What's something that's free that everyone should know about?
I'll start by plugging Harvard's free courses catalog as well as Udemy
Edit: Gonna add 2 more I remembered-
Blender - I wish I had more time to learn it, but I did start the infamous "Donut Tutorial" once!
Watch Cartoons Online - Lots of good older stuff!
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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.
In the U.S. they may even offer things like State Park passes.
My library offers art! Like, original art pieces (paintings and sculptures) by local artists which you can borrow for up to three months.
That's such a great idea!
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.
You can borrow fishing rods at ours.
Our library does audio books, 3d printer, sound recording (like a small studio), and passes to provincial parks. Some can offer a lot!
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.
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).
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.
There's also LibriVox for audiobooks of public domain books read by volunteers. They vary in quality but some of my favourite audiobooks are from there.
Go on...
Public domain audiobooks, read by members of the community. It's a beautiful thing - which is why AI scrapers seem currently determined to tear it down.
That's not what I meant; I meant to go on with your specific favorites, what you listen to on there.
What @[email protected] said seems to be correct, they apparently have some problems right now, I can't reach the website. It worked yesterday, when I posted the link. I'll try again later to link some I like, I hope they are able to resolve the problems soon.
Having looked at the forum, they seem to be under attack by a swarm of AI scrapers. If anyone can help them defend against the attack, please do so.
Oh, that sucks. This is why we can't have nice things.
Sadly, yeah. Unfortunately, I'm not really capable of sounding the alarm, and whoever runs the Xwitter page for Librivox have not posted anything in over a year. They should be crying out for aid, but there's crickets in the public eye.
It was down at the moment I posted, I didn't want to push more traffic until they were back online.
I mean, I'm down for illegal mentions too, but Lemmy might not be?
Not on your instance, no. The Canadians don't care.
https://standardebooks.org/
I kinda forgot Project Gutenberg is a thing. I read a bunch of stuff on there in the late 90s/early 2000s, Arabian Nights, Paradise Lost, etc.
I got a cooking book from the 1800s there, sadly the pricing is a bit off, I don't think that recipe is 19 pence anymore.
Well, you have to account for decimalization at least.
I did convert it from Lsd
Don’t forget Hathi trust. No one outside of humanities knows if it but it has a ton of material
VLC Media Player
https://www.videolan.org/
Even better, MPV Media Player. Vlc has bad color reproduction
I use mpv, but VLC has GUI config stuff that is a lot more approachable.
Interesting. Does it take you back to resume if you closed it halfway through a video?
No
Darn. That's why I'm with SMPlayer; that time continuity is extremely helpful to the point of being a requirement for me. VLC also has it but it actually makes the jump-to-time prompt vanish if you take too long to click it (which is... a bizarre "feature").
It's not enabled by default, but you can configure it to: https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#resuming-playback
<3 VLC, been using it for decades at this point.
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
thanks now i feel more relaxed on my toilet
" Come on in, take a breath, the oxygen is free! "
Nah. Intrusive thoughts are a bitch.
Let them come, then let them go
I’m surprised no one has mentioned it yet:
Jellyfin
With just a cheap computer you can have your own Netflix and Spotify.
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?
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.
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.
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
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)
JF does support live TV (and radio now it seems)
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/live-tv/
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.
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 🏴☠️
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.
Is Jellyfin good with remote access?
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.
Can you ELI5 for me what this does? I don't quite get it.
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.
What does that mean "use my own computer"? Do I need to have all the media files on my computer then? Where would I get those from?
Yes, this is all assuming you have a way to get all the media files you need.
Some of us have been collecting it for years.
[email protected]
I see, thanks.
https://fmhy.net/
freemediaheckyeah
The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!
Libraries. Most even rent video games, power tools, audio/video hardware, baking utensils...SO MUCH STUFF. All free.
On a whim I googled my city's library and "tools" and I found a non-profit society that specializes in lending of hand and power tools! This is incredible and I wouldn't have known about it without this prompt: thank you!
My local library loans dongles! Now if I can just manage to check one out without snickering ...
Can you share the name of this non profit society, is it a part of your local public library or it's own independent thing?.
I need a spanner for like single hex nut and I don't want to buy one for it to collect dust in my drawer lol
Yeah mine was called the [City Name] Tool Library, and it was a non-profit that was independent of our local library. I imagine that they receive donated tools from contractors and companies around the city.
As an example, I googled a random city name (Calgary) and found one for them as well: https://calgarytoollibrary.org/
There are likely tons of similar organizations throughout Canada (and probably your country as well!)
Thanks I was able to find one in Chicago called The Chicago Tool Library
👍
Our library loans out state parks passes for a month so you can go to parks for free. It also loans out hiking gear, provides immigration resources, and oddly, a ukulele.
This is amazing, I had no idea.
Ours lends them out for all the city museums! And my old local library had a seed library, the deal is that you saved seed from whatever you grew and gave some back.
I have questions
I once rented a whole reflector telescope.
That is...fucking crazy awesome.
Technically not free, but because so many people think it is it's a great poster child for proper use of tax dollars and socialist programs. Libraries rock.
Adding the library-libby nexus. Most libraries have an eBook collection connected through Libby. I've got a Kindle and zero books bought from Amazon. It's great.
Protip, if you went to any form of formal education (college) then you probably have alumni library account access. My Libby has three library cards logged in. I never wait for a book.
Nope. 15 Euro a year (Freiburg, Germany), which doesn't automatically renew and it's a bloody pain.
