Unfortunately it looks like that one is for Apple devices, whereas I use Linux on desktop and Android on mobile.

There’s some, but I haven’t seen any that have the main features Plex and Plexamp have:

• Cross-fading when playing random tracks, but gapless playback when playing an album in order
• Analysis of the music using a local neutral network, such that you can tell it to play play “similar” sounding songs to the current one
• Automatic playlists - liked songs, decades, etc
• Downloads for offline playback
• Multiple libraries, for example I keep regular music separate from DJ mixes
• Equalizer with presets for common headphones

And probably other things I’m forgetting.

Thankfully CGNAT isn’t as common in the USA as it is in other countries. In the US, ISPs generally either offer native IPv4 (most of the major ones), or only use IPv6 and provide IPv4 at all. The latter is the case with a lot of the mobile carriers, especially T-Mobile. Your phone only gets an IPv6 address, and their network uses 464XLAT to connect to legacy IPv4-only servers.

Do you have a CVE for this?

Plex still has the most fully-featured music streaming app (Plexamp)

Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.

In 2011, there was a large flood in Thailand that impacted ~40% of hard drive manufacturing. As a result, hard drives significantly increased in price. This was back when SSDs weren’t mainstream yet.

A year or two later, when manufacturing capacity was restored, prices were essentially back to what they were before the disruption.

Apart from disruptions like that, HDDs, SSDs, and RAM have always been going down in price.

Hmm, it’s missing the Docker repo. Check in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and see if there’s even a file for it.

LTS is supposed to contain stable components though. They really should wait for a stable (1.0) release before committing to it.

I’d connect vis SSH and manually inspect the files that it’s supposed to be creating. Does apt update show any errors?

I think the real issue isn’t the rewrites, it’s the fact that Ubuntu started using the new Rust coreutils even though they weren’t ready for production yet. uutils hasn’t even reached version 1.0 yet, and still fails some compatibility tests.

All your internet traffic is likely going through at least one network administered by a furry. It seems like there’s a much higher proportion of furries in network admin and cybersecurity jobs compared to IT/tech jobs in general.

The healthcare system in the US isn’t great, but you do get a decent experience if you have an employer that offers good insurance. My employer pays most of the cost of my health insurance. I pay around $200/month for my wife and I, but that’s pre-tax money, and the plan is great for US standards. $15 for doctor visits and $100 maximum for ER visits.

In Australia we pay a 1.5% tax to fund the public health care system, so for a $60k salary that’s $900/year.

I didn’t realise that the Pi 5 has an NVMe hat. Is that what you did? It’s a great solution.

SD cards are mostly designed for use cases that do very little writing. There’s high endurance SD cards, but those are designed for long continuous writes (mainly for dashcams and security cameras). Home Assistant does a lot of small writes, which is the worst case scenario for an SD card.

Back when I used a Pi for Home Assistant, I had a SATA SSD attached to it using a cable like this: https://a.co/d/2tlYZW2.

These days I’d probably try a USB NVMe drive, like a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD or similar product. NVMe drives were a bit iffy with the older Pis since some of them pull way more power than SATA SSDs and the Pi couldn’t always handle them, but it should be fine with the newer ones.

If you don’t have any offsite backups yet, I’d get a storage VPS (look for good deals on LowEndTalk on Black Friday!) or Hetzner storage box and back up to it using Borgbackup and Borgmatic.

An important note missing from this article (but included in others) is that Jeff Atwood, the founder of Stack Overflow, donated 2.2 million Euros to Mastodon. That’s likely partially where the 1 million Euro payout for the CEO came from.

Why don’t you like people being paid for their work?

us software salaries are insanely high compared to the rest of the world, because the cost of living in SV is insanely high.

I moved from Australia to the San Francisco Bay Area. My starting income was maybe 3x what I was getting paid in Australia, but the cost of living definitely wasn’t 3x higher. Major Australian cities are considered HCOL (high cost of living) areas too. Some things like electronics and food were cheaper in the USA too, at least until inflation and tariffs made everything go up.

Are they all from the same sender? I wonder if they just have Outlook configured to set the importance to high for every email.

This is why so many people are misinformed. Good journalism is paywalled while things like Fox News, Newsmax and Sky News aren’t.

Journalists do need to get paid though, and not everyone is okay with ads. People expect too much for free.

make them pay for the cost of adding the additional capacity that they require

Isn’t this what they’re attempting to do, at least partially? Most of the big tech companies are funding development of nuclear power plants.

https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/google-to-fund-elementl-to-prepare-three-nuclear-power-sites

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/meta-signs-nuclear-power-deal-with-constellation-energy-.html

What I’m unsure about is if it’s just IOUs (Investor Owned Utilities) that are increasing electricity prices, or if municipal providers are doing it too. IOUs use every excuse to increase their prices, including in cases where their costs don’t increase that much.

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