Listen at x2 speed. A 40 min podcast becomes a 20 min podcast and is clearly comprehensible and enjoyable. It actually gets annoying hearing regular speed for how slow it is.

Set your podcast app to autoskip the first and last 1 to 2 min (depending on the podcast) as these are usually ads and shoutouts to other podcasts.

Delete upcoming podcast episodes that are not of interest. You don’t have to listen to everything.

I listen any time I can give attention. Commuting (40 min x2), chores like cleaning (an hour a day), gym (an hour every other day). I’ll even listen in the shower or while shaving or while I’m sitting in the park watching my kids play on the swings from a distance. I’m effectively listening for 2 hours max (real time) in a day. With double speed this effectively gets through 4 hours of podcast content.

I even put one earphone in and listened to podcasts while getting a root canal and crown at the dentist. It makes a huge difference if you can keep yourself mentally engaged rather than just staring at the ceiling and thinking about the drill grinding away your tooth. Podcasts can be amazing and much better than doom scrolling brain dead content (just need to avoid brain dead podcasts).

Nope. I’ve got a gaming PC and a lounge console PC that have emulation setup. Syncthing keeps the game saves across all these devices in sync. So even if I wasn’t to play an emulated games I just continue on another device.

The only thing I used to connect it to a screen for was when I got into playing Wild Rift (Android game so it doesn’t work on other devices and RP5 controller mapping to the screen made this device essential). Sitting back and playing that on a TV with controller was such a great experience.

I always planned to connect it to aTV for playing Jackbox party games… But I have no friends so that never got used (ಥ_ʖಥ)

I first got into podcasts by looking all through BBC listings. There’s enough there to last a lifetime. After that I’ve found other stuff from YouTube recommendations, other podcast recommendations, suggestions online, etc.

Recently commented in a similar post, so I’ll paste that comment:

Podcasts are my thing. I’ve got you covered.

Depends on what you’re into:

More or Less: Behind the Stats - analysis of some statistic from the news

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - what science says about how to be happy

The Audio Long Read - long form articles from the Guardian newspaper

You Are Not So Smart - cognitive science related. How we know things, our biases, how our thinking is flawed, etc.

Dan Snow’s History Hit - One of the few history podcasts I really like

Short History Of… - a short history of some specific thing

The Forum - expert panel discussion about some topic

Behind the Bastards - Very well known podcast focusing on some bastard personality

CrowdScience - in depth investigation of a listener science question

Radiolab - in depth investigation of a topic of their interest. Quite broad scope.

Unexpected Elements - a very varied mix of discussions around a science topic from the news

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Tim Harford is the podcast king for me. This show is a deep dive into something that went wrong in news or history, and an investigation of all the systemic failures around it. It tries to show how blame is hardly ever warranted on a single person and the systems are at fault.

The Martin Lewis Podcast - UK consumer advocate and saving guru

Show Me The Meaning! A Wisecrack podcast - a couple of philosophers talk about a movie

The Inquiry - a deep dive into a news story

Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about a range of different things

The Law Show - UK legal system issues

The Infinite Monkey Cage - comedy science panel show

The Supermassive Podcast - space related podcast

File on 4 investigates - detailed story from deep investigative journalism

Thinking Allowed - light philosophical ramblings

When It Hits the Fan - two public relations experts talk about PR issues from current events

Discovery - science related. Currently mostly doing shows about “a life scientific” I.e. talking to a scientist about their life

Overthink - philosophy made accessible

What It’s Like To Be… - a person from a particular occupation talks about their job

People Fixing the World - people from different parts of the world fixing some local problem in their community in a creative way

Hidden Brain - my absolute favourite. Cognitive science related. Explains how the brain works and how to use the understanding to male your own love better.

Within Reason

Your Parenting Mojo - evidence based parenting. Can be a very dry long-winded research presentation, but this has improved my parenting (and life) immensely

Sideways - different ideas and how to look at things differently

Darknet Diaries - stories from the dark underbelly of the internet

The Reith Lectures - once a year short lecture series, but well worth listening to the backlog

Evil Genius with Russell Kane - comedians discuss how some villains from history weren’t so bad and how some heroes from history were terrible people

Owls at Dawn - ramblings of a couple of philosophers

Sound of Gaming - excellent music show about music soundtracks from videogames

Playing god? - medical ethics discussion

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

A History of the World in 100 Objects - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

I would also recommend the podcast series made to accompany the Chernobyl and Last of Us TV series.

S Town - a nice fiction mini series drama story.

I’ve been through this whole process and wanted to make the best choice and explore all options myself. In the end my conclusion ended up being what most people online recommended after all: keep NAS and compute separate and that Debian is best for a Linux server. Now I have a Synology NAS and a 12th gen Intel mini PC. I run most of what you mention above and it works great.

I spent ages looking at so many sources to learn and get this set up. After I got it all done, I found this is one simple guide that basically covered the whole process and I really with O found this early: https://thecybersecguru.com/tutorials/self-hosting-guide/

Satan gets a pretty sweet deal.

I have a Retroid Pocket 5 and it has been great. Looked at the Retroid Pocket 6 for ages and decided I don’t need the newest shiniest thing just because it exists.

I think they Retroid Pocket G2 was just them unloading parts. They used the same body, upgraded the chip. It didn’t make sense when the Pocket 6 was around the corner. They were getting rid of parts.