Yeah, Germany is quite backwards in this aspect.
Even if you don't go to the actual library the ebook apps are great.
Pi hole
https://pi-hole.net/
Does a pi hole combine with a VPN? I assume the pi hole can't see what's in the VPN traffic and therefore can't block anything?
You could have the vpn daemon running on the pihole itself rather than on connected devices.
AntennaPod for podcasts
It's great, customizable, I sent a suggestion to the volunteer development team, and they made it happen.
Worth noting: Android only
I second this one. Only one I'll use.
I tried so many other podcast apps, at least 3 of 4 others. The only thing I dislike is that about AntennaPod is that there is no comprehensive removal button that deletes, marks as played, and removes from queue—but all the other apps failed at even consistently downloading eps or playing them back. AntennaPod crushes all competition by light years.
I've been using Podcast Addict for years, and when I tried to switch to AntennaPod, I couldn't figure out how to configure it in such a way that I can listen to the back catalogue of a podcast in chronological order and have the app automatically download a rolling buffer of a small number of episodes. When I looked around online for solutions, I found a forum thread of someone who had the same issue, and the maintainers of the project responded with confusion and dismissal as to why anyone would need that functionality lol. So I'm still on Podcast Addict.
Huh, incidentally, that's one I haven't tried! You may end up swaying me over...
Actually, is it closed-source? That'd be a deal-breaker for me, if so, since I'm not that desperate for such a feature as to lose open-source status.
Yeah, Podcast Addict is proprietary and ad driven, unless you pay. I grabbed a lifetime ad-free upgrade years ago when it was like two bucks.
On some level I agree with you, I generally love open source, and if AntennaPod had the feature I was looking for I would have switched, but I also don't mind paying for software if it's good and reasonably priced.
Let me be perfectly honest: If you like AntennaPod, just stick with it, OK? You'll save a lot of frustrations and headaches.
I used to use AntennaPod and listened to lots of podcasts.
Then one podcast host mentioned some other app, I tried it, and liked its Web interface, even when it didn't have all of the AntennaPod features. I think it didn't have "stop playing a podcast at the end of the episode, even if it's queued". (I like to queue stuff and listen to them at no particular order. I'm a whimsical girl like that.) Then I think this app got discontinued/went pay only, I can't remember.
Went with Google Podcasts. It was a pretty limited and janky experience (also no ability to stop at the end of the queued episode), but it did its job and I hoped it'd get better over years. It didn't. It got discontinued. Google sometimes can't do a good thing.
I manually migrated my subscriptions to some other app. (As one last hurrah Google then implemented OPML takeout.) Wasn't happy with this app. Couldn't help but notice my podcast listening habits were drying up due to all these minor snags. ADHD thing I'm sure.
Then I remembered AntennaPod and how perfect it was and how happy I was using it. I wanted to export OPML from this other app. It had OPML import but no export of any kind. Shit.
So I imported my subs manually again. And screw me if I ever have to do that again. But I'm happy again and that's what matters. I don't think I'll need to migrate again, I'm glad AntennaPod has nice backup features. (Which I already used to move the app from my tablet to my phone.)
https://calibre-ebook.com/
Own your own ebooks. Make sure all devices work with whatever format you need.
Good call on that one, calibre is one of my favorite pieces of software. I, uh, acquire ebooks through creative means and use calibre as both an ebook catalog and format converter to then load them onto my kindle.
I try to support publishers that give you the full ebooks like baen library.
Calibre helped me back up my entire amazon library in a way my kobo can now read instead of just kindle. Both are excellent devices, but I wanted a backlight after 7+ years with the same ebook reader. And I'm not about to purchase all those books aain for the privilege of using the kobo bookstore. Plus Calibre makes it so no matter what you get (pdf/ebook/proprietary format) you can get a good old fashion ebook format for future preservation.
You should probably note, the functionality you're describing now requires modding/plug-ins and not the "search and enable" kind, the download from third party sites and run random install scripts kind. It also since February requires you use your Kindle to download and copy every book you own (a chore if your family buys a lot of pulpy urban fantasy novels)
lichess.org is a fantastic online chess platform for players of all skill levels. it's free and---what's more--it's ad-free (unlike the parasitic organisation that's squatting on the chess.com domain).
it has one-on-one on-demand match-ups, tournaments, puzzles, user-published training courses, multiple chess variants, and so much more.
it's one of only two online resources to which i deem donating regularly worthwhile (the other being wikipedia).
do check it out. chess is one really healthy mental habit to inculcate.
Lichess may be the best board game software for any board game ever. It's that good.
They should branch out!! Does it support anything other than chess?
um, chess 960? lol
Hmm... I think I'd prefer that, yeah!
It's great! Also for anyone that happens to be in the overlap of people that enjoy chess and go, and want to play go online as well, there's online-go.com.
I don't know that it has all the features that Lichess does, but it does have puzzles, tournaments, custom games, and so on.
cool!! thank youu
I find the dynamics of lichess.org vs chess.com very interesting.
They are similar in terms of features. Both have decent interfaces, puzzles, matchmaking, live viewing boards and broadcasts for tournaments, training programs, etc. But chess.com has ads, and features locked behind subscription paywalls where lichess.org does not. (Everything is free on lichess, except for the little logo next to a user's name to say they have supported the site with donations.)
But on the other hand, chess.com seems to have a higher number pro players; and probably a larger number of players overall.
I think its very interesting to think about why that is the case. Why would more people choose the version that is more expensive, but does not have more features?
