• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 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.

  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
    29·
    4 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.

    • dave@lemmy.wtf
      2·
      4 days ago

      very underrated piece of software! its been a total game changer in how i have my computers set up.

      also great for some apps too. things like keepass or newsboat (terminal RSS reader) or anything that stores its data in a single file or folder. its really great not having to rely on a connection to a server

    • lb_o@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      Oh wow! Thank you for sharing it! Glad to see there are still useful and free to use utilities available.

    • Steven McTowelie@lemm.eeEnglish
      33·
      5 days ago

      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!

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 days ago

        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

        • Steven McTowelie@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          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!)

    • duckworthy36@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      5 days ago

      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.

    • the_q@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • starlinguk@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      Nope. 15 Euro a year (Freiburg, Germany), which doesn’t automatically renew and it’s a bloody pain.

  • Elle@lemmy.world
    1841·
    6 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·
      6 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
      25·
      6 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·
      6 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·
      6 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·
        6 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
    1291·
    6 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.

    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      6 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
        33·
        6 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·
            2 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
        22·
        6 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

      • BlackAura@lemmy.world
        8·
        5 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·
          5 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 🏴‍☠️

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        111·
        6 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)

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
        51·
        5 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
        2·
        4 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.

      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 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.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    915·
    5 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

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      101·
      5 days ago

      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.)

    • Mavytan@feddit.nl
      1·
      5 days ago

      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?