Either is fine: the question is what happens when something breaks and if you care about issues and such.

If your docker host depends on the pihole it’s running, there can be some weirditry if it’s not available during boot and whatnot (or if it crashes, etc.).

…I ended up with a docker container of pihole and an actual pi as the secondary so that it’s nice and redundant.

None of my youtube creators are producing content on peer-tube.

That’s probably more of a monetization issue than anything related to peertube. If your job is making Youtube videos, then at least some portion of your income is AdSense. Sure, it’s not what it was, but at scale it’s not nothing, and the peertube alternative is… $0.

(Also, for the non-commercial ones or the ones that are funded outside of Youtube, maybe ask if they’ll use Peertube. I’ve had luck with a couple of people I watched being willing to upload to multiple platforms, but you don’t know if you don’t ask.)

Stripe is pretty much global, outside of some weird prepaid/debit cards in various places which just don’t work.

The bigger problem is that the number of chargebacks you need to get your merchant account killed with them is very small if you don’t have substantial dollar/transaction volume which a Lemmy admin isn’t horribly likely to have.

And of course, their chargeback fees in general are unpleasant though that’s more of a universal problem than a Stripe problem.

Another paper that equates not changing the world with being a complete failure.

A valid viewpoint, I suppose, but some Fedi-things have certainly improved my life, which really, is how these things work: you improve people’s lives incrementally, and not by the hundreds of millions at once.

Of course, that means this is a complete failure because we won’t accept anything other than massive global success as success anymore because… reasons?

I’m not sure what’s wrong with your PC, but mine can run a lot more than 3 different consoles worth of games ;)

And of course you’ve also forgotten about Steam, the past 40 years of computer gaming, as well as the easy(easier?) use of all sorts of mods and addons that you just don’t get on one of the major consoles.

Use a better client that shows you the information? The default UI does, so that’s firmly a problem you’ve inflicted on yourself.

Yeah, I tried to use music and audiobooks in Jellyfin and even with apps focused on that it was just… rough.

Pity, since I’d love to have been able to scope down how much shit I’m running, but alas, that’s not going to be the way to do it.

Good news, I guess?

https://github.com/kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

I’ve only used it to do some esp32 stuff with homeassistant, but it does work.

Wait you’re saying 30 year old drives are all dying or dead?

I, for one, am COMPLETELY shocked at this totally unexpected and impossible to plan for eventuality.

Who could possibly have known that hard drives might fail after decades?

thus I don’t really see a problem

Except you no longer can edit, delete, etc. the posts.

You’ve lost complete control over your data, and there’s no way to get it back if your instance vanishes.

It looks like it supports the getSimilarSongs API endpoint, which means if your client has support then navidrome can kinda do it.

As to what clients support that, uh, no freaking idea lol, but probably googleable from that point.

(I’m a grumpy old boomer and listen to whole albums or curated playlists, so never really looked into if you could do that or not.)

Either of which seem reasonable enough.

I’m just confused who is spending $700+ for a gaming console if the one that’s $200-300 less seems to be fine?

I’m old and out of touch I guess. (And do all my gaming on a Ally Z1 non-extreme these days which is an absolute potato compared to either of these PS5s and it’s also… fine.)

My first thought while reading was ‘does he also forget to breathe sometimes’?

And then I read the about-the-author bit at the bottom and am also confused if I was talking to a human or an AI, so he might have a point.

Far too late

Seriously. Wasn’t the initial change like a year ago?

They must have been absolutely fucked by everyone bailing for them to come back this late and change their mind.

I know you’ve mentioned it, but Navidrome is probably the best choice, but it won’t be exactly what you want since you need to interact with a proprietary service.

But, that said, I’ve gone through basically every single music server I’ve found and ended up landing on none of them.

They’re all broken or missing features that another one has, and there’s no One True Music Streaming Server, just a bunch of mostly-kinda-sorta-almosts.

At this point, I just use a network mapped directory and/or a synced copy on the sd card of my phone and local players and don’t bother with anything more complex anymore.

The local players that can play media seem to have a much better, richer feature set than ANY streaming one does.

If I were a dev, I’d probably prioritize that awful ‘THIS HAS FAILED!’ error when you search for a new community that your server doesn’t know about because well, new users who don’t know that doesn’t mean what it says are going to walk away thinking something either doesn’t exist or is broken.

I also kinda think that community lists and activity stats should somehow be federated between all the servers that know each other.

Like, lemmy.world knows uncomfortable.business exists, so both servers should know the full list of non-private communities that COULD in theory be federated and be pre-populated in the search results.

And then feddit.org is federated with lemmy.world, so all 3 of the servers should be fully aware of each other’s communities so that a user that lands on ANY instance immediately has a working searchable list of all communities that exist.

Some overhead, sure, but the amount of data here is probably just a one-time big sync and then a small number of updates which is certainly not going to break anything given how chatty lemmy already is.

That’s also an option, yeah.

And, if you have the disk space, not an unreasonable one, but for me? DVD quality is pretty bad compared to anything newer and I’ve never noticed any real degredation transcoding a mpeg-2 stream to x265 which is like 25% the filesize, but that’s very ymmv.

don’t care about fidelity

As someone who hasn’t used a console for gaming since uh, the original xbox, is this doesn’t care about fidelity, or is it if you don’t pick the performance mode you get 15fps?

As a slight side note, that really only directly applies to people in the US.

Other countries have different requirements around what you’re required to do, and some are stricter and some are uh, not as strict.

Oof, and a minecraft server is also constantly writing the world state to disk which will 1000% kill a sd card in a hurry.