I've thought of a few reasons, but I think probably the biggest effect is that chess.com has more money to splash around (because it sells ads, and asks for user subscriptions), and it uses big chunk of this money to advertise itself. eg. by sponsoring players and streamers, offering larger prizes for its own tournaments; etc.
And although I definitely think lichess is better, since it is generously supplying a high-quality product without trying to self-enrich, I do sometimes think maybe what chess.com is doing is ok too: in the sense that it is not only self-enriching, but also supporting the sport itself a bit by paying money to players, events, and commentators. Lichess does this too - but less of it, because they have less money.
(Note that chess.com also does some really crappy stuff, such as censoring any mention of lichess in the chat of their twitch broadcasts. That definitely does not help support the sport.)
It's chess.com. We are the tech-savvy Lemmy weirdos who dig around for alternatives. I'd put my money on people just literally not knowing or thinking to check for an alt.
I didn't know lichess existed until I found an extension that opens my chess.com match review into lichess, since the review is free there.
There's also an ego thing. Lichess starts you off at 1500 elo whereas I think chesscum starts at 1000. So if you're rated 1000 on Lichess you're a lot worse. There's a mentality that the better players are on Chesscum.
this of course isnt true, there's plenty of competition and actually around the 2000-2200 elo level Lichess actually overtakes chesscum. there's also fewer cheaters!
I definitely highly, highly recommend Lichess.
I've got a game coming up with my biggest rival next week. Are you saying this "Chesscum" can make me a better player? I don't care what it is. I'll do anything for an edge! 🥵
lol :D puzzles, prep, and calculation practice!
There's also lishogi, if you want to learn that game.
does lemmy have a chess community? I'm so tired of chess reddit. reddit is all Hans Nieman fan boys, because of course they are. I'm so tired of looking for chess conversations and hearing about how white males are oppressed
I'm subbed to anarchychess which is probably the largest chess related community on lemmy I don't even play chess with any regularity :>
It's all shitposts about chess but still pretty amusing nonetheless.
https://sopuli.xyz/c/anarchychess
I love how chill and helpful everyone is here.
Not being a dick is free too.
Oh yeah?? That's good to know.
Yeah, I found some cool stuff for audio/music production
I know lemmy is social media for people with a favorite Linux distro so I’m preaching to the choir here, but so much software is free as in speech it is truly wonderful. It’s like the only thing I love about being a millennial
Gonna take this as a jumping off point to mention some software.
Wanna get into video editing? Shotcut's pretty solid in my experience.
Into mind-mapping stuff? You might give Freeplane a look.
Have a drawing tablet & want to use it to take handwritten digital notes? Check out Xournal++.
Cross-platform Notepad++ alternative? Might give CudaText a try.
Could list off more but will leave it at a few for now.
Dang, I wish I knew about Freeplane years ago. Thanks!! I'm also entrenched in Kdenlive but I wonder if Shotcut has a better UI...
An alternative to shotcut is Kdenlive, I'd say try both and use the one you prefer.
I don't have a fave distro because I must back up my PC's stuff first. I plan to try Bazzite, due to issues I've heard that my laptop has with Mint...
LibreOffice
Free Office Suite which is excellent for personal use. If you are on mobile Collabora Office if you want an Android/iOS version
I've been using it for over a decade. Prior to that I used open office but it quickly became clear Openoffice couldn't match the development of LibreOffice. There is no concrete reason to buy microsoft's bloated ever changing garbage.
OnlyOffice is even better in several ways.
It's also worse in that they hide the fact it's made in Russia.
It's Russian software so yeah.... 🤢
https://dms-solutions.co/blog/dms-solutions-stops-doing-business-with-onlyoffice-due-to-onlyoffice-close-ties-with-russia/
I hear you. It'a almost as bad as Gimp vs Krita.
How so? I've been moving between the two for years.
I find it faster, more stable, and just generally FEELS better than LibreOffice. Which I'm sure is because it isn't carrying 30 years of Java baggage with it from the Star office/OpenOffice.org days. And ive had better luck with document compatibility in some cases.
The only complaint ive heard about it is just a smaller feature set than LibreOffice. But it does everything I want it to do.
Both are great, though.
Awesome thanks!
khanacademy.org
Great resource for really well taught contents on an extensive variety of fields
https://rentry.co/megathread
Pretty useful.. when one site fails the other usually work.
what is it
A treasure trove of internet
That is amazing, thanks!
What3words.com and app
Basically the earth has been segragated into 10 foot x 10 foot squares that are easily identified by 3 words, super accurate, easy to tell emergency services. No more need to know lat/long to tell someone where you're at.
I think you're inadvertently advertising a cylindrical model of the earth 😁
Ooh like that. Interesting concept. Too bad people can't spell 😅
Where on earth is "fuck shit piss"?
unfortunately the people at What3Words excluded words people might find offensive from the word list, so that place does not exist
So I guess "musk impregnates influencers" would be OK? Even though that's a lot more offensive IMHO ...
I just looked it up, and apparently "impregnate" isn't in the list either. Yes, the word isn't offensive by itself, but I think they remove quite a lot of words that might cause problems in the what3words address. There is way more than enough words anyway.
This is from their FAQ:
Not working.
///life.before.death doesn't exist
///journey.before.destination took me a couple miles east of Pittsburgh.
