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I wonder how much it would cost to send a bag of dicks internationally…

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Am I the only one who heard this in Dr. Orpheus’ voice?

Is there a sponsor block situation for Podcasts?

I’m happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there’s some other way to make it work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

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Antennapod lets you customize how far your fast forward button skips ahead.

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Saaaame. Only thing I can think of is a server to download the podcasts, then some kind of ML/AI/LLM chicanery to transcribe, ID and timestamp the sponsor segments? Then chop it out with ffmpeg?

Edit: looks like Podgrab can download the files, the rest might be doable with a bit of scripting.

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Omnivore.app is probably the best replacement for Pocket that I’ve found at the moment, it’s open source and has excellent Logseq and Obsidian plugins that allow you to download the articles to your devices.

From there it depends on what kind of reader you’re using and software you have on it. Probably the most straightforward would be to use Calibre to convert the markdown file generated by either the Logseq or Obsidian plugins to an epub and add it to your library like a book. KOreader can read markdown files natively if you have it on your device, but you’d have to use a third party sync service to get it on there as there’s no plugin for omnivore. It does have a wallabag plugin and a cloud storage plugin (only Dropbox, FTP, and WebDAV are supported) but I haven’t tested those.

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It also works on mobile! But it’s not optimized yet, so there’s no downloading afaik. You have to copy out of it.

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I’ve actually been trying to implement something like this myself, but I’m trying to do it natively in HA. What I’ve done so far is make an automation for each appliance that calls a script (with variables passed through for messages and whatnot) which notified each member of the household in parallel, based on whether they’re home or not.

My eventual plan is to make each appliance automation flip an input_boolean that sends an initial notification which can be dismissed (either by sensor, NFC tag or notification action). Then every so often or based on a trigger (like door opening, toothbrush doing off, etc.) it triggers the notification script again.

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Oh damn I forgot about Gorm! Man, that makes me miss the EU even more now.

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Yeah I thought the Jedi vs the clones lol. Though turns out I was right in the end lol.

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Oh god the ui is so bad. Like what’s so hard about multiple lenses that they can’t have a single zoom slider?

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There isn’t much more you can do to streamline that workflow for ebooks, though the default Calibre library filesystem of subfolders by author makes it frustrating if your library is large and the books author is towards the end of the alphabet.

My new workflow (which is my old workflow but it’s been broken since Calibre companion was bought by some asshole) is use syncthing to sync your calibre autoimport folder, then use the Calibre reading list plugin to upload it to your device next time it connects.

For my reading app I use KOreader, it will allow you to connect to Calibre as a wireless device and let you browse your OPDS server if you have it enabled. Also it’s available on basically anything.

I eventually intend to host my Calibre library on my server and run it through a reverse proxy so I don’t have to worry about being connected to my home network for updated, but that’s a bit further down the road lol.

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As of the latest version (v0.4.0-alpha04) autocorrect isn’t implimented yet. Here’s what I get when I open the settings:

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/09b7b04a-62e3-4784-96e0-0266463b237d.jpeg

Waiting on that myself.

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Honor Harrington books in the Baen free library were what got me into ebooks!

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There used to be an app called aegis that did something like this, it used texts to your phone to trigger stuff. It was made by one of the CyanogenMod devs, I’m not sure if it’s still around… EDIT: the github is here, but it hasn’t been touched in a while lol

Question about Android. Is there a way to replace the system file manager on non-rooted devices?

When you need to upload a photo to a photo hosting site through a browser, the system file manager opens. When choosing a photo for editing, this also happens through the file manager built into Android. Is there a way to force applications to open my preferred file manager instead of the system one?

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Don’t think that’s an option really, the file manager is like the android version of the open file dialog in Windows now. Ever since they implimented secure app storage. Like op replied to you it’s mostly hard coded in the apps or something. It’s gonna get worse too, pretty sure android 12 made it so you can’t use a third party camera for pictures taken through other apps, and on my OP9 Pro you can’t select a alternative gallery app.

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Same, I have the Amazon gts 2 and it’s alright but it’s not the same. Thinking of getting the PineTime next but the firmware was a bit underwhelming last I checked.

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Ooh, like a slap bracelet?

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If you have something like home assistant this can be accomplished pretty easily with a smart plug. If it’s something that can be flashed with tasmota or esphome this could be done with just tasker accessing the API.

Alternatives to TorrentLeech

While TorrentLeech is great, the demise of FileList makes me want to diversify my catalogue of tracker options in case something were to happen to it as well. Popular releases are usually available on public trackers for a while, with some releases findable on usenet as well, but are there any easily-joinable private trackers as...

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I second this, been a member for years and it’s amazing.

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