Fully ripping a #CD from A to Z is kind of satisfying? Like, I:

- Ripped and transcoded the CD
- Scanned and edited the front cover
- Created a #MusicBrainz release because there wasn't an existing one
- Added artist relations to the release
- Uploaded the cover image
- Uploaded the Disc ID
- Created and uploaded acoustID
- Added to my Jellyfin

It now looks like this and anyone else who has this CD can just rip it and apply all the info I added. #MusicBrainz & #Picard are amazing!

#Finamp

I set up my home server around 1.5 years ago, and somehow it's still super satisfying streaming music to the car from my phone, knowing that #Finamp, #Jellyfin, #Caddy, #CoreDNS, #netfilter, #Linux, #Docker, #Tailscale and #DuckDNS are all working together perfectly to make this miracle happen. Everything just works™. I'm so grateful to the people who make this possible by creating all of this software and the dependencies. Especially the ones who code it themselves.

#SelfHosting #HomeServer

When you discover that the lamp you've been using regularly for years consumes more than 300 watt! 300 watt!! That's about as much as my desktop PC while playing games.

Lamps like that should be illegal in 2026.

#HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #energy

#LogSeq might be the first program I've ever encountered that is unusable (at least for how I would want to use it) because it's written in JavaScript. I bet if it was written in any compiled language, it would be an incredible program. The performance is just that terrible.

Ah yes, LinkedIn needs to access my canvas. I wonder why...

#LinkedIn's tracking is wild.

Signing up for an account in a private Firefox window with adblock and privacy badger: It already shows my family as people I might know.

Signing up for an account in Mullvad browser with VPN active: It doesn't know.

Signing up in Mullvad browser without VPN: It also doesn't know.

So basically it has fingerprinted my Firefox browser so well that it knows it's me before I'm signed in.

Awful, terrible, scary, corrupt website. They don't even try to hide it.

You know you're doing self-hosting right when it takes more than 30 minutes of no internet before you notice anything is wrong. Music is playing, files are uploading, the home automation is fully functional...

#Jellyfin #SynologyDrive #HomeAssistant #SelfHost #SelfHosting #HomeServer

This may be my favorite photo I've ever taken of our cat.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cat #cats

Just plugged in a Raspberry Pi 5 into a OnePlus phone charger, without connecting the other end of the charger, and the Pi turned on and even started to boot before it lost power.

What sort of crazy capacitors did they put in there?!

Just to be clear, I'm not against Home Assistant having an assistant feature. I think having an assistant feature in your home automation setup could be pretty cool. I just wish it could be disabled easily. Currently, even after removing it from your configuration file, it still shows up in the UI for some reason.

Home Assistant, more like slop assistant am I right?

Sad to see that Home Assistant is jumping on the slop bandwagon with this and their new assistant feature that can't easily be disabled.

#HomeAssistant

I see that #Zellij now allows you to resize panes with the mouse. I've been waiting for that feature for years. So glad to see it landed in the recent release. Sometimes I forget I'm in a terminal while using Zellij. It just feels so natural and interactive.

The USA is such a nice country, solving corruption and politics in other countries. I'm sure there is no other reason why they would ever attack a country. Definitely not.

Payed for a #NextCloud instance yesterday to collect photo's with a group of people. It fails to upload simple video's! I also installed #Immich yesterday and not a single upload has failed so far. How is NextCloud this bad?!

I've heard many people complain about #Kubernetes before so I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I think I like Kubernetes.

Now I haven't set up a multi-node, production-ready cluster yet, so maybe that's why I'm so optimistic. For now, I'm just using #Minikube to actually learn how to use Kubernetes stuff like pods, services, deployments and Helm charts.

#k8s :kubernetes:

I hate it...

This text about DNS from Tailscale is such a fun one to read.

"DHCP is a protocol that lets machines on a network discover what config they should use by shouting aimlessly at everyone on the network until someone tells them what they want."

"... the disagreeing programs [...] need to compete for DNS supremacy."

https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux

#DNS #ItsAlwaysDNS

Students: Try to place their phone somewhere else to not be distracted while studying.

University: Well now you require a 2FA app that you need *every time you log into our services* as the services can't remember your device.

Students:

OMG YES, I was just going to do this manually. OK Caddy is my new favorite web server. It has everything, even the cats!

https://http.cat
https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/handle_errors

These are the times where I wish I was using #Rust instead of debugging for 2 hours...