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[–] bear@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

If you're waiting for Jellyfin to run some kind of relay like Plex, you'll be waiting a long time. That takes a lot of money to upkeep, and the demand for people who self-host FOSS and then want to depend on an external service is very minimal, certainly not enough to sustain such a service. I'd recommend just spending a weekend afternoon learning how to set up Nginx Proxy Manager and being done with it, the GUI makes it very easy.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If Linux was that easy, adoption would be higher

People use what comes on the computer. OS usage on the Steam Deck is overwhelmingly Linux because that's what comes on it. This indicates that Linux is perfectly fine for the average person, it just needs to come pre-installed. Very few people install their own OS either way, Linux or Windows.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I assume doog is the opposite of good, in which case I agree

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I chose Bookstack for the same situation. It's dead simple in usage and maintenance. No issues yet!

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You may already know this now, but I want to post it for those who don't because it's really cool and way ahead of its time.

That was for the VMU, the visual memory card. It stored your game saves but also some games had minigames you could play directly on it, often with bonuses in the main game. In the Sonic Adventure games you could take care of chao and such on it. That thing ate batteries like candy though.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I will have an OG Xiaomi Mi Box and it's absurd how over the years it went from a purely functional media device to a complete shit show covered ads. Genuinely disgusted me every time I turned the TV on. I couldn't stand it anymore, I had to tear out the launcher with ADB and replace it with FLauncher.

I wish Kodi wasn't such a pain in the ass to deal with, especially for YouTube. We really need a new FOSS media center application. Until then, at least FLauncher works for now as a simple app switcher for a handful of Android apps.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Recently started using Tempo with Navidrome. Haven't had more than a few days of use yet, but everything has worked exactly as expected! Can't ask for much more than that.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

You're in for a treat, Cassette Beasts is so underrated. I played it at release and I still listen to the music regularly.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

If I were to list every FOSS project that has lasted longer, I'd have to spend all day writing the post. winRAR is unique in that it's one of the only pieces of long-lasting proprietary software that didn't die or turn to crap. Such things are not unique or even rare in FOSS.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

WinRAR will either die, or be sold and squeezed by its new owners. Nobody lives forever and no asset goes unflipped in this market. You can say you won't update, but that just leaves you vulnerable.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's not an opinion that proprietary for-profit software will betray you, it is an inevitability. It has happened every single time. If it was FOSS, we could salvage it. It's proprietary, so we can't. When it fails it must simply be abandoned. I just hope you learn the right lesson when this happens.

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'd argue it's pretty stupid to use FOSS but then depend on a proprietary server that only one for-profit company is allowed to run to deliver all that software, trusting them to just never do wrong or leave you high and dry. I'd also argue it fits the analogy perfectly, because the analogy was about saying "I haven't had a problem yet" in response to being shown the potential problems of the action.

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