Sharing my own experience. (Sorry if this is already widely known! I'm somewhat new to self-hosting.)

I have a 2009 Mac Mini (upgraded via OCLP) that I use as a server for BlueBubbles, Jellyfin, & SyncThing. It's not hooked up to a monitor, so I've been servicing it by remoting in via Chrome Remote Desktop. I only have to access it a few times a year, but each time is such a chore because this old machine is SO slow. Constant beachballing, every task takes forever. Chrome RD finally stopped working this month, so I switched to TeamViewer and I'm shocked by how much faster everything's running. It's still not fast (it IS a 2009 machine, after all) but I'm able to accomplish tasks much faster than when I was using CRD. And just like CRD, I'm able to start TeamViewer at startup, even before login, which is crucial.

Thank you TeamViewer!

Here's my problem: I wrote a satirical political novel (myself, not with AI) and then I generated an audiobook using AI, read by a famous (infamous?) politician, because it cheekily works well.

I would love to distribute/sell this audiobook, but I can't: Many platforms (like Spotify) won't allow AI-generated voices without an LPF file created by ElevenLabs or Google Play Books. And there's no way for me to legitimately get that LPF file, because ElevenLabs & GPB have their own restrictions. They won't let me generate my audiobook in the voice of this politician, even if it's explicitly satirical.

So... I'm looking for a way to fake an LPF file that can fool Spotify. Does this exist? Anyone know how?

Thank you Lemmy!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60123252

Unihertz is one of the only phone manufacturers still making small phones. The Jelly Max is the only compact 5G Android phone on the market.

BUT... Unihertz has a terrible track record when it comes to supporting their phones. Most OEMs issue Android and security updates for years. Unihertz phones often get less than 1 year of software/firmware support, including security updates. In a recent email to me, Unihertz confirmed, verbatim, "We don't update our phones very often. And we're not sure of the exact frequency of updates."

This is crazy, and it doesn't have to be this way. Chris Allegretta has argued that Unihertz could allow the Lineage project to take over the Jelly Max and ensure that the phone is supported for years to come, simply by sending them some restore zips and 5 pre-prod units. That's it!

Tell Unihertz: Either support the Jelly Star, or help the Lineage team take it over.

Unihertz also told me, "we do collect user feedback and forward it to our technical department. They will evaluate the feedback and implement updates if necessary." So let's give 'em some feedback!

Their email is:

[email protected]

Unihertz is one of the only phone manufacturers still making small phones. The Jelly Max is the only compact 5G Android phone on the market.

BUT... Unihertz has a terrible track record when it comes to supporting their phones. Most OEMs issue Android and security updates for years. Unihertz phones often get less than 1 year of software/firmware support, including security updates. In a recent email to me, Unihertz confirmed, verbatim, "We don't update our phones very often. And we're not sure of the exact frequency of updates."

This is crazy, and it doesn't have to be this way. Chris Allegretta has argued that Unihertz could allow the Lineage project to take over the Jelly Max and ensure that the phone is supported for years to come, simply by sending them some restore zips and 5 pre-prod units. That's it!

Tell Unihertz: Either support the Jelly Star, or help the Lineage team take it over.

Unihertz also told me, "we do collect user feedback and forward it to our technical department. They will evaluate the feedback and implement updates if necessary." So let's give 'em some feedback!

Their email is:

[email protected]

This bug is driving me crazy. Watching videos in fullscreen does not inhibit the screensaver/sleep settings on Linux. Whenever I try to stream a movie in fullscreen, my screensaver kicks in at the appointed time, as if I'm just idle.

This bug has been around forever. This seems to be the active entry on Bugzilla.

I LOVE Firefox, and it's a great browser for using on my Linux HTPC. For my purposes, it's much better than Brave. But you know which browser doesn't have this problem on Linux? I'm sorry to say... it's Brave.

