Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Heck yeah!

    I’m gonna make a couple celebratory posts on [email protected].

    Also, a tip on quickly getting up to speed with federation, is to get your instance and communities set up on lemmy-federate.com.

    Since content only shows up for users on instances with subscribers, the idea is to use a bot account on each participating instance to have that one required subscriber, so that posts from new communities actually show up on other instances, rather than just the originating one.

    It basically allows you to kick-start federation, actually allowing users to organically discover your instance and communities.

    edit: There is an active Balatro community at [email protected].




  • The closest thing I can think of, is Soulseek.

    You can find almost anything on there. People share their entire collections, and almost everyone has some niche stuff they like.

    I’ve spent hours exploring other people’s curated libraries, finding stuff I’ve never heard.

    I don’t see how this would work financially, tho. Soulseek doesn’t make anyone money, except when i go out of my way to buy something on qobuz or bandcamp when I really like something.

    Music is art. Like visual artists, it’s simple enough for one or a couple people to produce, but unlike visual art, it’s less commonly done on comission. Which means freely sharing your music, doesn’t typically put food on the table.

    Hence, musicians sell albums or singles. Preferably directly to their fans. Souncloud, YT, and Soulseek regularly help me find new artists I like… But for actual listening I pull up Symfonium, hooked up to my Jellyfin server, serving my carefully curated personal collection.



  • Sorry, I must’ve misremembered about systemd. It’s how my installs start up, and the unit file is not in the usual location for systemd units I’ve created myself, so my assumption was it came with Kopia. There is no systemd timer though, and one isn’t needed.

    Edit: Just confirmed no systemd file came with kopia on my system either, my mistake.

    in the past week, it did not backup anything. Hence, there is no scheduler built into kopia automagically as described/ hinted in the docs.

    Was Kopia running during that time?

    If you run a Kopia command, then it will perform the instructed task, and then exit. It will obviously not do anything after completing whatever command was given, as the process will have exited, leaving no kopia process running on the system. This is for when you use it in cron or your own scripts.

    The other way of doing things is to run it in server mode kopia server start, which will set it running as a background daemon. When running, it allows you to log into the web interface or configure it via cli to do whatever you like. And as long as the process starts along with the host system, that’s all there is to it.

    How the daemon is set up to start, doesn’t really matter.



  • My current setup, is as follows:

    Personally curated music I buy and organize using Picard into folder A.

    Lidarr is configured with folder C, which is a mergerfs volume consisting of folder A and B. Folder A is read-only, and any writes on C go into folder B. This way Lidarr can “see” all my existing music, while any automated downloads go into folder B, keeping them separate from my organized files.

    Lidarr actually works, because it is hooked up to Soulseek using Tubifarry with ytdl as a fallback. I also have an import list hooked up to my last.fm recommendations to automatically download new stuff I might like.

    When I feel like it, I go through folder B using Picard, moving things I want to keep into folder A.

    To access my music, I use Jellyfin, also through folder C. My clients are Feishin and Symfonium.

    In Symfonium, I use smart playlists for discovery. These playlists populate based on stuff like “unlistened tracks” or “multiple plays without being favorited” and “recently added from favorited artists”.

    My favorite feature however is the tag-based endless playback which allows me to pick a track to start with, and then swipe through music with at least some kind of logic to the progression. This is my main way to browse my library.

    It works extremely well, with the exception of files that don’t contain many tags. Hence my main pursuit has been to find a good way too add at least some genre tags to ALL my files. I haven’t found a final solution.

    For iOS support, look at Navidrome for the server and maybe SubStreamer for the client.