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BEWARE: This is totally gonna be a kinda “old man yells at cloud” post. It’s gonna be totally unstructured and messy. In the past decade or so tech has gotten much more advanced, but paradoxically worse at the same time, in my opinion. My first phone was the iPhone 5s. Nice little brick that got the job done. I don’t remember exactly when hardware became more eh. iPhone 8 maybe? For software? maybe since the early days of Windows 10. 2015, or 2016? Back when they started telling Windows 7 users to update. ...

The Arcane Discord bot (often used for leveling in servers) offers no way to export level data for switching to another bot. It’s quite simple, in a round-a-bout way. Don’t tell anyone from Arcane, or they will ban you, but otherwise, they have no way of telling ;) Why? I wanted to switch Discord bots for level roles. Specifically to https://xela.dev/ (Amazing team, by the way) ...

I had wrapped up the last post about this (YouTube Music Scrobbling on iOS) suggesting FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler. While this is a great tool, with YouTube Music specifically it had a few issues due to how the YTM API works. If you are interested, you can read the issues, #156 and #158. The first being songs are sometimes scrobbled multiple times to Last.fm, the second issue being YTM invalidating the token every 30 minutes or so. ...

This isn’t a deep dive into the workings of Bun, and I haven’t worked with it at all really. This is just my opinion on it after stumbling across a project that uses it, and playing with it a bit. The project I’m gonna be referencing its usage in YTMusic API by Zechariah First thing I do is bun install which seems to update the lockfile for whatever reason. Sometimes this is normal. Lets take a look. ...

As of writing, I have 627 friends on discord. Six. Hundred. Twenty. Seven One may ask, how can I maintain so many friendships? It’s quite simple: I don’t. So then why are they still on my friends list? I have all these friends online, but some I don’t even talk to anymore. Haven’t talked to in years. Some I’ve even forgotten and don’t recognize. ...

This short post begins with my constant problems with network on my desktop. For a long while it’s had issues due to its placement in my house. My room is quite far from the router, and has no Ethernet jack. WiFi drops constantly, so I bought a Ethernet over power line adapter–one of those things that you have 2 of, once at the source and another where you want Ethernet. The problem with these is they can be quite slow. Bleh. ...

Part 2: https://blog.aspy.dev/youtube-music-ios-scrobbling-part-2/ I’ve been scrobbling to Last.FM for a while from Desktop. Originally using YTMDesktop from the YTMDesktop org on GitHub I eventually switched to th-ch’s YouTube Music app, both of which had support Last.FM. However, this left a gaping hole in scrobbling, and that is mobile. While there are apps to do this for Android (Which I will not list, as I am not an Android user, and don’t want to recommend something I don’t use) iOS does not have any such apps in the app store. Even if they were available to sideload, Apple makes sideloading a massive pain. ...

I have recently acquired a PowerEdge R430 from a company called SpicketRiver Electronics. (Ebay link) I simply cannot recommend them enough. They are the same folks I got the R910 from, and when I had issues with both this server and the R910 their support was simply astounding. The server costed about $90 USD from them. Upon receiving it, I found a minor issues. the status LCD panel seemed to be shattered, and the DVD drive panel missing, which was not shown in the listing. ...

I like to help people host small servers, often for free for small friend groups. To me at least, it doesn’t make sense to pay the €15 for small servers. (PlotSquared can be purchased on Spigot) If you are hosting medium to larger sized servers and can afford it, you totally should support the software you use! https://github.com/IntellectualSites/PlotSquared Regardless, the choice is up to you. This also allows you to use bleeding edge git builds. ...

Update, 12/20/25 In the time since I’ve posted this, I worked at Salem Techsperts for about a year. I’ve found that UGREEN is actually a moderately reputable brand, and I just got unlucky getting a defective unit. Additionally, Mozilla FakeSpot no longer exists. In fact, at this time, my main charger cable (not brick) is a UGREEN USB C cable. ...