[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

It's definitely not as lightweight, but as I rely on subtitles a lot I have to run most stuff through Kodi unfortunately. I find it to work quite well though with the Jellyfin add-on. I don't know if it's because the development of Jellyfin is mostly done in the US, who often dislike subtitles, but this has been an ongoing issue for years at this point.

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 124 points 4 days ago

Hopefully people can now stop jumping to conclusions and raging over nothing, but I doubt it.

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

I'd recommend running Jellyfin server but using Kodi as your frontend, best of both worlds, especially if you use subtitles as subtitles still work really poorly on Jellyfin

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Not affiliated in any way with Actual Budget, but I can't recommend it enough. It's the FOSS version of YNAB pretty much so if you're a fan of envelope budgeting it's a great tool. I'd even say it has quite a few other strengths compared to YNAB (free bank syncing in the EU with more banks supported for example), and you can always be sure that your financial data stays within your reach.

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 151 points 2 weeks ago

A reminder that Opera is owned by a Chinese public company. I wouldn't trust the browser for privacy reasons.

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 29 points 2 weeks ago

Great to hear that Mbin is getting some attention!

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I have a degree in information systems which was a mix between business and IT. While I in my initial job search was really close on heading in the direction of becoming a developer, I instead landed a role as a business systems analyst as well as working with digital transformation. So basically I'm in the land between IT and the business. I do some super light programming for the platform I'm responsible for but I feel like it's the kind of stuff you could learn in a day. I know some basic Java, Python and C# but not really enough that I'd see me landing a job that isn't a trainee developer position or a job for newly-grads where the company doesn't expect you to know anything at first.

While I don't mind the social and more business-oriented aspects of the job, I'm kinda lamenting the fact that I didn't enter into some trainee/junior dev job to sharpen up my programming skills and become a fully-fledged developer. I'd love to work fully remote and to be more flexible, e.g., not as bound to meetings and stuff which I currently am, or become a freelancer. Has anyone made a similar transition from digital transformation/adjacent areas to becoming a developer? Or am I just thinking too narrowly on what my options in this field are? Maybe there are many opportunities for fully-remote work in digital transformation, business system analysis and what not that I'm not seeing...?

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submitted 4 weeks ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

As in, would they be able to access your server?

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 57 points 1 month ago

I'm just waiting for some FOSS purist to find fault in this.

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submitted 1 month ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

In regards to privacy... even when trying to use FOSS-alternatives and F-Droid on Android?

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submitted 1 month ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

... and it's much, much better than I anticipated. Proton has solved so many things. I've been dual booting on a smaller partition so far, but this has convinced me to wipe the whole disk and use it for Linux only. I might still keep a dual boot in case there is some edge case, but nothing so far has been an issue. I've been running Pop_Os! which I also have on my laptop since some year back. Previously I've also always had Arch on my laptop, but always stuck with Windows for my desktop just because of gaming issues.

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submitted 2 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I think a common factor on why torrents are having a resurgence and illegal streaming services are getting more traction, is subscription fatigue. Subscription fatigue doesn't only contain itself to streaming services, movies or music, nowadays you're also expected to subscribe to every app you download. Whether it's a meditation app, a budgeting app (looking at YNAB that went from a one-time purchase to a really expensive subscription model), the Adobe suite, the MS Office suite, your Peloton bike that you've already paid hundreds of dollars for (referencing the earlier article on them establishing a startup fee for buying used bikes), or a podcast app where the money doesn't even go to the podcasters themselves.

Is there a peak for this? I feel like subscriptions are becoming more of a rule than an exception. Having the ability to directly purchase digital goods seems more like a thing of the past. It's just so stupid. But apparently people don't care? They just keep paying for this? Apparently it's still worth it for companies to establish a subscription model, even if there are no benefits for the customer, just the company. What are your thoughts? What can we do to stop it?

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 27 points 2 months ago

Luckily the only "AI" we have are LLMs which seem to have hit their peak, and probably will start corrupting itself with its own training data now that they've scoured the web clean.

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 20 points 2 months ago

Well, many do...

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 25 points 2 months ago

I'd say this might be true for programs, but as long as you download movies, shows and music I'd assume it's fine as long as you use common sense.

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 45 points 2 months ago

But not run by the original owners. And the current team is really shady. I wouldn't trust downloading an .exe from there.

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submitted 2 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/simpleliving@lemmy.ml

A lot of people feel drawn to simple living or digital minimalism because they feel a constant need to be connected and stay up to date, and feel less and less in control because of the attention economy and how algorithms are developed to maximize your attention. While the fediverse might not work in the same exploitative way as centralised services does, there's still a feedback loop that keeps you coming back.

To what extent does the problems of the attention economy on the human mind plague the fediverse? Is replacing centralised services with Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed and Mastodon just opting for a "lesser evil" in a sense? What are your thoughts?

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 38 points 2 months ago

Like most of capitalism tbf

[-] Treedrake@fedia.io 45 points 2 months ago

For the customer, (actually quite good) coupons. For the company, data collection.

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submitted 2 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

I actually started on Kbin.social, but then it got shut down, Kbin died and now fedia.io seems to be the largest one running MBin. I like the interface on MBin and I guess it's good to have a diverse fediverse with different services, but at the same time, why use mbin when everyone congregates on lemmy instances? The local magazines on fedia are for the most part, quite dead, when compared to lemmy collections. In the end I feel like there aren't enough people to go around to support many more services like MBin and Piefed.

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submitted 2 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I'm looking for a preferably non-web wrapper podcast player for Windows, that's preferably also open source. Having a tough time though. Any tips?

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submitted 2 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/foss@beehaw.org

I'm looking for a preferably non-web wrapper podcast player for Windows, that's preferably also open source. Having a tough time though. Any tips?

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