BBSes are back!

That is a lovely setup. I’m gonna drop that into my bash_aliases so much more elegant than me adding the alias for each server.

I do have the servers in ~/.ssh/config. I just got tired of typing ssh server and wanted the be able to just type server to ssh in.

Hahaha. Fucking autocorrect. Git log.

alias gl='git log'
alias server-name-here='ssh server-name-here'

I have a bunch of the server aliases. I use those and gl the most.

If you do go with nextcloud, use the docker AIO (all in one) setup. It’s the officially supported method and it’s worked really well for me.

I don’t use OMV, but I have a nas server I built and here is my .02

• set up an smb share in OMV for windows. Mounting that in windows should be trivial (don’t hold me. Haven’t used windows in years now, but last I used win10 smb was super easy to mount)
• look into docker on OMV for deploying stuff. I run docker on my NAS and host a bunch of stuff including:
  • jellyfin for all the rips of my DVDs
  • navidrome for all the rips of my CDs
  • nextcloud to replace google stuff
  • radicale for my calendars
  • Joplin server for my notes
  • mealie for recipes
  • more stuff I can’t think of right now
• with docker, if you want a GUI for creating, managing and interacting with your stuff, look at Dockge and Portainer

Edit: added more stuff

I’ll give ultrasonic a try. Thank you.

🤜🤛

Have you had problems on android with tempo not continuing playback?

I also run navidrome, and have tried tempo, substreamer, and another client I can’t think of, and any of the clients that stream keep stopping playback after one song when the screen is locked.

I’ve given the client all the permissions for running in the background and using battery that I can and no matter what I do, it’ll just stop after one song.

I’m on a pixel 7a with gOS.

For now I’ve settled on Poweramp with tla selection of the music on my phone since I can’t fit it all in storage. Its been really frustrating.

Happy to help!

Awesome! Glad it worked. I’m no expert regarding the battery, but it should be okay. Lots of people use laptops as servers with them plugged in all the time. Just keep an eye on it and if you see any signs of swelling or excessive heat, pull and/or replace the battery.

Goid luck!!

That’s the process I’ve used when switching machines for seeding, and it works great, just takes time for it to recheck all the files.

On the Mac, open qbittorrent, select all torrents in the client, and export them as torrent files or magnets, whichever you prefer.

Copy all the torrent/magnet files to a thumb drive or something and copy them to the elementary laptop.

On the elementary laptop, start without an internet connection. Connect the external drive with all the downloaded files, mount it if elementary doesn’t auto mount it, and note the path.

Open qbittorrent.

Set the default save path in qbittorrent to the path of the mounted drive with all of your downloaded files.

If you want to do it in bulk, now add all the torrent files to QBittorrent. You may have to verify the file location for the torrents to make sure it sees the files on the drive.

Once you’re certain all the loaded torrents are pointing to the save path for the files, you can close qbittorrent, connect the laptop to the internet, and relaunch qbittorrent.

It should verify all the files it finds for the torrents, which can take some time if you have a lot of torrents, and once verified it’ll automatically start seeding

For me it’s Perl’s rename, which of course cones in a variety of package names depending on the distro you use. In trying to find a link, I landed on this stack exchange answer that gives a great overview of how the tool works and the different packages available on different distros.

I have to bulk rename files every day, and using regex and the other features of Perl’s rename makes it so much easier to do.

Ytdlp works with Spotify too iirc, and there are Spotify downloaders out there too.

Let’s hope it sticks when Microsoft backs up the money truck.

I’d encourage learning. The more you understand the better you can control your data and maintain your services. You don’t need to be an expert but I’d encourage working towards relying less on gpt.

wg-easy is what you want

DOWN:

I’m currently fighting with my OliveTin config file. I added a simple new config for a button action and ylthe whole thing just shit the bed. Now OliveTin won’t load at all. Even after removing the new config. Stupid yaml.

UP:

After reading the Jellyfin docs and their Hardware Encoder Quality section which states

Apple ≥ Intel ≥ Nvidia >>> AMD*

I decided to spin up a test server on the m1 mini that’s been sitting unused in my basement for a couple of months now to see if I can get better performance out of jellyfin on the m1 vs where it’s running currently, which is on an i7 Intel that’s going on 10ish years old now.

I also spun up baserow and directus containers to see which one I want to use for my database needs.