djdarren

@djdarren@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strategies and advice for transitioning out of Apple's ecosystem of devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me the biggest hurdle was finding apps that felt the same as the ones I was used to.

  Take Mastodon: I’ve gotten used to Moshidon now, but previously I used Ivory, which is ridiculously polished by comparison. The natures of iOS and Android mean that there are very few Android apps that are as …pretty… as most iOS counterparts.

  Also; functionality. I guess because iOS users are more likely to pay for apps, developers are more likely to cram in as many features and polish as they can. If you try to replace an app with 1:1 feature parity, you’re mostly going to be disappointed. Photos on iOS is an incredibly useful, user friendly app which has almost all of the library and editing features most people need. Immich comes close, but not quite close enough for me to be able to confidently say that you could switch from one to the other without really noticing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strategies and advice for transitioning out of Apple's ecosystem of devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  apple makes you feel so cozy and content in their UI design that anything even slightly different is really disruptive

  I switched from iPhone to Graphene a couple of years back after almost 15 years of iOS, and yeah, the transition from one to the other was the very steepest learning curve. It’s almost like jumping from Mint to Arch. My partner wants my Pixel when I next upgrade so they can play with it and get used to it before having to make the jump from iOS, but I know it’s going to be a painful transition for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is sort of the route I was considering, so it’s cool to know that someone has tread the path before me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna bash Debian on my 2014 Mac mini tomorrow, install Bigscreen and see what’s up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s Steam Link you want, get dedicated hardware for that. Even a Pi4/5 will do. Use it for Steam Link only, and keep the Apple TV for media.

  This is probably the route I’ll ultimately take. Gonna toss KDE Neon on my 2014 Mac mini and see how it rolls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  just pay-for apps that may or may not do what I need.

  We use Infuse with Plex and Jellyfin, and yeah, we pay a couple of quid every month to it (for the higher definition codec support), but it’s pretty much spot-on for our needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, yes. Streaming from my partner’s PC up in their office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably should have laid out my uses in the OP, shouldn’t I?

  We primarily watch TV from a friend’s Plex server, or my own Jellyfin. We don’t have Apple TV+/Netflix/Amazon, or anything. Not these days. The only legit streaming service we do occasionally use is BBC iPlayer.

  Other than that, it’s a Steam Link / Moonlight machine, plus sometimes playing tunes from Apple Music.

  A nicety would be to be able to AirPlay to it, so my wife can show me videos that she’s saved to show me, but I’m not sure how feasible that is outside of Apple devices.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted Radio⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only been playing with it today, but I reckon Azuracast ought to tick all of your boxes.

  I’ve pointed it at the drive that holds my Navidrome library. Once it’s finished sorting through all 14,500 tracks, I can then sort them all into various different playlists to do more or less the same as you’re looking to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just today I installed Azuracast on my server, pointed it at my Navidrome library, and now I have my own radio station. Once it’s all configured I’ll hook into it from my laptop for my weekly show using Icecast, which I’m really forward to doing. Because I’m cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a friend starts watching a movie you love on Plex but stops 30 minutes in⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex and Chill Jellyfin and Impregnate Jellyfin and Masturbate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you use for alerting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware price surge drives student demand for refurbished laptops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My company recently switched out all of it’s older Dell for newer ones that are capable of running Win11 (because existence is pain). As a result, I now have three Dell micro PCs two of which are on DDR4, one is DDR3. All of which cost me nothing.

  I’ve already put Proxmox and OpenWRT on one and shitcanned the crappy Linksys my ISP gave me, and am about to put another into service as my home server. The third one has yet to reveal its use to me, but it’ll come.

  I currently have eight computers of various specs, sizes and configurations, and am happy to rehouse a bunch more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dBrand Companion Cube cancelled:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair play though, it is pretty funny that they let DBrand spend all that money first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won’t ship until 2027⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife uses her Steam Controller for playing games on the sofa via Steam Link on our Apple TV. It’s perfect for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you make the most of GamePass on SteamDeck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was merrily listening to Apple Music via WinApps the other day, when the Windows guest threw up a notification that it hadn’t found any malware. Literally no way to dismiss it without quitting out of any WinApps I had open.

  Good old Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you make the most of GamePass on SteamDeck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have WinApps running on the little Dell PC I have at work. It’s only an i3 with 8Gb RAM, but it’s ok with Apple Music and MS Office apps. I wouldn’t want to seriously run any games through it, mind.