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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • Yeah… After a user here on Lemmy pointed out that the AdGuard app on mobile made a lot of strange requests to ads services, I gave it a try myself with PCAPdroid and seeing all thoses requests made by only opening the app made me think twice about AdGuard…

    Removed all their services from my network and a happy piHole + quad9 user since !



  • It’s not 1 way sync. Please look up what you’re talking about before speaking.

    Yeah it’s not, however you can configure syncthing as a 1way sync solution and I was emphasizing that this still isn’t a cloud solution.

    Don’t get me wrong, syncthing is great and I use it everyday, but syncthing is not a cloud solution.



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    Syncthing is not a cloud solution though… Rather a sync solution. What’s the difference? If you delete the file on 1 device it gets deleted on every device who shares the directory…

    While a Cloud solution, your file is on a central server and you can download/delete that file on your device without affecting the server.

    Cloud service ≠ Sync service but have a similar purpose.

    Edit: And doin’ 1 way sync is still not a cloud service !




  • They got hit by a lot of negative reviews and bad publicity those last years. Myself gave it a try last years and while it isn’t a bad distro from first impression… The fact that they add bookmarks into my firefox and Manjaro bootscreen at start gave me a strange feeling… Specially because this happend after the bios bootscreen hack. And I know this is not related but it still gave me strange gut feeling and always follow your guts !

    Happy EndeavourOS user !


  • i ended up choosing GitHub primarily for the automated binary builds and releases through GitHub Actions. the Pro tier for students gives me generous build minutes, and the Trippy maintainers helped me get the release process set up properly

    I’m not into programming so I wasn’t aware of this kind of argument and have no idea of all those Pipeline, release, automated binary process… etc ! I’m probably biased by my open source & self-hosted crusade but as long as you are aware of this stuff that’s allready a good point :))) (why wouldn’t you, you’re on lemmy :D) !


  • Congrats and thank you for sharing your project with the community ❤️!

    Just a personal opinion, I think all new projects should be hosted on alternatives git hosting sites (something like codeberg :p). Specially project which have alot of already very well implemented and popular alternatives.

    Yes, this will reduce visibility and probably reduce interaction. But if you’re on Lemmy you’re probably already aware of this… But it will also provide the switch to a more privacy respecting and competition to more agressive invading monopoly companies.

    Another positive thing I can think of is that if there is a big GitHub exodus and popular alternative who need to switch their database/user base to an alternative hoster will lose a bit of momentum and users may come across your project :).

    Good luck and keep it up 🙏💪







  • Not sure if every audio file is upscaled, however I had a few files who clearly were 128kbs mp3 upscaled to ~192kbs opus !

    personally I cannot hear any compression in the audio.

    100% agree on that xD !! However, I’m some kind of strange audio freak hoarder. If the spectogram of an audio doesn’t reflect my standards (not upsacles audio files…) I won’t keep/archive it !

    Do note that I didn’t used a paid YouTube account… Maybe they don’t serve HQ audio files to free users? Dunno, but after some digging into the spectograms I was not happy seeing how bad they looked !


  • Cool stuff, thank you for sharing your project with the community ! It’s very cool and useful for people who just want a set and forget situation !

    I stoped using yt-dlp frontends the moment I saw youtube actually serving upscaled opus media files (very visible line on a spectrogram). Also their metadata is totally fucked-up and not very well organized and full of shit (comments with huge spaces and non useful metadata…).

    Sure, the metadata part is easily fixable with Picard MusicBrainz, but the quality downgrade was a huge no for me. Nowadays, I use nicotine, rutracker and private trackers to download FLAC quality files and transcode them to opus 192k to serve them in my Navidrome library with a well curated metadata structure !

    Yes it takes way more time and some dedication but it’s worth it :) specially If you are some kind of perfectionist and like everything neatly organized ! 😁

    More power to you for keeping the opensource community thriving !! Thank you !



  • Just to add a note for OP: If your not into tinkering and taking care a of your OS don’t even think to try any Arch based distro. There’s a minimum time you have to spend to keep your system healthy.

    Just recentlty I had a boot issue after an update (black screen on boot without login or tty) and after a lot of debugging and websearch couldn’t fix my issue. At first I though of a fuckedup bootloader or to long wait time between updates but It was a recent issue with MESA and nvidia driver.

    Had I looked up the EndeavourOS forum rather then my own search results that would have avoided a fuckedup fresh install wich didn’t solved the issue either.

    So yeah, there was a solution out there (downgrade MESA, install new nvidia driver rather than nouveau) but I wasn’t looking in the right place 🫤 So here I’m with a fresh install…


  • Not only that… The meat industry is poisoning the animals with antibiotics, GMO cereals… they live in 1m2 of space/cow, and living in hell 24/24, feel anger, hate, sadness and treated like shit and pure pain while beaten by humans… It’s horrible !!

    And all these things are digested by our body… Ugh ! It’s similar to a concentration camp but for animals…