Nobody likes a sucker, especially the kind that fall for fruit tarts like you. I knew there was trouble. I could smell it on the hot evening breeze. Fortunately for me, trouble is my favorite thing… Because I’m Joe Milkshake. I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.

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Yeah, if phones go via WiFi and the computer is on a cable the IP ranges may differ and that would explain you can access only via one of the two.


Been using Seal for a long time now, works pretty well. Nice mobile interface as well.


I dislike how it looks. I don’t care it’s there. That’s not complaining. I don’t need this changed. It’s just ugly in my view.


OK, it works now so I had a look.

At this stage no match for Findroid, but I like the layout of it.

When you play a file it somehow starts playing minimised and you need to tap it it goes full screen.

No automatic rotation, so you need to do it manually.

Haven’t tried the downloading yet and I have no Chromecast to test casting with.

In a couple of updates it might be decent enough already for general use.


My server isn’t exposed to the outside. I am connecting through local WiFi. If someone manages to get in there I probably have bigger problems than access to my Jellyfin.


Once it works, sure. Will need to wait for a fix first.


Fantastic to have more selection! I love Findroid but its good to have alternatives!

Edit: downloaded it from Github but cannot connect to my server with same credentials I use in the official app, hm.

Edit2: OK, others have same issue https://github.com/fredrikburmester/streamyfin/issues/12

Edit3: they just released a fix

fix(android): Support for un-secure plaintext authentication (HTTP) logins

So I will test it again tonight when I have time.


Haven’t used Kodi but am running Jellyfin via the official docker image on a Raspberry Pi 4. Even there transcoding works reasonably well for one user at a time, admittedly didn’t try with several users at the same time so far.

Just mentioning the docker image because I used to install it without docker directly via the repository and I never got transcoding to work on the same hardware.


Eeeeh, yes and no. Selective population distribution maybe. Just look at Africa or India.


I think you may need to add some more slur placeholders in there, but yes.


It is pretty entertaining though, isn’t it? Like, this is the closest we will ever get to the movie Hackers, but in real life.



Huh, thanks for sharing, I didn’t get this one so far. I saw a link to one of the sites on it and that’s it.


I am confused. Sudoflix is down since a week or two already. How is it still working for you? They had a successor that they named on their page, maybe you mean that one.


But this is not a subscription yet. Its a lifetime license. Of course they might change terms, you never know.


Yeah, I am very very tempted to go for it, mainly because it is not a subscription. I wish it would have been less than $100 though, but I am not arguing about that since whatever I feel I would want to pay is probably less than they would think is OK.



That’s like 70 MB per game unless my napkin math is off by a few 0s. Sounds rather large for MS DOS games?



OliveTin looks interesting, thanks!


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1 it is just an example

2 not what I asked but thanks for your input


I have a small self hosted setup at home with a RaspberryPi and an external HDD, just enough for what I need. Some time ago I found a pretty sweet app which from the name implies its mostly working when you use a RPI OS, to monitor the RPI from your android phone: https://github.com/eidottermihi/rpicheck Its called RaspiCheck (picture in the post is the one from github), and unfortunately it is seriously outdated and development ceased. It is still working on my current phone but I am well aware that's not going to last. So I am wondering what else is out there that could fill the gap it would leave. I am using it for 2 things mostly: 1) monitor system stats, like simply seeing the system is running (I know, like ping), but at the same time also showing memory, average load, temperature and so on. 2) sending SSH commands, and this is where the app really shines. Using a terminal on the phone is not impossible, but boy is it annoying. In RaspiCheck you can define commands, with placeholders, which allows you to send those to the RPI just by tapping them. So for example I got my backup set up that I can mount the backup drive with one tap, a second tap runs the right backup script (I have several I can choose from by filling the placeholder I leave in that command) and then unmount with a third tap. I got other commands I like to reuse a lot set up in it and its really useful to me, let's me manage the RPI from my phone in an easy way. So back to the question at hand, is there anything else like this out there for Android? If possible one app, FOSS preferred. I am pretty sure there are browser-based solutions, if there is no dedicated app other than this, then I guess that's the next best thing. What are you using in your setup that you can recommend?
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(to be frank, nor do they seem to need it, as everything is so polished these days)

The problem is if you don’t know basic concepts of computers you cannot transfer your knowledge from one program to the next. Folder structures are a bizarre thing for many people and if they see one in program A, then they won’t understand that in program B it works the same way.

