A quick search lead me to these sites, which I guess will do the job, but I haven’t verified if they’re working or not. It seems at least some of them will add some public trackers to the magnet link, but, with DHT enabled in the client, I think it could also work without adding those.

• https://www.hashtomagnet.com/
• https://magnetlinkgenerator.com/
• https://hardrisk.github.io/magnet/

or

• https://hash2torrent.com/{info-hash} (replace {info-hash} with the actual hash without the curly brackets to get the torrent file if peers are available)

Thanks for pointing out these changes. I’m curious, which plugins are you fond of?

Some files on Plasma Bigscreen’s Gitlab were updated 2-3 days ago, so I think it’s still being maintained.

On the other hand, the Emulationstation website reads:

This website is for the original EmulationStation, last updated in 2015!

Without having tried it, I think ES-DE may be a better choice nowadays, since that one seems to be maintained.

RetroDECK bundles ES-DE with relevant tools and emulators if you want to use it for emulation of games.

That looks interesting for my upcoming HTPC upgrade. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you. I have seen the ASM1166 mentioned before as part of such a solution, but the other suggestions were new to me.

Can you also confirm to me, have I got it right that (some/all? of) the N100 boards has everything included regarding CPU, GPU and RAM, while most other mini-ITX boards come without those? Or did I get that wrong? Sorry for bothering you, but it’s all still a bit confusing to me, and I have an empty Jonsbo N3 case, and some 22TB drives that are longing to move into their house.

Do you happen to know about a decent solution for 8 SATA ports on a mini-ITX board?

A single folder synced between all of them, or a separate folder for each, syncing everything to a single device?

abcde - A Better CD Encoder

Is this the one? https://zellij.dev/about/

I just read that navidrome

Handles large libraries!

Plays well with gigantic music collections (tested with ~900K songs - 2/3 FLAC, 1/3 MP3)

Though, I don’t know if any of the supported Subsonic API clients can handle as much…

being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don’t know any other player that has similar.

Well, you can remote control playback in Kodi through apps like Kore, and browse the libraries, but it’s a totally different experience in comparison to dedicated music player apps. Kodi is more like software for a home theater PC, a.k.a. media center.

The best viable solution I can think of, that includes a desktop UI and remote control from a phone, would be hosting a Jellyfin server for the music library, then using the client app for Android to remotely control another client app running on your desktop. I do that everyday (but mostly for video content), since I’m using my phone to control playback on a Raspberry Pi running Kodi with the “Jellycon” client add-on, but that could be any other Jellyfin client, such as a regular Jellyfin desktop client.

Thank you for thoroughly explaining this. Your explanations make good sense to me.

I assume we’re talking about software testing? I’d like to know more about:

• The meaning of negative and positive tests in this context

• Good examples of badly done negative tests by LLMs

deploy a raspberry to project services into their local network

This piqued my interest!

What’s a good way of doing it? What services, besides the VPN, would run on that RPi (or some other SBC or other tiny device…) to make Jellyfin accessible on the local network?

There’s also a more lightweight alternative for recording tracks called OpenTracks. It can export the data in KMZ, KML, GPX or CSV format.

Why not paperless? I’ve thought of trying out paperless-ngx but would like to hear about your experiences with it or other thoughts about it.

You’re always bringing something interesting to look into or write on the list for later. This time too! Nimletter is on my list now.

Thinking a bit outside the box, if your phone is capable of it, you could find a way to run a small local LLM on it. Maybe it can even be done in Termux?

If that’s not an option and/or you need a bigger, more capable model, you could host a local Ollama instance, and connect to it from the Ollama (IzzyOnDroid) or GPTMobile (F-Droid). This way you will only connect to yourself instead of some 3rd party translation or LLM provider.

I think that, with a well-written system prompt, you could make it more efficient by concisely instructing it to expect your text input and a language (or include permanent language instructions in system prompt), to then only output the translated version of your input in that language. This will keep the number of input+output tokens low, thereby saving some inference. You can also get creative and instruct it to output multiple variations, change the style/tone/formatting, provide an example sentence containing a single translated word, etc…

There’s probably a Plex add-on for Kodi. At least, there is for Jellyfin and Emby. If you don’t like the UI, try changing it. I prefer the one called “Arctic: Zephyr - Reloaded”. You’ll need to customize the homescreen a bit to get the most out of it. That way you can make it show widgets of your content, e.g. the latest content added, continue watching, specific libraries, etc. That, at least, works very well with Jellyfin through the Jellycon add-on.

I thought this would work - and it does! Here’s how to add radio channels as Live TV:

• From the Jellyfin homescreen menu, navigate to the Dashboard
• Click the Dashboard menu button (three stripes at the top)
• Go to Live TV
• Click the first (+) button to add a new tuner device
• Choose “M3U Tuner”
• Select your local .m3u file or paste a URL
• Click Save
• Go back to the homescreen of Jellyfin
• In the menu, click Live TV
• Switch to the tab called Channels
• If your .m3u file works, you can select any channel it contains from here.

You can even add a custom logo for each channel:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Channel 1 tvg-logo="https://link.to/logo-ch1.png"
http://liveradio.url.channel1.fake:8000/channel1-is-fake.mp3

#EXTINF:-1,RadiOmega tvg-logo="https://linking.park/logo-radiomega.png"
http://liveradio.nope.omegalive:8000/y/radiomega.mp3

And rank them in the list by changing -1 to positive values IIRC.