icloud relay doesn’t affect this because it shuts off when my VPN activates and when at home, icloud relay doesnt affect local LAN IP addresses anyway.

But third party apps don’t share a cache.

The VPN was disabled when switching to WiFi already.

AppleTV and MacBook are on Ethernet. Iphone is failing on both WiFi and cellular using WireGuard to VPN into the local network. The logs say the login attempts are actually successful.

I am on iPhone here. I do have the iCloud relay turned on but that doesn’t work on VPNs or local IP addresses.

Nope. I just have it WireGuard into my network but as you can see, it’s acting up over WiFi too.

quadlets let you create a systemd unit file to start and manage a podman container as easily as a locally installed system service.

Jellyfin is HEAVY when doing trickplay scans. But outside of that, it’s really not that demanding. I’m running on an N100 right now but I’ve run it fine on stuff as weak as a rk3399.

Open source is certainly in a great position now but there are some things it’s just not doing that I’m frankly too dumb to do myself. For example, there’s no open source answer to appleTV. The closest thing we have is androidTV and it’s just awful.

I would love to see a TV-centric desktop environment you could run on top of any typical Linux distro. Something implementing live tiles like old windows phone had, a web app that you could access with a smartphone and use to control it like a remote, single-task interface rather than a task-juggling interface we have on normal DEs, sigh. I have a vision I cannot possibly create because that would take incredible skill that I just don’t have to make and I can’t just whine that nobody is making it for me.

Meanwhile, all my Apple stuff works together in a way I generally approve of.

I need to transition away from this at some point but there aren’t always open source solutions for this.

I haven’t learned about kubes yet. I do use and love quadlets though.

Use handbrake and set it to used the Apple videotoolbox for hardware encoding. Looks good, smaller files, fast and easy. Almost everything encodes properly with this method but there are a small number of titles with interesting encryption that breaks with this method. Almost everything works this way though.

I quickly got pissed at synology and QNAP and just started making my own shit. Now when anything fails it’s my own damn fault and I can actually fix it. This sounds bad but it’s actually a much better experience. I learn a lot and have fun. I’m the guy who made all those G4 cube retrofit kits on Thingiverse. It’s been a great distraction for me over the years.

On the subject of containers, learn podman. That’s where everybody seems to be migrating to.

Butter robot: “oh my god”

Lots of sites use her now

Websites are getting hammered by AI bots stealing content and jacking up their bandwidth usage. So they use a piece of software called Anubis which, for some reason, has a cartoon nurse that will grant or deny you access based on if she thinks you are human or AI. For some reason, she thinks I am AI so I can’t access the article.

Weird, the cartoon doesn’t want to let me through. Something about an iPhone running lemmy pisses off anubus.

I cant find an RSS feed for my audio sources in pinchflat. where did you find that?

Its not for music. It’s for those videos where people read reddit stories. I like to listen to those in the car and I dont want to be distracted with youtube while driving.

So I found I had 2 problems. First, I have a Name= line instead of a ContainerName= line in there. Second, diagnosing all this is impossible when theres no shell for that account. Turn on a shell (/bin/bash) for the user, fix this thing, activate it, disable the shell (/bin/nologin), drink heavily.

I ended up with: -----/fuckingarray/homes/pinchflat/.config/containers/systemd/pinchflat.container----------

[Unit]
Description=PinchFlat container
After=local-fs.target

[Container]
Image=ghcr.io/kieraneglin/pinchflat:latest
ContainerName=pinchflat
UserNS=keep-id
Volume=/fuckingarray/homes/pinchflat/pinchflatdata/config:/config
Volume=/fuckingarray/homes/pinchflat/pinchflatdata/downloads:/downloads
PublishPort=8945:8945
Environment=TZ=America/New_York

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

plasma 4 i think it was was a disaster at first