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Best Music Library with subsonic API?
  • Agreed that there's no all-in-one solution to play local music and music on Spotify (if I'm a premium user). I vaguely recall there's a solution to automate playing Spotify music and record it in real-time (since you cannot download music directly) but it seemed too troublesome, so I eventually chose spot-dl4 to download music from YouTube using Spotify playlist, then the folder got imported into Lidarr/Navidrome, then my Symfonium on Android connects to Navidrome to get the songs.

    It's quite a bit of manual work to add songs to a separate playlist if I like something on Spotify then use spot-dl4 to do the download. At least, I successfully keep a copy of my favourite songs on my server.

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    VPN and tailscale blocked on hotel wifi
  • It's a headache most of the time so you might consider purchasing a local SIM card for 4/5G connection instead (and share connection via mobile phone) in the future.

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    Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month
  • It was already bad at the beginning. Never improved. Also, there seems to be no plan for a community driven mission system, so you can only play weird auto-gen ones.

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    Do you prefer RPGs or FPS games?
  • RPG without only focusing on FPS. I quite don't like ARPG these days that don't have a good story but add a lot to combat mechanics.

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    How do you organize downloaded YT content?
  • Three options you could explore: Tube Archivist (with plugin), Pinchflat and Toothpick.

    (No personal experience in using Toothpick)

    Create a separate library for YouTube contents, then TA or PF will create different 'shows' inside it. The TA plugin or PF built-in option to generate NFO files will prepare all metadata necessary for Jellyfin import. To separate the channels, you simply set them up separately in TA or PF then they will show as different 'shows'. All these GUI applications are built on top of yt-dlp by the way.

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    Is it safe to automatically pull and update docker containers?
  • Depends on the application really. For example, I don't need to update Jellyfin and the arrs as soon as the new updates drop. They work just fine and I'm not waiting for any particular fixes.

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    YouTube downloader
  • Between Tube Archivist (TA) and Pinchflat (PF), it seems TA is a better choice (because you want to delete the downloaded videos). TA has a built-in interface to watch and delete the video. But if you are like me, who watches the videos in Jellyfin and don't plan to delete them afterwards, then PF is a solid archival application.

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    Dragon Age The Veilguard Gameplay Reveal Teaser
  • So we have action in this ARPG. I wonder if they are confident enough to show RPG bits before launch. Judging purely by the trailer, the game feels nothing like DA.

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    Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer
  • Thanks for the explanation. Had the same feeling but couldn't describe it. They definitely took the high fantasy route and even 'cartoonize' it further, which is kind of what DA is not about.

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    Is it possible to safely "give away" a Steam account to a stranger?
  • You mean you don't have family, friends, colleagues, school mates or anyone you know personally who would benefit from this giveaway, so that you have to resort to a stranger? A nephew or niece is the perfect recipient for such a gift.

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    Blind and deaf dog Teddy got lost in a neighbor’s yard. Police called to help him shot him dead
  • Instead of hiring brave and smart people to be the police, it seems people who are not brave, and dumb, are hired so they have access to guns to protect themselves again whatever scares them, including innocent humans. Sad.

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    What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for?
  • Same. It's enough to team up with people at work so there's no desire to do the same at home. I also don't find grinding as much fun anymore. It used to be a fun way to spend time as a kid because we had too much time. Now, I don't even pick a game which doesn't have basic QoL features implemented.

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    Tube archivist + Jellyfin. Anyone have luck getting thumbnails and titles working?
  • I suppose you are using the plugin at https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist-jf-plugin. Very rarely I had the same problem. But if I ignore it, the data sometimes fixes itself after another update. If not, you could try the manual trigger. Frankly I have no idea why it fails sometimes.

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    The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines
  • Yeah, that's what I meant. I didn't define the new generation, but in my mind people since the 80s are the new generation to me (I'm old). And you're right, camping a store to buy something you never saw is of course the issue. And in my country, people buy a house before it's even built, and that's also an issue that is common in this 'new generation'. So, this new generation tends to accept that buying something without seeing it is alright, and the gaming industry reflects that.

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    The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines
  • To be precise, the new generation is to blame, who constantly preorders a game, and spends a lot on mobile games. Companies realize that bad products sell, so why would they improve?

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  • I own a couple TP-Link Tapo Wi-fi light bulbs. Currently, each family member installs an app on the phone to control the light bulbs. I wonder if there's a way to do the same but in a browser (via docker app on my NAS). And because we may use smart devices of other brands in the future, it seems too much trouble to install yet another app on each phone.

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    Currently I set up Tailscale in my Synology NAS and I can access selfhosted services on my phone using the Android app. I want to use some services in my work PC too but I'm blocked from installing any software. So my question is, is there any solution that allows me to connect to selfhosted VPN via browser extension? (Just like NordVPN, I can install the browser extension to use it and I don't need the Windows app.)

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