Those issues were related to Covid. It made perfect sense for them to focus on their corporate clients, who are their largest revenue source. I’ve also never heard anything bad about their customer service, nor the quality of the products or pricing.

Now that those supply issues have been solved, there’s no real reason to be wary of them. They make an incredible product at a fantastic price.

Open Source or Die!!! /s

My music is stored on my real-debrid account, and I use Lidarr and Debrid Media Manager to manage it. For a player/streaming server I’m currently using Jellyfin, but I’ve used Navidrome and Plex in the past and found them to work great.

All my local music is stored on a NAS which Jellyfin also has access to.

edit: For the lazy there’s always SpotifyX for Desktop, and XManager for Android.

But then how would they get all the tech blogs to write about them?

A cheaper, albeit less secure alternative, is purchasing a domain and setting up a Cloudflare tunnel.

Hell I’ve spotted some old systems still running a Telex exchange and Windows 3.1

Does this still require you to get the Windows App from the Windows Store? Thats the main reason I ditched.

I just use Beeper. I had my own Matrix server up but getting all the bridges to work was cumbersome.

Plexamp is free now. Just use that.

Plex isn’t allowed on Cloudflare. Itll work, but you’ll get your account flagged.

Use Tailscale instead.

Is it particularly different from LibreX?

Only janky solution I know of is to use a Raspberry Pi (or other computer) to run Kodi or Android TV. You can then point your TV’s DNS to a PiHole or other DNS filter to stop tracking/ads.

You can name the title, that’s fine. The only thing you can’t do here is openly share links to that content (it must be encoded with base64).

When it comes to old media, especially from the early 2000’s and earlier, I start with Archive.org and YouTube.

Like /u/Sharpiemaker suggested, your library would also be a good spot to check. If you have a reference library in your system they are a goldmine for that sort of thing.

Alternatively, you can pick up a cheap capture card and record the tape to your PC.

Check https://audioz.download

I’m a simple man. I see PBF, I upvote.

Im all for continuing communities 9utsideof Reddit, but porting posts/content is like putting up pictures of your ex everywhere. Why is everyone still so obsessed with this?

To point your domain to your machine you can use Cloudflare tunnels. If you don’t want it publicly available, you can use a VPN.

I would actually suggest buying one of Netgate’s prebuilt routers. They’re pricey, but it brings the peace of mind knowing that device is handling it exclusively, and with appropriate hardware. It doesn’t come with a Switch or AP though.

Good. The less Google does the better the internet will be.

I forget exactly when it happened, but shortly after Facebook launched to the public. I had an account for a few years but was always uncomfortable with it. Then when Cambridge Analytica and Facebook were exposed I went scorched Earth.

Since then I’ve learned programming, networking, and some basic cryptography in an effort to better understand and protect myself. I’ve been a Linux user for about 25 years, so it wasn’t too hard for me to adapt.