I have never had any issues learning any new software from scratch, but I see people my age not figuring out where to click next or where something they are looking for might be hidden in the options. Then an update comes that changes things and they are back to square 1 and helpless.




This is news? I have seen those labels here in Sweden a lot already. Just no idea if they do those scummy on the fly price changes.


Yeah, try to avoid using USB hard drives.

Can you elaborate for which use case you’d see them as less reliable than other options? I am using USB connected drives now for about 2 years in a home setup and haven’t had any bad experiences. My use case might be a lot more low tech and than others though.


Google allows that though or do they mean access of Google Play via 3rd party apps?

Not that I am saying it might not be necessary to include Google from the start, sets a good precedence and prevents a future where they might go the Apple route.

Just hope both Google and Apple won’t restrict opening up to Japanese market only. But who am I kidding, they will.


Would be really nice to name them when posting such a comment…


Wait, defrag is still running…


Ah, defragging your hard drive was such a Zen experience


If its for research paper storage and organising, why not something dedicated like Zotero? Or even Menedely, that’s more commercially oriented. You can pay for online storage space for either and it names and organises your papers for you. If she is concerned about TOS changes and AI enshittiffication I’d stay away from Menedley though, its an Elsevier product by now (massive scientific publisher).


Maybe just good AR and not real?



I can tell you what they will look like. They’ll be as convinced as in OPs article that they are still right and say “see, I told you!”


Aw man. I feel you. I got Paw Patrol on mine for the kid. And it was a pain with their shitty inconsistent episode orders too. Still, you do it for them anyways.


Isn’t there a plugin for anime metadata? Didn’t need it myself but maybe that would help too.


Seconded, have been using it for a while and its simple and great!




What do people here think about the movie web app extension?
I guess most people know about the movie web app site, which pulls videos from various sources. Recently they added a request to download an extension to your browser, for optimal perfomance and better quality. It is featured on the [firefox android extensions](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movie-web-extension/) site from Mozilla, it has a [github](https://github.com/movie-web/extension) page. What I read online is that it seems the extension wants access to everything you do in your browser, which seems kind of sketchy. What do people here think about it? Anyone installed it and can say more? Edit: thanks for all the comments, looks like less people knew about this than I thought.
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Rpi 4 - lightweight image backup and gallery recommendations
I need some help with some new suggestions for what I want from my tiny homeserver, made up by a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB (passive cooling case) and an external hard drive. That server will not be reachable from outside my home network, if that makes a difference for suggestions. I am looking for an easy solution that works well on the limited resources of the Rpi. What I mostly need is an app I can self-host that has a nice and well performing gallery function, I got tons of old photos from when I still used digital cameras a lot. Those are already sorted in folders, and I want that app to not mess with that at all, just read them basically. What I also need is for that app to be able to auto-upload new photos from my phone regularly, so I can include them more easily in backups of my server. I also do not want them to be weirdly hidden in some strange folder structures, so that they remain accessible if I want to change apps again down the road. Here is what I tried already: Photoprism - loved it in general, but all the indexing was super slow on the Rpi of course. I didn't really need the AI features of it either. It also made quite big thumbnails for the image analysis so it would really add a huge requirement of a ton more storage space just for features I did not want to use, I understand those could be downscaled but the process seemed tedious and resource-intensive. Overall wasn't practical for the Rpi, if I had a stronger server I'd try again. Nextcloud - thats the current solution I am looking at, since it got all I want. Auto-upload, easy access, no resource-heavy features I don't need. But overall, it is pretty slow on the Rpi for scrolling through photo libraries. I found today the NC Photos app on Google Play Store, which seems to work better than the Nextcloud App to look at galleries, but still seems slow. Aside from that I found out about Immich, but cannot test it right now since my Rpi runs on 32bit. But it sounded to me like a lighter type of Photoprism app, maybe not fair to say, I know its supposed to be like Google Photos. But the stuff it does for face recognition and what else makes it sound again like a choice I won't enjoy using on the Rpi. Maybe that is an unfair view? I see recently the feature that allows external libraries in it, was added, so that fits my needs. Anyway, thanks for reading all this, I will end with the question, are there any other solutions that I haven't considered so far?
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A way around Geoblocking for a single app on Android?
I know that if you want to get around geoblocking content, normally you just use a VPN from the location you need. Now I am using a streaming app on Android from a tv program of my home country, they implemented geoblocking already long ago on their website but now the app is also going the same way. Much of the content is blocked now. Is there an simple way I can have a VPN connection open just for this app on my phone? Or are there other ways to fool the app into thinking its in the right location?
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