I’m mostly hyped to find something that can sync media to local storage on something like a laptop, without it just being a bunch of files in a folder you play in vlc.

It also runs in a browser. I’m testing replacing the default webUI with it.

Once it’s on the app store, it’ll basically be available on everything. The same UI everywhere, but with features like offline media, unlike the default webUI.

Just found Fladder, too. It’s even better, imo.

Works on desktop operating systems, even.

Nextcloud Office (aka Collabora) has been the nicest in my experience.

I came from google drive. I did a google takeout of my drive contents, dumped it into nextcloud, and every document so far has opened without trouble.

The standby power of a desktop is not that massive. Especially when you don’t run a GPU or display. That windows 8 machine you have is probably fine as-is.

An ATX PSU doesn’t suck down 500 watts at all times, just because the sticker on it says it can. How much power your machine will use will depend much more on the CPU.

So just slap linux on it and have at it. If nothing else, you’ll get familiar with the software involved, and be better prepared if you end up wanting to buy new hardware for this.

There’s not really any lock-in with linux. Almost any piece of software you might run can be run on almost any distro you might consider using.

Cross-platform, too! Neat.

Now I have a new client to recommend to my dad. Findroid is android only. (As the name suggests)

What?

The last one is like the only one me and my friends get up to.

It should.

If you want a jellyfin app that actually manages the downloads, letting you both watch and delete the downloads in the same app, try Findroid.

Like already explained, the web-app based clients just download the media files. You can obviously watch them using any media player that way, and delete the files when you’re done, but it makes things a bit clunky.

For music, there’s Finamp (FOSS) and Symfonium (Paid, but really good, and with active dev).

Oh hell yeah, doing it right now, too!

Literally anyone with privilege, when they lose even a sliver of that privilege: “I am being oppressed”

Smh. Right doesn’t show off those abs nearly as well.

I love how crazy Shamiko goes for Momo’s goth look.

Is it the Emperor’s chosen?

Did that Marine just get reduced to a pokemon?

Also green boi too based to use pokeballs, storage is just holding the guy really firmly.

Used to be: “the code is compiling”

Now it is: “the AI model is training”

Either of those are only options for someone who runs an instance.

I agree running things the other way around would be better, but monitoring about a dozen communities, I get away with a call every 5 minutes, and it almost never needs to load a second page. That is not significant afaik.

How would it miss stuff? You’d always use “new” sort and load pages until you run into content from the last update. Stuff from the last page appearing again because new content moved the content along, shouldn’t stop you from loading another page, and any new content will be caught in the next update.

Only way I know to do this, is to just regularly check the comment and post feeds, loading more pages until you get content you’ve already ingested.

This is how @saucechan@ani.social works. It also responds to mentions using notifications, but mentions in post bodies don’t create notifications, so the work-around was necessary.

If you didn’t know, there is a comment feed endpoint, which will contain new comments from all posts, without requiring you to check every post for new comments. It’s not used by most clients, but it’s available in the default webUI, and hence the API.

You can make it a little simpler, by only loading the subscribed feed, and making sure you sub to the relevant communities on the bot account.

Hm.

Making and running fediverse bots is very easy right now. The APIs are well documented and libraries exist for almost every platform and programming language to make things even simpler. All the parts you’d need for every bot anyway, are done and available. You only need to write the code that does what your specific use-case requires.

I’ve made four now. Lemmytrix, @dailycomic@sh.itjust.works, @saucechan@ani.social, and @mofumatic@sakurajima.moe.

At the same time, it should have some barrier for entry.

If you need a piece of software to hold your hand every step of the way, you maybe shouldn’t be responsible for a bot.

And it’s not really something you can easily make general purpose software for. There is the RED bot for discord, but it is a huge project and still relies on user-created add-ons to do more specific things.

Worse, he chooses to make it orange with spray-tan.

You nailed that worried thousand yard stare.