Thoven

Looking to upgrade my faithful old FC11C. The switch is starting to have problems and I'd like something with a bit more output. I actually love the featureset of the Loop Gear SK05 Pro, but for my EDC use case no moonlight mode is a death sentence.

After shopping around I land between the ec200 and a D4. I like that the ec200 has most everything I want in a non-enthusiast package - notably apart from the D4, USB charging. I dislike the lack of ramping brightness and lack of a shortcut to the lowest moonlight. Looking at the D4v2 or D4K, I'm concerned that the head is 28mm. I carry to the outside of my back pocket and don't want something that's going to be uncomfortable. I note that while they have different body sizes, both models have the same head size. My other concern is reliability. I know that in a lot of hobbies the enthusiast grade equipment can be prone to having problems and needing frequent tinkering to keep working well.

If I were to end up with a D4, is there a good list somewhere explaining all the options and a comparison of emitters? What about for batteries?

Needs:

• Magnetic tailcap
• Moonlight mode
• Deep carry clip

Wants:

• High CRI
• Ramping brightness
• USB-C charging
• (Easily) swappable battery

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/29751553

My family hosts a modest Audiobookshelf server. When we tried to move from our old Plex server to ABS it was a nightmare. Our library had been built slowly over years and file organization/metadata was a mess. It took us several tools and many hours to get everything in decent shape. I was frustrated that nobody had made a single tool to scrub and clean up an audiobook library. So, I made one!

Notable features:

• Fetch new metadata interactively from Audible or Goodreads
• Generate metadata files
• Recursively find and process files
• Combine chapter files into a single book file
• Convert files to .m4b

This is my first foray into an open source project. I know it's not pretty, and many of the features on my initial wishlist never got finished. But I have the core functionality working enough for my needs, which means I've been putting a lot less time into it. I decided to just release it to the world as is. May it save you much time!

The link

Ultimate Audiobooks is licensed under GPL-3.0

The megathread has lots of great options for aggregators, but doesn't have any individual scanlation groups (Asura scans, Drake scans, Dragon tea, etc). Those are great for broad coverage, but when possible I like to read directly from the group that put in the work to translate.

With lem.ee retiring and several others getting knocked out by DDOS and the like, just wanted to thank the admin team for keeping us sailing smooth

I pack a lunch to work every day. It's tasty and saves money. As I don't have the energy to find something unique, I usually end up taking a sandwich. Looking for ways to elevate my game and/or save money. The sandwich I usually have is a pretty basic ham & cheese, but discussion of all types encouraged!

Bread: I am fond of sub bread over white, and fresh is superior. The bakery sub rolls from walmart are my current winners. I've considered buying a fancy breadmaker - it's cheaper (eventually) and it doesn't get fresher. But I'm not sure if fresh white bread would be better than sub bread.

Ham: I've taken to buying the whole hams that you cook yourself. They're way cheaper per pound than deli ham and great quality. Plus you can flavor to taste. I typically use a pretty basic brown sugar glaze. Cook about one a month depending on size, portion into week sized bags, and freeze.

Cheese: Due to being lactose intolerant, I find myself limited in exploring the wonderful world of cheese. I use cabot brand, which is made nearly lactose free by their process. I enjoy the white and yellow cheddar.

Sauce: I enjoy sauces with a mayo base, but don't love mayo on its own. My current sauce of choice is boar's head honey mustard from Publix. Every other honey mustard I've tried is either too sweet or too mustard-y. I suspect this is because they aren't formulated for sandwiches. I bet I'd love the honey mustard from other delis like subway. And I'd love to find some new sauces that I can make myself and adjust the flavor to my liking!

Extras: Personally, I've never liked many toppings - tomatoes, pickles, olives, raw onion, peppers, etc. Lettuce and spinach offer a nice crunch and some refreshment.

There are lots of articles on the best value cuts to buy. What I want to know is, which store is bringing the best value for a given cut? I'm based out of the south, so I've got lots of great options. walmart, publix, sam's club, piggly wiggly, aldi. I know historically local butchers have been the place to get the deals. The butchers in my area seem quite expensive. I think they're bringing custom orders to the table more than best value on a standard cut. So, in your opinion, which stores offer the best price:quality? Is there a particular grade, label, certification, or anything like that to watch out for?

I picked day one up as a journaling app many years ago, and have enjoyed it. But I've now mostly left the apple ecosystem and I'm ready for a new solution. An important feature to me is the calendar view that both shows you what days you have entries for and allows you to see previous year's entries on a day. The lack of this feature knocks out the most recommended alternatives on this community (joplin, obsidian, and logseq come to mind). Journey cloud and diarium are strong picks, but I'd prefer non proprietary and stronger self hosting support. Along with better platform availability. Memoria is also in consideration, but the documentation is pretty light and it's hard to tell if it will function in the way I expect. Likewise with memos, which I've seen suggested on here.

Needs:

• Usable on linux (I can live with a web app)
• Calendar view showing days with entries
• Encryption
• Cloud sync functionality (no local only apps like rednotebook)

Nice to haves:

• Proper app for linux, android, ios
• Ability to import a day one backup, preserving my 5 or so years of journal history
• FOSS
• Selfhostable
• Support for media (primarily photos)
• Prompts for password on every launch
• Equivalent to "on this day" feature allowing you to view previous entries on a day

Bug report: search function is yielding no results

Federation question: Do we federate with lemmy.garudalinux.org? If not, could we? And is there a list somewhere of all actively federated instances so I don't have to bug y'all asking about it?

(bonus) Praise: things are zippy and zingy after the provider switch! Appreciate y'alls hard work keeping the instance going.

My PC has an X570 auros master, and it has always had a hard time sleeping. When I let it sleep on any operating system the top row of USB 2.0 ports goes out, and sometimes it hangs and can't wake at all. My preference would be to fix this issue, if possible. My current operating system is garuda (arch based), but I also have a KDE neon and win 11 machine installed if needed.

If it's an issue without a good solution, I need to know how to protect my monitors from burn in and other runtime related wear without sleeping the PC. I tried the settings that turns off the screens without suspending, but when I woke them only one made it back up and the mouse couldn't reach it, which makes me think the machine was frozen. I'm aware of and open to other solutions like a screensaver program or messing with DPMS. But I would prefer a more straightforward and integrated solution if possible.

Running android 14, oneUI v6.1.1. I go to filesystem expose > add storage location in the connect app, but I can't figure out a way to path to videos. Maybe that's considered a protected system folder and hidden or something? I notably can't manually type a path, so even having that may not help. I need a way to get there via the GUI.

I'm sorting and renaming old video files, and one of the pieces of information I need is the date the video was filmed. By default dolphin shows the date the file was created/modified/accessed, but not shot. I have verified this information exists on the file with the MediaInfo app, which shows what I need under the encoded and tagged dates. Is there a way to have dolphin also show that information for video files? Bonus points if it can convert the default timezone of the stamps (UTC) to local.

And yes, I am aware that I could create a custom script for the context menu that would find me that info. I may do that if needed. But I wanted to see if doing it this way works first.

I'm a southern man born and raised, and I run on sweet tea. Lately I've been experimenting with lowering the amount of sugar (or splenda) I make it with. What I've found is that I like the reduced sweetness, but tea bags are so low quality and bitter that I need the sugar to cover it up. Cold brewing and adding a pinch of baking soda help a lot, but I still want more. I think a higher quality tea is going to get me the flavor I'm looking for. So, any suggestions on any part of the process are welcome! What teas to try, brewing methods, etc. Less caffeine is better, I have a lot of heart failure in my family history so I try to minimize caffeine intake.