laleck

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by laleck 4mo ago
Yes, but I have a big pet peeve about the offline experience. In iOS Music, tapping the artist name on a song launches the artist’s cloud Apple Music page —- even if you’ve hidden paid Apple Music. Disabling cellular data for the Music app
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by laleck 8mo ago
There are a couple projects dedicated to making "tv channels" from media servers like jellyfin. See: https://ersatztv.org or https://www.quasitv.app
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by laleck 1y ago
For #2, on iOS, you can move photos to shared albums and then safely delete them from library while retaining them in shared album. Shared albums use iCloud space, so it’s not ideal.
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by laleck 1y ago
Not OP but there are a few open source options. GNU cash is friendlier for beginners due to the GUI. I like plain text accounting, specifically beancount. As far as integrations, GNU cash lets you import from various formats like quicken w
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by laleck 2y ago
You’re limited to buying Blu rays and ripping to digital. Technically, that might not even be legal in the US because the digital millenium copyright act (DMCA) forbids circumventing DRM. https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide&#x2
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by laleck 2y ago
To the author's point about not wanting to always run a music server like Plex or Jellyfin. In Plexamp, browsing is heavily restricted in offline mode and very "flat." Downloaded albums, artists, and playlists are respectivel
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by laleck 2y ago
This open-source bookmark manager, hoarder, was posted recently and offers local archiving: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485746 Recently, I've started messing around with vimwiki and saving pages as PDF or as
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by laleck 2y ago
For pure bookkeeping at a small scale, I really like plain text accounting with beancount and fava Bookkeeping is easy but labor intensive. Dealing with US tax law... That's when you spend on a local CPA.
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by laleck 2y ago
Additionally, they took down all of their accounting articles without notice. They had valuable summaries on various tax topics. Thankfully, Wayback Machine has archives of my bookmarks. All the more reason to self-host your own archived ve