bitwolf

You may want to use -n to skip the newline and the end.

You may also want to single quote the text to negate expansion when doing the opposite and encoding the text.

echo -n 'my text' | base64

To eliminate another subscription I imagine.

A little? You can theme Gtk apps to match, but it’s not pixel perfect even with the stock theme.

Its always slightly off on padding and margins, but the overall outcome looks more uniform

Agreed completely.

KDE just feels better and more performant. Even if GNOME Shell uses less memory in its own, it doesnt always feel good to use.

However GNOME Shell and Adwaita are beautiful, consistent, and designed through human feedback. KDE is fragmented, too nested, and has so many conflicting designs.

Its not possible to make KDE feel exactly like GNOME Shell but I wish I could.

Yes most native applications are responsive and adapt to mobile.

GTK has it built into it’s widgets. But some third party apps on GTK/QT may not adapt.

The capability is there though.

Power consumption needs work also.

As for tap to pay, I’ve found I’ve used it a lot less after getting a mag safe wallet. It’s a good stopgap imo

IMO if you cannot get it in a format that’s appropriate it’s warranted.

For example ebooks that only come with drm so you can’t add it as an epub to your ereader.

I usually buy the book and then acquire the epub

I think the experience you were lead on to was the open source driver built into the kernel.

With that the moving parts are the kernel, and the amd-gpu-firmware. The open source setup is much more reliable, and if a bug ever arises, it tends to get fixed quickly. You update, and it’s gone.

Using the proprietary driver is difficult with regardless of vendor.

Not really, I was trying our naivdrome as I’m phasing out Plex and liked it so much I kept it.

Its impressive how light navidrome is and it scans a lot faster since its only music and not my movies too.

That said I don’t use Navidromes ui I use Synfonium as a client.

Yeah that’s what I’m doing. Its been great

Something that’s always given me trouble is sharing my music.

If I hear a cool song and want to send it to a friend I have to go to YouTube.

And many of my friends send me Spotify tracks. The share feature of Navidrome has been incredible for this.

I can send them a link and have a listen party with them and then erase the link when were done.

It’d be nice to have this feature in more of the self hosted apps.

Maybe this

Although it looks like the nasty docker bug link in that thread is fixed.

So maybe ro mounts can mitigate the problem.

A podman quadlet would be a great way to manage the Immich container.

Keep in mind your system will already have the plumbing for podman. So it’s not as bad if you’re averse to using docker.

It’d be managed as a systemd unit. IMO its a better method than flatpak.

I use Fedora its a good reliable in between distro if you like fast updates but want tested updates.

I just got Authentik / Traefik going for Navidrome, Jellyfin is next.

Does it play well for the mobile applications? If you use them?

Is putting it behind an Oauth2 proxy and running the server in a rootless container enough?

What I am hoping is that I can generate an access key auth in Authelia. Synfonium supports accessKey as an alternative to basic auth for subsonic.

Maybe you could try that with caddy-security?

Synfonium is closed source, but you can use the free trial to test, and buy it outside of Google Play (which is the only reason I haven’t dropped it earlier on my quest to de-Google)

Plex + Synfonium

Also

Navidrome + Synfonium / Tempo

I’m trying out different things in prep to switch to navidrome. I’m impressed how lightweight it is and it hasnt required much work to fix up the library tags as most were already minimally tagged.

One I figure out a secure way to expose it behind auth I’ll be able to switch over.

Its been a heck of a time trying to get forwardAuth working with Zitadel so I’m trying out Authelia

To be frank it’s not Amazon’s problem.

Its the content publishers problem.

And Amazon isn’t enabling this, they’re just making an Android device.

The users are putting software onto the device.

This article sets a dangerous precedent. That if Amazon doesn’t lock the firestick down like Apple that they’re enabling piracy.

Its not Googles nor Microsoft’s responsibilities either. They helped, probably solely for money, but they’re not obligated to continue to update their DRM.

This article should have framed how DRM repeatedly hasn’t worked.

Done.

I feel that it may be helpful to try to capture the motivation for each type of service.

For example. The reasons I host a media server are different than the reasons I host a photo backup solution.

Thank you for doing this research. I dream of the day that self hosting becomes as easy as spinning up a consumer router.