After a lot of trial and error, I managed to get rsgain working with Lidarr on my raspberry pi. I might actually be fully satisfied with my music piracy/streaming setup now (until I find the next silly addition :3 ).

I love photon, I replaced the default UI with it on my instance

'gregtech.eu': 'lemvotes-status'

Oh look, I’m on a list :D

By Lenin, you mean?

Slovenian ISPs don’t give a shit about piracy, so I don’t use a VPN. I did, however, decide against running the setup in Germany on my netcup VPS because they’re really strict about piracy.

I use Traefik as a reverse proxy in my setup and I run everything in docker containers (managed with docker compose). Would you like me to share my configs as well? (I ask just so that I don’t waste my time gathering them and making sure I didn’t share API keys or something :P )

I used to use YouTube music revanced, but at some point it asked me to verify my age to listen to a song my rage against the machine, and that was the last straw. I uninstalled YouTube music, took a dusty raspberry pi 5 from a shelf where it’d been sitting for like half a year and connected it to my router with an Ethernet cable. Then I installed qbittorrent (headless) and mounted its downloads under the music category (it stores the downloads in separate directories, depending on the torrent’s category) into Navidrome. I also have Prowlarr installed for easier searches of indexers. So far I have an 80GB library of music. I try to keep the size down by downloading 320kbps mp3s where possible.

I use the Symfonium app, it was totally worth the 4.50€, I’d be willing to pay more honestly. On desktop I use Feishin.

I also have Listenbrainz set up as a scrobbler on Navidrome. The stats are pretty cool.

Exoscale

I use an external S3 provider so that I only pay for the storage I use for the services I host. It’s dirt cheap, 0.00002750€ per GiB hour (excluding tax). Self-hosting something like MinIO for your app gives you the option of switching to an external provider later on, and it gives you flexibility in the location of the storage.

Garage seems like a viable alternative.

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I set a friend as an emergency contact for my Bitwarden vault, so he can request access, and if I don’t deny it within 2 weeks he’s granted access.

I’m also working on a kind of digital dead man switch. Basically, I’ll make it so that you give it some last messages, which are assigned to groups of recipients. The service will send you an email at a specified interval (for example, every month) with a link in it. If you don’t click on the email a few times, you’re marked as dead and the last messages get sent out to their corresponding recipients.

Using someone’s open-source software doesn’t mean you support them (unless you donate or something)

Issue in question: https://github.com/aquantumofdonuts/mixarr/issues/7

I can’t recommend Purelymail enough. Cheap (10€ per year), and you can have as many accounts and inbox space as you. You can also connect as many domains as you want.

Ljubljana mentioned

Matrix works perfectly for me, if you’re setting up a new server, I’d go with tuwunel. I’m stuck on synapse, when the tuwunel team makes a way to migrate, I’ll do it.

So cool

What?

I used thunder for a while on android and it was kinda slow, might give it a try again. I’m currently on Voyager.

I don’t think surveillance is the issue here (what would they spy on?), more so getting shut down. Which is also virtually impossible due to federation.