Mastodawn

It’s crazy to think that right now, in the era we are currently living, will be thought of as “the good old days of AI and LLMs. Back when things were free and open and you could do anything.”

cjbxz Feb 1

I have never cared much for #music #streaming services. Most my music listening is of independent productions sent as promos, or bootlegs, or is unreleased. All I want is to be able to stream my recent mp3 imports to my phone, rate them + leave notes on the go so that I can come home and add them to my DJ library. This #lidarr #navidrome #tubifarry #beets #metadataremote just might be the solution i've been waiting for for years.

cjbxz Feb 1

I'm back making updates to my #homelab. I found a great article that introduced me to a #slskd plugin for #Lidarr and most importantly, for me, automated metadata editing AND a webUI to edit the id3 tags for my #music from anywhere! You have NO idea for how many years I've wanted this.

Thanks to: blog.nfreak.tv/music-stack/

#selfhosting

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cjbxz Jan 27

It could also be one of my external hard drives i’m using for media storage is starting to go bad. I am thinking this because when I over-do it by accessing music and movie files at the same time from multiple devices, or read/write from several qbittorrent downloading at once the system is likely to crash. Then the computer can’t restart properly because the drive won’t be able to safely eject. This results in a hard reboot and fdsk check. #homelab #troubleshooting #support #techsupport

cjbxz Jan 27

So, apparently my memory is fried. This is the second duo of memory my homelab has corrupted. Something’s going wrong and the only thing I can think of was I was using a third-party battery charger for my laptop. I’m not sure how to diagnose things further
#homelab

cjbxz Jan 4

No updates in a while because I’ve taken a social media break. But one quick update on the homeland project- I’ve been having memory crashes and problems mounting/unmounying external HDD’s that are accessed by certain containers. It causes hang-ups and an inability to clear out caches. Ty main focus as of late has been improvements in stability and efficiencies.

Also, I need to migrate a ton of Apple Music playlists over to Navidrome and Mixx so that I can start DJing again. #homelab

cjbxz Oct 24

It’s been a few weeks since I logged in an update on my Homelav. Last time I mentioned my server running docker had a failing hard disk… and NOW, as of a couple days ago, my proxmox server has been having kernel panic issues. Turns out one of the RAM sticks finally gave out and was causing problems. So now I’m waiting for the replacements to arrive.

What’s great is that because my hardware is so old, the cost of upgraded components is CHEAP. I’m happy I kept these devices around.

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cjbxz Oct 24

One incredibly simple but highly convenient feature of the Mac ecosystem is that if I Copy something to my clipboard on my mac, when I hit paste on my iphone those contents are going to automatically be there. Like magic 🪄

This cross-platform purgatory has its tiny inconveniences sometimes, but I’m not complaining 🙃

cjbxz Oct 24

Oh yeah and i migrated all my notes over to Joplin. I like that it works similar to Obsidian but I don’t have to pay to use synchronization between my devices. Encryption is nice.

#1 perk is that it solves my problem for needing a clipboard that I can paste from one device (my linux pc), and then copy + paste to another device without saving a .txt and uploading to dropbox, or sending myself an email/text. Just quickly paste contents into a Joplin note.

cjbxz Oct 24

I can’t wait for Mozilla Thunderbird to be released for iOS later this year. I deactivated all my email addresses being imported by gmail today. So I’m using Apple Mail, whose UI I do not enjoy. (Why do i have to hit reply to see a sender’s address?)

But i need an all-in-one client that has better spam filtering so I’m not seeing every single email that comes through in my top level inbox. #email #ios #software #appdevelopment