While I like spotify for music there are three things that bug me about it:

• Anker.fm ads. Just a rant I hate anker.fm auto injection ads. If you try sleeping to a pod cast it wil go from normal volume TO SHOUTING ABOUT STATEFARM OR DUNKIN. While this issue also occurs on third party podcasting apps spotify dynamically injects a banner ad into podcast art and hyperlinks the ad. I might be overeacting (I hate these kind of deeplink ads). To be clear I don’t mind host read ads like linus sponsor shoutouts but dynamic ad injection is awfull.

• No chapter support

Podcast republic is a good alternative (assuming your just planning to use it on mobile/web)

Second question would the US gov consider google “to big to fail” and just inject a ton of money to restore it (or give enought time to break it up)?

Kinda curious 😉

I doubt people will pay for a windows subscription. Most will stay on 10/11 indefinitely and Microsoft will probably backtrack pretty quickly (look at windows 10 to 11 migration) 😉

Good to know. Also thanks for making this push notifications are working reliable now 😉

I also changed the default notification sound to harvonicas harp from apollo (reminds me of apollo’s push to a degree) 🥲

Thanks. Quick question are nifty topics publically discoverable (ie there is a place in the nifty server to view anyones topic)?

I ended up choosing a long topic (I legit just mashed random letters in my keyboard) to make it undescoverable.

Example (ihfepaoheiwpahfiauwh)

Could some one easily discover that and snoop into the topic?

I don’t really self host a lemmy instance so I ended up taking a different route (admitidly janky but reliable).

I have a mac mini running 24/7, I enabled lemmy to send notification emails. On my mac I have the mail app set to automatic refresh and have a set of rules which search for lemmy instance as sender and subject contains reply. When mail detects it I have an apple script run a mac shortcut which checks my inbox latest inbox rss extracts the text and sends a ntfy push. Admitedly there are better ways to do this probably (than relying on shortcuts and apple script) but it works 🫠

Also I have the link set to open wefwef on android (open in opens webapp) on ios I have it run deeplink to a shortcut which opens wefwef in webview

I use a combination of a MacMini Oracle cloud, probably not best long term solution but it’s free (while it lasts).

Stuff that runs on Oracle:

• caddy proxy (mostly used for Mac reverse proxy)
• couch db (obsidian live sync plugin)

Stuff on Mac:

• blue bubbles (iMessage relay for Android)
• Plex (for photo backup)

Aside from that not much else 😊

What kinda bugs me about youtube premium is that even if you pay you still get ads via baked in sponsors. I know creators have the right to do what they want with there content but I wish as a user there is an economical opiton to truely block ads.

Currently there are two paid models:

1. Nebula like services. I kinda wish more platforms like this would popup since atleast when you use them you truely get no ads (no baked in nor platform injected). While they have a lot of creators a lot of creators are missing from the platform (its mostly education/tech focused).

2. Patreon/Floatplane. Now this is typically the more popular option with creators as it guarantees a reasonably stable cash flow. The problem is as a user if you have to subscribe to multiple patreons for adfree content it can easly get to the cost of a cable bill (assume each creator charges $10 per month if you have 10-20 creators your follow you could be looking at a minimum of $100-$200 a month just to enjoy adfree content).

A kinda caviot is idk how much it costs in time/labor for production of youtube videos for major channels like linus. It could be that services like Nebula/Vessle would never be able to cover production cost hence why a patreon model is used. Even youtube ads if I recall only was able to cover about only one of their employees saleries (a lot but not enough to sustain the company).

I hope this post didn’t come of as selfish/greedy.

There is a self host sync plugin for obsidian (I’m assuming you just want to self host not any other specific reasons)

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

I currently use it with a self hosted docker instance of couchdb

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync/blob/main/docs/setup_own_server.md

Edit alternativly their is Joplin (but not sure about how you used obsidian/zotero)

https://joplinapp.org/

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server/README.md

https://github.com/tborychowski/self-hosted-cookbook/blob/master/apps/notes/joplin.md

This might be a hot take but I wonder how this would be priced.

It could be handy for cloud gaming (since gforce now publishers are trying to block it).

Used to use Apollo and Reddit sync now switched over to Jeroba for Lemmy (android) and pwa for iPad

Might consider sync for Lemmy after it develops.

Subs listed I believe

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