Symfonium is not open source. It is a paid app by a helpful and responsive sole dev.

If you want FOSS, that’s Finamp. But it is not as good. It does also implement offline play features.

The Symfonium dev has responded to and implemented two requests of mine, making me quite happy to pay for and mention their app.

My combo is Jellyfin+Symfonium

With Symfonium you can manually download playlists and favorites for offline, and/or have a “rolling cache” where the most frequent listens are automatically kept synced for offline listening.

My collection is far too large to keep on my phone in its entirety, but with Symfonium I don’t need to, and if I’m ever caught without internet, I’ve still plenty to listen to.

Jellyfin does not organize the music, it’s a way to browse and access it. For a nice client for desktop, look at Feishin.

To actually organize the music, you want something like Picard.

If you don’t know about soulseek, hit up [email protected]

It’s been by far the most effective way to actually find files.

Lots of good channel suggestions.

But I would also nominate COSMOS.

Both the original hosted by Carl Sagan, and the new series with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

For me, they brought the epicness of reality, scientific history, and the vastness of the universe, into focus in a way nothing else did.

They made me feel a hopeful and powerful “humanity is fucking AWESOME, and can do INCREDIBLE things”. It’s not just informative. It lights a fire in you for the way humanity fights its way through the dark, using the scientific method as our guide.

Triangle

God yes. I miss it dearly.

Deadlock is scratching the itch for me.

Also Battleborn Reborn has made the campaign, and bot matches possible again.

Work has gone into making online matches work, and there are some videos of test games on youtube.

Work has stalled for now, as the main dev is busy with other stuff.

Bad enough to replace actual people with AI fakes, but maybe let’s not have them puppeting the corpses of the dead, yeah?

Virtualtabletop can be selfhosted.

We use it to play Blokus, Rummikub and more with family all over the country. All a player needs, is a device with a browser, and a link to join a given table. Grandma uses an android tablet to play Rummikub with us.

The games already implemented are many, and you can contribute your own.

Wut?

Alchemist and Battlemage cards were fine.

Edit: oh no. It’s a pivot to AI compute 🤦‍♂️

“What is a yoot?”

Looks at numbers.

Subtracts money being spent, from money being earned.

Huh.

Are you sure?

Ologies.

Each episode features a guest expert on a subject, talking about their field.

Think psychologist, dermatologist, neurologist, etc.

Except it’s often fields of study you didn’t even know have an “ology” title for the people who study it.

The original “One” phone was even supposed to run cyanogemod out of the box at one point.

This particular thing IS a common-sense technicality. Without it, every new instance, the second it came online, would start to try and mirror THE ENTIRE FEDIVERSE.

The ideal would be some kind of in-between, but that’s a lot more complex, and involves the developers making decisions for you in terms of what to pull in and what not to.

It’s not just getting your communities seen.

Content from other instances for you and your users won’t show up in the all feed unless someone on your instance (or a bot) subs to the relevant communities.

Only off-instance communities with at least one local subscriber will federate.

You also wont immediately see new instances and their communities, and they won’t see you.

Heck yeah!

I’m gonna make a couple celebratory posts on [email protected].

Also, a tip on quickly getting up to speed with federation, is to get your instance and communities set up on lemmy-federate.com.

Since content only shows up for users on instances with subscribers, the idea is to use a bot account on each participating instance to have that one required subscriber, so that posts from new communities actually show up on other instances, rather than just the originating one.

It basically allows you to kick-start federation, actually allowing users to organically discover your instance and communities.

edit: There is an active Balatro community at [email protected].

What’s lemmy?

Oh. We exist.

You may need to be subbed to a relevant community (for me it’s anime girls) to repeatedly see a given user to the point that you start recognizing them. I certainly have users I recognize.

You might know me for running the dailycomic bot that has continued the CnH posting after the original mod stopped doing it manually, or the [email protected] community.

But I know for a fact most people who’d recognize my handle, consider me “the anime girl poster”. I use the same username in games, and have been asked “are you the MentalEdge from Lemmy” once, which was new.

From my perspective there are also people who comment often enough that I remember them.

There’s the guy that posts a daily collection of screenshots from games he is playing, along with commentary on how he likes the games.

There’s a couple big names over on lemmyshitpost.

Same goes for tenforward.

There’s Blaze, who I know as a general background engine of activity and advocate for good on the fediverse.

There’s a bunch more, but I’m not gonna bombard them with mentions.

Sorry, I must’ve misremembered about systemd. It’s how my installs start up, and the unit file is not in the usual location for systemd units I’ve created myself, so my assumption was it came with Kopia. There is no systemd timer though, and one isn’t needed.

Edit: Just confirmed no systemd file came with kopia on my system either, my mistake.

in the past week, it did not backup anything. Hence, there is no scheduler built into kopia automagically as described/ hinted in the docs.

Was Kopia running during that time?

If you run Kopia commands, then it will perform the instructed task, and then exit. It will obviously not do anything after completing whatever command was given, as the process will have exited, leaving no kopia process running on the system. This is for when you use it in cron or your own scripts.

The other way of doing things is to run it in server mode kopia server start, which will set it running as a background daemon. When running, it allows you to log into the web interface or configure it via cli to do whatever you like. And as long as the process starts along with the host system, that’s all there is to it.

How the daemon is set up to start, doesn’t really matter.

My current setup, is as follows:

Personally curated music I buy and organize using Picard into folder A.

Lidarr is configured with folder C, which is a mergerfs volume consisting of folder A and B. Folder A is read-only, and any writes on C go into folder B. This way Lidarr can “see” all my existing music, while any automated downloads go into folder B, keeping them separate from my organized files.

Lidarr actually works, because it is hooked up to Soulseek using Tubifarry with ytdl as a fallback. I also have an import list hooked up to my last.fm recommendations to automatically download new stuff I might like.

When I feel like it, I go through folder B using Picard, moving things I want to keep into folder A.

To access my music, I use Jellyfin, also through folder C. My clients are Feishin and Symfonium.

In Symfonium, I use smart playlists for discovery. These playlists populate based on stuff like “unlistened tracks” or “multiple plays without being favorited” and “recently added from favorited artists”.

My favorite feature however is the tag-based endless playback which allows me to pick a track to start with, and then swipe through music with at least some kind of logic to the progression. This is my main way to browse my library.

It works extremely well, with the exception of files that don’t contain many tags. Hence my main pursuit has been to find a good way too add at least some genre tags to ALL my files. I haven’t found a final solution.

For iOS support, look at Navidrome for the server and maybe SubStreamer for the client.