tldr: accidentally named two devices the same thing. start a remote stream from emby/jellyfin app and it starts on both devices! now i can sell the HDMI matrix?

i fucks with emby/jellyfin. i enjoy Kodi as my front end, it works with my preferred remote, and the json library is robust.

after finding out about the Arctic Zephyr reloaded skin, i have been pimping the GUI to be the absolute perfect skin for my libraries, customizing everything to the tiniest degree, omg i am in love. I'm not quite done yet but once it is, I'd put money on it going toe to toe with any of the proprietary bullshit people suffer through to watch video content these days. (apple tv or roku versions of everyone's favorite corpo apps, even Android TV kinda sucks. )

sorry, I've gotten off track.

anyways, after the days work, i make a backup with the addon, sling it to the other Kodi box (an old chromebook out of the dumpster) and hit restore without realizing i still had the box checked to restore the entire config)

so now i unknowingly have two Kodi's reporting to emby as the same machine. no errors popped up anywhere.

started a movie in the living room with no subtitles. so i hop into the emby app on my phone to get that handled. stop the and restart the movie directly from the emby app, when i see the bedroom lights start their "movie starts after 8pm on weekdays" scene. whoa?

turn on the tv in the room and it's playing the same thing!

about 30 minutes later it ended up getting enough out of sync to notice the audio, but i had already set it up for audio from snapcast (home assistant automation that sets Kodi to output the audio 1.25 seconds ahead and routes it to RCA out for house audio) so i only noticed cause IM AN AV NERD.

i wonder if this info Is enough to get a legit plugin for this going?

sorry for the rant! hope everyone's day is chill!

I'm running a <cough, cough> years old instance of Volumio 2 on a Raspberry Pi 3

The security of this is terrible, but it sits in my bedroom with a local USB drive full of music and works absolutely fine with a Nanosound DAC audio preamp hat / board which makes it sound lovely... which I don't want to change (it handles a remote control with power on / off)

When Volumio 3 came along, I wasn't impressed, didn't see the software improving much... it was starting to be more of a pull towards their subscriptions

So, I've left it alone and feel like it might be worth a revisit.

So, how's Volumio 4? Or... should I consider another FOSS product ( has to work with the same hardware).

Hello! I'm new to self hosting and networking stuff. I do use only Linux and have experience with Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and have settled with Fedora and Bazzite on KDE on the home computers/laptops.

I got a GMKtec NucBox G9 Mini PC Intel® Twin Lake N150 recently and wireless keyboard with touchpad, installed Fedora Kiinoite on it and have so far only added VacuumTube. I don't have much experience with the terminal and I'm not sure what step to do next or how.

What I want to do is set up an Arrstack, and I know I need to put Docker and maybe Portainer? I have no experience with Docker though. I also want to put some basic things I and others can access remotely like a shopping list program, photo backups, period tracker, and DnD software. But I'm very afraid of exposing the server to the internet and it being hacked or such. I know there's something called Tailscale but I'm not sure if that's what I need. And I don't know what order I'm supposed to put any of this.

I've tried searching the internet for guides but haven't really found anything except one that's for Yunohost and it's not really self hosting because they set it up on a cloud. All advice is appreciated. Thank you!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/politicalcompassmemes/p/1957561/but-what-about-when-pcm-i-don-t-like

In an industry that is facing wave after wave of layoffs, Greg Foertsch details how keeping the XCOM team together made for a better sequel.

I wake up on a Monday and I get a horse-girl based WTF.

Built an email client that reads raw MIME emails directly from AWS S3 buckets. If you route inbound email via AWS SES to S3, this is the client for you.

Features:

• Native S3 support (browse emails directly from your bucket)
• IMAP + Gmail OAuth for regular email too
• Built with Flutter (not Electron) — real native performance
• Keyboard-driven: j/k navigation, r=reply, c=compose
• Cross-platform: Linux, Windows, Android
• Free and open source

Downloads on the landing page.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/37854087

Lemmy struggles with properly displaying the Castopod shownotes. I've filed a bug report here.

Relaying show notes here...

Why Offline & Local-First

• Rising Cost of Consumer Technology
• Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting
• Re-purposing older machines into functional use!

(00:11)

Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction

(00:50)

Sponsor Ameridroid

• LINUXPREPPER code

(01:14)

Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org

(01:32)

Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups

• Show notes listed there as well

(02:21)

Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is?

(04:38)

KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years

(08:30)

Unbound, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers

(09:30)

Quad9 - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google

(09:55)

Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters

(12:15)

Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc.

(13:04)

Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments

(13:55)

Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively

(15:20)

Challenges You Can Try at Home!

(15:59)

Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum

(17:00)

Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users!

• Forum post for registered users

(17:36)

100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware

(19:11)

HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium

(19:29)

Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing

(20:00)

mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https

(22:35)

Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show

(23:36)

How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org

(24:05)

Discord and bridged Matrix Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others!

