• ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
    5·
    26 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
      3·
      26 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
      01·
      26 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.

      • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        25 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·
            22 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
        1·
        25 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

      • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        01·
        25 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)

      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        24 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.

  • dave@lemmy.wtf
    3·
    24 days ago

    KDE Connect. its an app that lets you share lots of different things between your devices, and it does this over your home network without needing any “cloud”

    • send files from one device to another
    • share the clipboard. handy for copying text or a link to your phone
    • get notifications from your phone on your laptop
    • have music playing on your laptop and pause or change the track from your phone
    • control your laptop from your phone, move the cursor around, left/right click etc
  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
    2·
    24 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.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    25 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

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 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.

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
    1·
    26 days ago

    lichess.org is a fantastic online chess platform for players of all skill levels. it’s free and—what’s more–it’s ad-free (unlike the parasitic organisation that’s squatting on the chess.com domain).

    it has one-on-one on-demand match-ups, tournaments, puzzles, user-published training courses, multiple chess variants, and so much more.

    it’s one of only two online resources to which i deem donating regularly worthwhile (the other being wikipedia).

    do check it out. chess is one really healthy mental habit to inculcate.

    • fubo@lemmy.world
      0·
      25 days ago

      Lichess may be the best board game software for any board game ever. It’s that good.

    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
      01·
      25 days ago

      I find the dynamics of lichess.org vs chess.com very interesting.

      They are similar in terms of features. Both have decent interfaces, puzzles, matchmaking, live viewing boards and broadcasts for tournaments, training programs, etc. But chess.com has ads, and features locked behind subscription paywalls where lichess.org does not. (Everything is free on lichess, except for the little logo next to a user’s name to say they have supported the site with donations.)

      But on the other hand, chess.com seems to have a higher number pro players; and probably a larger number of players overall.

      I think its very interesting to think about why that is the case. Why would more people choose the version that is more expensive, but does not have more features?

      I’ve thought of a few reasons, but I think probably the biggest effect is that chess.com has more money to splash around (because it sells ads, and asks for user subscriptions), and it uses big chunk of this money to advertise itself. eg. by sponsoring players and streamers, offering larger prizes for its own tournaments; etc.

      And although I definitely think lichess is better, since it is generously supplying a high-quality product without trying to self-enrich, I do sometimes think maybe what chess.com is doing is ok too: in the sense that it is not only self-enriching, but also supporting the sport itself a bit by paying money to players, events, and commentators. Lichess does this too - but less of it, because they have less money.

      (Note that chess.com also does some really crappy stuff, such as censoring any mention of lichess in the chat of their twitch broadcasts. That definitely does not help support the sport.)

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    25 days ago

    In most eu countries the law requires businesses that give out food to also allow you to order free tap water. If youre in a city and dont want to spend money on a bottle of water, walk into mcdonalds and ask for free tap water. A lot of european countries also have strict laws about tap water so for example in france unless otherwise indicated with a warning, tap water is always potable.

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
      2·
      25 days ago

      Here in the US, this seems so normal that it didnt even occur to me that this may not be true everywhere else. And not need to be enforced by law.

        • ripcord@lemmy.world
          0·
          25 days ago

          Ive definitely never, ever run into that. But I’m sure it happens.

          Edit: I guess ive seen places that charged some nominal fee for the cup but it’s so rare

          • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            24 days ago

            I went to Philadelphia and there were hardly any places to get water at all. There were always stores selling water bottles literally $8 in one instance around nearly everywhere you looked

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      25 days ago

      Audacity: free, robust audio editing/effects tool. Not a proper DAW but so feature rich some people treat it like one. Another peak FLOSS.

      If you need what I understand to be considered a full-on DAW, there’s Ardour, which is also FLOSS.

    • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceEnglish
      0·
      26 days ago

      Back in the windows 7 days we were sitting at Christmas lunch and my dickhead cousin started bragging about all the different video playing apps he used, without looking up from his lunch my grandpa goes “I only use one, vlc, only an idiot would use anything else.”, then continued eating without looking up, my cousin looked shitty and I just left to go laugh outside.

        • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceEnglish
          0·
          25 days ago

          I don’t care if you believe me or not that’s your business, my cousin is an arrogant asshole, the type to bring his house plans to Christmas lunch and spread them where we’re about to eat lunch while standing there demanding people admire his shitty house and my grandpa doesn’t give a shit. When he retired in the 90s he got into building computers which lead him to piracy, he introduced me to piracy and is why I’m the pirate I am now.

            • DUMBASS@leminal.spaceEnglish
              0·
              25 days ago

              It was random af, he’s usually a chill quiet dude lol.

              We used to have family pirate nights where we’d visit the video store, rent out all the games we could, go home burn copies of them all, take them back the same day and grab more, they didn’t know or care. I’ve taken over his role now and now I set up pirate streaming apps for my family.

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      25 days ago

      Another peak FLOSS.

      Actually, Audacity lost this status when Muse Group bought it out. There was a huge community fuss over this especially in /r/Audacity when the company started adding data-tracking to it, and the protests eventually died down because they just kept muscling through their decision like Reddit did with its changes.

      I still use Audacity, to be fair, but may consider Ardour that another user mentioned here…