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At Home:

• FLACs via mpd with a topping headphone amp and Audeze LCD2C headphones
• Vinyl using an Audio Technica LP120, a Denon AV receiver and cheap wharfedale bookshelf speakers and a Klipsch subwoofer. That Setup isn’t really audiophile tbh, especially because the room sounds terrible.
• Streaming via Qobuz on both systems

On the go:

• Everything encoded as Opus 128 kbit/s to fit on my phone. Played over Lypertek Tevy true wireless IEMs. Not really audiophile but tbh when I’m not at home I care much more about convenience as long as the audio quality is good enough.
• also Qobuz, but at MP3 320 quality to save bandwidth

I wrote my own scripts to tag the music and encode it to FLAC and Opus and use syncthing to copy the files to my phone. So whenever I add an album to the library it will be available every where I want in the specified format without any manual copying involved. It’s a little janky but has worked surprisingly well for years.

Honestly the most complete source of high res music is private trackers like redacted. You can download all the stuff from qobuz and bandcamp, every CD rip you can think of in bit perfect quality of and even very good vinyl rips. You basically can download any version ever released from any album.

For now. YouTube constantly changes stuff, requiring changes to newpipe. As no one will merge these into the fork, it will stop working when that happens.

Seems like it is no longer maintained. Unfortunately that means it is only a matter of time until it breaks forever.

Firefox, Neovim, Tmux, Various KDE applications, Nextcloud, Wine, Signal, OpenSSH

Probably many more

Don’t do this. Running unpatched software is a recipe for disaster.

If you connect songkick to last.fm you will get notifications for any artists you listen to, without explicitly following each one.

…and you can charge your phone with the laptop USB-C charger just fine.

If you use osmand for navigation you can use that to view your tracks, too.

If you are not using a password manager you are doing it wrong.

Some instance admins have patreon

Signal and telegram plus slack for work. Rarely I will use threema and Matrix.

Fairphone 4 because I like the idea of a repairable, sustainable phone. Microg LineageOS because want to avoid google as much as I can (within reason).

Nope. They are similar, but not the same: Comparison

Awesome! I was a long time Slide user before development stopped and I switched to Infinity