(24:55)

LFNW Schedule, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th

(25:11)

AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm!

(26:17)

Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!

​We have Stremio for movies and TV, which works flawlessly by pulling from different sources (add-ons) including torrents into one clean UI. But when it comes to music, the options are either paying for Spotify/Tidal or dealing with clunky, manual setups.

I’ve seen apps like ViMusic or Innertune, but they are mostly just YouTube Music frontends. Soulseek is a p2p service and the usability is horrible.
I'm talking about a true, modular aggregator. That uses torrents and lossless databases.

tinyfeed is a CLI tool that generate a webpage from a collection of feeds. It's dead simple, no database, no config file, just a CLI and some HTML

This release continue the process of refining tinyfeed with small new features, never any breaking changes and better documentation!

On the menue today :

• Better pagination: new --order-by flag to easily customize feed item ordering by publication date, update date, feed name and author.
• OPML Support: added a built-in OPML template to export you feed collection.
• UX Improvements: refined warning message and usage formulations for better clarity.
• New Guides: expanded the documentation site with new, dedicated pages for Configuration (lot's of examples!) and OPML export.

Background:

Typically when I'm trying something new on Linux, I search for an online guide that doesn't assume I'm already an expert and looks like it should be easy enough for a pleb like myself to follow. Whatever it is I'm trying to do, it usually takes me multiple tries to get it right. Sometimes, when I'm venturing into new territory, I'll derp around in a VM so I can take snapshots and then revert to the last good snapshot when something inevitably goes wrong. This approach works well for me most of the time.

But every now and then, I don't want to use a VM, I want to use a spare laptop that I have lying around, "bare metal" if you will. It just feels more... authentic? My hesitation w/ practicing on spare laptops is that when I mess it up, the only way I know how to start over with a clean slate is to reinstall the OS and try again. This approach is not ideal b/c I mess up a lot - this is a fact of my life - and reinstalling the OS after every mistake takes a lot of time, to the point that I just stop persuing whatever project I was working on.

Question:

Is this a good use case for btrfs? How easy is it for a pleb like myself to take snapshots and then roll back to the previous state after jacking up a config file in /home or /etc or something?

Dans ce nouvel édito, je réagis sur une récente vidéo publiée par le quotidien français "Le Monde", qui parle de l'impact de l'IA générative sur le streaming. Et je serais tenter de dire "qu'ils s'entretuent, bon débarras!"

La vidéo du "Monde" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3d8wBOLS2c

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Today’s game is Halo. Specifically Halo 2. I originally had Ghost of Tsushima planned but for whatever reason my Bash script didn’t upload the pictures. Luckily I actually took these during an experiment with ReShade and Gamescope to take pictures that mimicked a DLSR. These are the “unedited” versions. Though for anyone curious this is the edited version of the other ones.

Speaking of Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer, this is the first major brush we’ve had. One of our players hasn’t been able to play it due to crashing for some reason. Recently he upgraded though and we’re good. Now I can finally offer my opinion on this.

This isn’t specific to Halo 2 but i really like how CTF doesn’t have a timer in the older games. It really lets you live in the level and feels like it’s almost its own space. It can drag out for a while and I love that.

What is specific to halo 2 is the vehicle selection for bloodline. Hornets are here now so a teammate can swoop in, grab you, airdrop you in and pick you up again. Is it broken? Probably. Fun as hell? Definitely. It made me feel like a spec-ops or something as I dropped in, took the flag and took off.

Ultimately this match lasted around 40 minutes of us just fucking around and making peace and war and everything in between. Now that this is really an option it makes me want to look at forge game modes. See what the community has come up with. That’s more of a tomorrow thing though I think.

WireGuard is blocked by DPI in 10+ countries now. AmneziaWG 2.0 is a fork that makes the traffic look like random noise - DPI can't tell it apart from normal UDP. Same crypto under the hood, negligible speed overhead.

I wrote an installer that handles the whole setup in one command on a clean Ubuntu/Debian VPS - kernel module, firewall, hardening, client configs with QR codes. Pure bash, no dependencies, runs on any $3/month box. MIT license.

Been running it from Russia where stock WireGuard stopped working mid-2025.

If there's a better translation, lmk and I'll update it!

I’ve spent years championing Linux as the only escape from Big Tech, but I’m starting to get twitchy.

While we’re distracted by the Steam Deck making Linux "mainstream," the corporate players and politicians are busy building a digital cage. Between California’s AB-1043 mandates and Microsoft’s "Face Check" infrastructure, I’m worried we’re heading for a hard schism: "Sanitised Linux" vs the "Free Rebel" distros.

If the compliant, age-gated version becomes the industry standard, where does that leave the rest of us? Digital exile?

I’ve put some thoughts together on why the "Golden Cage" is closing in and why education, not mandates, is the only real fix.