Dear Fedi friends,I'm in a bit of a pickle and I could use your brilliant advice
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Dear Fedi friends,
I'm in a bit of a pickle and I could use your brilliant advice.
Long story short, I need to wait an extra 24 hours before attempting to set up Jellyfin on my Raspi (waiting for gear to arrive).
I thought: maybe I could try a low tech / oldie solution first. I have my entire music library super well organized in iTunes (RIP). It's on an old Macbook Pro (2011) connected to an external drive. I can play all the tracks from that computer. I just resurrected my iPhone 6 (capacity: 64GB) to repurpose it as an iPod. My entire music library is 'only" 40GB so the iPhone could hold it all.
Only problem: iTunes on my Macbook Pro does not recognize the iPhone 6. I keep getting error messages when trying to connect to it. I suspect the firmware is too old (on the Mac / too new on the iPhone)... I could not even wipe the iPhone with that old Mac because it couldn't connect to the Apple servers.
The iPhone 6 is completely empty and has iTunes! (Not Apple Music but actual iTunes). It even filled with some tracks I had bought (not sure how).
What would you do in this situation? Are there any workarounds?
My old Macbook Pro is running iOS version 10.8.5 and iTunes is on version 12.0.1.26.
My iPhone 6 (wiped clean and re-associated to my Apple ID) is running software version 12.5.7.
Apple discontinued iTunes support years ago in favor of Apple Music and streaming subscriptions (no wonder, because 💰💰💰💰💰).
I wish I could put my entire music library on my iPhone 6, le sigh. I technically wouldn't even need Jellyfin.
I also have an iPod Touch (1gen) that may connect to my Macbook Pro but its capacity is only 16GB.
What would you do?
#AskFedi #AdviceNeeded #music #BigTech@elena I know nothing but apparently just using iTunes on windows works lol
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Dear Fedi friends,
I'm in a bit of a pickle and I could use your brilliant advice.
Long story short, I need to wait an extra 24 hours before attempting to set up Jellyfin on my Raspi (waiting for gear to arrive).
I thought: maybe I could try a low tech / oldie solution first. I have my entire music library super well organized in iTunes (RIP). It's on an old Macbook Pro (2011) connected to an external drive. I can play all the tracks from that computer. I just resurrected my iPhone 6 (capacity: 64GB) to repurpose it as an iPod. My entire music library is 'only" 40GB so the iPhone could hold it all.
Only problem: iTunes on my Macbook Pro does not recognize the iPhone 6. I keep getting error messages when trying to connect to it. I suspect the firmware is too old (on the Mac / too new on the iPhone)... I could not even wipe the iPhone with that old Mac because it couldn't connect to the Apple servers.
The iPhone 6 is completely empty and has iTunes! (Not Apple Music but actual iTunes). It even filled with some tracks I had bought (not sure how).
What would you do in this situation? Are there any workarounds?
My old Macbook Pro is running iOS version 10.8.5 and iTunes is on version 12.0.1.26.
My iPhone 6 (wiped clean and re-associated to my Apple ID) is running software version 12.5.7.
Apple discontinued iTunes support years ago in favor of Apple Music and streaming subscriptions (no wonder, because 💰💰💰💰💰).
I wish I could put my entire music library on my iPhone 6, le sigh. I technically wouldn't even need Jellyfin.
I also have an iPod Touch (1gen) that may connect to my Macbook Pro but its capacity is only 16GB.
What would you do?
#AskFedi #AdviceNeeded #music #BigTech@elena Install Windows in a VM and pass the USB connection to the VM and use iTunes for windows?
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@Timshel thank you!!! I’ll look into this tomorrow. Now with my little one till she goes to bed
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@antoine_ali @Timshel thanks but no thanks! I'm a MacOS / Linux person, I'm not willing to cross over to Windows computers (no offense to anyone using them, just not my thing). Plus I already have a small apartment overflowing with electronics and photo / video equipment, I can't possibly justify getting a Windows computer just for iTunes 😅
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@elena Install Windows in a VM and pass the USB connection to the VM and use iTunes for windows?
@MontgomeryGator oooh great workaround! I will add it as a plan B for sure, thank you for the brilliant suggestion! 🙏
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@elena I know nothing but apparently just using iTunes on windows works lol
@joel awww lucky you! I'm a little jelly to be honest 😆
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@antoine_ali @Timshel thanks but no thanks! I'm a MacOS / Linux person, I'm not willing to cross over to Windows computers (no offense to anyone using them, just not my thing). Plus I already have a small apartment overflowing with electronics and photo / video equipment, I can't possibly justify getting a Windows computer just for iTunes 😅
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@antoine_ali @Timshel oooh maybe my old Macbook Air (circa 2013). I still have it around and used it up to this year as I loved its keyboard and ports. Perfect little machine for writing. Let's see if I can do this there. Thanks for the suggestions!
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@joel awww lucky you! I'm a little jelly to be honest 😆
@elena I actually don't have an iPod but literally last week I got this and I think it's really cool!!
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@elena I actually don't have an iPod but literally last week I got this and I think it's really cool!!
@joel OMG this looks AMAZING! 🤩
Is it compatible with iTunes or you use another software? I’m pretty big on playlists so I want to use something that enables them
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@Gina literally me at the end of the day: "they want this am/pm in a dynamic hours if operation data value to be lower instead of upper case."
I've been at this for 10 years and these are still the things people write tickets for
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Si arriverà alla santa alleanza IA proposta da Mozilla?
@aitech - Secondo me, no, il che significherà la morte di Mozilla Foundation
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Working in gov, there are moments where I feel like I'm achieving something.
And then there's the rest of the year.
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Furundulla 306 – cose disd.ice-voli…
@anarchia
…che non si dovrebbero manco pensare! di Benigno Moi Assodato che le vignette non vanno spiegate… ma sono un sasso buttato come spunto di riflessione, per ogni vignetta almeno un link (forse) Casa Trumpound Il trumpismo di casa nostra, Andrea...Vedi l'articolo
https://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/furundulla-306-cose-disd-ice-voli/
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@swelljoe i guess i’ll have to try opus for myself. i mean hell, my employer’s paying for it. but i have serious doubts
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@exchgr regretfully, I have to acknowledge the "if" is very likely. I was dragged into using AI by my employer (I like having health insurance), but it is remarkable how far agentic AI has come in the past year or so. The current frontier models can build a tremendous range of software, with only a small amount of expert guidance. And, the more expert the guidance, the more advanced software the models can deal with.
I was a dedicated AI skeptic, until I tried agentic coding with Claude Opus.
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these are enormous contingencies, aka big ifs! no guarantees! highly unlikely!
https://www.businessinsider.com/software-ate-world-now-ai-eating-software-saas-anthropic-2026-2
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i feel like we’re now in the ftx vs binance era of the ai collapse
