• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
    29·
    7 days ago

    Syncthing.

    Connect any two devices’ folders together wirelessly, from anywhere.

    Don’t have a server? You don’t need one. Every device is an individual node.

    Backup? If you do have a server, offload some of your content and keep on rolling, or set scripts to move files by age.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    CBC Gem, which is our country’s public news corporation’s streaming service which is a catalog of Canadian television. There’s also CBC Music which is the radio app, and you can even listen to the live streams of the Metropolitan Opera on Saturdays.

  • dave@lemmy.wtf
    5·
    7 days ago

    KDE Connect. its an app that lets you share lots of different things between your devices, and it does this over your home network without needing any “cloud”

    • send files from one device to another
    • share the clipboard. handy for copying text or a link to your phone
    • get notifications from your phone on your laptop
    • have music playing on your laptop and pause or change the track from your phone
    • control your laptop from your phone, move the cursor around, left/right click etc
  • cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    In California (and Connecticut), you don’t have to pay to use the air pumps at gas stations. You can just go inside and ask them to turn on the air pump, and they legally have to.

  • TourCookie@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    Got to say Keepass, Open source Password Manager. And Internet Archive, a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more 😊

    • rami@ani.socialEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      you’re gunna charge for it anyway, parasite. might as well help you get a actual day’s work in once in a while.

    • leadore@lemmy.world
      151·
      7 days ago

      Landlords have guaranteed that tenants won’t bother to clean the place up by establishing the precedent over many years that they won’t refund your deposit no matter how spotless you leave the property. Everyone knows it and after getting screwed enough times, tenants are incentivized to leave a mess as an act of defiance.

    • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
      102·
      7 days ago

      Emmie. Please. Get help. Arguing with strangers on the internet for no reason isnt cool. It wont make your children love you. Please seek therapy.

      We are all concerned for your wellbeing.

    • PennyOaken@lemm.ee
      2·
      7 days ago

      Can’t you basically deduct anythign from the deposit? I used to tell them it will cost more than the deposit to clean up and they immediately hire some cleaning service and get it cleaned and of course you still return only 50% even after that because there are something which they cant clean completely

  • Elle@lemmy.world
    1861·
    9 days ago

    In terms of fully free, obligatory mention:
    Your library may offer more than books alone, depending on how well supported they are. Borrow music, movies, sometimes even video games. For music and movies they may also offer these to borrow digitally as well via online services they coordinate with.

    • Bonifratz@lemm.ee
      28·
      9 days ago

      My library offers art! Like, original art pieces (paintings and sculptures) by local artists which you can borrow for up to three months.

    • Mist101@lemmy.world
      251·
      9 days ago

      The library of things is also something many public libraries have now. Not just media, but tools, power tools, cooking pans and equipment, pod casting equipment. Definitely worth a look.

    • Jtee@lemmy.world
      20·
      9 days ago

      Our library does audio books, 3d printer, sound recording (like a small studio), and passes to provincial parks. Some can offer a lot!

    • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.worldOP
      16·
      9 days ago

      I moved to a new town in 2022 and I STILL haven’t been to the local library. I need to get on that. I went to libraries so much as a child and in my teens.

      • KittenBiscuits@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        9 days ago

        You might be able to apply for an account online and not have to go in, unless you just want to meander through their not-book- things available to check out.

        My library has a lovely assortment of things. Anything from camping gear to ghost hunting “equipment” like a spirit box or emf meter. My city doesn’t have a fully outfitted maker lab tho, but I am eligible for an account at the neighboring city that does have a kickass maker lab (3d printers, laser engravers, sewing and embroidery machines, Cricuts, and even a professional recording studio).

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    1311·
    9 days ago

    Making sure to keep it legal, right?

    Let’s stick with Project Gutenberg - Public domain ebooks and other media, spanning centuries. They’re incredibly important for keeping our literary past alive.

    I might have more later.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    955·
    8 days ago

    Closing your eyes, slowly taking a deep breath, and calmly, breathing in, and breathing out, while focusing on the sensations in your body, and how much more relaxed you’re feeling right now

    i.e. meditation

      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        7 days ago

        So when you use Spotify and Netflix, what your doing is streaming from their computers, which costs money hence why they charge you monthly.

        They also add profit and licensing costs and all that to it so it adds up.

        But what if, you used your own computer?

        Very easy to do using just your wifi, some more complexity if you want to steam over the internet.

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      8 days ago

      How is it different than Plex?

      Does it find the movies for me, or do I still need to figure out the Usenet or BitTorrent?

      • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        34·
        8 days ago

        Jellyfin Is completely open source, fully self-hosted, and free. With Plex the software still has to phone home to a central server for authentication and some features are locked behind a paywall.

        No streaming software is going to find movies for you (without paying for content they’ve licensed) because that would be a sure fire way to get the project taken down for copyright violation.

          • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            5 days ago

            While I don’t have much experience with Plex, I can say that it’s really not hard to set up Jellyfin for streaming across the internet.

            I’m running a docker container using the linuxserver.io image and all I had to do was forward the HTTP/S ports. I will grant that when a third party has to make an easy-to-use container for a service, there’s a problem to address… but if I remember correctly, Jellyfin is easier to set up on bare metal where it can use uPnP.

      • swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        23·
        8 days ago

        It’s a FOSS plex alternative… yes you will need to stock your own library Then install SonArr, RadArr, some other Arr 🏴‍☠️just learn Linux nub. Jk but not really

      • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        111·
        8 days ago

        It’s Plex but free and without a central login server handled by a third party

        It’s also got a few fewer/not as functional features and no live TV (whoopty do?)

        The Arr Suite are what you’re looking for to find content, works with either Plex or Jelly in (or others)

      • BlackAura@lemmy.world
        8·
        8 days ago

        Since no one really answered you, there are generally two routes.

        If you use newsgroups you can run sabnzbd, which is a service that downloads from newsgroups. I’ve been out of the loop for a while but there used to be something like CouchPotato for movies or SickBeard for TV (which migrated to SickChill, though you shouldn’t use that anymore as it installed a crypto miner last I heard). Lastly you sign up with a news indexer (look up Nzb.su or nzbgeek.info). CouchPotato could be linked to your imdb watch list.

        Plug all of those together with API keys, and now movies on your imdb watch list just show up in your plex library as they become available.

        Now if you use Torrents instead of newsgroups, there are similar things that all exist, I’m just less familiar with them.

        • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          Ah, interesting. I’m actually only (barely) familiar with torrents, insofar as I have downloaded qBitTorrent and enabled its embedded search. I search for thing, sort by most seeds, and choose first relevant one. Usually it all goes well. Plex on my Mac watches the downloads folder, and the TV has Plex installed.

          It works, but at least from my limited view of its search results, the seas seem to be drying up. I feel like there are better, non-default searches I could be adding. There was some kind of Jacket plugin that refused to load so it’s just disabled.

          Am a very inept pirate 🏴‍☠️

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
        51·
        8 days ago

        Aside from the FOSS that people love.

        I will add something real world. I have Plex and Jellyfin running. Now Plex works fine for the most part but certain codecs when I am watching on iOS just has issues and freezes a lot so I have to use Jellyfin, but the UI in Jellyfin is pretty sparse and not as polished.

      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        8 days ago

        You can do that with VPN. I’m using Tailscale, just had to make an account and install it on the computer I mentioned and on my phone.