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If you self host music and want synced lyrics in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

For those on Jellyfin, there's a plugin that can pull lyrics from lrclib. Not sure how it exactly compares to this, but it works for me.

Latest Macrium Reflect Version (X) will be a Subscription in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the compilation, I'll take a look at these.

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Latest Macrium Reflect Version (X) will be a Subscription (www.macrium.com)
 

Any recommendations for a good non-subscription-based alternative? I could setup syncthing for files, and I have URbackup for images, but I always relied on Macrium more than URbackup. What do other people use?

Why have you removed the one-time license option?

Many of our home customers' feedback indicated a preference for the certainty provided by an annual plan. The annual plan offers assurance that you always have access to the latest version with innovations such as improvements we’ve made in compression speeds and algorithms. It also ensures you have access to critical updates and are protected against new threats and risks. Lastly, our annual plan ensures you always have access to technical support (one-time licenses only offer 12 months of support).

SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My group is on Teamspeak. They are supposedly adding it this year, but it's been radio silence for months.

How do/did You Get Your Friends into Selfhosting? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You're right, thanks.

How do/did You Get Your Friends into Selfhosting? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Good perspective, thanks.

How do/did You Get Your Friends into Selfhosting? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's fair. I'm making the comparison to other hobbies. If someone is not interested in roller skating, but decides to try it out because one of their friends really likes it and invites them, they may find they enjoy it... or not, which in that case they won't go again, which is fine. Alternatively, they find a new hobby they enjoy, and selfhosting could give skills that turn into a potential career, but that's if they really enjoy it. I don't think it's uncommon for friend groups to have outsiders (me) and "force" them into trying new things, but maybe my comparison doesn't hold up here as this is a bit less about socializing.

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How do/did You Get Your Friends into Selfhosting? (lemmy.world)
 

Most of my friends are in tech, and I think one of them would enjoy hosting their own services if they got into it. Currently, I do most of our hosting, from media servers to game servers, but I think the hardest part is to give people an enticement to host.

For example, maybe they saw the lights automatically come on through the use of home automation like Home Assistant or maybe they wanted to control their own music library.

I think the idea of managing your own hardware and services doesn't become enjoyable until you've already seen the outcome, such as having a resource or service available to you that you didn't before. When I first got into selfhosting, I also had the problem with identifying what I wanted to host.

How do/did you get your friends interested in selfhosting? What services did they look into hosting themselves?

I'm not going to force someone into a hobby they aren't interested in, I'm just curious how people brought the conversation up.

Thanks.

Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I know there are different use cases for each, but generally do people prefer self hosted nextcloud, proton docs, or libre office?

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, development is still stalled. You need to pay if you want the really high bit rate flac downloads. I pay and can use Deezer as a backup to Jellyfin in the event there's a song I don't have and I'm driving. I was looking at music fab, but it's expensive, the Spotify downloader has worse quality, and doesn't grab the cover art, which is probably a deal breaker for me.

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use the former. How does it compare to the other two?

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Are they on Deezer? If so, look into deemix-gui.

Linux Distro for Jellyfin Client HTPC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Haven't tested it, but I'm hoping Kodi works well. I'm waiting on my Vero V to arrive, which comes with OSMC (FOSS linux distro made to run Kodi).

Spotify quietly moves lyrics behind a paywall. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm not too familiar with roon. As for proper metadata, I've not had any problems with MusicBrainz's metadata grabber. It's a built-in plugin that comes with Jellyfin. Deemix uses your deezer account, which I believe requires the paid version if you want lossless flac files, and I have it configured to place the files in my Media share, which Jellyfin reads from. Symfonium is the android client I use that works with selfhosted media servers.

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Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server? (lemmy.world)
 

As r/selfhosted seems to have shutdown due to the reddit api changes (rip), I wanted to see if anyone has worked with these services before?

How do they compare to Discord and how hard is it to maintain, as the setup looks pretty in depth for matrix and synapse. How did you convince your user base to use it over Discord.

I've hosted TS3 for about 8 years and are looking for alternatives, as we have to use Discord for screen sharing.

Thanks!

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