Juan Villela

@fourjuaneight
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engineer, automation nerd, amateur archivist
githubhttps://github.com/fourjuaneight
homepagehttps://juanvillela.dev
bloghttps://cleverlaziness.com
@tim Definitely! Still think Plex overall is a great choice. Even at a free tier. Even with its _at times_ painful UI.
@tim I think it's safe to say they are pretty anti-plex at this point 😅
@ezwal @joesteel This is what I did and ran a home server for the longest time. But eventually got tired of dealing with tech issues at work and at home. So now it's on an old Mac Mini and I keep songs downloaded on my phone.
@joesteel I went through this a few years ago and tried all of these too! Ultimately I found that Plex was the best option. It takes care of the metadata part and you can just dump all your music in a single folder. I use the Plex Amp app, which feels like Apple Music in many ways. But you can also use Prism Music if you want something that looks a lot like Doppler.

Private Relay is a great idea on paper, but I'm finding it more and more pernicious in practice.

Having a single point of failure on the Internet has never been a good idea.

And in this case, it's at a low level that's hard to reason about. Whether it's streaming connections getting dropped or email images that don't load, the cause to an end user is never obvious.

The one way wired earbuds still beat AirPods

Brendon Bigley on his Wavelengths blog: EarPods Rule I’m not about to wax poetic about all of the ways using wired headphones in 2024 “changes everything” like a clickbaity YouTube video, but I will say that the proliferation of USB-C on pretty much every device is slowly returning the

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@viticci EarPods are great and you quickly realize how much fidelity is lost with the AirPods. Wired over wireless any day.

@robertvh Hey Robert. I work with React, Vue, and the likes. My schedule is freeing up enough for the remainder of the year that I could lend a hand with development.

Let me know if you're interested!

@matt At this point, I just assume every month I'll live through another "once in a lifetime" event.
The more you understand computers, the more you value systems without them.