My hotspot has 35G per month of data.
My server has 2 TB per month.
The data frugal way to listen to @ODELL and @MartyBent RHR # 292,
is to download the 1GB video to the server, process it with ffmpeg to 24kbs .opus, then download the resulting 15mb audio file with the hotspot.
Ive got it automated and simple.
The internet revolves around an always on, big pipe paradigm. But the majority of the world doesnt have this. have to be clever to get around it.
youd be amazed what you can do with a single 5 dollar VPS. you can even share one with friends. which really makes it fun.
What do you use to automate? Just bash?
ksh. i use OpenBSD for almost everything now.
i wrote a bunch of tmux scripts also that give me rss feeds, mail, file browsing with lf, in grid layouts.
it works much better than i expected.
Sweet! I have been dabbling in OpenBSD off and on fairly recently. I haven't gotten to the place to make the leap.
Ksh rocks. Even on Linuxes, I use oksh wherever I can, except one single machine.
Interesting, why not pass to server then WiFi over to device for no data? Maybe missing something?
server is in Mexico.
ssh tunnel is the way.
narrator: he was in fact missing something
you think in movie scenes like i do 😂
Any recommendations for vps providers?
Public repo wen???
i dont have one anymore!
i wrote my own simple backup and version control with just ksh, rsync, and directories. its so much simpler than git, but i dont have a repo anymore. its a downside i might need to see to.
That sounds amazing.
Any suggestions on projects that total newbies should try with your proposed 5-dollar VPS?
On this note, maybe zap.stream could use a low bandwidth or audio only option for those with bad connectivity. (this is still a problem in north america too)
What VPS provider? I'm using bitlaunch but it's 11 dollars a month
Awesome. Finally someone who listens to podcasts in the same bitrate range as myself ^^ I use gPodder to download podcasts and use a modified audio converter addon that reencodes all audio to 20 kbps opus. Absolutely enough for me quality wise and it reduces the footprint of my audio library to ~ 1/6 compared to original download size.
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