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lunchables commented on Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux github.com/ravachol/kew... · Posted by u/ravachol

VyseofArcadia · a year ago

That looks like it checks most of my boxes, but I have a personal/philosophical objection to running a service. The objection is, I don't want to[0]. I just want a local application. Not local-first, I want local-only. Just an application.

[0] and also I think it's insane to add that much complexity to something that is single-user.

lunchables · a year ago

I'm also a navidrome user and I run it via docker exposed via traefik so I can access my music anywhere. I can use any subsonic client on android or iOS and I can bluetooth that to my car or headphones or whatever and I can load it up on my laptop anywhere.

As you've said you just want a local application just wanted to mention that in case that's actually something that might also be useful for you.

lunchables commented on Show HN: kew – A Terminal Music Player for Linux github.com/ravachol/kew... · Posted by u/ravachol

reverend_gonzo · a year ago

I have a airsonic (fork of subsonic, which I used for a long time) server running on a vps. I’ve probably had this for coming on 20 years now.

It works phenomenally.

At some point I was going to mirror it locally, but never got around to it.

It is all backed up in dropbox

lunchables · a year ago

I've also been a long time airsonic (and now airsonic-advanced) user for so long I can't even remember, but a couple years ago I switched to navidrome which is also subsonic compatible and it's sooo much nicer.

Use whatever you want! Just wanted to suggest it.

lunchables commented on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation? · Posted by u/aristofun

jinpa_zangpo · 3 years ago

Mindfulness is focusing your attention on the present moment. Usually some object is used, most often the breath. It differs from non-meditation because normally we spend most of our time thinking about the future or the past, often with worry or regret. While we are focused on the future or the past we are living in our imaginations and not in reality.

The purpose of mindfulness meditation is to develop the habit of being present to what we are experiencing now. Like all habits, it is strengthened through practice. Of course, sometimes we must think about the future or the past, but this should be a conscious choice rather than an unconscious habit.

With time, our ability to be mindful gets stronger so that we can practice meditation without an object. In this sort of meditation we remain aware on whatever arises in our minds without trying to alter in by holding on or pushing away. The advantage is meditation without an object is less artificial and allows us to understand the mind as it naturally is instead of some contrived state. This meditation is sometimes called "doing nothing." This is both true and false, because normally we are always doing something with our minds. Simply observing is unusual. You might object that we are always aware of our minds. Yes, but there are degrees of awareness. Just as we always have some attention on the present, we are also always somewhat aware of our minds, but the degree of awareness can be less or more.

lunchables · 3 years ago

I always loved the 5-4-3-2-1 method. It's a good, clear system that helps people who are new to mindfullness exercises. You're absolutely right, doing this often makes it easier and easier.

https://www.mondaycampaigns.org/destress-monday/unwind-monda...

The one thing I'd add is, when you think of each thing, also think of characteristics of it. Otherwise it can be ok five things I see: mouse, keyboard, monitor, phone, can. But instead if can become: black mouse with a light blue light, keyboard with silver logo and bright red escape key, etc etc. It really helps you focus on your surroundings more directly.

lunchables commented on Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013) vyomtech.com/2013/12/17/l... · Posted by u/vikrantrathore

guerby · 5 years ago

We're currently migrating from VMware to libvirt, we discovered the cockpit project and cockpit-machines to manage VMs:

https://cockpit-project.org/

cockpit-machines is available in a recent version in debian backports, installing it is trivial, no configuration, https://hostname:9090/ and just works.

RedHat announced that cockpit will be the long term successor of virt-manager:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/managing-virtual-machines-rhe...

https://blog.wikichoon.com/2020/06/virt-manager-deprecated-i...

cockpit has frequent releases, latest:

https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-227.html

It hasn't all the features of virt-manager, far from it, but looks promising.

lunchables · 5 years ago

Red Hat really has gone all in on cockpit as well. It is very polished and pretty full featured, and continues to improve. Also very easy to setup on RHEL installations. When you login the MOTD actually has instructions on how to enable cockpit, that's how hard they're pushing it.

lunchables commented on Show HN: Japanese Language Learning Forum questions.japanesecomplet... · Posted by u/sova

0xfaded · 5 years ago

I was near native level 5 years ago. I'd additionally watched all the TV shows, the kids shows, read the newspapers and important books, the assigned school poetry. I even memorized the periodic table and read a translation of Feynmans lectures. People honestly thought I was born in Japan.

