flynnguy

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[–] flynnguy 1 points 1 year ago

Django is great, I've used it in a number of projects, both paid gigs and side projects. Where it really shines is giving you a nice admin to be able to do CRUD (Create, read, update and delete) operations on the database with minimal work on your end. If you don't need this, then something like flask is lighter weight and might be a better option.

However, while python has type hints now, it is still a loosely typed language. If you really want to the benefits that come with a strongly typed language, I'd suggest maybe looking at Rust, Go or even TypeScript.

[–] flynnguy 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think what you want is either plex or Jellyfin which will give you a nice UI to browse your already downloaded files.

Now how do you browse new releases and figure out what you want to download? I just setup https://overseerr.dev/ to go along with sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget, transmission... it's a lot of different services but they all work well together. Now to look for new movies, I or my family goes to Overseerr to request downloads, then plex to watch.

[–] flynnguy 67 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I had a coworker come to me with an "issue" he learned about. It was wrong and it wasn't really an issue and the it came out that he got it from ChatGPT and didn't really know what he was talking about, nor could he cite an actual source.

I've also played around with it and it's given me straight up wrong answers. I don't think it's really worth it.

It's just predictive text, it's not really AI.

[–] flynnguy 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I've been listening to A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and let me tell you, the music industry can fuck right off. Small indie label? I'll probably buy it, but one of the major record labels? Set sail mateys.

[–] flynnguy 2 points 2 years ago

If you are looking for FOSS, I highly recommend joplin. It's simple but works well. I used it for many years until recently I switched to Obsidian. I dislike that Obsidian isn't FOSS but I'm using the free tier and the community plugins really make it so much more powerful than Joplin. They both store things in Markdown so I'm not locked down to their ecosystem which I think is a requirement for any note taking app.

[–] flynnguy 2 points 2 years ago

It used to require a PlexPass membership. Now it doesn't.

[–] flynnguy 1 points 2 years ago

I did, I couldn't seem to get it to work. Mobius just didn't seem to be able to connect to the obsidian app folder. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong but this would be ideal for me because I already had syncthing syncing to my NAS as well. Maybe I'll revisit it at some point.

[–] flynnguy 2 points 2 years ago

Nice, last night I self-hosted a couchdb server and setup https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

So far it's working well though I had forgot to set the encryption key on one device which caused it to try and sync the encrypted version so I had a bunch of conflicts to resolve. Once that was sorted though, it's been working well and I can sync stuff to my iPad now. We'll see long term how it works.

[–] flynnguy 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I haven't, I'll have to check it out. I have an iPad but need to figure out a good way to sync notes without paying $10/month. (The iPad doesn't working with Syncthing or google drive :( )

[–] flynnguy 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the MD at the end stands for Markdown which is the format it uses to store it's notes.

[–] flynnguy 2 points 2 years ago

Agreed, there are a bunch of great videos out there but she has a bunch that really started to show me how powerful this app really is.

[–] flynnguy 1 points 2 years ago

Nicole van der Hoeven has some great videos on using some of the plugins. I'd recommend checking out:

  • Templater
  • Dataview
  • QuickAdd
  • Tasks
  • Natural Language Dates
  • Calendar
  • Advanced Tables

I have a few more plugins I'm using but I use the above daily.

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