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How will you be tackling the challenges this year?
  • Probably C++, Zig, and possibly Clojure (the latter two maybe after solving it in C++ to compare how I might approach the problems differently in them). Not going for speed in coming up with solutions, mainly will try out various libraries I might not have touched before or rarely used, and brush up on newer C++ standard features.

  • Calibre Android client (audio & video)
  • I don't use Calibre for this (but I do for epub and pdf ebooks). I use Plex and use Plexamp for my music collection. For audio books I used to have Chronicle Audiobook Player installed (which is open source, but not actively maintained) but am now trying out Listen Audiobook Player (which is not open source as a heads up). Both of those allow me to download books wherever I am.

    If you have no interest in running a Plex server neither of them are suitable for you, but I just wanted to mention this solution in case you're not dead set on using Calibre. Plex has a cost factor which may come into play (an obvious non starter for some). I have had Plex Pass for a long time so it was natural for me to use it, but might not be for you.

  • Pixel turned 6 today! 🎉
  • We had a cat named Pixel back in the 90s to 00s too. Does yours walk through walls? In any case, enjoy every moment with her.

  • Welcome Light, our first cat
  • We had a cat named Pixel back in the 90s to 00s too. Does yours walk through walls? In any case, enjoy every moment with him.

    Huh. I guess I replied to the wrong thread! I saw another about a cat named Pixel. Weil, enjoy Light anyway!

  • Looking for audiobook ideas that have tv series or movie
  • The Shannara series by Terry Brooks, with the shortlived Shannara Chronicles TV series (it was not specified the show or movie had to be good...)

  • Poll: What OS do you run Plex on?
  • A Fedora Linux container on Proxmox. I have no stability issues really.

  • Is lemmy.fmhy.ml down?
  • According to a news article about US MIL emails being accidentally sent to ML addresses due to misspellings, there was apparently a contractor in charge of the ML TLD, whose 10(?)-year contract was up the other day, I think, or will be soon. With Mali taking direct control over it, presumably they have their own ideas how to manage it. Why they wouldn't or couldn't have had the contractor do it (charge for domains) a long time ago, I have no idea. Doesn't seem like something that would have to be postponed until the contract was over, but obviously I have no insight into the details of the matter.

  • what is the current recommendation for a simple home NAS?
  • Since I can't see any other reference to it, I want to mention I'm using openmediavault and export smb mounts for my windows computers and NFS for Linux. It is running in a VM in proxmox. Works well enough for me. It is my in house backup destination, and my Plex media files storage (plex is running in a container on the same proxmox host).

    Like most and probably every other mentioned solution, accessing the nas/shared storage is not more difficult than just opening windows explorer on windows and selecting the network location, etc. I'm sure it is easy on Mac as well, but I don't use apple products myself.

  • Free Bird! Plexamp Spreads Its Wings for Every Music Lover | Plex
  • Plexamp is my primary music playback in the car commute if I'm not listening to an audio book. Love it.

  • What gaming books do you recommend?
  • Maybe you will find Blood, Sweat and Pixels by Jason Schreier of interest. Been a little while but I enjoyed it as an audio book.

  • I have the mini computer. Now what?
  • Proxmox with a bunch of small dedicated lxc containers (running small Ubuntu lxcs mostly). It works for me anyway, though I don't use any of the rr programs. My Plex lxc gets its Media files from an openmediavault NFS mount (Running in a VM instead of lxc), and I use smb file sharing for my windows desktop to access the same files. Your mileage may vary, what works for me night not be for someone else.

  • Loving the new updates, but what all has changed?
  • Looks like the kbin PWA on my phone is now following my default setting for homepage of subscribed instead of all when opening it. I like this change.

  • Twins born right near midnight could have different birthdays
  • One of them could be born February 29 and lose out on a bunch of birthdays compared to their twin.

  • nobody knows
  • Birds are not real so it must be a plane.

  • One of the advantages of being on Kbin is that you can scroll All by New, and see genuinely interesting content
  • I use this to come across magazines or communities i might not have thought to search for and add those I find interesting. After scrolling a little bit I switch to the subscribed list. This works well for me at the moment.

  • What are you reading this week? [7/02/23]
  • Sounds like the book Truckers, the first in the Bromeliad trilogy.

  • What are you reading this week? [7/02/23]
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson. I guess I must have missed reading most of his books for a very long time despite the topics being of interest to me.

  • SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope on a six year mission to map the 'dark universe' like never before [Video]
  • the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, which is roughly 1 million miles (1.5 million km) away from our planet on the opposite side of the sun.

    This seems a little poorly stated. L2 and the sun are on opposite sides of earth. As written it seems to read as if earth and L2 are on opposite sides of the sun.

  • What are some of your favorite videogames from your childhood? What made them so special?
  • Adventure of the Atari VCS, The Hobbit on an Oric-1, and Head Over Heels and Batman on an Amstrad 6128.

  • Projects like pngme
  • The first thing that comes to mind for me is The Ray Tracer Challenge book.

    http://raytracerchallenge.com/

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