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I knew absolutely nothing about this subject before the beginning of the year and now I have a server setup with proxmox an arr stack and both Plex and jellyfin running and it is all thanks to TechHut videos and guides.

He is the only person that seemed to explain things in a way that made sense for me as someone who had barely any Linux experience. The trash guides that everyone recommends I just couldn't make much sense of.

So another vote for tech hut from me.

Yeh sorry for the little rant there, not aimed at you personally, just being reminded of it pissed me off a new xD

I haven't look at it in a while as I was pissed off that it went down the way it did. Although I personally didn't contact indiegogo many people from the backers within the comments did so and indiegogo refused to do anything about it. So they are complicit in this theft too so by extension I wouldn't advise anyone to use their "service" either.

I did have a look at the campaign because of this comment and nothing has changed, lots of people still complaining about planet computers and indiegogo so it doesnt look like anyone got anywhere in terms of getting their money back.

Do NOT give these fucking cunts any fucking money. I was a backer for this phone on indiegogo.

They are liars when they eventually did communicate any updates during the project. They produced around 2000 units, most of which were sent to people who backed the project years after the first backers on indiegogo because they backed on a different platform.

Ultimately they just shut down the kickstarter giving no actual details. They stole thousands of peoples money through that. They made a product with the money people contributed to back the project and then just shuttered the project so they wouldn't need to deliver a device to these backers.

I didn't realise they were now trying to sell them again but the units that did get shipped were massively out of date and barely worked as it is.

If you want a keyboard on a phone Unihertz are about your only option right now.

Fuck planet computers, thieving fucking cunts

Yeh I guess, if you don't like listening to music then sure it is tedious.

There are more ways to listen and discover music than ever before. In the past you had mainly radio or word of mouth and even then your exposure was extremely narrow based on the radio stations tastes. You now have so many other avenues for exploration and discovery.

Basically you want to be handed a list of stuff you are already going to like with no effort on your part, that isn't really tedium, more laziness on your part.

Although not exactly the same media I had the same feelings with public vs private trackers in the past when looking for audiobooks. I wasn't convinces that a private trackers would be any better.

Boy was I wrong, MAM was like a revelation to me and I have found everything I have wanted quickly and easily since.

I dont know how private trackers compare from movies / shows etc but if it is anything like my experience with MAM they are going to be significantly better than public.

I do agree to some degree but the problem here is that you are relying too much on just "the algorithm" to serve you up new and interesting stuff. Whilst some times maybe it comes in clutch for the most part, like you say, it is trash.

You need to go out and put in a little bit of work listening to things in other places, following rabbit holes based common denominators or listening to DJ mixes / radio shows, hearing a song you like then going on a mission to find out what it was.

You say it is tedious but you have so many options these days to explore if you just put in a little effort. It used to be tedious as fuck buying a CD for £15 based on a cover or one song you heard on the radio only to find the majority of the music you hate and it was a waste of money!

I do see what you are saying but your methods just need to evolve with time, also as you have gotten older in theory you should have got to know yourself better in terms of what you do and don't like which should help streamline finding things.

The claim of sameness and that first article are moot points really because you are referring solely to popular music which is a small percentage of the overall music. Pop music has always been a bit boring and same-y by design, it is appealing to the broadest audience possible usually but your original response claimed music in general to not be interesting. Pop music ≠ all music.

In terms of finding new things then you need to put in some effort if you don't want to just rely on an algorithm.

Bandcamp have genre tags to explore, you can follow tags as well as artists and it will make recommendations based on what you are following everyday. They will also "spotlight" artists and such on a main front page that isn't affected by your followers which can help with discovering something some what removed from your current listening.

SoundCloud has similar genre tags but also lots of DJ shows of many different kinds. Listen through shows, take note of the tracks you like and then look up that artist, look at "similar artists", look for the record label that released something you like and explore their back catalogue.

Look on store fronts at their charts based on sales. Places like beatport or Juno etc often have top 10, 50, 100 within genres for the week or month or year. Have a scroll through them, have a listen. Again if you find something you like then go down the rabbit hole, try their other stuff out, look for artists the collabed with or would play shows with them etc etc.

Communities are everywhere no matter what social media you choose you can usually find music based discussion or sharing on such a granular level with specific sub genres and more obscure stuff often coming to the surface. There aren't many on Lemmy here yet that are super active but they are growing. If you love a particular genre then start a community here and by extension that'll help motivate you to find new things to post and start growing that community here.

Ultimately I don't think it is harder to find music it is just that the methods have changed as time goes on.

Don't write off all "modern music", you'll be missing out for sure :)

It still is, that problem lies with you and an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.

It is OK to like a specific era and for that to be your favourite but to claim that modern music isn't interesting is just a shitty take. You just don't personally like it.

This year has been my first foray into self hosting in general. I have been doing a lot of learning and have a long way to go but have got to the point where I have proxmox running with a few VMs running an arr stack, a jellyfin server and a Plex server.

I'm just super happy to get everything running and now need to fine tune stuff. Currently trying to figure out why the Plex server is down half the time externally.

I'm having a lot of fun!

I used connect for nearly 2 years, I like the way it looks and operated and was fairly happy, however after an update this week that introduced a shit load more bugs and didn't really fix any of the outstanding ones I finally got sick of it.

So this week I have been using Voyager all week, think I'm gonna jump around a few different ones and try and find a new place to stay.

"Heavily integrated into eBay" except it isnt any more.

Firstly the article is a year and a half old but although you can still use PayPal on eBay to say it is heavily integrated is bullshit. EBay started moving away from PayPal years ago and at this point have integrated their own systems linking to your bank account to take the place of what they used to use PayPal for.