For those interested, here are some preview images: https://imgur.com/a/uBF78wn

Chinese phones should generall check your boxes, they have giant batteries most of the time. Smaller screen might be difficult though.

I’m a fan of Lithium myself. It’s really solid app, with great performance, super reliable. It’s closed source though and has a pro version.
But I found it better for my needs than Moon+

There hasn’t been enough snow for that in a while. Many years ago I used some big plastic boxes to pack and mold snow bricks though, and that really workes great for build a little “iglo”. Stood for over a week, was the last thing that melted in the garden. Good memories :)

Same, just bought a server license yesterday!

That sounds good! Tried embedded Rust on an ESP32 about 1.5 years ago and it was still a bit of a pain. So it’s good to see options like this that seem to focus on DX!

Thanks, replied on GitHub :)

Well theoretically you could use it already, there are just some convenience features that are missing, like buttons for skipping a few seconds back and forth. The audiobook libraries also work a bit differently than music libraries, so I’m not sure how easy it would be to natively support them.
For now you could create albums or playlists for your audio books, and it should play just fine, and also save the progress :)

Sure! We’ll try to prepare a list of good started issues to pick from :)

Discord is just easiest for us to maintain. The project is on GitHub though, and any important discussions are available there as well!

<3

Awesome! F-Droid sadly doesn’t have proper support for beta versions. That’s also why it’s high time to release the new features onto stable. But I would like to avoid changing design too often, so I’m waiting until most things are ready.

Android Auto doesn’t work for you in 0.9.24? Did you report that yet?
It should be working…

I’ve never use Plexamp myself, but I know its a great app. That’s why we’re trying to bring a similar experience to Jellyfin, with as many features as Jellyfin allows :)

Awesome <3

Awesome, looking forward to it! There definitely also is more backend-y stuff, but if you want to do UI stuff, that’s totally fine too! :D

There are one or two related issues on GitHub with discussions about this. Be sure to leave your thoughts there so we can consider them! “Smart playlist” is a very broad term, details are always appreciated :)

If you can’t find related issues, just create a new discussion!

Well they said that it should be much, much faster now, so even if it would restart it should be done within a few hours now :)

Do we have a cursed benchies community on Lemmy?

I’ve gone the TrueNAS SCALE route myself, with TN running on bare metal. All my containers/apps are set up through it, and I’ve also spun up Windows and Linux VMs without major issues, including GPU and USB passthrough.

I do enjoy the security it gives me, will all my apps being versioned/snapshotted regularly and before every update, as well as the rest of my data. Since TN is only using ZFS and not something like MergerFS (which I believe is used by Unraid), the upgrade path is a bit mote restricted. So you should definitely look into your options up-front. For example, you won’t be able to expand a vdev (virtual ZFS disk) later on, you’ll have to create a new one. And you can only use equivalent vdevs to form pools. That means if you start with 3 drives in a vdev for your main storage pool, you can only expand that pool by adding anothet 3 drives with the same capacity as a secons vdev. So make sure you can stomach these costs, or go for fewer and cheaper drives, with a large case.

As for apps, you can set up docker apps easily, and there are a large number of officially or community-maintained apps, where any breaking changes and migrations are handled for you, so updating is a breeze. But you don’t have a much flexibility as with a custom setup. TN has been becoming more generic in that regard though, switching from k3s to regular docker, so you could probably play around with stuff via the CLI without major issues.

Oh and one more thing: you should probably use a separate, dedicated device for Home Assistant. Use a Raspberry Pi or one of their official boards, and you’ll have better support, more features, redundancy, and can still create backups on your NAS via SMB.
Such a second device that is also connected via Tailscale doesn’t hurt either, just in case.