Who?

The word “lifetime”, when talking about permanent subscriptions, always refers to the lifetime of the service (or provider), rather than the lifetime of the subscriber.

WAF? Wow and flutter?

Batteries not included.

Is it really? I’d say an alternative is generally just “another option that has (more or less) the same features”. Better isn’t really implied, as that’s someone’s subjective opinion.

Sounds like a pretty interesting collection to me!

In Germany the government now fines you for piracy, using a common VPN isn’t enough anymore.

Why isn’t a common zero-logs VPN enough? How would the government know? Encrypted VPN traffic can’t be decrypted, at least until we have quantum computers, right?

abcde - A Better CD Encoder

Is this the one? https://zellij.dev/about/

I just read that navidrome

Handles large libraries!

Plays well with gigantic music collections (tested with ~900K songs - 2/3 FLAC, 1/3 MP3)

Though, I don’t know if any of the supported Subsonic API clients can handle as much…

being able to control the player from an android phone was so convenient and I don’t know any other player that has similar.

Well, you can remote control playback in Kodi through apps like Kore, and browse the libraries, but it’s a totally different experience in comparison to dedicated music player apps. Kodi is more like software for a home theater PC, a.k.a. media center.

The best viable solution I can think of, that includes a desktop UI and remote control from a phone, would be hosting a Jellyfin server for the music library, then using the client app for Android to remotely control another client app running on your desktop. I do that everyday (but mostly for video content), since I’m using my phone to control playback on a Raspberry Pi running Kodi with the “Jellycon” client add-on, but that could be any other Jellyfin client, such as a regular Jellyfin desktop client.

I’m a pretty untrustworthy stranger on the internet, it seems. The domain is still available, and I’m somewhat intrigued by it, though not enough to actually grab it. But I did change my name to Stephanie nonetheless…

Droid-ify and Neo-Store are alternative clients for the F-Droid repository (and other repos), that you may like better than the official client. But yeah, Obtainium is indeed simple and it’s powerful if you already know exactly which app you want to install (rather than searching for relevant options in some repositories).

I’m changing my name to Stephanie right now, and buying harmlessdomain.com if it’s available! Then I’ll always be fine!

Very much related:

LLaMA-Mesh by nv-tlabs on Github | Unifying 3D Mesh Generation with Language Models. Create 3D meshes by chatting.

meshgen by huggingface on Github | A blender addon for generating meshes with AI. This initial release contains a minimal integration of LLaMA-Mesh in Blender.

Are you buying ebooks in a physical store? How does that work?

The linked site does not have a valid SSL certificate. To me, that seems pretty sketchy for a registrar. Are you sure the URL is correct?

I’m curious - how would they just “have phones switch”, and if that’s actually possible, to which “open non Google platform”?

I think some used them to gain insight in clicks (bit.ly provided stats for numbers, user agents etc.), and to track the origin of clicks by generating a unique shortened URL for each linking post.

Also, the obvious use case of turning a long direct URL to a file into something people can actually be bothered to manually copy from paper…

Checked my second GOS user profile with google services, just to make sure – nothing to be seen.