Hi all i am new to self hosting, I have everything just about set up. I am on linux server (docker host). I am good with movies/tv VPN Jellyfin etc. For music I have llidar and slskd setup and both running. I have tinkered Wireguard and Finamp and had it working.

So i have these 2 problem/s I could do with some advice/opinions on if you guys would be lovely enough to help.

1. I am currently using SLSKD more as I like partial albums. I then do a manual import via Wanted...this is cumbersome as i have to then add the artist etc in lidar, then go import the tunes.

2. I have a ton of old spotify playlists for example 80s etc. I would like to be able to bring them in and automate it somehow rather than finding them one song at a time.

I hate AI but its somewhat helpful in these situations. It suggested adding soulmate (docker) that has been slightly problematic, i also saw tubifarry and another plugin.

What are your suggestions of a route to take for my problems...should i faff about further with soulmate or another option? Nice to meet you all 🙂

So one thing I've done to help me find more things to self host or do is think like a prepper. Like...what if my ISP goes out? How can I remotely control my homelab or even trigger Home Assistant events if my ISP is out? I had no idea how to solve this until about 6 months ago when I discovered Meshtastic.

For anyone who doesn't know: Meshtastic is basically an open-source, public mesh-network. You just buy a cheap ESP32 device, flash it with Meshtastic (They have a SUPER easy web-flasher so you don't need to be super technical to do it), and connect to it via Bluetooth with your phone and you're good to go! Then you can send messages to other nodes around you and have fully off-grid communications!

Well, while Meshtastic supports MQTT, that does require at least one end of the connection to have internet access. I wanted a way to SSH into my servers and diagnose or fix things without needing to rely on my ISP at all. Or even trigger things in Home Assistant without having access to any ISP. So, that naturally gave way to the idea of MeshExec.

MeshExec is a little binary that attaches to your serially-connected Meshtastic node, and looks for messages in a specified private channel for aliases to execute. Then it will execute whatever commands you specify and automatically chunk them and send them back through the mesh in a staggered fashion. This chunking is done to both fit inside the max message size that Meshtastic supports, and so that the mesh is not overwhelmed with messages and drops them.

You define the aliases, the shell used to execute the commands, etc. So you can basically use it to do whatever you want over the mesh! I've set up a handful of aliases to do simple diagnostics on my homelab servers. Things like restarting docker containers, checking the top 3 processes consuming the most memory, etc.

I decided to use aliases because I figured direct shell access to a server is SUPER dangerous, especially if you accidentally attach the daemon to a public channel.

No idea if this will be useful to anyone else, but I made it as easy to use as possible if anyone does want to use it. Here's the link to the repo if anyone wants to give it a go.

I just wanted to share how I've managed to find a way to further reduce my reliance on big corporations and my love for open-source software!

If anyone decides to give this a try, I'd love to know your thoughts or answer any questions you have!

I followed the written tutorial in the settings but I still don’t know if there’s Wapuro Romaji and often when I try to test the layout it snaps back to English or doesn’t seem to write any different from the english keyboard and if everything does work it seems to delegate individual Kana to keys & I’m not very comfortable with that way of typing.

Hey all.

I saw that there's a free game on Steam today. Looks indie and cute. Here's the link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1511950/Magellania/

Hola gente bonita, Quiero compartirles esta iniciativa de ayudar a la traducción de la aplicación web de Piefed este fin de semana, ¡durante el Hackaton! https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/1025926/idea-hackathon-for-the-fediverse-the-7-8-febuary#replies

Si esto les resulta interesante, pueden seguir este enlace https://translate.piefed.social/projects/piefed/main-web-app/es/ para contribuir al proyecto de traducción, no se requiere hacer una cuenta para hacer sugerencias. (ojo, la traducción es al español latinoamericano)

https://chat.piefed.social/ Este es el chat general traductores. Sería genial tener algunos contribuyentes hispanohablantes por ahí!

¡saludos!

I'm planning to build several WiFi connected devices for home automation: an AC remote control and air quality sensors. These devices would send data and be controlled through a local server. I'm considering two approaches: running custom software on a server PC (hardware to be determined) or integrating with Home Assistant's protocols and purchasing their hardware. Would using Home Assistant be excessive for this use case?

Venice is being invaded by cannibalistic jellyfish from the Atlantic that are threatening the delicate balance of the lagoon's ecosystem.

I don't know if the game will ever go anywhere or fade into vaporware hell, but even if that's the case, the trailer's too fun not to share.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4193010/Hypernet_Explorer/

Hypernet Explorer is an immersive-sim roguelike set in a weird and alternate 2001, where the Y2K bug shattered reality and erased most modern technology, that is slowly being rebuilt using magic and the occult.
Form a party to explore a 92 floor skyscraper that barely holds the cosmos together or just get lost in alternate activities; manage a cursed pizza place, become a certified tarot reader, date yourself from another plane of existence, start your own space program, get filthy rich by manipulating the soul market and... go bowling with your beloved cousin.
Every boundary that once separated religion, science, finance and magic is now obsolete so... do what thou wilt.

Honestly, I could use some of this shit into a TTRPG campaign, it's just too good.

Names are power...and money is power! And it happens that Mario Draghi's name is written over a billion times on 14.5 billion euro banknotes in pre-printing phase. This gives hypercapitalists who amassed huge amounts of euros huge arcane and political powers.

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

The popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost yet another domain name. The site's .pm domain was taken offline after international pressure on intermediaries continued to mount. That initially left the .li domain as the only option, but a Greenland-based backup was swiftly added.

The Commission's investigation preliminarily indicates that TikTok did not adequately assess how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults.