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Yeah, I tried to use music and audiobooks in Jellyfin and even with apps focused on that it was just... rough.

Pity, since I'd love to have been able to scope down how much shit I'm running, but alas, that's not going to be the way to do it.

Good news, I guess?

https://github.com/kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

I've only used it to do some esp32 stuff with homeassistant, but it does work.

Wait you're saying 30 year old drives are all dying or dead?

I, for one, am COMPLETELY shocked at this totally unexpected and impossible to plan for eventuality.

Who could possibly have known that hard drives might fail after decades?

thus I don’t really see a problem

Except you no longer can edit, delete, etc. the posts.

You've lost complete control over your data, and there's no way to get it back if your instance vanishes.

It looks like it supports the getSimilarSongs API endpoint, which means if your client has support then navidrome can kinda do it.

As to what clients support that, uh, no freaking idea lol, but probably googleable from that point.

(I'm a grumpy old boomer and listen to whole albums or curated playlists, so never really looked into if you could do that or not.)

Either of which seem reasonable enough.

I'm just confused who is spending $700+ for a gaming console if the one that's $200-300 less seems to be fine?

I'm old and out of touch I guess. (And do all my gaming on a Ally Z1 non-extreme these days which is an absolute potato compared to either of these PS5s and it's also... fine.)

My first thought while reading was 'does he also forget to breathe sometimes'?

And then I read the about-the-author bit at the bottom and am also confused if I was talking to a human or an AI, so he might have a point.

Far too late

Seriously. Wasn't the initial change like a year ago?

They must have been absolutely fucked by everyone bailing for them to come back this late and change their mind.

I know you've mentioned it, but Navidrome is probably the best choice, but it won't be exactly what you want since you need to interact with a proprietary service.

But, that said, I've gone through basically every single music server I've found and ended up landing on none of them.

They're all broken or missing features that another one has, and there's no One True Music Streaming Server, just a bunch of mostly-kinda-sorta-almosts.

At this point, I just use a network mapped directory and/or a synced copy on the sd card of my phone and local players and don't bother with anything more complex anymore.

The local players that can play media seem to have a much better, richer feature set than ANY streaming one does.

And you don't even need to win to be president!

You just need to have it be close enough to have the supreme court call it in your favor, just ask Al Gore about that one.

(And for anyone confused: the odds that our bought-and-bribed-for supreme court would vote for anyone but Trump are pretty much lol, lmao.)

If I were a dev, I'd probably prioritize that awful 'THIS HAS FAILED!' error when you search for a new community that your server doesn't know about because well, new users who don't know that doesn't mean what it says are going to walk away thinking something either doesn't exist or is broken.

I also kinda think that community lists and activity stats should somehow be federated between all the servers that know each other.

Like, lemmy.world knows uncomfortable.business exists, so both servers should know the full list of non-private communities that COULD in theory be federated and be pre-populated in the search results.

And then feddit.org is federated with lemmy.world, so all 3 of the servers should be fully aware of each other's communities so that a user that lands on ANY instance immediately has a working searchable list of all communities that exist.

Some overhead, sure, but the amount of data here is probably just a one-time big sync and then a small number of updates which is certainly not going to break anything given how chatty lemmy already is.

That's also an option, yeah.

And, if you have the disk space, not an unreasonable one, but for me? DVD quality is pretty bad compared to anything newer and I've never noticed any real degredation transcoding a mpeg-2 stream to x265 which is like 25% the filesize, but that's very ymmv.

don’t care about fidelity

As someone who hasn't used a console for gaming since uh, the original xbox, is this doesn't care about fidelity, or is it if you don't pick the performance mode you get 15fps?

As a slight side note, that really only directly applies to people in the US.

Other countries have different requirements around what you're required to do, and some are stricter and some are uh, not as strict.

Yeah. You can't offer a half-secure and half-private platform and expect your average person to be able to figure out which half is which, which leads to crazy misconceptions, misunderstandings, and ultimately just a bunch of wrong and misleading information being passed around.

I'd argue, though, that Telegram probably did this on purpose, and profited GREATLY from being obtuse and misleading.

That's kind of my comment: pulling from Reddit is probably pointless. If you're still on reddit at this point, there's nothing short of Spez showing up and killing your cat that's going to make you leave.

The Fediverse in general needs to think about being more than just a 'we copied twitter', and a 'we copied youtube', and a 'we copied instagram' and of course a 'we copied reddit' collection of things, because you can't pull people from the thing you're copying unless you're better in some way that a normal person will care about.

And I use all these fedi-things to the (mostly) exclusion of the commercial versions, but if we're being very honest, they're all carrying a lot of rough edges still.

The Fediverse needs to be able to define and sell itself to people without having to say 'we're like x'. If you can't explain what you're doing and why someone should care in a way that makes them care, nobody will.

(This is what I get for spending time with people who do marketing stuff, I guess, lol.)

New headline: Republicans dismayed Trump literally did exactly what everyone knew Trump was going to do

The cool thing is we don't have to go through this pissing contest!

Except we do, because we keep electing people to congress who wouldn't be qualified to mop the floor at the local mcdonalds, and this is what happens when you send idiots to lead a nation.

So maybe it's just me, but if you have to make promises of spending a billion dollars so that the government will let you buy your next biggest competitor, perhaps you're already too damn big and don't need to be gobbling up your entire industry?

Like I said, just a thought.