Self hosting Stoat is a nightmare at the moment.

Only the webUI works out of the box, if you want the phone app you need to compile it yourself.

At least the desktop app now supports connecting to custom instances, but it’s by launch option, not the GUI.

All that said, my understanding was that you give the code to your friends, and they have to enter it during signup.

Enabling invite-only doesn’t remove the signup functionality, it adds authentification, so only people with the invite code can pass.

Interestingly, if you deport everyone except the president, the crime rate skyrockets to 100%.

Especially as many places will be based in the USA who is the least likely country to implement these laws

uh, what?

I mean if they can really just do nothing, then that is also something it would be good to be sure about.

Nintendo has shown that it is possible to attack open source projects at the repository level, and while that wouldn’t necessarily stop development, it would be a step down to force development technically “underground”.

And if instances have to start being regularly replaced, that WILL cause attrition.

I mean… They have to.

Countries are making it law, so sooner or later, fedi projects are going to have to deal with that crap.

Oh, what’s the speedtest server?

I’ve not run into that yet myself, but I’d love to have one of those.

Neat!

The plural of software is software. Not softwares.

I see you don’t need more convincing.

Dungeon Meshi has one of the more populated communities on Lemmy, [email protected].

It’s mostly just fanart as we’re between seasons, but the episodes discussion threads are likely to be quite active again once the second season starts.

Symfonium is not open source. It is a paid app by a helpful and responsive sole dev.

If you want FOSS, that’s Finamp. But it is not as good. It does also implement offline play features.

The Symfonium dev has responded to and implemented two requests of mine, making me quite happy to pay for and mention their app.

My combo is Jellyfin+Symfonium

With Symfonium you can manually download playlists and favorites for offline, and/or have a “rolling cache” where the most frequent listens are automatically kept synced for offline listening.

My collection is far too large to keep on my phone in its entirety, but with Symfonium I don’t need to, and if I’m ever caught without internet, I’ve still plenty to listen to.

Jellyfin does not organize the music, it’s a way to browse and access it. For a nice client for desktop, look at Feishin.

To actually organize the music, you want something like Picard.

If you don’t know about soulseek, hit up [email protected]

It’s been by far the most effective way to actually find files.

Lots of good channel suggestions.

But I would also nominate COSMOS.

Both the original hosted by Carl Sagan, and the new series with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

For me, they brought the epicness of reality, scientific history, and the vastness of the universe, into focus in a way nothing else did.

They made me feel a hopeful and powerful “humanity is fucking AWESOME, and can do INCREDIBLE things”. It’s not just informative. It lights a fire in you for the way humanity fights its way through the dark, using the scientific method as our guide.

Triangle

God yes. I miss it dearly.

Deadlock is scratching the itch for me.

Also Battleborn Reborn has made the campaign, and bot matches possible again.

Work has gone into making online matches work, and there are some videos of test games on youtube.

Work has stalled for now, as the main dev is busy with other stuff.

murdermitten

Bad enough to replace actual people with AI fakes, but maybe let’s not have them puppeting the corpses of the dead, yeah?

I don’t think everyone should self-host. This person was certainly in over their head.

Synology likes to pretend that it’s easy, but doing it right in the ways that make it actually superior to something like Google Drive, is not.

It would be nice if everyone could know someone, who does run one.

Why have a NAS per person, when you can have one per family, friend group, or workplace?

Sadly that will lead to some people relying on hardware that WILL fail in ways that means lost data. Tons of small scale users does mean a lot of people who won’t quite know what they should know about how to do it.

I mean I’ll play a PS2 game instead of eating, period.

That’s not quite right. Our sun has never gone nova, and is a fairly young main sequence star. It’s still in the first “main sequence” of fusion after accumulating from scattered matter. It’s heavy enough to do fusion, but not heavy enough to really “properly” go boom at the end (or to have done so in the past).

While novas form heavy elements, the originating star either becomes a neutron star or black hole. Sol, our sun, is a a “normal” star (though above average brightness) which means it won’t properly go nova. It’ll just “burn out” and become a white dwarf.

The matter ejected by a Nova flies out into the universe and falls in the gravity wells of other Solar systems. So our heavy elements likely hail from millions of other past stars.

Cool.

The restrictions won’t change what little I use it for, but it might piss off some of my friends who are deep in the discord rabbit hole.