I was expecting Urithiru :<
Totally unusable
Your neighbor's trash. It's stunning what I find and fix, refurbish, repurpose or sell. Had a friend that used to cruise her hood on trash day, her and her husband would load the truck, sell it back to 'em on a Saturday garage sale. 12-14 hours biweekly work, ~$400 every other weekend.
My wife's friends dumpster dive at Walmart, though I question how that's possible. Most big box stores make that impossible. Dunno. In any case, it's wild what these stores chunk out. If Lowe's would let me, I'd haul home a pickup full every week.
People think I'm some sort of TV repair wizard but it's very easy to fix up dumpster TVs if you have a little patience and space. Broken TVs fall into two categories - broken screen or broken board (doesn't turn on, error screens, flickering). Stick to more popular models and when you find a broken screen, take the board and note the model. When you find a broken board of the same model, just swap it. It usually really is that easy. You can work in the opposite direction too and collect good screens waiting for good boards, but that starts to take up a lot of space quick because you're storing whole TVs at that point.
You will also inexplicably find a fully working 55" TV sitting at the dumpster 10% of the time.
People moving and can't be bothered / don't have the time for FB marketplace or similar
Americans: we so poor, every country is ripping us off!
My 55" was thrown out by a neighbor, power issues. $8 in eBay capacitors fixed it, but I did something wrong and shorted it while hanging, lost the magic smoke.
Fine. For $60 I got a new board off eBay. Still have a unit in my bedroom waiting to fix.
On that note, never bring back mattresses, anything upholstered, or anything else that has a lot of unsealed cracks/gaps. Way too big a risk of introducing bed bugs into your home.
So many people just dump seemingly nice mattresses/sofas etc. out on the curb. They're obviously not going to label these things as infested with bed bugs for a scavenger's benefit and alert the whole neighborhood to their shame. Do not take these items. It is not worth the potential nightmare you're setting yourself up for.
I have a pro tip for mattresses! Thrown it down in your driveway, take a box knife and strip it to the bare metal springs. Boom! You now have a plant trellis. First try only took me 20 minutes.
Saw a posh resale store that took twin mattress springs, sprayed 'em black, hung vertically and spaced 2' apart over a standing flower bed. Now sure what the plant was but it sure looked cool.
Trying it for the first time this year on the ferns and blackberries on the side of the house. Already have a solid start!
Learn a little docker and start self hosting stuff! Pihole is a great one to start with, but there are lots of other awesome projects out there:
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
How do I "learn a little docker"? Where do I start?
Before you start can I ask what experience you have with computers, command line, and have you ever done any programming.
Programming isn’t necessary but it helps me see if you’ve been exposed to the kind of syntax you will see in docker.
Happy to help you learn this though.
I'm on a course to become full stack developer, and I know the command line (basics), have an old laptop running Linux Mint that I want to test to use as a docker, but I have no idea where to start.
I am going to be pasting a set of commands to get docker and docker compose set up, but please be wary of people giving commands to run in the terminal. You could use the information I’ve provided to help you find guides to confirm that no weird commands, but I copied this from my guide I use whenever I set up a new VM to use docker.
So the commands below add any dependencies for docker, adds the GPG key to verify and then installs docker and docker compose. I also set up a docker user add them to the docker group so I don’t need to use sudo to run.
I then use docker to create a portainer instance. Portainer allows you to use a webUi to see what you have running and stop start any of your services from there.
After this I have provided a docker compose file which would be named docker-compose.yml. Yaml sucks as it constantly moans about spacing, but essentially you want to use spaces and not tabs and each new line would be indented two spaces unless it’s a sub part of the section above then it would be two more spaces etc.
This docker compose might or might not be what you need, this one first sets up gluetun, which is a VPN layer which I can route other services through as you don’t want to torrent from your IP.
So gluetun is set up using ProtonVPN and you pass the username and password. Username has +pmp for port forwarding.
Then each service under here can choose to use the service:gluetun or bridge network. The former is for the VPN the latter is routed through regular network. Notice how anything routed through the VPN has the ports defined in the VPN service.
The others things you would need to be conscious of is the paths I have used for /mnt/vault/* as these are network attached storage from TrueNAS. Depending on how you want to store things you’ll need to just add the paths to these. The paths look weird but the part before the colon is where it is on your machine and the part after is what it is called inside that container.
You’ll notice that Plex requires a claim key but you can google how to find that.
This isn’t going to get you up and running and you will likely run in to permission errors and other errors along the way. I would suggest coming back here with your errors or giving them to ChatGPT, just don’t blindly copy commands if you don’t know what they do.
Once your docker compose is complete you can run docker compose up -d to spin it up. Then in portainer you can see all the containers and then login to each and do the setup. Docker compose down to stop them all.
When I set this up I did the gluetun and then Radarr. Get that working and then add your next thing and then the next and so on until you have what you want.
As I said this isn’t a complete solution and you will run into roadblocks, but that’s the fun for me and I am happy to help when you get stuck along the way.
Edit: A few more things you should know. The volumes section. The ones starting with ./ means they’re in the directory where the docker compose file is. And as I have perms to 1001 you would need to ensure that is the PUID of the docker user and then for each folder, plex for instance you can run “sudo chown -R 1001:1001 ./plex” and “sudo chmod-R 755 ./plex” which is change ownership and changes permissions for that directory.
### Docker
Install dependencies
`sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -y`
Add the Docker GPG key to the server's keyring
`sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/%E2%80%8Blinux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc`
Add the latest Docker repository to the APT sources
`echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/%E2%80%8Blinux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null`
Update the server package index.
