In practice, who do you know that’s using it and doesn’t run Arch, by the way?

Well I mostly run Debian, but I do have arch on a machine so maybe I don’t count.

It’s that they’re not designed for non-technical users.

Have to agree there, it takes some effort if you’re setting it up for friends and family.

Xmpp supports group chat, 1:1 messaging, you’ve got webtrc support for voice/video, and its extensible.

Jingle even has screen sharing (and I think a WIP remote control function).

What is missing from xmpp?

Check the sidebar, go through the wiki, find what you need.

I’m at the same age - just to mention, samba is nowhere near the horror show it used to be. That said, I use NFS for my Debian boxes and mac mini build box to hit my NAS, samba for the windows laptop.

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Its perfectly viable to run your support software on your own hardware (whether local or VPS).

I do this for myself, as well as for companies sized from 50-5000 (roughly). Larger ones deploy off my specs. The question to me is what is the plan around it. How will backups be handled? What if it goes offline due to a hardware failure? Do you have backups in place? A cold or hot spare? Multiple machines in an HA configuration? Do you need to go to that level if there is an outage?

I also prefer to make use of solutions with a support model that allows for locally hosted, but has a phone number that can be called. Part of this is because I don’t want to field all these calls, part of it is for the comfort of the client that they have a number they can call (or a dedicated email, whatever, the point is a support contact not how they are contacted), and part of it is to support the project.

My wife has a (small) business, I have a small business, and I work for a consulting firm (design and engineering). All three make use of on-prem f/loss, all three pay support fees to those projects who do that (and random annual contributions where possible to those that don’t).

So the short answer is: Figure out your requirements and your disaster recovery scenarios, then figure out what option works best for your needs from there. Cloud, VPS, or internally hosted are all viable, and all come with their own pluses and minuses.

Only if the dildo was limp.

Navidrome

Thats wildly cool… I’m checking it out tomorrow!

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

I’m just saying the percentage of those who may have been willing to pay is small enough to be irrelevant in the for-profit release perspective.

Netflix (when it first started streaming) and Steam (when sales included good older stuff for wildly cheap) showed that piracy is more of a service problem than anything else. A recent article called out the content problems (partial content, a few seasons behind a separate paywall, ads in the middle of playback, etc) a are directly related to an increase in piracy.

So my opinions on copyright aside - a clear model to a happy consumer is an affordable price without all the enshittification going on. People also dont like “buying” content that later disappears because of licensing changes.

So I’d put it squarely in the “their own damn fault” territory, and I’m glad when judges say “no” to them. I’ll take whatever positives I can get.

People who would likely not otherwise have paid, so no net change worth discussing.

I would personally be far less trusting of downloading a zip…

Its referring to content in this case, not wealth.

As in lacking content, or only having parts of content (season 1 & 2, and then nothing until season 7).

Same, homarr is decent but I prefer my configs, quick edits from whatever device is in hand, easy peasy.

Containers are little virtual machines (Docker, LXC, etc) that run a specific tool or group of tools.

Like having a little VM that Rand just qbitorrent, and you would access it via the webui rather than the desktop client.

Short version, dont worry about that for now, just bind your torrent client to the network interface of the VPN itself.

Sort of - its a kill switch specific to qbitorrent at that point, since the adapter isn’t working, qbittorrent won’t connect to anything. It will not impact anything else running though.

You could also make a container for the VPN connection, and have a qbitorrent container use the VPN containers networking, which would then leave other containers to make use of it as well. This is what I do, its a bit more complicated of a setup though.

Chaptarr on the way, readarr with rreading-glasses works great for now though.

https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses

The biggest pain is that its apple silicon, which limits what’s built for it.

Depending on what its doing, you may need to build dependencies from source. You also may have to use some mac-specific tools to download pre-builts and to do builds.

In some cases, it may be better to run a VM with Linux and forge on ahead, but its really going to depend on what tasks the server is handling.

Depends on how its done.

First check the audio tracks and see if there is one with a voice over and one with regular audio - if so, easy! Reencode and drop the unneeded track.

If not… Youre going to have a rough time, you’d be better off trying to find just the audio and aligning it.

Edit: or another copy of the show obviously.

The handy bit would be if you could find a crappy quality version, you can still pull the audio from there and align it with your copy. It may not be great audio and still require some degree of effort to sync properly with the video, but it would be a much more realistic effort than trying to remove speech from the same track.