Free and Open Source Software

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 8 months ago

Just so people known (or a reminder), Grayjay is NOT open source. FUTO is very sus and the cofounder techbro guy (not rossmann) is a fascist wierdo.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I always see streamio with real debrid mentioned. I use Plex & Jellyfin cuz I host my own content. Takes a lot of storage, but I don't mind.

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[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

I can +1 for Stremio+Debrid (RealDebrid is just one provider for those that haven't dove in)

I would argue this is one case where FOSS shouldn't be priority #1, unless you really want to spend the time, effort, and (most importantly in 2026) money to maintain a NAS, in which case the *arr stack + Usenet and Jellyfin are great. But you really can't understate how much of a rabbit hole dealing with the entire thing can be. For the most part, Stremio just works and well enough I can send a guide to normie friends and they could follow along and get it running in like half an hour.

I do a hybrid approach, I own blurays of anything sentimental or low bitrate destroys (think Redline, XFiles (so much low/dim light low bitrate makes it look like a pixelated mess)), have a large collection of older media on my Unraid NAS (typically the Achilles heel of the Stremio/Debrid setup is anything that isn't at least semi popular), and stream the rest w/Stremio. Works out to like $60/yr for Debrid/Usenet. I did just lose an 18tb drive in my NAS which really made me think hard if it was worth continuing with, but for now decided to keep it.

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[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dude yeah having a drive failure wreaks havoc. I had that happen a couple months ago (large drive failure) thankfully I had enough older smaller drives to temp replace it. I'm a bit over 200TB now, so Inconvenient for sure!

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[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Yepp, normally would be a bummer but it is still under warranty. That said I had no idea how long that process is going to take (Seagate has the drive atm), so I wanted to swap it with a new one then just add whatever Seagate sends back on top of my pool (only around 70tb! Need a better NAS chassis...) but 18tb Exos have shot up $100 since I bought one last year. Found a different random brand (shout out diskprices.com!) for the same as old price, slapped that in, parity(cus Unraid) rebuilt.

Just waiting on the warranty drive, then I get to rebuild parity again.

If I didn't find that cheaper 18tb may have been enough to tip me towards decommissioning it.

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[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 point 8 months ago

Rosewill has a badass server chassis, 24 hot swap SAS bays w support for NVMe. I'm eyeing it for my next upgrade lol

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[–] Limerance@piefed.social 6 points 8 months ago

For streaming https://yarrlist.net/

[–] florge@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Xtra for twitch

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

On fdroid, it reports these anti-features for Xtra

Depends on not-libre proxy TTV.lol
Tracks/reports your activity by leaking your IP and Twitch ID to their Russian proxy TTV.lol

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

/e/OS is terrible for security. They are often 1-2+ monthly behind on monthly Android security patches, leaving their users vulnerable to dozens (i am not exaggerating, often more) of critical and high severity vulnerabilities which are widely exploited. Stay away from that shit.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

Well, pretty much all OEMs are months behind security patches as well. Google actually withholds the patches/exploit source code for months because of it. Graphene OS has a separate channel for builds with these patches that don't have source code released.

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 8 months ago*

The embargo on security patches isnt what i am talking about. Once security patches are released, /e/OS takes 1-2 months to patch these vulnerabilities. This isnt because of the embargo but in addition to it! They are by far the worst about this out of any of the alt Android ROMs (2nd worst is iode, at around ~1 month). /e/OS has been terrible about security for years even before all this "Google security patch" nonsense.

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[–] BrilliantBadger@piefed.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Since Google now has moved to quarterly updates for older devices, this seems to obliterate that good ol' scare tactic used by some

Was good marketing though... for those who got caught up in it

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 8 months ago

Being 2 months late to a quarterly patch is still very bad. /e/OS should be avoided.

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[–] p13f3d@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

for password managers, pass is pretty great. local, encrypted, totp supported, and the keybinds with qutebrowser are fantastic. and i never got the worry about self hosted password managers and losing data, i have like 5 devices, so that's five backups of my data right there.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

stremio with rd.
many customizations and options to explore within, but I've said enough....

[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org 1 point 8 months ago*

For 2fa, I highly recommend 2fas -- it is free, open source, available for web and mobile, and it's interface is smart. Lots of 2fa apps are stupid, Google auth included. Authy is especially stupid. Bitwarden also does 2fa, and it's super convenient because it adds the code directly to the clipboard usually.

For notes, consider obsidian.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

I love keepass. I used to use bitwarden, but was annoyed they pay walled totp. I know you can use bitwarden_rs and self host it, but i had an instance where the container stopped and was sol and couldn't ssh out to the host lol. I use rsync to sync my encrypted keepass to all devices. I use the free tier of pcloud, so probably not rsync, but maybe. I have two Linux hosts and my android. It all works seamlessly.

[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org 1 point 8 months ago

Funny, I went the opposite direction. I wanted one source of truth for all my devices.

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[–] stopforgettingit@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Why is Proton calendar and drive on here, but not Proton Mail?

[–] niisyth@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Probably since the infographic seems to be made by Tuta