Getting6409

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Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

You might check out wiim stuff. They seem to be the darling of budget streaming for the moment.

Sharing music collection easily? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There have been a few mentions of Navidrome. I find it works well for sharing at an album or even artist level. It can do playlists as well. But you must explicitly choose what to share, at which point it's generates a unique URL and will generate a web player and zip if you enable the option to download.

You can, of course, just make user accounts and distribute credentials.

If you're needing to offer browsable folders to easily copy, basically a filesystem-like experience, it's probably not the best tool.

Edit: one more thing to point out is that navidrome, jellyfin, and airsonic all construct music libraries differently. Navidrome is using tags, jellyfin uses file names, airsonic uses directory structure. Not sure about Plex.

Astrology Rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Replacing CD Collection in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

To add to this, there's even the capacity to add usb dacs if the underlying distribution supports it. Picoreplayer was my introduction to these tools and I'm pretty sure it's my final destination. Can't recommend it enough if they have the time and curiosity to get it set up.

I would also add that if the person OP is asking on behalf of is not so inclined to get into the technical parts and okay with possibly throwing money at the project, volumio is there. I tried this first and appreciated it for what it was, but I wanted features behind the pay wall which are readily available for free with pCP.

A RULE SPY'S IN THE BASE?! in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I ran into this exactly, but it turned out to be device compatibility. I could never find it in the play store on the (x86) Chromebook, while it always showed up as you'd expect on the arm android.

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks, I was wondering why the s3 prefixes were used. If my memory serves, b2 is especially better on the billing rates for retrieval, so a better choice if large disaster recovery is on your mind.

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Backblaze B2, which I'm pretty sure is a repackaged S3 provider, or you can just skip them and go directly to AWS S3; though, both aren't drag and drop user friendly like onedrive or gdrive. But both work well if you invest a little time with something like rclone.

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Gateron North Pole V2 and New V2 thoughts (lemm.ee)
 

I wanted to share my experience with these switches since I wasn't seeing much about them, especially for the latest revision, the "New V2". There's some helpful videos on yt that explain what's up with the versions and the terrible naming. Short version is the V2 came out with dampening at the bottom of the switch, this was not well received, so then came the New V2 with that dampening removed.

I wound up test driving both the V2 and the New V2 and found them both to be very pleasing switches. In fact, I was pretty torn between the two and in the end I got a full set of both versions. Side by side the auditory difference isn't night and day. They're both on the bassy, or thick end of the spectrum, and even the non-dampened New V2 isn't a particularly distracting switch. I've seen it mentioned before that the V2 isn't really a silent switch, but it's pretty close to being one. I definitely found this to be the case, and it is why I went ahead and got a full set for a future office setup. They are definitely quiet enough to not raise much, if any attention and the feel is almost as good as the New V2.

The feel, or i guess more specifically the liquidy travel and lack of wobble is what won me over with both switches. I tried two other linear switches besides the North Poles, and the Gaterons were the most tight feeling by a wide margin. They pretty much killed the Gazzew Boba Gum and LT for me since the wobble on the Gazzews was crazy jiggly by comparison.

In the end the New V2 was the winner. The harder bottom out just felt a tad better and I found myself coming back to them the most. If you're thinking about the New V2 I can't recommend them enough. No scratchiness, virtually no wobble, and a thick sound that doesn't distract unless you're really banging away at them. If you're looking for a silent linear, the V2 is definitely worth a try. For me, they are on standby for this exact reason. I often hear the V2 bottom out described as "gummy." I feel like that's a bit of a stretch. If you were tapping a hard surface with a pen, and then slipped a piece of fabric on the striking surface, that's the feel of the dampening.

Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023: A paper nautilus takes a ride on a drifting wooden stick, by Jialing Cai, Philippines in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Even weirder, these are not nautilus at all, they're octopus. Seeing the nautilus "shell" with suckers did not compute. Confusing overlap in naming.

Star Trek TNG Season 2 Episode 9 The Measure Of A Man in c/startrek@startrek.website
[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Excellent episode for sure. This one comes up in philosophy and legal circles. Legal eagle guy gives at very brief analysis, comparing the procedures used there against actual military courts. It's nothing in depth, but still fun seeing analysis from a legal mind. We watched the arguments portions (on VHS) in philosophy 101 at my university. The professor felt it was a great way to illustrate Descartes' dualism ideas.