• Access to my entire music library remotely
• A directory structure view, rather than just Album/Artist/Genre views
• Transcoding while streaming to minimize mobile data usage
• Syncing parts of my library for offline usage

FWIW, you can partially hit most of these with Navidrome with another frontend. I like using Symfonium (android) which allows local downloading, and has a directory view. I don't think it would work offline though for the directory view. I don't know about caching/downloading on desktop though; feishin is my favorite desktop frontend, but I don't think it has a DL/play from DL feature.

The above is only partial. Thank you for your work and sharing. I think the discouraging comments miss that this was a passion project of yours to fill your own use case. Good work!

I always liked the concept of blaze, but it seems like development stopped 2 years ago.

https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze

Using webtorrents for multi-peer transfers & being able to UL/DL from a URL.

Draft legislation in Illinois, California, and Massachusetts

Not related other than learning resource - but I'll also mention on the off chance it's useful to anyone, I like these resources for practicing kana:

• https://gohoneko.neocities.org/learn/kana
  • it's like most other "type what you see" quizzes, but I like that it has a good selection of fonts that normalize different strokes/styles.
• https://studykana.com/practice-reading
  • just a typing test. Gives you an excuse/motivation to try to go fast. I wish it had more words, or a way to upload a word dictionary, etc.

Each are useful in their own right, but I was kind of contemplating making an opensource repo that has similar (but hopefully refined) capabilities, maybe detecting when you commonly confuse two characters and then offer to give you a short drill of just those characters to reinforce.

Obviously less and less useful as time goes on and the hiragana are cemented in your memory, but it makes me sad to think someone might take them down one day and they'd just be lost.

There's a lot I like about Wagotabi. Not perfect by any means, but I think if offers a fair bit for reinforcement fairly naturally without just always beating you over the head with flash cards. And does offer a little listening practice too at times.

I've almost made it to a one month long streak. It feels good my retention rate has leveled out after having restarted. Still a long way to go but currently I've learned ~35% of n5 kanji, and ~20% of n5 vocab. Yay progress!

I've not adopted it consistently, but Wagotabi looks to be a fun tool to learn/study, too.

Me neither. Is it supposed to be a call of violence like "shorten the lives of the rich to today"? Or "shorten the lives of the rich by the end of today"?

I think it has some sort of binary already in the archive. There's a "start-tor-browser.desktop" you just double click to launch the browser.

Thanks, that's encouraging!

On JPDB some of the old batches of kanji/vocab are still cropping up. I'm not sure why they weren't in the first "mass" of long overdue review cards. I forgot them but after a review or two they seem to stick well.

I dont have a library that big, but I would recommend trying the Feishin desktop player if using navidrome. It's a solid player in my experience, and has a smart playlist creator UI which the navidrome webui does not include.

Yeah, so far I've enjoyed JPDB. I switched from Anki, and while there is no offline capability, I prefer it to my experience with Anki in this case. As I'm still early, that doesn't mean much - the proof will be in how effectively I learn.

It felt good that many of the 6+ month forgotten cards came back to memory without big efforts.

I am just coming back to it after a long break. Resuming kana and JPDB studies.

This; Linuxserver Qbittorrent docker with gluetun to make sure all traffic goes through your VPN.

Thanks, I'll check them out.

Thanks, I'll take a look. Syncing is nice, but I'll see how it fits!

Does anyone have current recommendations for an alternative to nextcloud file syncing/sharing?

I use it only for the below:

• synchronize some files/folders between some of my devices
• share files/folders with friends who don't have an account; either with no password/account, or a password set at time of sharing
  • temporary/timed sharing so it is eventually no longer shared is nice, but not required
• use its webui like dropbox to upload files to my server from random machines (or download them)

And for that, nextcloud seems to be overkill.

I don't see a lot of love here for the ESPP, so I'll add my perspective. If your company is not prone to large fluctuations, then a quicksale with 15% discount is usually a good investment (if locking your money up for 6 months isn't a problem).

Even without the min of start/end, it's giving you a very good shot at 15% benefit for an average investment of ~3 months (your initial contributions are held for 6 months, but your most recent st ourchase for weeks). I don't know of any investment that can fairly confidently return near 15% in 3 months.

So long as you are confident in your stock, my strategy is:

• contribute to the espp
• quicksale
• withdraw the money (set aside some for taxes if necessary) and invest it into index (assuming all bills/debts are paid off)

Yes, it is taxed as short term gain this way, but your salary/other stock incentives/insurance are likely already tied to your employer, and holding it a year is riskier than quicksale

This is the way

Symfonium on mobile Feishin on PC

I text my buddy, and say "hey do you wanna watch xyz, when you're done with work?". We hop on discord to chat and watch it. An hour or two timezone is not an issue, and for someone 'local' I'm probably not driving half an hour to their house after work. I do prefer watching together in-person, but thats not always as convenient.

Probably around 40% of my watching is via syncplay on Jellyfin, as I like watching with buddies.

Sans jellyfin you have to find a way for both of you to access the same file/stream and manually sync across snack/bathroom breaks or use the external and separate syncplay app.

I do like the external syncplay app but if I'm going to have to get the file to them anyways, why not just stream it synced? In my mind this is a really convenient feature.

It is not perfect, in my experience;

• on rare occasions, it gets 'stuck' and won't sync correctly, so one will play but noth the other, pausing one unpauses the other, etc. Usually rebooting helps, but if not, I just manually sync
• there was 1 occassion which made no sense. I played a movie with a friend, we were watching together, but they were ahead of me by a whole ~15 minutes by the end of the film. Neither of us felt it was fast/slow or skipping anything.
• I haven't had luck using syncplay on my TV. The feature exists but it doesn't actually work.

But these are rare, minor gripes IMO. I'm glad Jellyfin has this feature.