Yeah, this thing has comparable specs to my desktop computer with the price to match. When comparing to the PinePhone, this has 10x the RAM and 16x the storage.

In a time when so much stuff is unaffordable, maybe building an incredibly beefy phone as a startup doesn’t seem like the best idea.

We’ve got to install Microsoft Defender, Edge, and PowerShell on Ububtu so that the device will be flagged as compliant in Intune.

This is great for the cat-and-mouse situation.

I know a lot of people use Plex because of the number of apps on various platforms. The renewed life in these apps will be at least one less reason for people holding off on Jellyfin.

We’re just poking for a bit of fun. The Free and Open Source rabbit hole goes very deep. For example, Intel and AMD processors have code on them that isn’t free meaning the purists will not use them unmodified.

Everyone has a threshold where privacy and freedom interfere with convenience, just stick with the level you’re comfortable with.

I was expecting something like version 0.112 but this is pretty close.

If you’re more into making your own circuit boards, there’s a project that provides open schematics for RatGDO that uses the same ESPhome firmware.

https://github.com/Kaldek/rat-ratgdo

JLCPCB had a sale on PCB assembly and I was able to order 5 boards assembled and ready to go for about $25. I already had the ESP microcontrollers, just had to add three wires, flash the controller, and solder it to the board.

It unlocked so much more control over the MyQ integration. It actually showed me how much of a joke the MyQ app is considering how much more can be done with $10 worth of parts and code that random people on the internet made.

I finally looked deeper into this. If you follow the steps for account deletion, there’s a button at step 3 to request a download link to your content.

https://my.photobucket.com/account-delete-step3

I get an email about once or twice a month telling me to recover my photos before their gone. This has been going on for the last year.

I’d like to message them to request access to my own data, I just haven’t gotten around to ir. I think they’ve been giving out a free trial for those that ask.

For MP3 files, synced lyrics are embedded in the SYLT tag. Unfortunately, not many music players support this across platforms.

That could be the case. I used ffprobe to see the tags and figured it would just display the tags it sees. I’ll look more into it.

Weird. I just made two folders, one remote and one local, with one of each FLAC and MP3, with Synced and Plain lyrics. All of them successfully have embedded lyrics. I’m curious if it would have anything to do with the scanned folder size. It worked with a folder with only 4 tracks in it, but not in first case with 9000 tracks in sub directories.

The only odd thing is that the mp3 with synced lyrics downloaded the .LRC file but the embedded lyrics are plain.

I’m running Arch Linux, using the 0.5.0 AppImage.

I have my music collection on a NAS running Debian which I use NFS to mount it to /mnt/NAS. I then have a symlink to that in ~/Music/NAS. That symlink is what I added as the scanning library for LRCGET.

From what I can tell, the files that were corrupted were the ones that found synced lyrics. If it matched plain lyrics, the file was okay, but I don’t think it embedded the plain lyrics either.

I’ll setup a couple test folders, trying to test all the combinations of FLAC and MP3 files, synced and plain lyrics, and through the NAS symlink and on the local machine.

I do want to add that LRCGET has been great. It was dead simple to setup and use, and with the exception of the experimental feature, has worked exactly as intended. I personally just like to have everything in one file which is why I tried out the embedding feature.

The FLAC files that I care about, I was able to partially restore them from high-quality MP3s that I had converted from the FLACs. And I have a bunch of other FLAC copies from a folder I had yet to clean out (hooray procrastination), I also still need to check an old drive that should have a copy of my whole collection from a couple years ago, I’m sure that will have some more, too. Nothing was lost that can’t be recreated.

I tried it but in my case it set all the MP3s to 0 bytes. Luckily, I was able to get them back through snapraid. But then I noticed something in snapraid where I needed to run a sync.

What I didn’t see is that it set all the FLAC files to 42 bytes, so they didn’t get restored when I checked for 0 bytes filea, which means that it synchronised all those 42 byte files.

So I just lost all my FLAC files. I can’t be mad at the dev, it’s an experimental feature. This is just a word of warning for others to do a proper backup before you try it.

Yeah, Picard has been great. Long ago, I did a first pass where I dumbed my whole collection in, scanned and then just hit save. I got rid of any of the files that had a (1) or (2) and so on at the end of the file name, cleared out most of the duplicates.

I’ve since been sorting one artist at a time, but making sure the tagging is more cohesive, and not have some songs, for example, split between a compilation/greatest hits album and the original.

I’ve tried using beets in the pasted, but it either glitched or I didn’t set it up right, but it created a lot of duplicates of things. I found it a lot more tedious to use, too.

I’ve slowly been tagging my music collection and synced lyrics is something I’ve been very eager to add.

I’ve wanted something like this for a long time, thanks for sharing

The app mentioned on the post, Organic Maps, has Android Auto. OsmAnd is another app that I know has it as well.

Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game.

This is a great improvement to this feature. It’s refreshing when these type of convenience features are considered and implemented.

And the “free” means “freedom”, it doesn’t mean “no price”

It’s been a long time since I kept up with Bungie and had to look back because the name Luke Smith rang a bell.

It led me back to this and he indeed is who I thought he was, the lead of this old song

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MRRlauFtDO8

In the open source world, I take that as a highlight, not a warning.

Zeus