Rockbox is pretty good! I use it every day. Glad to see others are still using it.

Also my problem is spotify is the lack of artists. I know, I know, theres a metric TON of artists on Spotify, but ive found quite a few that just…dont have all their songs on it, or are not on it at all. And Spotify will steer you towards those that have a similar sound. Its not the same. Plus you can get albums for cheaper than spotify subscriptions half the time (or free if you go to the library).

Having your own collection also means you can have more to talk about with friends and family as well as share. Because music to me should be shared rather than kept locked behind an account.

Who still has mp3 players in 2025 (or 2026 in a couple of days)?

I do like the old kobos. Fully hackable.

I like dedicated devices for things rather than all in ones. If you have the money of course.

I’ve had luck with web2epub on Firefox. Web articles become epubs which work well with eink readers. PDF is such a storage format cause its many formats under a trench coat. If you find a good solution for those let me know. Even calibre isn’t perfect.

I’ll find it after Christmas. I got a fork a bit ago when looking at the code.

I think its based on https://github.com/atomic14/diy-esp32-epub-reader

Build logs: https://hackaday.io/project/204323-diptyx-e-reader

That only works if we (the collective we) have more money. If a rich person has more $$ than a small country that means the effect we have is equivalent.

That’s why micron is doing what its doing. We are no longer the customer. They voted for us.

I hope you get what you want. Me I want something I could put in my pocket.

Lol we just had it circulating as is. The video was all over the fedi.

There is a build page on the github for the device.

Wow you have been doing this for a while now! Nice!

I have a similar model 2016. Ubuntu worked the best on it. A trick is to connect the Ethernet so it can detect and download the latest drivers while its installing. WiFi and fans are spotty before that.

Woops yes!

Nice! Thats another way to do it. 😀

I know others use Arabis(?) I think thats what it called. The anime girl one that does a calc on top. Ive never had good luck with it. I think bot are using something to get around and it messes with my requests. Might also be my own fiddling.

I have something similar with fail2ban + hidden buttons. If the requester goes and clicks on the hidden buttons on the main site, it gets into a rabbit hole. After 3 requests, it gets banned for a bit. Usually stops the worst offenders. OpenAI and some of the scrapers are the worst.

Google/bing, I do actually see them hit robots.txt then jump off, which is what they should be going.

They have an upper limit. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/

A couple of my products went WAAAY above that and you essentially have to get a quick standard plan. If you have this problem, congrats, you are probably doing something really well or really bad!

They are not as bad as say AWS / Azures offerings when it comes to billing. Arguably, theres a reason they are still around when there are other tools that do similar things. Used to be, it was the most solid part of the infa. Nowadays…its for some reason going down quite often. And not just the world-wide issues taht everyone else is seeing. We have a product that CANNOT go down and cloudflare has been responsible for a couple of big issues, which is really unfortunate. Its still the best “work” service for what they do, but I dont have any of my personal infa connected.

Nice seeing VeronicaExplains on there 😀

Lety has some videos that can’t go on any other platform I think. My dogs videos only exist for family and the 700 or so subscribers.

Veronica explains and a couple others will have fedi specific videos if I recall. Take a look over at [email protected] . There is a couple of sister communities on the sidebar as well.

Port master is a Fantastic project!!!

All the time. There’s a lot of cves in old premade docker containers.

Last season of GoT.

lemmy.sdf.org has some REALLY unique and awesome communities. Actually just check out https://sdf.org/ its both old and new!

[email protected] is an awesome set of comics and one offs. Excellent if you want to go down a rabbithole. Take a look at “Top” to see what I mean.

A bit of self promotion here: [email protected] is one Ive put some effort into highlighting “Cool” videos (or at least things I find cool) on peertube.