Five years later, I would struggle to have a conversation about anything consequential. I started learning when I was 19, so I guess too old to have it stick.

Funnily though, I can still read a good amount.

lunchables · 5 years ago

Reading is so much easier than speaking for me. Grammatically it's so different, and there is so much conjugation that I am very, very slow to put sentences together when speaking. But reading or understanding spoken japanese? No problem, instantly get it, no translation to english required in my head.

lunchables commented on Show HN: Japanese Language Learning Forum questions.japanesecomplet... · Posted by u/sova

krimeo · 5 years ago

$50/month to use a website for learning Japanese especially when you are English speaker sounds like a ripoff.

From my own experience, it's way more effective to have good old physical class with a native teacher (who also speaks good english and is a good teacher!). Yes it's hard to find a good teacher but it's worth it.

Close the computer, turn off your phone, go to class and you can learn and if you go for group class $50/month will do it.

lunchables · 5 years ago

Agreed, just go buy Genki 1 and 2, sign up for wanikani for kanji ($10/mo).

Then spend the remainder of that $50 the months after that on hellotalk or italki sessions with a native speakers. You can find highly rated japanese speakers (including professional teachers) for $10-$25 an hour and it's one on one training. That's what I would do if I wasn't taking in person classes.

lunchables commented on Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth blog.archive.org/2020/05/... · Posted by u/edward

mostlysimilar · 5 years ago

archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure, the Wayback Machine alone is a time capsule of our digital history.

I donate to them monthly and know a lot of other people do as well, so I don't worry much about their financial stability. I'm more worried about external pressures taking content down. I hope the data is backed up six ways to sunday, and that somewhere there's a plan to make it all accessible if Internet Archive can't continue to play the role it does.

lunchables · 5 years ago

There are only two sites I donate to: wikipedia and archive.org. I honestly don't know what I'd do without them. I have been able to find web sites from 20 years ago on archive.org, it's an absolute treasure.

lunchables commented on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/mmhsieh

billfruit · 5 years ago

Yes it isn't changing, but it does not seem to be tending towards falling to zero.

lunchables · 5 years ago

My point is that using data from "the last couple days" isn't really indicating anything new in SK. Confirmed cases have been consistent for weeks.

lunchables commented on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/mmhsieh

dirtyid · 5 years ago

South Korea is basically an island, conducted serendipitous did large scale pandemic drill in December, has a compliant population with mandatory civil service and memory of recent authoritarian government, can mobilize techno-authoritarian surveillance.

My question is, what is happening in Japan? Except wide spread mask usage, they have systemic undertesting at 1/6 capacity, no social distance measures, nothing shutdown, old population like Italy. Their hospitals should have been overwhelmed with dead by now. Are they just leaving the old to die at home? France and Italy aren't counting deaths at home as part of statistics. Maybe something similar? Which loops back to S.Korea, why so eager to trust their numbers. Their politics is fairly corrupt.

lunchables · 5 years ago

Lots of theories. They have a culture that doesn't shake hands or hug, they caught cases early and had a relatively low infection rate (they claim 80% did not spread the virus), a culture of wearing face masks or possibly it is just due to low testing rates and is actually worse than the numbers suggest.

source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/a-coronav...

lunchables commented on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down npr.org/sections/goatsand... · Posted by u/mmhsieh

billfruit · 5 years ago

Last few days though, more numbers are being reported of new infections in both China and South Korea. Yesterday more than 100+ in SK I think.

lunchables · 5 years ago

Doesn't look like the trend there is really changing since it peaked around March 8th. Seems pretty consistently in the low hundreds of new confirmed a day.

If you scroll down the page there's a graph that helps to visualize it: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...