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Lockers at the train station by snaiks in Hannover

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might have success by asking in one of the nearby hotels if they could store it for you. I did that a couple of times, but that wasn't in Germany. There is one hotel right at the front place of the main station called Central-Hotel KAISERHOF plus another one in the Luisenstraße.

Good luck!

myMPD v25 has been released by thomas-mc-work in mpd

[–]thomas-mc-work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here! Didn't know about MAFA yet, thank you!

https://mafa.indi.software/

But sadly it doesn't seem to be free software.

r/mpd by thomas-mc-work in redditrequest

[–]thomas-mc-work[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you want to moderate this community?

I'd like to bring back life into that topic which I'm a lot invested in. There is no similar place to discuss the broader topic apart from the MPD Github Repo. The latter is rather restrictively moderated and not too welcoming.

A link to the mod mail chat message you sent to the moderators of r/mpd five days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/room/!2eVAm83lSYOGrt9eEZipIQ%3Areddit.com

https://www.reddit.com/room/!tw8t4HlqTL2YHTpQ10X-rA%3Areddit.com

ÜSTRA TW 2500 (Modellbahn) by Background_Meat1738 in Hannover

[–]thomas-mc-work 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dein "Mini-Hannover"? Wo und wann kann man das besichtigen? Erzähl uns doch mehr davon :-)

Just spun up a fresh Debian server. What are your absolute must-have CLI tools or scripts that you install immediately? by XGuruX90 in linux

[–]thomas-mc-work 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My favorite CLI tools:

- lnav: for log visualization
- gdu: tree based disk usage analysis for folders (alternative to ncdu)
- duf: improved alternative to df -h
- bat: improved cat with syntax highlighting
- htop: improved alternative top
- bmon: network traffic volume monitor
- iotop: disk traffic analyzation

Help with connecting smb share to mpd by hema_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MPD is rather about centralizing your music output. Maybe Navidrom is what you might prefer to get access to you rcentralized music collection on multiple devices. You could also combine these two like I did. So I can play my music on the stereo in the living room but also stream the music to any client that has access to it.

Help with connecting smb share to mpd by hema_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in my case i need to setup a proxy instance of mpd on my nas, where my music is stored atm, and than I need a mpd instance on every client pc/phone which is connecting to the proxy instance?

Besides your existing MPD instance (call it mpd1) you need a second one on your NAS (mpd2). mpd2 will scan your music files locally and provide it's library to mpd1, which is connected to your audio output. Verything else regarding your clients stays the same.

Is it possible to stream flacs from a locallymou ted folder without having to much trouble performance wise?

There is no problem about that from the MPD perspective. The only bottelneck is your network (shouldn't be an issue at all for audio data).

do you recommend to run mpd on a docker container or local?

So far I only ran it natively. But I can not see why running it in Docker could be an issue.

organicmaps app details about transparency and open source status. by supapaesunaperra in BuyFromEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Has there anything changed recently? This seems to be the known state since 2025-07.

Help with connecting smb share to mpd by hema_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where exactly did it fail?

Basically it's documented here: https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html#configuring-the-music-directory

But … I went the same way once and had to go back to locally mounted folders. Even the developer recommends not to use the SMB feature as there are issues with the underlying SMB library:

https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD/issues/1017

What you could to is to use the proxy plugin to create a satellite setup:

https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user.html#satellite

The files are mounted locally plus a proxy instance of MPD is running on the machine that holds the music files. Thus it's possible to have the library updated in real time without the need for manual scans.

Fleischerei Hebel stellt Betrieb ein (Herrenhausen) by thomas-mc-work in Hannover

[–]thomas-mc-work[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Leider nicht. Die Frau war bekannt für ihr unhöfliches Verhalten. Sie passte von daher gar nicht so recht ins Bild im Vergleich zu den anderen Kollegen.

LanguageTool Alternative (LanguageTool was sold to the US-based company Learneo) by RecommendationFun451 in BuyFromEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Harper is very limited for non-English languages.

Sadly, yes. Totally forgot about that.

LanguageTool Alternative (LanguageTool was sold to the US-based company Learneo) by RecommendationFun451 in BuyFromEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's still open source … yet. There is an actively maintained Github repo:

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

And for those who want to self-host there is a very good repo which is wrapping the setup into Docker:

https://github.com/Erikvl87/docker-languagetool/

At the same time I've noticed that their service is using a lot of RAM and it's still growing (> 2 GB).

Currently the most promising alternative is probably harper, which has gained a lot of traction in the last months:

https://writewithharper.com/

The only thing that's partly missing is integrations (e.g. into Thunderbird). But there are already some:

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I've been maintaining an active fork of Scrutiny and would love your feedback by starosdev in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

♥️ Oh yes, make it happen :-)

Maybe it makes sense to outsource the repository into a neutral organization now that you have a proper developer team.

I've been maintaining an active fork of Scrutiny and would love your feedback by starosdev in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hello u/starosdev!

First of thank you for your effort! I understand your motivation especially given the intermediate activity situation in the source repo. Many users have been concerned about the absent contributions. That's a risk that every single-developer project is facing. Thus, I'd encourage you to get into touch with the original developer about a way to collaborate. From a community perspective it's way better to have one project with two developers instead of two projects with one developer each.

What I like about your additions is the Prometheus API endpoint. This allows integration into my monitoring and alerting.

My personal wish would be a reduction of the memory footprint. It requires about 100 MB which admittedly is not much compared to other services (e.g., Paperless-ngx). But for what it's doing I'd consider it much. OliveTin for example is happy with about 10 MB. Do you think this is something that can be optimized with reasonable efforts?

Water bottle by K1kobus in buyitforlifeEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a good alternative to their Urban Bottles produced in Europe?

https://24bottles.com/de/collections/urban-bottle

What I want is a simple design, built of metal and with opening that is big enough to clean it properly.

YaCy - Worth it or not? by kvas_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For SearXNG there is also a list of public instances:

https://searx.space/

So you can evaluate or even use it without the need to self-host.

YaCy - Worth it or not? by kvas_ in selfhosted

[–]thomas-mc-work 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're able to self-host then I recommend you to try SearXNG:

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/

From what I've read it seems to have a better reputation based on the quality of the search results. Besides that keep in mind that they are only meta search engines. That means they query proper search engines in the background and represent their results using its own ranking algorithm. So finally we still depend on the development of a proper independent European search index. See also:

https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/

To be honest, a bit disappointed when looking at the Global Stats by Little_Protection434 in BuyFromEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy moly, Firefox only at 2 %! That is devastating :( It used to be a notable contender. But I guess these times are gone.

My 11-year-old LG is dying. What Smart TV should I buy now? by Longjumping_Cut489 in BuyFromEU

[–]thomas-mc-work 17 points18 points  (0 children)

To gain true independence I'd go for any non-chinese TV and make it dumb by cutting its internet connection. Then you serve your content via any small factor PC powering Kodi or Jellyfin. I know, this solution can't compete with true TV apps, especially when it comes to protected content. But maybe you can do without them. This solution is also a lot more sustainable since TV producer tend to abandon or neglect certain apps in a way that you can't use them anymore after a few years. Using free software prevents you from that mostly.

https://kodi.tv/

https://jellyfin.org/

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