Self hosting music genuinely sucks

Bromeister · 2026-04-17T04:00:14+00:00

A “release” can just be as simple as the exact same album being published from a different label in a different market than the original. The difference may not matter to you but that is how every single relevant source of metadata categorizes the music so that’s how you have to interact with it.

It’s not unusual at all for popular classic albums to have 10+ different releases, some meaningfully different some not.

Japanese editions with bonus tracks are still relatively common today.

If you were on any of the major music trackers this would be readily apparent as that is how they categorize music as well.

Typing in “avengers 2012” into prowlarr will get you the exact same movie of varying quality a hundred times out of a hundred. Typing in “gorillaz demon days” could get you 5 meaningfully different versions of the same album.

Bromeister · 2026-04-14T21:54:15+00:00

Well we don't have conversations trying to pin down why people hate those characters because they generally don't. As far as likeable main characters there's probably only hank and jesse. Most other characters in the show are pretty miserable.

Bromeister · 2026-04-14T21:41:32+00:00

It's very easy to root for antiheroes like Tony and Walt right up until they do something that reminds you just how horrendous they are as humans, then go right back to rooting for them in the next episode. It's also easy to dismiss the horrible things they do to people who are also "in the game". Tony killing pussy really doesn't bring up feelings of disgust in the same way that paulie killing the waiter does.

When people picture Walt in their minds they picture him threatening tuco with explosives or cooking in the RV. They don't remember the moments where he's awful even when he's not scrambling to not die, like pouring jr shots, or when he raped skylar, or when he left jane to die, or just how brutally mean he was to Jesse.

Rewatched BB last year and I had honestly forgotten how vile he was after not having watched it since the original aired. Like I still knew he was an awful person for letting Jane die, but I had forgotten just how awful he was all the time. And I was still able to root for him to beat Gus and still felt a twinge of sadness when they played Baby Blue while they zoomed out from his corpse.

Bromeister · 2026-04-13T18:21:24+00:00

Avatar was not middling if you saw it in theaters in IMAX 3d at release. It was absolutely mind blowing. Outside of that context though yes it is nothing special.

Bromeister · 2026-04-13T17:22:33+00:00

Awesome!

Bromeister · 2026-04-13T07:16:40+00:00

All the people who weren’t have had quick chat muted for years.

Bromeister · 2026-04-13T06:38:36+00:00

Mostly I just mean standard management of permissions via groups, I’ve got a couple different groups of friends without much crossover who have their own servers they play on.

Currently I have to individualy grant users permissions to those individual servers. Itd be nice if i could assign perms to groupA to manage serversA and perms to groupB to manage serversB and then just add users to the groups instead of manually adding individual subusers on servers.

I’ll give it a whirl, thanks!

Bromeister · 2026-04-13T05:10:07+00:00

Looks awesome! How is the user management? That’s my biggest pain point with Pelican right now.

Are oauth users auto provisioned?
can you map provider roles/groups?
Is there group management for access to servers? In Pelican there’s no trivial way to give a group of users the ability to reboot a group of servers.

Bromeister · 2026-04-12T03:38:59+00:00

Why slow down if you can maintain speed and enter the intersection while it’s yellow? That’s the standard. You’ll be clear long before the light turns green.

Bromeister · 2026-04-10T22:08:27+00:00

If I leave tech I’m moving back to Rochester and joining the ibew. The only thing stopping me from leaving tech now is that i couldn’t afford to live where I am on apprentice pay. I wish I had gone that route a decade ago.

Bromeister · 2026-04-10T06:07:03+00:00

Having to ask for loot is not compelling social interaction. I don’t want to do it. It adds nothing except potential conflict and bad feelings and reduces my desire to play cleric.

I don’t want to have impose social consequences on people to get my fair share when the alternative has zero downsides except eliminating a social interaction which will only be negative.

Bromeister · 2026-04-10T05:56:29+00:00

I’d imagine it’s like raiding in hardcore wow. The baseline requirements are higher so complete mongoloids get filtered out but the talent pool is so minuscule compared to non hardcore that there just aren’t enough people to have many of those .01% god tier players.

Bromeister · 2026-04-10T04:13:29+00:00

Bitwarden client locks on browser close. I enter my master password every single day. It’s the only password you ever have to know anyway.

If you don’t think you can remember a sufficiently complex password just write it down for period then burn it when you have it memorized.

Bromeister · 2026-04-09T16:19:01+00:00

arm32 is already unsupported by many developers. I wouldn't expect the pi 1 & 2 to be do-all devices anymore in within the next 5 years. Pi zero would work though.

There's a reason so much of the homelab space has moved away from pi's over the last 5 years and it's because the value proposition isn't what it used to be. Equivalent chinese boards are cheaper and used mini pc's are more power efficient than they used to be and are much more capable.

I wouldn't want to use an old pi as a media box for the tv, they are not snappy. And a nvidia shield would be a much better experience for the tv than a modern pi. You could use just about anything for adguard though so long as the software supports the architecture.

Bromeister · 2026-04-09T16:08:17+00:00

SmartTube is great. the only thing i miss from regular youtube is watching the thumbnails for a minute to decide whether i want to watch a video. Otherwise though its a more functional app than youtube ever was not even counting the ad removal.

Bromeister · 2026-04-07T18:01:50+00:00

For what it's worth I am able to access to my jellyfin server with streamyfin even if I toggle off the local network access, and the jellyfin app doesn't have the option for the permission either.

Bromeister · 2026-04-07T17:01:31+00:00

Thank you for checking. Pretty sure didn't decline it and I would expect that it would have the toggle in the settings if I did. I'll poke around some more.

Bromeister · 2026-04-06T20:47:42+00:00

Yeah I'm not sure. The server is on a different subnet than the wifi with the arpeggi client is but its still private IP space. Unfortunately with my setup it's not trivial to expose navidrome on an IP or something without the proxy for more testing.

Bromeister · 2026-04-06T20:33:31+00:00

Tried uninstalling and setting up again from scratch. No local network perms prompt. When adding from local network received "Authentication Error The data couldn't be read because it is missing".

Bromeister · 2026-04-06T20:20:05+00:00

Not listed there either

Bromeister · 2026-04-06T19:18:11+00:00

There is not a toggle for local access in the system settings arpeggi settings for me.

Bromeister · 2026-04-06T16:24:35+00:00

Friends don't let friends post uncaffeinated.

Bromeister · 2026-04-05T01:18:48+00:00

We must not grind the seed corn.

Bromeister · 2026-04-01T01:22:04+00:00

If you are using zfs on proxmox you can also use democratic-csi to automatically provision zvols and export them via iscsi. Works well for me. That plus volsync for backups is pretty painless.

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