I've tried different versions of Firefox: Flatpak, ESR, Trunk. They all have the same problem. When I open them from nothing, they often work great. I can watch a movie fine. But then I close out the movie, leave Firefox open, and walk away. My computer goes to sleep, as it should. The next time I use my computer-- with Firefox still open from earlier-- and try to watch a movie in fullscreen, I get the screensaver/sleep issue.

I really don't want to leave Firefox but this bug (and its longevity) is making it hard.

I'm getting ready to move off of Google (and Private Internet Access), and Proton is looking like the best option. But I'm nervous. Some of the things I worry about:

• Calendar support: I rely really heavily on Google Calendar. How will I share events with others? And what will I do without Google Tasks?
• VPN App Quality: Seeing some mixed reviews on Proton VPN Android app.
• Proton ethics & politics: Look, I really don't want to open up the holy war here. My big stipulation is: I don't want my money to go to a company that will donate its money or services to fascists. To my knowledge, Proton does not do that. I know they made a post that seemed to praise GOP antitrust efforts. I do not believe that that is the same thing as lending material support for fascists. (And, as someone who is very well read-in on antitrust issues, I'll say that -- for a lot of complicated reasons -- there is some truth to Proton's post, but I wish they had framed it as a critique of the corporate wing of the Democratic party and not praise of the GOP.)
• Anything else I haven't thought to ask.

So, folks who have made the switch: What do you wish you had known? What do you wish you had done to make the move easier?

Thank you for your advice.

I'm new to Jellyfin, and I'm having trouble getting started.

Goals:

• Host my media on a Mac Mini server
• Access my media in my home from 2 other devices (one is an Apple TV, the other is a Firefox browser on my HTPC)
• Let my family members in other homes access my server via Roku or Apple TV.

So far I've set up Jellyfin Server on my Mac Mini (specs below). I can see my media. Server seems to be working.

But when I try to access my server via Jellyfin Vue on another device, I keep getting an "Unable to connect" message. I've tried different server addresses, but no luck. Any ideas on how to address?

Thank you Lemmy folks!

192.168.x.x:8096

x.x.192.28:8096

SW:

• Server version 10.9.8

HW:

• Mac Mini (Early 2009)
• 293 GB Storage
• RAM: 4 GB
• Running MacOS 12

I've been a Firefox user for 15+ years. I love its flexibility, privacy, and (absent that rough patch in the mid 2010s) its speed. It really is a great browser. But I've hit a limitation.

One of my machines is an HTPC running Linux. I watch almost all my movies in the browser via streaming sites. At first, Firefox was ideal for this: it handles fullscreen browsing well (better than Brave) by letting me access tabs just by moving my mouse to the top of the screen. And I'm able to adjust the scale of the Firefox interface to make it more HTPC-friendly via about:config. That's not possible in Brave.

But Firefox has 2 issues that make it virtually unusable as an HTPC browser.

1. When Firefox plays fullscreen video (on Linux), it can't stop the screensaver from coming on. This issue has sprung up repeatedly for over a decade and been reported multiple times.
2. Extensions like Keep Awake/Caffeine do not work with Firefox on Linux. I use these extensions so that I can keep non-video sites (like Rollgator) on my TV screen persistently, without the screensaver coming on.

I'm bummed. I would rather use Firefox, with its great interface and its long history. I still use Firefox on my phone, laptop, and desktop. But at the moment, Brave is the only browser (of the two) that has addressed these issues on Linux. If that ever changes, I will happily come back to Firefox on my HTPC. (It would be great, because then I could easily send tabs from my devices to my TV!) Until then, I'm sticking with Brave.

I use an Android e-reader (the Likebook P6) and I'm so frustrated by the lack of a good read-it-later app. This chart lays out the shortcomings of current apps.

Pocket used to be good but they dropped support for page turning.

Does anyone have a good app for saving and reading articles on e-ink screens?

There's an Omnivore beta app that supports page turning (great!!) but... for some reason, I can't adjust the fonts on my tablet. (I have this issue with the official Ominvore app, too.) And the Omnivore app doesn't auto-download articles?!?! I have to be online to load each article when I open it, and only then can I go offline. Pocket and Wallabag don't work this way; they'll download all your articles at once and you can read them all later, even if offline.