`sudo apt update`
Install Docker
`sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin`
Verify
`sudo docker --version`
Enable the Docker system service to start automatically at boot time.
`sudo systemctl enable docker`
View the Docker service status and verify that it's running
`sudo systemctl status docker`
#### Install docker compose
`sudo apt install docker-compose-plugin -y`
Verifiy the installation
`docker compose version`
#### Portainer
Create a Volume for Portainer Data
`docker volume create portainer_data`
Deploy Portainer as a Container
```
docker run -d \
--name=portainer \
--restart=always \
-p 8000:8000 \
-p 9443:9443 \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v portainer_data:/data \
portainer/portainer-ce:latest
```
Acess Portainer
`https://your-server-ip:9443`
#### Running Docker without Sudo
Add your user to the docker group:
`sudo usermod -aG docker $USER`
Log out and log back in, or restart your system.
Verify by running:
`docker ps`
Below is the docker-compose.yml file.
services:
gluetun:
image: qmcgaw/gluetun
container_name: protonvpn
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
devices:
- /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
ports: # These are the qBittorrent ports, I like to use random ports and not the default ports 49152
- 49893:49893 # This is for the qBittorrent WebUI Port
- 6881:6881 # Listening port for TCP
- 6881:6881/udp # Listening port for UDP
- 7878:7878 # Listening port for Radarr
- 8989:8989 # Listening port for Sonarr
- 9696:9696 # Listening port for Proxlarr
environment:
- VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=protonvpn
- OPENVPN_USER=USERNAME+pmp # REPLACE with your OpenVPN username (+pmp for port forwarding)
- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=PASSWORD # REPLACE with your OpenVPN password
- VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=on
- SERVER_COUNTRIES=France # These countries must support P2P
volumes:
- ./gluetun:/gluetun
restart: unless-stopped
qbittorrent:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
container_name: qbittorrent
environment:
- PUID=1001 # to find your current ID just type "id" in the terminal
- PGID=1001 # to find your current group ID just type "id" in the terminal
- TZ=Europe/London
- WEBUI_PORT=49893 # Must match the port used on gluetun for the WebUI
- TORRENTING_PORT=6881
volumes:
- ./qbittorent/config:/config # this will create the config folder in the same folder as the yml file
- /mnt/vault/Downloads:/downloads # adjust to your desired download directory
network_mode: "service:gluetun" # must match the container name of gluetun
restart: unless-stopped
prowlarr:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
container_name: prowlarr
depends_on:
- gluetun
environment:
- PUID=1001
- PGID=1001
- TZ=Europe/London
user: "1001:1001"
volumes:
- ./prowlarr/config:/config
network_mode: "service:gluetun"
restart: unless-stopped
radarr:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr
container_name: radarr
depends_on:
- gluetun
environment:
- PUID=1001
- PGID=1001
- TZ=Europe/London
user: "1001:1001"
volumes:
- ./radarr/config:/config
- /mnt/vault/Downloads:/downloads
- /mnt/vault/Movies:/movies
network_mode: "service:gluetun"
restart: unless-stopped
sonarr:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr
container_name: sonarr
depends_on:
- gluetun
environment:
- PUID=1001
- PGID=1001
- TZ=Europe/London
user: "1001:1001"
volumes:
- ./sonarr/config:/config
- /mnt/vault/Downloads:/downloads
- /mnt/vault/TV:/tv
network_mode: "service:gluetun"
restart: unless-stopped
jellyfin:
image: jellyfin/jellyfin
container_name: jellyfin
environment:
- PUID=1001
- PGID=1001
- TZ=Europe/London
volumes:
- ./jellyfin/config:/config
- /mnt/vault/Movies:/movies
- /mnt/vault/TV:/tv
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 8096:8096
network_mode: "bridge"
plex:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
container_name: plex
network_mode: host
environment:
- PUID=1001
- PGID=1001
- TZ=Europe/London
- VERSION=docker
- PLEX_CLAIM=CLAIMKEY
- NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all
volumes:
- ./plex:/config
- /mnt/vault/Movies:/movies
- /mnt/vault/TV:/tv
deploy:
resources:
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia
count: all
capabilities: [gpu]
runtime: nvidia
restart: unless-stopped
...casually just post an entire setup.
I miss my nas.
This isn’t likely to work without some whack a mole with errors though but it should be enough for someone curious enough to be able to get a working solution.
My NAS currently has a sole 10TB HDD and funds are too low to justify an additional one so I am very nervous.
I know I'm a bit late, but holy shit, this helped so much!! Some help from ChatGPT and I was downloading from USENET in about 20 minutes! Thanks, friend 😁
Hey, I’m stoked that it helped you get up and running
Protip: don’t be like me. Make sure you backup your docker compose files. I once ran out of space and then wiped my file and had to make it again. Just copy it using cp command and add .bak to the end.
Thanks, I'll do that when I get home!
You could follow a guide to install portainer, it's got a web gui to manage docker. It can handle installing most types of docker containers.
When you find a cool project to install, they almost always have a docker compose template you can use to install their container.
The docker compose tells docker which containers to install and how they might rely on each other as well as which ports to run on and where all their config and/or data files should be stored.
Using a docker compose makes things super simple to update by using portainer to repull the images to the latest versions and run those. The new containers running the new versions will have all the same config and see the same data/config directories that you specify in the docker compose.
I run a bunch of containers, some good examples are the ARR stack to download tv shows and movies. Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Transmission are all defined in one docker compose. Another couple of great containers I run are Actual Budget for budgeting software and Tandoor for saving and managing recipes and grocery lists. Actual Budget and Tandoor have their own docker compose configs.
