Tempus is phenomenal. I switched to navidrome on my server to use it. Chora is also good, and I use it on my TV (works well on any screen). If you don’t mind closed-source, Symphonum is excellent.

If you are using Jellyfin, it works well on PC, with Fintunes on mobile.

You can find a number of good apps for navidrome here. I quite like Strawberry, which is cross-platform. I use it locally for library management.

I connect everything with Tailscale, which may or may not work on your work network, depending on how locked down the network is. I never had an issue.

Anx reader syncs stats and position across devices in this way, but I don’t think it runs on the kobo reader.

Yes! This drives me crazy. I will sometimes go back and edit posts to add more info months later.

We have all been in a situation where we are looking for a very specific answer, and the answer only exists in one obscure forum from a decade ago that has the exact info we are looking for.

It’s hard enough to ensure lemmy’s long-term fidelity without people axing their own content.

I see what you’re going for, but… No thanks.

Always a concern. They will eventually require a Walmart account I guess. I’ll have to remember to disable updates.

Well… People have been doing this with Raspberry Pis and Kodi forever. Add a bluetooth remote and you basically have an open source streaming box. You could even install LineageOS and run all of the android apps you want.

I got some cheap ONN boxes, Which seem like the best value for true Android TV devices. If you have the funds NVIDIA Shield TV is probably the way to go.

It’s possible to skip the Walmart account login at setup, but probably not possible to skip the Google account sign-in (let me know if you find a way!).

Setting up side-loading is trivial, although largely unnecessary. I loaded Stremio, Jellyfin, and a VPN for better streaming experience and control. I replaced the default home screen with Projectivy Launcher. You don’t need to go into ADB shell or anything like that. There are also other home screen launchers that fix the major problems with the default GoogleTV screen; Emotin UI (closed source), FLauncher (dormant), Leanback Launcher, ATV Launcher (closed-source).

There are lots of options for web browsing, File Explorer, on-device media, stores, etc. that are easily available.

Roku is another prime example of enshitification.

Now I have all my “smart” TVs disconnected, and I hooked up some inexpensive Android TV boxes (with a couple minor modifications). No more ads!

Not at all. At least three or four people have said that PLEX has better features, but no one so far has said what features make it worth using or what makes it better. I found that Jellyfin was one of the easiest things to set up once I started my home server. I don’t have any background in tech or IT, I’m just a hobyist.

I went with Jellyfin when I was setting it up because it seemed easier and had a more active support community, but from looking at the two, they seemed basically interchangeable. I’ve never had a reason to look for something else, since Jellyfin works better than most of the corporate apps on my TV. It loads faster, has less lag, and is easier to navigate than Netflix, Disney, Prime, etc. My zero-tech family find it easy enough to use daily.

When I found out Plex charged, I thought that they were actually managing your remote storage or something. What is the market for people who want to pay to access their own files on their own hardware? I genuinely don’t get it. If you want to share it, out of your home network there is always Tailscale or the like.

I don’t get who this product is for in a universe where Jellyfin exists.

This is a guy who has publicly and gleefully called religious Jews “inbred.” I would love to see just one anti-racist say that this man has no place in the movement.

But calling Jews inbred is antisemitic.

Just look at all of the supposed leftists refusing to distance themselves from this literal antisemitic jerk.

As long as he is also anti-Israel people seem fine to defend him.

The far left has created a climate in which there is no consequence for antisemitism as long as the perpetrator is also anti-Israel.

Not a lot you can do with phones unfortunately. You could set them up as basic fileservers using CopyParty or Syncthing. Don’t use it for anything critical - these are not backup solutions.

Set up Tailscale to access it outside your network.

I’ve been told that government auctions canbe a good source for cheap used PCs but I never had much luck there. I suspect that they get snatched up quickly and stripped for parts. Try eBay or Mercari?

I was using CLI exclusively for a year or so, but recently added DockMon and it’s helped with updates and at-a-glance management.

What are you on about? Liberal democracy is just about the only system that has historically led to multiple parties.

Communism, socialism, oligarchy, fascism, theocracy, monarchy, are all characterized by single party rule historically.

Pretty interesting how many people are jumping into comments to discredit the source but no one suggesting it isn’t true.

Iran executes 21-year-old karate champion as UN warns of death penalty surge EuroNews

January Protests: Death Sentence of Sasan Azadvar Junaqani Upheld by Supreme Court HRANA

“The agency identified the executed man as Sasan Azadvar, from Isfahan.” France24

I think they meant that publisher should have rewritten it.

Also, the community rules allow for adding context in [brackets] as long as it is not editorialized.

Yeah, Trump didn’t help, but I think it’s more to do with a decade of private equity dropping trillions of dollars into industries that never return any value.