I’m changing my name to Stephanie right now, and buying harmlessdomain.com if it’s available! Then I’ll always be fine!

deploy a raspberry to project services into their local network

This piqued my interest!

What’s a good way of doing it? What services, besides the VPN, would run on that RPi (or some other SBC or other tiny device…) to make Jellyfin accessible on the local network?

The linked site does not have a valid SSL certificate. To me, that seems pretty sketchy for a registrar. Are you sure the URL is correct?

There’s also a more lightweight alternative for recording tracks called OpenTracks. It can export the data in KMZ, KML, GPX or CSV format.

I think some used them to gain insight in clicks (bit.ly provided stats for numbers, user agents etc.), and to track the origin of clicks by generating a unique shortened URL for each linking post.

Also, the obvious use case of turning a long direct URL to a file into something people can actually be bothered to manually copy from paper…

Yes, you can cast from the official YouTube app (or Revanced). You need to generate a code for connection in the SmartTube settings, then connect your phone through the cast menu. The option in the cast menu on the phone is called something like “Connect with code” IIRC.

Why not paperless? I’ve thought of trying out paperless-ngx but would like to hear about your experiences with it or other thoughts about it.

You’re always bringing something interesting to look into or write on the list for later. This time too! Nimletter is on my list now.

I keep getting a “Database download failed” error, unfortunately, even with network permission enabled…

Thinking a bit outside the box, if your phone is capable of it, you could find a way to run a small local LLM on it. Maybe it can even be done in Termux?

If that’s not an option and/or you need a bigger, more capable model, you could host a local Ollama instance, and connect to it from the Ollama (IzzyOnDroid) or GPTMobile (F-Droid). This way you will only connect to yourself instead of some 3rd party translation or LLM provider.

I think that, with a well-written system prompt, you could make it more efficient by concisely instructing it to expect your text input and a language (or include permanent language instructions in system prompt), to then only output the translated version of your input in that language. This will keep the number of input+output tokens low, thereby saving some inference. You can also get creative and instruct it to output multiple variations, change the style/tone/formatting, provide an example sentence containing a single translated word, etc…

There’s probably a Plex add-on for Kodi. At least, there is for Jellyfin and Emby. If you don’t like the UI, try changing it. I prefer the one called “Arctic: Zephyr - Reloaded”. You’ll need to customize the homescreen a bit to get the most out of it. That way you can make it show widgets of your content, e.g. the latest content added, continue watching, specific libraries, etc. That, at least, works very well with Jellyfin through the Jellycon add-on.

The reason could be that Trakt integrates with media server apps like Jellyfin or Plex, or apps like Kodi, and that you can thereby bring your watch history with you across apps and you don’t lose it if your server crashes, library is corrupted or something… I have never used it, but I’d imagine that’d be a reason to use it. If I knew of a libre alternative, I’d actually consider using it for Jellyfin.

No idea why, but I don’t see their comments anywhere in this thread. Thanks for confirming.

EDIT:

I found this metadata file, is that the one?

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/de.mm20.launcher2.release.yml

From the file:

MaintainerNotes: |- Kvaesitso uses several external APIs for search providers. Several of them require signing up to obtain a developer API key: gdrive search, openweathermap, HERE and Meteorologisk institutt. It’s not possible for users to provide these keys as explained here: https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso/issues/227#issuecomment-1366826219 If keys are not provided, these features are automatically disabled during the build.

core/shared/build.gradle.kts and plugins/sdk/build.gradle.kts have configurations in them for publishing artifacts to maven repos. They are not used during the build, but detected by F-Droid scanner anyway. We patch it out from core/shared/build.gradle.kts, since this module itself is still used in compilation, and delete plugins/sdk/build.gradle.kts because it’s not used in app compilation.

Kvaesitso depended on different libraries used for gdrive login in the past that pulled GMS dependency, however it’s not the case anymore:

https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso/issues/583#issuecomment-1775268896 The new libraries pull OpenTelemetry though, but it’s unclear if it’s used (considering gdrive integration is disabled).

Max heap size is reduced in gradle.properties to avoid gradle daemon being killed by OOM manager.

Older versions of Kvaesitso had onedrive integration that depended on non-whitelisted maven repos, but it was removed.

Upstream provides an fdroid flavor, however there’s no difference with default flavor except for different versionName.

For some reason, F-Droid fails to pick up the correct gradle version from distributionUrl if subdir is used.

It seems to be the case that F-Droid removes gdrive and onedrive in their build. Though, there seem to be no mentions of Wikipedia.

I’m a happy user of this one, for about a year today.

This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service

When viewing the app in F-Droid, the note below this part tells, that it uses a third-party service for currency exchange rates.

I don’t know if the fact that it can show Wikipedia results, and that you can connect it to your Google account (to show cloud files from Drive and such in the search results) plays a role too, but it isn’t specifically mentioned under the anti-features… On a sidenote, searching your own Owncloud or Nextcloud is supported too.

I just tried this on an Ultra.cc seedbox with yt-dlp installed, and the Fintube plugin configured to the right path for that, yet when I go to Dashboard > Fintube and click the Submit button to add a video to the download, nothing happens. Can’t figure out what’s wrong.

Maybe Jellyfin doesn’t have the necessary write permissions to write the file to that folder, but I’m not quite sure how to change those on such a seedbox, if that’s the case.

Any experience with this to share? Would the Submit button usually lead to a different view, or does it just stay on that video submission screen while the download happens silently in the background? The lack of action I experience when clicking it feels a bit awkward…

Now, that’s a great list with a lot of my preferred software on it – almost as had I written it myself! Good work. Keep it up.

It seems it has a single widget, “status widget”.

I’m not sure how to read the Plexus entries, and they don’t seem to be clickable. Would you mind explaining how to use the site in a meaningful way?

Thanks for your response. Much appreciated. Do I understand it correctly that I’ll be able to add more drives later in JBOD mode, but I’ll simply have to power it off before adding or swapping drives?