That’s great you’re starting from a place that should make this easy.
Let me jump on my PC and get some information to help you get started.
YouTube. Duckduckgo.
Personally I'm running 13 containers for various things. Worth it.
But I googled docker, and only found apps that can be installed. Does it both require something to run the docker apps in?
Docker is a program that runs on an OS, usually Linux, and the docker apps or images are run by docker on the OS docker is installed on.
I’m a rookie, but I run TrueNAS which runs docker images. Previously I ran plain Debian with docker installed to run docker images.
Check out NetworkChuck's channel on YouTube. He has a bunch of videos on docker and docker compose.
I agree, you can use an old desktop, laptop, or if you don't have something I had good luck with the local university surplus store.
LMMS - free and open source garage band. It's a little weird on how you do a song, but it's pretty great.
Tips: Look at Beats and Baselines Editor and Piano Roll Editor first to probably get you where you want to be.
And if you need some free virtual instruments, Plugins4Free and Vital.
Other free, though not FOSS DAWs are Reaper and Waveform.
Wow, this thread came to me with perfect timing. I love LMMS and I'll try out this plugins on Monday, thanks.
I'm currently going through this thread and found 3 other sites that are amazing and solved some project issues I was having.
Oh, glad to help! Any other music tools you're looking for? I'm not good with any of them, but I like testing them out. I'm still just learning and experimenting.
I get a little sad when I don't see anything new for me on threads like this, but then I'm a bit grateful since that means I've already spent a long time enjoying all these things!
I've been playing with it since my last comment. I just installed 8 plugins. There are 3 that are so freaking good.
My only wish is there was a way to make a song like in Garage band, where you can overlap the instruments and loops more easily. I think it's there, but I'm just not good enough at it yet. When I play with the piano, I get a really good sounding melody, but then it's gone.
Like in this video?
I haven't used LMMS in a long time, but he's manually editing the piano roll (where the notes are stored) but I see a record button here where it should record what you play on the keyboard.
Sort of, I found that portion. Here is my workflow in Garage Band.
This takes about 4 hours to make an opening song that I usually love.
In LMMS
The rest seems easy and I like the set up.
Gotcha, now I have a better idea of what you're trying to do.
Watching this video about looping in LMMS shows it can sorta be done, sometimes with some help from Audacity.
If you're adding in more stuff like VST plugins and vocals, you may want to try out Waveform Free, which I checked is for iOS also, so you get a full modern DAW. It's the same product as their paid full version, just like 2 updates behind.
For more premade loops, check out Looperman if you haven't already.
It's not free, but I think I under $20 for the program and all the upgrades, if looping and sampling is something you want to focus on, check out Koala Sampler. I downloaded it the other week and have been sampling vinyl recordings from YouTube, it has an AI stem extractor to separate the instrument tracks, and then chopping and looping that.
It has a built in simple synth now as well, and you can use a midi controller with it. Lots of videos are out there if you want to see how that works. You might be able to incorporate that into your setup.
If you want to do any loop and sample work FOSS style, then I'd highly highly recommend Bespoke Synth, easily the best FOSS modular DAW out there
It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you're over it then it's a pleasure to use and easily the best open source DAW I've used so far (and I've tried alot)
Biggest thing it has over LMMS: VST3 support, so you can actually use modern synth plugins like Surge XT, or dynamic EQ plugins like ZL Equalizer, or lo-fi plugins like CHOW Tape and MAIM
Although, there is a FOSS workout to get VST3 working in LMMS using KV Element, which you can load as a VST2 that itself can run VST3's.
I use to use that before Bespoke but it was very much a workaround, and I had this infuriating annoyance where KV Element would just send pitch-wheel signals to everything and detune my synths without me knowing, and I could not find any reason or fix, so I just stopped using LMMS in favor of Bespoke
Hope this helped!!!
It looks I can use the same workflow, it's just a little more complicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSGvcyRzDRo
I do have some other hobbies! 😁
If you're looking for instruments, effects, etc, the YouTube channel elektronickmusick demos a few each day and many are free or free trials and they run the same midday track through all of them to give you an indeed what they sound like.
I don't think they're the best demos because it's a generic track through all of them, not necessarily something that fits perfect with each unique instrument's strengths, but it gives you some ideas of the sound before you search for it, download it, and find out it's not for you.
If you want some nifty and weird sounds with fun back stories, David Hilowitz searches out obscure old instruments, fixes them, and samples them in his Decent Sampler plugin and rotates giving away different ones for free.
I'm still really bad at making my own music, but I like experimenting while I'm learning to do better.
As hard as it may be to imagine, I feel I've been getting a bit behind from where I'd like to be with owl stuff. With so many owl babies right now, it's been hard to get some of the variety I'd like, and between being sick and depressed, it's hard for me to focus on owls or music the way I'd like.
But between all those links I've shared, you should have years worth of experimentation ahead of you. I hope you find lots of good stuff.
I'm sure a good deal of it is just that like being lazy and complaining. 😁
I got some good posts added to the queue today and planted some more stuff in my container garden and made some bread, so now to clean dishes and laundry and try to focus on some piano.
