You’re correct. I just noticed I have a 50% voucher for one app so used that and some Google Rewards credits so it’s cost me nothing really. Thanks!

Damn. That Symphonium seems like a good app. I have Jellyfin but only a few albums to try it out. I used Finamp before which is basic and works ok but this app has way more features. The downside is it’s not free. I don’t mind paying for something but I notice my free trial will finish way before I get a chance to upload new media and give it a proper chance.

Download Firefox portable

That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time. I thought it died due to it being a privacy nightmare or something. There was some controversy at least.

Same here. Many providers turned off 3G so I either see 4G or 2G. 2G is so slow it may as well not exist.

It really doesn’t. It’s down to the developer. I would say that easily 75% app I use wanted me to set them up again.

Windows is fine for me. I work with it all day long too. But yeah Windows is just another enshitification product.

In that case I’ll let you off!
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No AC in homes here in the UK… cause the weather is dank. We do get some sun but we can go pretty much the whole of the winter with seeing none and it’s depressing. So yeah idolising the sun is common here. The first time getting the sun on your back feels amazing. We’re currently getting good weather this week but it’s starting off at -2 and warming up to around 10 Celsius. That’s nice weather for us this time of year.

Roll on summer because the past two have been really shit.

If they have a security key then fuck it, they can use ‘password’ as a password 😀

25 passkey limit on my Yubikey. I have to buy a new one, with the exact same hardware, just to get the latest firmware that allows 100 passkeys. No thanks.

And how many sites support Yubikeys/Security Keys? Not many. I doubt we’ll see more either now with Passkeys becoming more prominent.

I have two Yubikeys and other than securing my password manager vault they are rarely used elsewhere.

Indeed. Why so many recommend them I have no idea.

Honestly, if you have a password manager that supports security keys then buy two cheap keys (one for backup) like the Thetis FIDO U2F Security Key and use those to secure your password vault. For everything else just use TOTP and Passkeys stored in your vault.

I invested in Yubikeys and yes it was a waste.

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All my media is shared from a Raspberry Pi 4 with a HDD attached to it via NFS. Jellyfin runs as a container on a cheap Chinese mini pc I got off AliExpress. I’ve not had any issues over the network. It even transcodes on a share of the Pi as my SSD that has Jellyfin on is too small for larger movies.

I like Arch because I love minimalist stuff and love having the latest software available. However, I always had small niggles where my Linux experience would fail me and end up spending time trying to fix it. In the end I booted more into Windows to just avoid it. I wiped and installed Mint at the weekend as I wanted to spend less time tinkering and just using it instead. I’m happy with the decision so far.

Just to say. I recently jumped from Android and the iPhone didn’t just work like I remember they did. Two bugs I had were adding comments on Reddit using Firefox. The keyboard would come up but my text would be off screen so I couldn’t see what I was typing. This could be a Firefox bug but it was still very weird and not one I’d seen on Android.

One bug that used to get annoying is I’d unlock the phone and when going to type, the volume would be at max briefly before going back to the volume the phone was set at. This caught me out a few times in the middle of the night.

I couldn’t get on with iOS and felt that after not using it since the iPhone 4S that nothing had really improved. Also the lack of being able to use uBlock Origin on Firefox was awful. It’s been a while since I browsed the web without an adblocker and I really hated having to do something every day. Eventually I sold the 16 Pro I had and went back to my Pixel 8.

The one thing I remember being great about the iPhone was when you upgrade you restore the backup and the phone just works. With Android you typically have to go around and login to all the apps again. Again a developer issue but certainly easier on iOS.

I used Plex for a long time and was very tempted by their lifetime plan. I tried Jellyfin but at the time it just wasn’t a patch on Plex. I continued with Plex but always had that itch to get away from closed source. I eventually tried Jellyfin again and whilst it’s definitely not as feature rich as Plex, it does what I need from it which is a central store of media that any TV in my house can use. I’ve even given a few friends a login so they can watch content.

I do love that it’s completely self hosted. I run it behind Caddy so it has a Let’s Encrypt certificate. All run in a Docker container with the media from an NFS share from a Pi4 with an external HDD.

That said, I still have Plex running as I have one Samsung TV and there’s no official Jellyfin client for it. Yes there’s some long winded developer way to get one on but I just can’t be bothered.

PipePipe.

I use it for note taking at work. I like that I can add code into markdown. But yeah post notes and paste screenshots. Useful when I want to go over my old tech notes when I’ve fixed stuff. A personal knowledge base. The fact it’s markdown I could just upload this to somewhere like GitHub and it retains it’s formatting