Wulff Den put it best

Also, Tuesday has no feel my dude

Whales are the smartest. Fish came out of water onto land and evolved into mammals. Whales said “nope, fuck that” and went back. The longer I live on land, I can see why.

My wife’s friend was visiting for the weekend and is the poster girl for this meme. If my wife tried to point out anything being her fault, the friend shut down any criticism/feedback.

They kept asking why I wasn’t hanging out with them beyond short bursts. After hearing about her detailed story of her moving out of the house on the break from her husband and son, cheating for months with a married coworker who had months old new baby at home, then moving on to “forcing herself” upon a religious friend till he caved in for a friends-with-benefits situation, seducing her cousin’s husband into an emotional relationship (and then playing dumb when he said he loved her) and idolising another married man they know (for accepting his wife having cheated on him for years and declared undying love for her anyway). I couldn’t really carry on sitting there holding my tongue, especially when these stories drag on for hours…and she figures she’s the victim in all this and deserves a break. This doesnt even cover the drinking and drug taking. My wife had to forbid her from vaping in front of our children or in our home.

Mine is reverse proxied too. My wife has seerr with auto approval for her. The barriers are multiple and not well understood by us enthusiasts. There’s perceived complexity of use, unfamiliarity with the platform, choice paralysis (when everything on the world is at your fingertips), a longing for algorithm suggestions, etc etc.

Like I said, I’ve given user accounts to a bunch of people I know. For all these people I’ve installed the apps for them and logged in for them when I’ve been at their houses. They just need to launch the app and watch. I check server logs from time to time…none of them use it.

But my 5year old definitely uses it happily on his child account and has never had a problem. My 7 year old has accidentally uninstalled the Jellyfin app before and he came to me to ask “what does server URL” mean, I told him the login process once and he happily does it himself. Lack of understanding is not the problem for adults. Tech companies really have a grip on the population in making their services addictive.

Kids don’t need more than 1080. I don’t even get more than that for myself unless it is a particular movie I want to keep as a collectible an rewatch repeatedly. Most YouTube play through videos are 6 to 10 hours and I’m not going to waste space beyond 720 on those. Young kids don’t mind.

I’ve put all the movies my (primary school) age children could think of on my server, all the TV shows (Bluey, Sesame Street, Spider-Man, Teen Titans Go, etc etc) and also any YouTube they’ve been interested in (mostly video game playthroughs) downloaded and onto the server. Works out well to get a separate kids profile set up. Give it a shot.

Strongly disagree. Lemmy keeps suggesting Linux too, but most tech illiterate casual users can’t handle that level of DIY tech. This is even more true for self-hosting. This will be beyond the tolerance and competencies and interest of the vast majority of people.

I’ve got an excellently maintained Jellyfin, Arr’s, Usenet setup. My wife will not use it. She’s gone and paid for Netflix WITH ADS and would rather use that. Any network hiccups, any need for server restart, subtitles not synchronising (or not downloaded), or trying to install Jellyfin on a new device and being asked the server URL…all this instantly scares her away. Netflix shits itself far more than my Jellyfin setup does, but she knows how to restart the phone or TV, knows how to log out and log back in and is just generally more tolerant of an outside service being down rather than my server (my responsibility) not behaving right. I would say my Jellyfin works perfectly more than 98% of the time.

It is not like my wife is some freak, I’ve given Jellyfin accounts to a bunch of friends and my mother. None of them use it.

My lifetime collection of music tracks is currently at 821 tracks in total. My music taste is somehow stupidly specific. Theres no formula. I like rock, metal, death metal, Goth metal, dance music, video game theme tracks, electro, instrumental covers, some classical, some Mongolian throat singing, etc etc. But I will only like specific tracks and I’ve got no tolerance to have things I don’t love in my library.

When I see that most people just throw on whatever on Spotify and just let any ol’ genre playlist play out, I find it amazing. People don’t have to be as restricted as me, but how is everyone now so very non-intentional with what they consume.

But this isn’t just for music. People let algorithms decode what content they see online, what YouTube videos to watch, what movie to stream… I would strongly advocate being at least a bit more intentional. Pick what you want to be exposed to. Pay attention to it. Stop being so passive and try to intentionally consume art and you’ll get a lot more put of it.

Been trying to get through super Communicators by Charles Duhigg for ages. Don’t get the time to read much. And the book is also padded out with a lot of chaff. It is interesting though.

I think I’ve seen a story like this posted every 6 months for years now.

Edit: the other story that has been recycled regularly since the dawn of time is the story of a young undergrad woman hooking up with some older sugar daddy to fund her university fees.

This is why I love roguelites. I don’t need a story to tell me why I’m in this dungeon, just give me a gun and/or sword.

I thought I did. I’ll fire it up again sometime and double check. Wipeout on the PS1 gets praised enough for me to give it another shot.

PS1 and N64 were so early in the days of 3D gaming. I play older games but I’m usually looking for pixel graphics or 2D games. PS2 was the console of my childhood and my mind is anchored in looking for at least that sort of 3D quality.

Man I love Wipeout.

Gotta admit though, PS1 era graphics are too dated for me. I tend to stick to PS2 onwards. I do play a lot of Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Pulse for the PSP and those have been great.

Apparently being sent to your room was also seen as punishment. I would be ecstatic if someone excused me from other activities and sent me to my room.