https://support.symfonium.app/t/how-can-i-pay-for-symfonium-without-google-play/1290/2

Using lidarr with the arr-extended scripts, soularr and slskd is the way. Add the music to your jellyfin server, stream with symfonium.

You could take a look at: https://github.com/ghomasHudson/Jellyfin-Auto-Collections/

It takes trakt, letterboxed, imdb, etc lists and turns them into Jellyfin collections, so you could probably feed it lists of trending movies and just run the script at an interval and have it update your collections.

Still can’t get the collections to show on the front page without some weird plugin hackery, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Using “well at least it’s not as bad in America” in these contexts is both dismissive of valid criticism and also a staggeringly low bar

Corel Linux in the late 90s, but didn’t actually go full time until Ubuntu in 05,followed by arch for a few years, now on mint.

This is 100% the point. This is why oligarchs threw in with Trump. It’s exactly the same reasoning to defund the IRS, so they don’t have the manpower to go after the big fish.

House would be nice, but detached houses in my neighborhood are currently selling for 3-4 million, so I’ll stay in my nice affordable apartment.

Is it open source, or is it owned by a private company? Looks exactly like the kind of thing that’ll be great for a few years and then become enshittified, like all for-profit software inevitably seems to.

It does not.

Y’all need to see the OG anti-nazi movie, Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, which he made in 1939.

Soulseek.

Scott Thompson as Elizabeth II

I’ll echo what most people here are saying, Jellyfin (which is what I use) or something with the subsonic API, and Symfonium. It’s non-free, but it’s a cheap one-time payment and it’s genuinely an excellent mobile app.

As far as building your library, I do use Lidarr, but it’s a lot more hit-and-miss than Radarr or Sonarr are for their respective mediums. For music, much like back in the day, Soulseek is still the best option. In fact, you can selfhost slskd, which is a great modern web interface for it.

I do all my shoplifting and self-checkout fraud there. SUPER affordable.