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I fuck numbers.

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Yeah lol. When I we first got wired internet at home (about 15 years ago), the speeds weren’t good. It averaged around 120 KBPS for browsing the internet. But the guy installing the connection told me that torrents went up to 10 MBPS easily, and he wasn’t lying. Before that, I didn’t understand that torrent worked in a fundamentally different way compared to direct downloads.

It was in India. I won’t be surprised if the situation is still similar. (I mean the attitude towards piracy. The speeds are pretty good nowadays.)

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Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 ways.

  1. Using a VPS and DDNS (I personally do this):
    • Pros: Super easy for others to access, you just give them the address.
    • Cons: Not free. (Oracle free tier might work, but it’s unreliable.) But there are cheap VPSs as low as $12/yr that work pretty well. Also, it’s a bit harder to setup since you’ll need to create a VPN tunnel between your local machine and the VPS.
  2. Using tailscale or zeroties:
    • Pros: Free, and easier to setup than a VPS.
    • Cons: People need to install extra apps to access your server.
  3. By port forwarding:
    • Pros: Super easy to setup, just need to forward the ports through your router.
    • Cons: You’re opening a port to the internet, which is less than ideal. Also, it won’t work if you’re behind a NAT.
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I have a VPS from RackNerd for something like $11.5/yr. You can check some offers from them here.

To be clear, it probably won’t work well as a Jellyfin server since the storage and CPU capabilities aren’t great. But it’s pretty good as a relay, which is what I described above. I have a local machine, and I use the VPS to relay the connection to the open internet.

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Yes, it does. Mine gives me 2TB/month of bandwidth, which is plenty for my use.

SexualPolytope,
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fr

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It’s empty. Good.

SexualPolytope,
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I guess we can eliminate formula one. Seems kinda boring to me.

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This is what I use for my personal archive:

yt-dlp -f bestaudio/best --extract-audio --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --recode opus --audio-quality 0

It does recode to opus but since the bestaudio is usually in that format already, you don’t need it most of the time. You can skip the –recode opus part if you want to. I keep it because I like having a “uniform” collection. You can probably change the bestaudio/best part to simply bestaudio without losing much as well.

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Yes, it does. It just repackages it from .m4a to .opus without re-encoding the actual audio stream.

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If I’m not wrong, the best way to have best possible quality would be:

ffmpeg -i file.opus -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 0 -map_metadata 0 file.mp3

I know you asked for GUI, but CLI tools are better at this job since it’s very easy to batch process the files using a combination of find and parallel.

Also, it’s probably a better idea to keep the files as they are and use a different audio player on your device. I don’t use iOS, so can’t suggest an app. VLC or mpv should work, but I personally prefer music apps with album, artist etc. support. For android, the app Gramophone is great. Another way would be to serve your files via a music server like navidrome and using a client like Tempo (again, it’s the android client I like, but surely there will be iOS alternatives).

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Tip: You can add an & just before the last ; to run these conversions concurrently. For more sophisticated control on the concurrency, I’d use parallel.

SexualPolytope,
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Cromite if you don’t like Firefox on Android.

SexualPolytope,
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I use Firefox on my desktop and laptop devices. I’ve tried using Firefox on Android. It’s slow, and breaks on some sites. If you use it, good for you. I’m not gonna use it just for virtue signalling.

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Bruh. I do care about privacy and security. Otherwise I would’ve used Chrome or Brave. Stop acting like anything except Firefox is trash. (That is the virtue signalling part.) They’re not. I’d be happy if Firefox suited my needs on Android. I’m sorry that I can’t change my experience just because you say so.

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Not really. I started out by saying that this is the suggestion if one doesn’t like Firefox on Android. I also said that I do use Firefox everywhere else. If you still say that I’m “justifying my poor decisions”, it’s not simple recommendation. It gets annoying.

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I don’t know the technical reasons. Probably due to people optimizing their pages for Chromium, since it’s the de facto standard. Most pages load slower on Firefox for me. Chromium based browsers are usually better. Also, most websites of Indian government break for me on Firefox. It’s probably their fault, not Firefox’s. But I don’t want to deal with the annoyance. Everything seems to work most of the time on desktop, though.

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Me and my highschool girlfriend used to do shit like this in tuition lol.

How I messed up by accidentally replaying all my keystrokes from the last few days (github.com)

After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I’d also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I’d appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it’s a weird feeling to know that some stuff...

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A dramatic re-enactment of the events.

SexualPolytope,
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Not always, but mostly yeah. Especially for home users, it’s not worth the hassle.

SexualPolytope,
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Lawyers, they fuck up everything.

SexualPolytope,
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kpatch is what RHEL uses. The Ubuntu one is called livepatch. IIRC, it’s not open source.

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Noose companies need photos to put in their quality control handbook.

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Question: Can I keep it connected to some VPN layer like gluetun, and still make I2P work? Ideally, it should route all the clearnet traffic through gluetun and the I2P traffic through i2pd.

From the instructions, it looks like it should be possible, just confirming.

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Tbf, I don’t like the taste of pumpkin either.

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