I think I've been lost since the gf has gone to a very fluctuating schedule, as it really throws off my routines. It's like if the sun came out at a different time every day. There's still the same amount of time and opportunity to do stuff, but you'd feel off after a while doing stuff at what feels like the wrong time of day. I dunno. I'm weird. 😝
A little late but OpenTaxSolver - free desktop tax software that gives you a printout of tax forms that you can mail in. And it includes a few states too. Way easier than the annoying corporate sites that constantly log you out and charge a fee for every little thing.
Edit: To my non-American friends, you don't need to worry about this
Since you mention states and the site mentions federal taxes and the IRS, I assume this is for the tax system of the USA, it's funny that it isn't stated anywhere though.
the USA is the only country that I know of that requires such ridiculous measures to file your taxes tbh
Here in Switzerland, tax law is different per canton. So for our ~9 million people we have 26 tax laws! We pay taxes on three levels, communal, cantonal and federal taxes. And who collects which part depends on your canton. In mine the commune collects the communal and the cantonal part, and the canton collects the federal part. Yeah... it makes no sense to me either.
Though regarding the filing that part is not so bad;you only make one tax declaration from which the taxes on all three levels are calculated. And as far as I'm aware each canton offers a free software application for filing. The filings are a little complicated compared to some European neighbours from what I hear. For instance we aren't source taxed directly out of our pay-checks, so we have to list our earnings and possessions manually and list various deductions.
Still, from what I gather we have it a little better than the US Americans
26 tax laws? You mean 26 volumes, right? /S from the US.
I mean 26 separate sets of law regarding what is taxed and how highly in each of the 26 cantons. Not one law with 26 paragraphs.
In most eu countries the law requires businesses that give out food to also allow you to order free tap water. If youre in a city and dont want to spend money on a bottle of water, walk into mcdonalds and ask for free tap water. A lot of european countries also have strict laws about tap water so for example in france unless otherwise indicated with a warning, tap water is always potable.
Not true everywhere, actually never heard of it here (Germany and Austria).
But if you walk into a place and ask for a paper cup of tap water, a lot of workers are willing to give it to you, regardless of the laws.
Vienna has tap water straight from the mountains btw and it tastes amazing. Recommended.
Here in the US, this seems so normal that it didnt even occur to me that this may not be true everywhere else. And not need to be enforced by law.
A lot of places in the US will charge you for the cup or say they only offer bottled water for sale.
Ive definitely never, ever run into that. But I'm sure it happens.
Edit: I guess ive seen places that charged some nominal fee for the cup but it's so rare
I went to Philadelphia and there were hardly any places to get water at all. There were always stores selling water bottles literally $8 in one instance around nearly everywhere you looked
And even if they do give out free tap water ... they might not mean lead-free.
Arizona has several long-standing laws on the books requiring both public government properties and businesses to provide drinking water without cost or other barrier to access. Businesses can't even charge for the cup.
Common courtesy unfortunately doesn't go far enough, especially when it matters most, so law is required.
Then there's Germany where restaurants charge you 6€ for a jug of tap water.
Yep, can confirm for Portugal.
People that pay for porn on the Internet are like people that pay for WinRAR
Holding the entire "product" together?
Well, yeah, if you're lucky enough to find an old magazine in the woods, but that doesn't count, because it's not usually free otherwise.
I know you're trolling but the idea of someone not knowing about free internet porn and paying for it while somehow being on lemmy is so funny to me
You gents have convinced me to click around a bit more. I have my research cut out for me this evening.
How goes the research? I'm genuinely mind blown by this haha
That's not the only thing that's gonna blow this evening 🤭
How did you know my plans??
If you can’t find something to get off to for free you’re either incompetent or a degenerate
Where!? Are you peeping on folks?
gestures broadly at the internet
or, you know, isn't a cis dude and wants some representation that isn't disgustingly fetishized.
Yucata - online boardgames, take your turn when you can, no pressure.
Yucata is fine for asynchronous play but if you're looking for live online action
https://boardgamearena.com/
Is the way to go. Just can't start certain premium games yourself but you're fine to join any game that other people start
Best I can do is lonely MILFs in your area :>
Well that 2 hours flew by without me realizing it. Thanks! 😆
Oh nice! Finally I can play Backgammon with people (no one IRL ever wants to play)!
There are also Ludo and Parcheesi, which are effectively heavily modified variants of Backgammon for up to 4 players.
Does it hold your hand through only-legal-moves the way Board Game Arena does?
Yes, shows highlights of where legal moves are allowed.
Sweet!
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.
To add a couple more FOSS programs, OBS Studio and kdenlive are both really robust video production and editing software.
Hah, I used kdenlive in like 2008 to make a 3 minute clip out of a bunch of pre existing material. It was buggy as hell, and crashed every 5-10 operations. But I just saved a lot and got it done. Glad to see it's still going (and presumably a lot more stable!)
Just used it recently to recut something super simple and it's pretty good. Worth picking up and learning
Back in the windows 7 days we were sitting at Christmas lunch and my dickhead cousin started bragging about all the different video playing apps he used, without looking up from his lunch my grandpa goes "I only use one, vlc, only an idiot would use anything else.", then continued eating without looking up, my cousin looked shitty and I just left to go laugh outside.
I don't care if you believe me or not that's your business, my cousin is an arrogant asshole, the type to bring his house plans to Christmas lunch and spread them where we're about to eat lunch while standing there demanding people admire his shitty house and my grandpa doesn't give a shit. When he retired in the 90s he got into building computers which lead him to piracy, he introduced me to piracy and is why I'm the pirate I am now.
It was random af, he's usually a chill quiet dude lol.
