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  • how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?

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  • Hmm no, I haven't had this issue. Tempo works fine for me, it's been mostly bug-free except for a few oversights:

    • search doesn't work offline
    • can't play AAC files
    • can't skip songs via my Pebble watch

    I'm (still) on a Pixel 3a, running LineageOS, in case that matters.

  • how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?

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  • I did use Feishin for a while, it's an excellent music player but unfortunately not a native program. I might switch back to it from Tauon though, as actually playing the whole song before going to the next is a pretty nice upgrade hehe

  • how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?

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  • It looks really good indeed, and I don't mind at all to pay for apps (I pay for FairEmail)... however it is very strange for me to add a nonfree app to the list I use every day... everything else is open source.

  • how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?

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  • I currently host Navidrome, which has an okay web player. On Android I use "Tempo" (though it is unmaintained) to connect to it, and on Linux I use Tauon (though it has very poor playback). I could not find a native Linux client that is not buggy unfortunately, so I'm also on the lookout for better solutions! I'm not familiar with the device you are talking about but every client I tried supports MPRIS, which are the regular media controls that can be used via the playerctl command, so you should be able to hook things up that way.

  • Escape Simulator drops the Linux build to focus on supporting Proton

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  • Ah, yes... if only. I've upgraded internally SLR 1.0 -> SLR 3.0 but we can't deploy it until a bug is fixed in the Steam client that causes, when we enable SLR 3, all Steam Decks to run the Linux build. Yes, Steam Decks run the Proton version, solely because the save file has different letter casing (yes I know it's so annoying haha). We've spent quite some time on this and there's no way to fix this without some folks losing their saves, and that is absolutely not an option. Soooo for now desktop Linux is stuck on runtime 1.0, and Steam Deck users are stuck on Proton. "fun" :/

  • Escape Simulator drops the Linux build to focus on supporting Proton

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  • At my studio we maintain a native Linux version with a custom game engine, and it indeed takes a lot of time. I don't consider Proton a viable option as we lost the ability to integrate with Linux-specific stuff such as Wayland APIs or better input, but I can definitely see the appeal of switching to Proton... if your team uses Windows. If you have some developers on Linux, you naturally get a Linux build (if using cross platform APIs ofc) and it's actually faster to cross-compile a Windows build every once in a while (skip the slow ntfs I/O) and ship that. But it requires getting more of the team on Linux :)

  • Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge

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  • Thank you for sharing! I will check it out.

  • Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address

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  • I started getting spam in German to an email address I gave to the town hall of my town. They use multiple domains to send it, but they all have the same link format that redirects to a fake AI-generated dating site. I've tried reporting some to the police, as well as the hosting providers, but haven't heard back at all. I'd like to delete the address, but it's the one town hall uses to reach me...

  • I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened

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  • Darn. I recall reading good articles from some of these publications in the past. Shame...

  • I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened

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  • This article reads like satire... it's sentence after sentence of "and I did it using one of the [best office chairs]" which is a link to some review by themselves. Every bit mentioned had an affiliate link and there wasn't an actual review of what the experience (software, setup, visual fidelity) is like??

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • Ouch, that sucks yeah. Guess I got lucky with the games my friends like to play. Only one is I guess Valorant, but I don't engage with that one anyways. Guess you're stuck on the dual boot until devs of these games start ticking the Proton support box :P

  • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

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  • What games keep you on Windows? Besides a few anticheat-enabled ones which choose not to support it, basically everything works fine. I game (and work in gamedev!) 100% on Linux.

  • AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

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  • The article is good, however I'd really appreciate having fedi-style content warnings on AI-generated images. I don't interact with mainstream social mediums so I generally do not see it, however in the thumbnail and contents of the article there are some quite disturbing images and videos that I'd have chosen not to see (description is enough) given the choice...

  • Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week.

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  • Good news!

  • Ghost blog adding activitypub

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  • You can't self-host Ghost? I'd like to stay on the same domain indeed, not wanting to also mess up folks subscribed to RSS.

  • Ghost blog adding activitypub

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  • Awesome! Once this is out, I think I will migrate my blog from WriteFreely to Ghost. I hope I can reduce disruption for existing followers though...

  • What are your Homelab goals for 2025?

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  • I want to move my whole server to NixOS. It's gotten to the point where I have no idea where all the Ubuntu config files went, and handling half of it via Docker vs baremetal. I hope this will allow me to set up proper backups as well, and maybe get better at Nix! I started a few days ago using the VM feature, but it's tricky to work on for now, perhaps I haven't found the right workflow.

  • Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner

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  • I never knew about this (using Linux) but when I plugged my mouse onto a friend's laptop and suddenly a big banner animated onscreen, my heart sank lol. No idea how this works but it was pretty unexpected.

  • For Bluer Skies: Bluesky as a Viable Alternative to X

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  • So tired of hearing about this platform that, afaiu, is barely even federated and not really decentralized. Why the hype when fedi exists?