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amongstthetrees

@lemmy.ml

🏳️‍⚧️ vegetarian with interest in linux, self-hosting, and public transit.

amongstthetrees 32 points 2 years ago

I just want to be able to input an address and it actually take me there and not just give the whole road. I don't care much for lacking traffic data but I want to at least get directions.

I understand I can search for locations but that doesn't work for houses, unlisted businesses (recently had an issue trying to local a local clinic that we were given the address for), or many trailheads.

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amongstthetrees 18 points 2 years ago

Same, I left just recently for Arctic after no updates for months, unfixed app restarts, commenting issues, etc.

Paid for pro when it became available because at the time Avelon was a great Lemmy app and I enjoy supporting developers but seemed to get abandoned not too long after unfortunately.

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amongstthetrees 15 points 2 years ago

I don’t use Windows at home but I still have to deal with it and their ‘features’ when I work with my spouse’s desktop and at my workplace. God I hate it.

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amongstthetrees 9 points 2 years ago

Damn, I'm going to miss those messages one day on my Debian stable server.

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amongstthetrees 8 points 2 years ago

Too bad there isn’t one shaped like a broom.

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amongstthetrees 8 points 2 years ago

Soulseek > Freyr > yt-dlp

Soulseek is better for more popular tracks and artists and in normally better quality.

Freyr can be fed a spotify/apple music link, find the highest quality version and pull the file from YouTube music or YouTube. Then it will automatically write the appropriate metadata and cover art to the songs.

If all else fails, yt-dlp to directly rip from YouTube.

Or buy it legally. In the past I've gotten songs by buying from Artists' website, bandcamp, and iTunes.

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amongstthetrees 8 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using Posteo for a few months now. Have 2 dedicated aliases setup (more than 2 is €0.25 per) with filters effectively making two separate inboxes for them.

It does well, web app sometimes fails over to Deutsch at random, the login cookies are very short lived (good to prevent access from local intrusions), and supports 2FA.

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amongstthetrees 7 points 2 years ago

That's so false.. That's like saying the only games Windows can run is Halo and whatever crap is in the Windows Store. Steam has thousands of out-of-the-box compatible games and Crossover helps cover many other games.

Before I got I rebuild my Linux gaming PC (watercooling shenanigans) I gamed for a solid year on MacOS. I played Baldur's Gate 3 on release for Windows through Crossover, was on my second play through when official Mac support dropped. I've played Civ 5 & 6 with friends. I've made many cities in Cities Skylines. I played FF7 Remake again. Even for old 32-bit Windows games like Touhou 6 run with minor tweaking.

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amongstthetrees 6 points 2 years ago

For a TV that can be set up as a 'dumb tv' and you can even reject the terms and conditions: Hisense surprisingly.

My partner got one a month ago and it was stupid simple to set up and asks you if you want to set up as a Smart TV or as a Basic TV.

Also ditch the Roku, that's absolutely just as bad as using the onboard smart tv functions. Theres NVidia Shield, Apple TV, or with a little setup a Raspberry Pi running Kodi.

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amongstthetrees 6 points 10 months ago

The UI is just AOSP android, simple and ugly (imo) as always. It's not unique in that either, most OEMs have a skin based on AOSP in some way.

As for the app support, I have had very little issues over the past year on GrapheneOS. Aside from some apps being exclusive to the play store (ie they don't host them elsewhere and Aurora doesn't have a copy), I have a pretty seamless experience. And yes, including banking apps.

Tap to pay doesn't work (they're upfront about that) but NFC is still fully features in my experience.

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amongstthetrees 6 points 2 years ago

On a secondhand or wiped burner Pixel too. The Crowbar CVE can’t be patched by an OS.

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amongstthetrees 5 points 2 years ago

This site's cookie banner and method of 'opting out' is atrocious. Additionally, "What is a hookless tire" shouldn't have been so late in the article ffs.

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amongstthetrees 5 points 2 years ago

Miniatures ≠ most of the 3d printing market. Minis may be fine but the rest of the 3d printing space will be at risk and covers a great deal more use cases.

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amongstthetrees 5 points 2 years ago

Meshtastic has the mesh capabilities that others have mentioned but what's more immediately important is the ability to direct message others (no need to send private messages to everyone in range) and the ability to share GPS coordinates which is absolutely helpful in an emergency.

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amongstthetrees 4 points 2 years ago

So mostly I try to get my music from Bandcamp, artists' websites, or iTunes. With these methods I don't have to correct any info through Kid3 and normally have the correct album art for Navidrome.

If they don't have an option to purchase their music I'll use soulseek or yt-dlp to download it. That's normally for obscure artists, music that can't be sold due to Copyrights, or sanctioned countries (for example Russian musicians).

I've found that self-hosting my music has helped me slow down my music consumption and be more picky about what I listen to. I've also found good quality applications such as Feishen (macOS), play:Sub (iOS), and Symfonium (Android).

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amongstthetrees 4 points 9 months ago

Got the think pad and used to have the socks, but no Arch. Fedora and Debian for me.

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amongstthetrees 4 points 2 years ago

Nicotine+ is a FOSS multi-platform gui for Soulseek and runs on Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.

Freyr is a CLI tool that can either built manually for Linux I believe or ran in Docker on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

yt-dlp is a CLI tool that has compiled binaries or can be installed through a package manager on Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows.

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amongstthetrees 3 points 2 years ago

Pour overs are very forgiving and will give a decent result if your new or just eyeballing measurements but also if you want it exactly like you like it you'll use a scale.

Fedora IMO is pretty forgiving and if I want my Fedora install exactly how I like, I'll follow the same steps as always when configuring and setting up.

Just like a pour over/chemex.

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amongstthetrees 3 points 2 years ago

Could you please not disparage an entire language and ethnic group? There's an entire grocery list of things you could insult Musk about, even while including Putin, to not bring the Russian language into it.

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amongstthetrees 3 points 2 years ago

Its a tongue in cheek CVE. Crowbar is literally a crowbar. Like.. beat the password or device access from you.

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