bank’s site, but not particularly inconvenient.
I will caveat my comments by noting that I do have Play services installed, so there are some Google features on my phone. Mostly that was to help soften the transition between having everything available to me through Apple’s services to having nothing available in Graphene. But my understanding is that Google’s footprint in Graphene is significantly less intrusive, and mostly limited by guardrails that I can set.
Pixel 9 running GOS. My bank’s app (Lloyds) won’t work, and never has for me. Additionally, I have a store card, and credit card app, both of which are offered by NewDay, neither of which work on my phone. The official UK government ID app won’t work with it either.
But honestly, I’ll take that inconvenience over letting Google have free reign over my phone.
I’ve only been playing with it today, but I reckon Azuracast ought to tick all of your boxes.
I’ve pointed it at the drive that holds my Navidrome library. Once it’s finished sorting through all 14,500 tracks, I can then sort them all into various different playlists to do more or less the same as you’re looking to do.