get a VPS, run Tailscale and NPM on it and switch to Jellyfin

Keep in mind that VPSs will charge for bandwidth, which adds up quickly when you’re streaming.

One suggestion I haven’t seen mentioned is contacting your ISP. Sometimes you can get a dedicated IP, although you might have to pay for it.

Alternatively you might just break down and pay for Plex Pass. I know that goes against the Lemmy philosophy to the very core, but for all its issues, Plex is still way ahead of Jellyfin in terms of features, UI/UX, etc. Jellyfin will get there, and I’m ready to switch the day that Plex becomes unusable, but that hasn’t happened yet.

I’m sorry if I’m out of line with my comment here, but this whole post gave me a good laugh. I think it’s akin to asking GIMP developers, “why don’t you just make this like Photoshop” or asking Linux developers, “why don’t you just make this like Windows”.

I’m sure the Thunder devs would love to bring over a lot of the most popular features from Sync, but it’s not that simple. Looking at the repo, there are already very frequent commits and releases, but there is also quite a backlog of feature and bug requests. You can’t just make one app like another app, nor can you imply that Thunder doesn’t have feature parity with Sync because the devs don’t want it to.

Add on to that the fact that Sync is a paid app meaning that the developer can justify spending more time on it than an open-source app maintained in the spare time of the devs.

Anyway, that’s just my two cents. In short, “it’s not that simple”. :-)

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This extension does a decent job.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/

But yeah it would be nice for Firefox to support PWAs natively.

This is hilarious

Love to see MBMBaM!

Love to see The Dollop!

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Ron Howard:

I recommend listening to The Dollop episode about the New York Oysters. It’s crazy (as are most of their episodes!).

https://pca.st/episode/c17659ec-5cab-4530-b4e1-f13a0c6106b0

I prefer just about every third-party UI to the official one…

Don’t forget Playlet for Roku!

• Windows: FreeTube
• Android: NewPipe
• Roku: Playlet

The trifecta!

is anyone aware of how to properly link comments on lemmy?

As far as I know, there is no way right now. There’s some discussion of having a more agnostic identifier here, but seemingly no movement yet.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

The best you can get right now is using an extension like Instance Assistant for Lemmy, but that only helps you, not the person you’re responding to.

That said, if you use a mobile app (I use Thunder) it will usually handle post/comment links in-app, so it doesn’t matter what instance they link to.

Thanks for the explanation! I just tried the API passing my own user ID as the creator_id and I seem to be getting back all messages. :( If they can add an endpoint or parameter to get a “conversation” (i.e., all messages incoming/outgoing to/from a specific user) then a chat-style interface would be much easier to implement!

Don’t messages sent by you come back in a list together with any received ones?

Oh wow, you’re right! Somehow I totally missed that. Even Thunder displays sent messages.

So you’re right. You could get all incoming messages from a specific user by passing creator_id but you just couldn’t get all the message you sent to a specific person without getting everything and filtering them.

I ran across a Flutter package that provides a cool chat style widget which inspired me to start working on this. But then I discovered that there’s no API call to retrieve your sent messages. So we could display all the incoming messages from each user like chats, but not sent ones (unless we remembered the ones we sent in Thunder, but that wouldn’t be everything).

Whoa that’s cool! It works in Thunder!

It’s very optimistic to think people will be able to describe what they’re going to do before they do it. I find things rarely go exactly as planned and my commit messages usually include some nuance about my changes that I didn’t anticipate.

Got it! Are they renumbered chronologically? Like if my 11 was created before your 11, would yours be the one that’s renumbered?