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  • Forgot to also mention:

    • full equaliser compatible with thousands of preset profiles for whatever headphones you have
    • android auto
    • programmable default actions (like touching a song either plays it or queues it)
    • multiple queues - each time you manually start a track / playlist a new queue is created and you can swap back and forth between queues as you wish.
    • ACTIVE DEVELOPER!! - Tolriq the dev is always updating it and very active in the community, they just want to make the best music player possible

  • Like the other guy said, Symfonium is the one and only true answer.

    Quick rundown of features:

    • playlist sorting
    • smart playlists (auto generated by filters)
    • fully customisable now playing screens
    • fully customisable home menus
    • casting via UPnP (think sonos, any other wifi enabled speaker ecosystem)
    • stats tracking
    • scrobbling to your tracking service (listenbrainz, lastFM)
    • transcoding support (depending on server - jellyfin cant but navidrome transcodes perfectly)
    • smart queue
    • personalised mixes
    • radio mixes
    • downloadable media for offline play
    • track / album rating system
    • favourites

    Symfonium does things that no other media player I know of can do, for example:

    I try to rate my music as i listen to it and while I do that, every song i rate 5 stars goes to an automatically generated playlist of 5 star music only. From there it auto downloads to offline cache in OGG OPUS 320 format to keep quality and reduce space used (My library is all FLAC).

    From there I have created a playlist that incorporates the 5 star playlist with some other parameters to create an even larger playlist which, you guessed it, is all automatically done for me.

    Now I could have a bunch of these playlists combined in different ways (rating defined, mood defined, genre defined, BPM defined) and I can choose to either shuffle them when pressing play, start a personal mix which uses your stats to alter the queue of the playlist or I could order the whole thing by increasing BPM or year.

    It is an incredibly powerful tool to listen to your music and I will never be able to go back to spotify playlists or any sort of algo picking what I listen to.


  • Ive had a galaxy tab for a bit over a year now and use Notewise.

    Its not foss but fuck me its the most comprehensive note app ive found for use with pen.

    I use it to mark up construction plans, edit PDFs, sign documents, design things with its protractors and rulers, take notes, read manuals, its really above the rest in every way.

    I do use Joplin for general text note taking in a notebook style but Notewise for anything and everything else.

    edit - it also saves documents in i believe vector format so you can fully zoom in to your writing / highlighting and its never blurry. I found that samsung notes was absolutely horrible after you exported anything to pdf or image.


  • They dont “cooperate with governments”, they follow the laws they legally have to. All the cases I can think of where they gave info to a government with a legal order to do so, they gave information that has to be logged in order for the system to work and the subjects themselves used poor opsec eg: their real names for accounts and recovery emails…

    Some privacy extremists have unrealistic expectations when they sign up to these things without fully understanding how it works and then blame the provider for something they were completely transparent about from the beginning.


  • Something you need to consider even before all this, is what other people will do with the photos once they have them.

    I’ve been through a similar situation recently and had to lay out ground rules for what people were allowed to do with the photos and where they could be saved. I made the condition that if they wanted to see photos I would only send them through signal. Past that point you just need to trust that grandma who downloads the image to her iphone doesnt have iCloud enabled by default and boom your childs image is now in the hands of apple. (Or any other auto backup cloud host)

    Be prepared for some outright childish behaviour from people you thought were adults when you tell them they cant take their own photos unless they show you they dont have auto sync to iCloud enabled…

    The only way to truly keep your kids image out of the cloud is to never let anyone else have possession of it to begin with unfortunately.


  • From reading that article it looks like they were only using and able to log the IP address when the person logged in to their protonmail account specifically - not VPN.

    They even state that VPNs can not be forced to log under the same legal order and are treated differently so in this case it seems the activists were not using the VPN while accessing their emails.

    Although I dont agree with even the logging of the email IP, it appears like the user shot themselves in the foot like that other case where someone used their real name in the username and that obviosly has to be logged in some way.








  • Excuse yourself from whatever situation is overstimming you and take a beather my friend.

    Look in to noise cancelling headphones or noise reducing ear plugs (brand name “loops”) as noise is a very common stim for ASD. My wife got a pair of bose noise cancelling headphones for christmas and its the best thing shes ever bought for her being able to just block out the world, relax and step away from the metaphorical edge.

    Dont force yourself to stay in the situation without any sort of tools to help.