We used to have family pirate nights where we'd visit the video store, rent out all the games we could, go home burn copies of them all, take them back the same day and grab more, they didn't know or care. I've taken over his role now and now I set up pirate streaming apps for my family.
Actually, Audacity lost this status when Muse Group bought it out. There was a huge community fuss over this especially in /r/Audacity when the company started adding data-tracking to it, and the protests eventually died down because they just kept muscling through their decision like Reddit did with its changes.
I still use Audacity, to be fair, but may consider Ardour that another user mentioned here...
Tenacity is a decent (not perfect) Audacity replacement.
Is that a fork of Audacity? I think I remember reading about that around the time of the hullabaloo...
Yep it is.
Their "data tracking" was just telemetry to figure out what buttons people were actually pressing.
I use Ocenaudio for quick audio edits anyways.
All the same, I did switch to Ocenaudio when I heard the news. Works pretty good.
If you need what I understand to be considered a full-on DAW, there's Ardour, which is also FLOSS.
In Canada, crown land camping and Christmas trees. You can camp on crown land and cut up to 10 cubic metres of wood a year.
Huh... Can I come? Always hated how free camping isn't legal in England. Stealth camping sorta is, if you don't get caught no problem but if you get caught you kinda have to move or you are committing a criminal offence.
For sure. I've got a lovely spot on a lake with no one around that's my favourite. Bring your fishing pole.
Not had much luck fishing, though I tried a hand line rather than a pole and it was from a kayak. Started feeling seasick which surprised me as I have kayaked loads on the sea before just fine.
Have had a bit more luck with crabs from a pier or quay. Probably could do that from a kayak too if it's nets that you just drop and leave for a little while. I think the seasickness was due to looking down a lot at my equipmemt while not moving in the waves. Shorter periods might not be so bad as you can move on to the next net again pretty quickly rather than sitting still the whole time.
Yeah, I don't fish much. ADD. I like it in winter when I can drill a hole in the ice, put down a line, go inside and drink tea while watching to see if the line bobs.
Ten cubic meters of free wood a year. Huh. That's an oak or two.
I think they use to call it two trees a year and then went to cubic meters. Probably someone taking out the giants of the forest that inspired the change.
I could run a fairly decent woodworking racket given 10 cubic meters a year. Does that include branches and such?
I think it's total, but nobody is checking. I think it only becomes a noticed if it's a blatant overuse.
Your local city college may or may not offer free classes (in San Francisco, you just need to show proof that you live in the city with some legal status).
Some public transportation is free for certain groups (youth and folks experiencing homelessness can get free passes here).
"First X of the month" at the zoo/a museum/whatever --- lots of venues have free events.
A jog, bike ride, hike --- lots of great stuff outside!
I live in the Philly area. Senior citizens can use SEPTA (buses and commuter trains) for $1 a ride.
I second the biking ... but that shit ain't free. Even used bikes cost some money to buy and maintain, and brand new bicycles are solidly in the "insane" category these days.
Good point --- it is "incrementally free," although I guess if you count tire wear and tear that's not even true.
Public Transport is always free for everybody.
Maybe this is sorta dumb, but meditation is a free way to feel good and spend time, and also a free method of stress relief and to reduce suffering.
It's not free in terms of your time & energy, and it might cost some money to learn, but the best meditation manual I know of is free online, or at least it used to be - it looks like it was locked down on archive.org (where it used to be freely available), but you can still find it on Anna's Archive, and you can probably find it at your local library. Either way, you can learn to meditate for free, that's how I did it.
Running is likewise relatively free (you do generally have to pay for running shoes, and athletic clothing can be expensive, but it's relatively cheap over the lifetime of those items, and it's cheaper than most other activities). A great and accessible way to feel good and stay healthy.
Plug for Medito, which is a free non-profit for guided meditations. Not sure if the apps are open-source but still, they're a good organization in stark contrast to the many other meditation companies that are very much for-profit.
Kanopy - a website where you can stream movies and TV shows, which is free if you have a library card.
And Hoopla Digital! They each have some things that the other one doesn't.
Very location locked, but all Smithsonian museums in DC are free. Even special exhibits that require timed ticketing.
100% agree. I am leaving this this area in October for greener pastures in Europe.
The cats and dogs out in the street are free. You can just bring a friend home. /hj
/hj = hand job?
I've like never seen this abbreviation used any other way 🧐
HUEHUEHUE please do NOT give stray cats and dogs handjobs.
But as the other poster said -- It means "half joking"
I believe it's "half joking".
Hugs
Not free as in freedom, but gratis. Also only works for people who are on Discord - FreeStuff Bot will notify you every time a game on one of the popular PC platforms is available for free.
RIP kimcartoon, I spent half my life there. WCO has been a good replacement, but the lack of comments makes it feel too sterile.
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.
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"
This is a great thread!
Not foss, but PortSwigger Burp Community
I know its a major security tool widely used but it bugs me it's not open sourced
Bugs me, too. I only use it when I absolutely have to. But it is free.
Me
MIT has; https://ocw.mit.edu/
https://trashnothing.com/
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.
Thank you dear sire! I was finally able to find a good source of the anime Heidi
Free as in FMHY
?
heck yeah
Cleaning after yourself before you leave the property as a tenant.
you're gunna charge for it anyway, parasite. might as well help you get a actual day's work in once in a while.
This isn't free. Landlord fees.
I don’t like to charge fees for something that should be common decency
Like not exploiting a basic necessity for profit?
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.
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.
Are you tired? You sound tired, don't you think you need a lie down?
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