[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Here is the VPN setup page of Njalla. As you can see, it looks just as spartan as the public-facing parts of their website.

Njalla Interface

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You do not need to set up port forwarding on the website. They give each customer a static IP, so as long as you configure your ip tables to allow port forwarding, it just works on any port. QBittorrent worked out of the box.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Since my airvpn test month expired, I've just bought a Njalla subscription. Here are my experiences:

Pro:

  • Payment via PayPal or cryptocurrency
  • Same price as Mullvad (5€/month)
  • Static IPv4 and v6, allows you to forward any port
  • Torrenting just worked (including port forwarding)
  • No VPN application, just use vanilla OpenVPN or Wireguard
  • Does not throttle my internet speed (I only have 50MBit/s, so I cannot really test VPN performance. Definitely better than AirVPN though)

Contra:

  • Requires E-Mail address/XMPP to create an account
  • Only one client. If you need to access your VPN from multiple devices at the same time, you need to buy multiple subscriptions
  • Only Swedish servers

Conclusion: for my usecase (Raspberry-Pi-based torrent box) Njalla looks great. If you want to use it on multiple devices or need to circumvent geoblocks, you should look for a different service.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 46 points 1 year ago

It seems like they made the same mistake as youtube-dl back in the day. If you develop a tool that can be used for piracy, do not straight up advertise that in your readme/documentation.

If you create a YouTube downloader, do not show it downloading music from major labels, use for a creative commons track for the demo instead.

And dont say in the short description of your repo that this tool is meant to steal books from an online lending library.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

KDE Sytem monitor has that function, too. You just have to add it to the history page (Sensors/GPU/Usage)

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Zion Huang just released InnerTune 0.5.0, a free and open source YouTube Music client. The download throttling of the previous versions was finally fixed, making InnerTune now a pretty solid alternative to Spotify and YTM Premium.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

You can setup PiHole to block Samsung's ad servers. Some routers give you the option to block specific websites, that works, too.

The site you have to block:

  • samsungads dot com
  • samsungtvads dot com
[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, it does. You can also use the tool to check if a file is cached (just run it without any arguments for that).

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I am running a ODroid HC4 as a media server with Jellyfin and Navidrome.

After expanding my music collection to about 70k tracks, Navidrome's search performance was terrible. Searching for tracks took more than 10 seconds.

I know that Navidrome's search just uses SQLite LIKE statements without an index, so the performance is not optimal, but it could definitely be better. However, the main reason for the bad performance was the slow microSD storage.

My ODroid may have slow storage, but it has plenty of RAM (4GB). So it should be possible to keep a 160MB database permanently cached. Turns out, there is an application that can permanently keep certain files in RAM: vmtouch.

You can install it with apt and then run the command vmtouch -vtl database.sqlite. This will keep the file locked in RAM as long as the program is running.

VMTouch also comes with a service to permanently keep certain files cached. To set it up, you have to edit the config file under /etc/default/vmtouch and restart the service.

# Change to yes to enable running vmtouch as a daemon
ENABLE_VMTOUCH=yes

# User and group to run as
VMTOUCH_USER_GROUP=root:root

# Whitespace separated list of files and directories for vmtouch to operate on
VMTOUCH_FILES="/apps/data/navidrome/navidrome.db"

# Options to pass to vmtouch itself. See vmtouch(8).
VMTOUCH_OPTIONS="-tld"

Now the music database is always kept in RAM, which improved the search speed to 300-600ms.

Source: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/file-cache-ram

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

You can use Spotrip. The original developer made his code private in fear of DMCA takedowns, but there are a few forks around.

https://github.com/MikeeI/spotrip

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are a lot of audiobooks available on music streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer. You can download those with Deemix. But that may be limited to certain countries. I am from Germany and here a lot of audiobooks are owned by record companies which publish them on streaming services.

Searching for second-hand CDs on ebay may be worth it, too. I've gotten some good deals there as well.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What nitter instance are you using? I'm getting an error message indicating an empty json document.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I switched to AirVPN after finding out that Mullvad disabled port forwarding. I have heard rumors that the did that because of people hosting cheese pizza via their VPN accounts.

The performance of AirVPN does vary, I had to try a couple of countries before I found a server that didn't throttle me (and I only have a 50MBit connection).

Maybe I will try Proton in the future, but then I would have to commit to a 2year subscription or pay a lot more.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I am on the latest version of the app and it still works after I ignored the popup.

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