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Analysis | Printer ink is a scam. Here’s how to spend less. in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] tr00st@lemmy.tr00st.co.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Glad someone made this point. My next printer will definitely be a tank printer. It's basically flipping the business proposal back to "pay for the printer up front" instead of "pay for the printer whenever you buy ink". My current printer was cheap enough that I basically spend enough on ink to buy a new printer every few years, given degradation of cartridges when they're left after opening.

Anything else to consider when hosting a Lemmy instance in the EU? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] tr00st@lemmy.tr00st.co.uk 2 points 1 year ago

The protocol would seem unlikely to satisfy the concept of "necessary". It's entirely possible for the protocol to be impossible to implement whilst not complying with GDPR. Might require the development of something more sharded - data pulling in real time, etc.

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Web Controllable HiFi - Any suggestions? (lemmy.tr00st.co.uk)
 

Summary first - I'm looking for software to use for web-controlled music playback. Main requirement is playback via a DAC on the hosting device and a half-decent UI for it (though streaming would be nice...).

Hardware-wise, I've currently got a Pi Zero W paired with a HiFiBerry DAC+ Zero, which has been fine for me quality-wise, routed as an aux input to an old HiFi. That, plus plenty of space elsewhere to host split apps - currently running Emby as a main streaming host for other media, and the media is just on a NAS pulling over NFS.

I've been using Volumio for a while, but have been frustrated with a few things (UI, playlist management, etc) so I'm looking for a change. Streaming from Emby/Jellyfin via DLNA looks like it might be a decent fallback, but I'm wondering if there are any nicer ways to handle it.

Any ideas? Open to switching a few bits of infrastructure around, of course :)

I don't think "command line hard" is the worst part of self-hosting. in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] tr00st@lemmy.tr00st.co.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Haha, yeah, I totally have proper backups...

European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] tr00st@lemmy.tr00st.co.uk 7 points 1 year ago

The language in the article does seem to forget that plenty of early smartphones had replaceable batteries... Yeah, it might add some bulk, but it's not exactly going to be a major hardship.

... but it seems like a good reverse step to me. Any consumer replaceable part is a good thing as far as I'm concerned.