Look into a raspberry pi with Volumio. You can play music through the headphone jack that way (assuming you get a Pi with a headphone jack).

Home Assistant has a Volumio integration but I’m not sure what it’s capable of. You can also run Music Assistant (available as a HA add-on), with which you can set up Volumio as a DLNA player. You’ll have to try it out and see if volume control is available, but I can tell you that using Music Assistant with Chromecast lets me control volume through Home Assistant.

Edit: maybe a pipe dream, but maybe Music Assistant can control the Spotify app on your tablet? Only one way to find out.

Immich. Come for the photo backup, stay for everything else because it’s awesome.

9 spinning disks and a couple SSD’s - Right around 190 watts, but that also includes my router and 3 PoE WiFi AP’s. PoE consumption is reported as 20 watts, and the router should use about 10 watts, so I think the server is about 160 watts.

Electricity here is pretty expensive, about $.33 per kWh, so by my math I’m spending $38/month on this stuff. If I didn’t have lots of digital media it’d be worth it to get a VPS probably. $38/month is still cheaper than Netflix, HBO, and all the other junk I’d have to subscribe to.

Ah, it clicked as I was typing out a comment asking for an explanation. I don’t know Y it took me so long to figure out.

That’s annoying. I have an old Nvidia Shield and it’s very fast.

I was so happy when I installed Projectivy. Our home screen now has 3 nice looking ovals – Jellyfin, YouTube, and YouTube TV. If I was the only one in the house it would have one icon…

No ads, no recommendations, just click into the app you want.

I had to do some searching to figure out how to properly set it up and all it took was enabling accessibility access so it could have access to the “Exit” button on my remote. Without that permission, it would still exit to the stock launcher.

Series is more accurate.

If I remember correctly, Proxmox recommends running Docker in virtual machines instead of LXC containers. I sort of gave up on LXC containers for what I do, which is run stuff in Docker and use my server as a NAS with ZFS storage.

LXC containers are unprivileged by default, so the user IDs don’t match the conventional pattern (1000 is the main user, etc.). For a file sharing system this was a pain in the butt, because every file ended up being owned by some crazy user ID. There are ways around it which I did for some time, but moving to virtual machines instead has been super smooth.

They also don’t recommend running Docker on bare metal (Proxmox is Debian, after all). I don’t know the reasons why, but I tend to agree simply for backups. My VMs get automatically backed up on a schedule, and those backups automatically get sent to Backblaze B2 on a schedule

Sounds bad I guess, but the USA has been spying on us for a long time now. Is the bad part that it’s China?

It just comes down to personal preference.

We run ours using the Docker “method”, but I sort of wish we had gone the Ansible route. What we have works, but the documentation isn’t up to snuff. To do things in Docker (without ansible) you basically still have to reference the Ansible repo and use their lemmy.hjson and their Docker Compose, but they have lots of environmental variables that you have to change yourself instead of Ansible doing it.

I do enjoy just using my normal workflow, which is using Dockge/Portainer as much as possible, but it’s a bit of work trying to figure out what Lemmy wants.

Dang, that would have hurt with real money.

I always stick to mutual funds and ETFs. The few individual stocks I’ve picked on my own have always lost money. I lost $750 to Beyond Meat, and a couple thousand with BitCoin Cash (should have held it for another year, but hindsight etc.). My mutual fund picks have all gone up. Some more than others, but none have lost me money.

I just built a computer for a friend and she decided to get an AMD when I told her it was about the same performance but used half as much electricity.

This is a person who knows nothing about computers. Intel is losing their “household name” status in a big way judging by that.

I just checked and we have that turned on, too.

We don’t get a lot of applications. A couple per week, maybe.

It’s called Lemmy-Safety of Fedi-Safety depending on where you look.

One thing to note, I wasn’t able to get it running on a VPS because it requires some sort of GPU.

Yeah, it’s just something like “Tell us why you want to join this instance”. If the answer is “to promote my content” or “qq”, for example, they don’t get approved.

It’s done by the Lemmy software.

We require applications, and most applications we get are extremely low effort and we don’t approve them. If you have open registrations you’ll be doing a lot of moderation for spam.

Run the software that scans images for CSAM. It’s not perfect but it’s something. If your instance freely hosts whatever without any oversight, word will spread and all of a sudden you’re hosting all sorts of bad stuff. It’s not technically illegal if you don’t know about it, but I personally don’t want anything to do with that.

I’m not a lawyer, but since Lemmy instances aren’t “professional or commercial activity”, I doubt a GPDR request would be applicable.

Some people who run instances might have the ability to do some sort of database export for a specific user, but the vast majority of us are just barely technical enough to keep Lemmy running and updated.

The last time I touched our database I accidentally wiped out all data older than 1 month and had to restore a backup.

I think we do have the option to remove a user by purging them through the UI, but an export isn’t an option at this point.

Looking forward to trying the latest update.

There’s a difference in how active users are counted now, too, so that skews the numbers. An active user used to be a user who posted or commented. Now voting makes a user active.

Shoot, I had remained ignorant to that last part until now. Is Lowe’s the only big box hardware store I can still support? How about Ace?