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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • The streaming was easy, just declared I wasn’t paying for it anymore lol. We still have a crappy version of Spotify for free because of another service (ISP or phone plan something like that), but it’s purely used as a backup.

    Jellyfin’s interface is a bit clunky as a music client in my experience. FinAmp looks cool but it’s still early on.

    Navidrome does smart playlist, crossfading, gapless, flac streaming, and flac to opus transcoding. Those are sorta my core requirements, and Navidrome + the clients we use handles them all with aplomb.

    And actually that’s another great feature I enjoy for Navidrome, there are dozens of excellent clients, so if one of them falls short for someone they can find one that they enjoy.

    As for the user playlist thing… I haven’t seen anything like that but maybe I’m misunderstanding.





  • Certainly!

    Jellyfin I use for video content. I find its music functions lackluster.

    Navidrome I use (and my family uses) for personal listening.

    Music around the house, like on one or more of my casting capable speakers / tvs I use Music Assistant. Also let’s me do automations easily, and doesn’t tie up an android phones media’s output. Struggled with earbuds while casting taking over audio for too long before deploying Music Assistant!



  • It’s old but fairly beefy. Most of the RAM is reserved for ZFS reads, but in reality theres tons of headroom.

    CPU: 2x E5-2630L v2

    Motherboard: Intel S2600CP

    RAM: 16x8GB DDR3 1333 ECC

    Disk:

    • 1x 500GB SSD OS
    • 1x 500GB SSD ZFS cache (L2ARC)
    • 45TB ZFS Mirror+Stripe pool (various sizes, 8 disks)

    I’ll probably be moving this to a cluster of mini computers whenever prices look right, just for power efficiency.

    Minus the storage the box cost me about $600, mostly in RAM. The CPUs were like $20 each, the mobo was about $150, etc


  • The general list:

    1. Immich
    2. Jellyfin
    3. Plex (deprecated but kept around for my plexpass using friends)
    4. Internet Radio (custom container)
    5. PBS kids downloader (custom container)
    6. Lidarr
    7. Sonarr
    8. Mylar
    9. Radar
    10. Prowlarr
    11. Open-Webui
    12. QBittorrent
    13. Sabnzbd
    14. Navidrome
    15. Synapse
    16. Element
    17. Forgejo
    18. Tdarr
    19. Calibre
    20. Calibre Web
    21. Tautulli
    22. Bazarr
    23. Syncthing
    24. LazyLibrarian
    25. Linkwarden
    26. Mealie
    27. GlueTun
    28. Kopia
    29. Home Assistant
    30. Music Assistant
    31. Blocky
    32. FoundryVTT
    33. Wireguard
    34. ArchiveTeam Warrior
    35. Traefik
    36. Docspell
    37. Birdcage (though I’m slowly replacing this with my own bird sound server)
    38. Frigate
    39. FreshRSS
    40. Ntfy
    41. Samba
    42. SearxNG
    43. CouchDB for Obsidian Self-Hosted LiveSync

    With all the supporting services:

    Server:
     Containers: 76
      Running: 74
      Paused: 0
      Stopped: 2
     Images: 92
    


  • You think they did a good job of building a platform and communicating a message? Energizing their base? Pushing back against the GOP’s instanity rather than normalizing it? They didn’t even have a competitive candidate until the 11th hour for fucks sake.

    I actually liked Kamala. And I thought Joe did a good job of appointing and trusting competent people in general during his tenure and letting things normalize. But really, they ran a piss poor election and shouldn’t have let Biden ever claim candidacy for re-election.


  • 100% agreed on this in the current state. But the new DNC chair is part of a more progressive and assertive variety of Democrats (DFL) from my home state in MN. Similar factions have been forming a growing coalition in the DNC and got him elected, and have started the process to unseat the existing ragdoll leadership.

    I’m not saying we’re converting the DNC to a party of Democratic Socialists, but the progressive factions are working together (finally) and capitalizing on the DNC’s failings.

    We can only hope they’re successful.


  • For those uncertain, it means that suddenly Johnson isn’t so sure he has the votes to pass his agenda, and now the Republican party will meet behind closed doors to negotiate or intimidate members try to bring the “rogue votes” to heel.

    I predict more and more votes in both the House and Senate are going to go this way as the rats begin to flee the MAGA sinking ship. As ashamed as Democrats should be of their performance and platform last election, Trump and Congress (and DOGE) have already done some deeply unpopular things. And I think threatening social security might be the straw (or in this case, the thermonuclear device) that breaks the camel’s back.

    The swing voters and non-voters, surprise surprise, it seems voted in ignorance of MAGA’s very clear plans to destroy as much of America’s institutions as possible. Institutions relied upon disproportionately by the Republican base and the ignorant swing voters. In my humble opinion, main stream media and social media needs a lot of the blame here for sane-washing last election cycle.

    Now we get to see if the DNC leadership sees this as a natural pendulum swing and sits back and continues to learn nothing, or if the growing discontent in the party will continue to gain steam and the leadership continues to get pressure to change.

    Hopefully the progressive element in the party continues their momentum. Getting the DNC chair and Schumer’s recent blowback are glimmers of hope.

    Much as I would love a true progressive party, in the current system I think we have to settle for a democratic party acting as a coalition of anti-Republican/MAGA factions until we can fix our fptp voting system.