Are there any other options???

For years, I've used a CSS trick to move my window controls (Minimize, Fullscreen, Close) from the Menu Bar into the lower toolbar, right beside my Overflow menu. (I'm on Windows 10, so these are the controls you see in the upper right window)

But suddenly, that doesn't work. My window controls are back up in the Menu Bar. That's unfortunate, because I usually hide my Menu Bar.

Can anyone review my code and tell me what needs to change? Thank you!

/* Move Window Control buttons to Nav Bar */

:root:is([tabsintitlebar], [sizemode="fullscreen"]) {
  --uc-window-control-width: 138px; /* Space reserved for window controls (Win10) */
  /* Extra space reserved on both sides of the nav-bar to be able to drag the window */
  --uc-window-drag-space-post: 30px; /* right side*/
}

:root:is([tabsintitlebar][sizemode="maximized"], [sizemode="fullscreen"]) {
  --uc-window-drag-space-pre: 0px; /* Remove pre space */
}

@media  (-moz-platform: windows-win7),
        (-moz-platform: windows-win8),
        (-moz-os-version: windows-win7),
        (-moz-os-version: windows-win8){
  :root:is([tabsintitlebar], [sizemode="fullscreen"]) {
    --uc-window-control-width: 105px;
  }
}

@media (-moz-gtk-csd-available) {
  :root:is([tabsintitlebar],[sizemode="fullscreen"]) {
    --uc-window-control-width: 84px;
  }
}

.titlebar-buttonbox, #window-controls{ color: var(--toolbar-color) }
:root[sizemode="fullscreen"] .titlebar-buttonbox-container{ display: none }
:root[sizemode="fullscreen"] #navigator-toolbox { position: relative; }

:root[sizemode="fullscreen"] #TabsToolbar > .titlebar-buttonbox-container:last-child,
:root[sizemode="fullscreen"] #window-controls{
  position: absolute;
  display: flex;
  top: 0;
  right:0;
  height: 40px;
}

:root[sizemode="fullscreen"] #TabsToolbar > .titlebar-buttonbox-container:last-child,
:root[uidensity="compact"][sizemode="fullscreen"] #window-controls{ height: 32px }

#nav-bar{
  border-inline: var(--uc-window-drag-space-pre,0px) solid var(--toolbar-bgcolor);
  border-inline-style: solid !important;
  border-right-width: calc(var(--uc-window-control-width,0px) + var(--uc-window-drag-space-post,0px));
}

:root[tabsintitlebar]{ --uc-toolbar-height: 40px; }
:root[tabsintitlebar][uidensity="compact"]{ --uc-toolbar-height: 32px }

#TabsToolbar{ visibility: collapse !important }

:root[sizemode="fullscreen"] #TabsToolbar > :is(#window-controls,.titlebar-buttonbox-container){
  visibility: visible !important;
  z-index: 2;
}

:root:not([inFullscreen]) #nav-bar{
  margin-top: calc(0px - var(--uc-toolbar-height,0px));
}

:root[tabsintitlebar] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"]{
  min-height: unset !important;
  height: var(--uc-toolbar-height,0px) !important;
  position: relative;
}

#toolbar-menubar[autohide="false"]{
  margin-bottom: var(--uc-toolbar-height,0px)
}

:root[tabsintitlebar] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"] #main-menubar{
  -moz-box-flex: 1;
  -moz-box-align: stretch;
  background-color: var(--toolbar-bgcolor,--toolbar-non-lwt-bgcolor);
  background-clip: padding-box;
  border-right: 30px solid transparent;
  border-image: linear-gradient(to left, transparent, var(--toolbar-bgcolor,--toolbar-non-lwt-bgcolor) 30px) 20 / 30px
}

#toolbar-menubar:not([inactive]){ z-index: 2 }
#toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive] > #menubar-items {
  opacity: 0;
  pointer-events: none;
  margin-left: var(--uc-window-drag-space-pre,0px)
}