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  • skoberlink@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldBetter music management
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    2 months ago

    I use Lidarr. I know its primary purpose is downloading but if you just never configure those parts, it can do all the renaming, folder organization, and metadata tagging. It uses MusicBrainz primarily, iirc. You can also configure scripts to run it through beets or other tools too.

    There’s no perfect solution for this because music metadata is a lot more complicated than movies or tv. But Lidarr gets pretty close to set-and-forget.

    I’ve also tried MusicBrainz Picard with pretty decent results but I found it sort of suffered from the problems you described for your current system.



  • This guy really has it out for this podcast. This reads to me like Guy Raz personally pissed him off. It’s been a few years since I listened to How I Built This but most of the ones I listened to were about the early days of the company when it really is kind of the leader doing long hours and chasing a dream. I think we can recognize that and also recognize what the companies became later.

    Many of the ones I listened to would mention that it was a lot of luck - though there were exceptions and those CEOs didn’t come across well. It also talked pretty openly about companies that got stolen - Dippin’ Dots and Burt’s Bees come to mind.

    Maybe the vibe has shifted since I stopped listening but this feels unnecessarily harsh. Personally, I don’t think this would be the right venue for pressing them on hard issues like unions and regulations - maybe as a retrospective at the end of the interview at most. I think we can recognize the hard work and long hours that go into starting these companies without also accepting their suspect business practices as they get larger (which can have a lot of complicated drivers). Attack the companies and CEOs, not a podcast host who is just trying to make an easy and interesting podcast.


  • skoberlink@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml***
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    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t put it past them as the Retroarch lead devs have done shit like that before.

    Do you have examples? I usually stay out of dev drama as well but I just started using Retroarch and I’m curious. I also don’t want to support people that abuse the community, so I’d like to be informed.


  • I don’t think the article included it and it’s a little difficult to find the phrasing.

    I found a sample ballot

    https://www.boe.ohio.gov/clark/c/upload/ELEC_BallotProofs.pdf

    The phrasing there is

    To create an appointed redistricting commission not elected by or subject to removal by the voters of the state

    However a vote of “Yes” would establish a non-partisan (or, IMO more accurately, a mixed partisan) committee of 15 (5R, 5D, 5 other) where a majority of the committee must approve the redistricting.

    The extended description starts with this

    1. Repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly three-quarters of Ohio electors participating in the statewide elections of 2015 and 2018, and eliminate the longstanding ability of Ohio citizens to hold their representatives accountable for establishing fair state legislative and congressional districts.

    Technically all of this is correct but I can absolutely see how it’s misleading voters.

    Full disclosure, I’m not a lawyer or political scientist and I do not live in Ohio.


  • There’s a lot of comments talking about used and refurbs. I personally use these types to get good deals but I also have a reasonably robust backup protocol. Not a full 321 backup but an appropriate level of risk for my needs.

    My point being, if you go that route, they’re cheaper but the odds that one dies on you might be higher. Make sure you manage your backup strategy to a risk value you’re comfortable with.

    That said, I’ve also had great experiences with serverpartdeals. I’ve also used diskprices.com to find deals.

    Things to consider are noise, temps, power-on time, etc. For myself, temps are fairly consistent in my case and it’s in a closet so I don’t care about noise. I also don’t need particularly fast access on the HDDs (I use an nvme cache strategy as well) so I can pretty much use whatever. Your needs might differ.


  • I’ve never heard of FUTO before and it sounds a little too good to be true. It looks like they have made some grants to other big projects. I like what they’re saying to the point that it seems too good to be true.

    Does anyone know if this is a legit organization and if it has staying power?

    Either way getting further progress on Immich, hopefully moving towards real stability, is very exciting!




  • Well not sure what was different this time but it fired right up after install.

    I didn’t test extensively but the controller support seemed to work reasonably well. I just played through Mos Eisley and nearly got gold even with a little delay on figuring out controls.

    There are definitely some tweaks to the control scheme I’ll want to make - it doesn’t follow modern conventions very well (e.g. the fire button isn’t any of the trigger/shoulder buttons). The only issue I noticed is if I accelerated, the camera didnt always keep up. I’m not sure what exactly is causing that. I’ll have to play with settings later to see if I can get it right.

    IMO, much better than keyboard though, for my preference anyway.

    Unrelated to the controller, it doesn’t want to use the right sound output and I can’t figure out how to control that. In my setup a fairly minor inconvenience. I might be able to figure that out when I get more time to mess with it.



  • skoberlink@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldEBook Management
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    2 years ago

    I tried to avoid Calibre for as long as I could. In my opinion, it’s way too opinionated about how everything is organized. Instead of working with you, the user, it forces you into line with how the developer thinks it should work. The developer is also kind of an ass to his community and, as a dev myself, I have some concerns over some of their choices.

    All that said, I finally gave in recently and converted to Calibre because there’s nothing else that works as well. It’s too niche of a space for there to be much competition. To use it remotely - or, more accurately for my use, headless - the docker image I use sets up a VNC viewer to work with the application.

    For actually browsing the content that Calibre organizes, I settled on Kavita. There’s no competition for Calibre’s organization but Kavita is easily the best content browser I’ve tried. If you’ve organized and tagged your ebooks with Calibre, it does a great job of making them available on the web and offers an OPDS server as well as the web viewer. I am more into ebooks than comics or manga but I have a few that Kavita also manages well.