For me its Musicbrainz (listenbrainz.org) on android use spotube it has musicbrainz plugin so it will scrobble to your account on listenbrainz. listenbrainz has recommendation playlists like weekly discover, weekly jams which i think are much better than Spotify in my experience. on pc I use linux so i have made a custom tui which scrobbles to listenbrainz using their api and streams music from youtube using yt-dlp (its vibe coded). https://codeberg.org/mobsenpai/lb-tui

There are other apps as well but for my needs i had to make my own. Now you should definitely try it for yourself see how it works for you, listenbrainz also has a youtube integration so it will play songs in mini player, also with musicbrainz you can easily add any songs missing from the platform but in my experience I was able to find 90% of songs and artists i listen to.

I dont like ripping or keeping offline copy because i have roughly 4000 songs in my playlist and its not easy keeping it arranged and move it to other devices. and i need music discovery too hence this combination works for me, although not perfect.

Yeah it’s a little manual to setup and is not very declarative and dynamic which is why I was keen on just letting my qt apps auto theme with gtk. For now I am just using qtstyleplugins which has the older qt5gtk2 and it works with both the qt6 and qt5 apps but it themes with gtk2 which is largely being deprecated and not supported by newer themes so was just concerned.

Ahh I see

Okay that’s so thoughtful.

Shouldn’t you be fine using lemmy.world?

Its alright! I am kinda trying to figure it out myself. But thankyou for the initial push

I am seeing this repo: https://github.com/Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel/blob/master/nix/module.nix

this uses astal to create the said interface but is also configuring the settings like how I want, except it uses json and ts for it where I have scss and lua, otherwise I just can’t wrap my head around how i can translate it to my needs. Maybe I don’t need to edit the files in the build, I could just edit or update the astel.scss using nix as well like how its done there using builtins and other functions, can you help me here, if you’ve got time.

I don’t think there is a way to give the config during runtime or while calling the binary of the app, I will keep trying something, one thing I think that may help is creating that file during the build process, but I just don’t have enough knowledge to do that.

Just don’t be

So I am importing in home manager file and the syntax and building is fine, the file is also being created in my ~/requested folder.

But I think there has been a misunderstanding in my concept of how this package is being installed and where it will get its colors from, so this flake package astal takes colors from where it is built right? and inside there will be created a scss folder which will have the themes/astel.css file, but in our setup we will only create a file in *user’s home/.config/astal directory, but then how will the app use that file? I am getting confuse here, I tried to change the astel.scss file lines to @import "~/.config/astal/scss/themes/astel.scss"; but no cigar. I am missing a piece here, can you please help me?

Sry I am asking a little too much help now.

Please consider these sources:

github.com/mobsenpai/hana

github.com/mobsenpai/aoi (just changed the name)

https://aylur.github.io/astal/guide/getting-started/nix

I was always curious about this linux thing, from when I was in 7th grade, I only knew Kali linux then, and I thought one could hack anything if you had kali linux :), But I seriously started using linux in 10th grade, fell into the rabbit hole of ricing, and to this day still cant get over it although it has become more stable and I know what I am doing.

Yeah, must be the wind

@balsoft Help wanted my G!, I am stuck here I created this flake for my astal widget config: https://github.com/mobsenpai/astal.git

And I have this flake for my main nixos config: https://github.com/hana.git

I can try to import it now, but perhaps it seems that there is some error here. I try building this astal config using nix build (just to try to test it) and it creates a result folder inside the astal folder, where i have its flake and configs, see the astal repo, those are the contents of the folder. But there is no check.scss file gets created in the scss/theme/ folder. I haven’t yet tried to import it into my nixos system, for now, didn’t get the time, but will update you on that, but I feel something if not a lot of things are not good here.

Wow, my G! This is incredibly well-structured, and I really appreciate that you even included comments. It’s genuinely helpful, and I’m definitely going to give it a try.

I actually posted this while my exams are ongoing, hoping someone would respond in the meantime. For real, thank you so much. I love this community!

can you provide me with a simple example, and syntax. I have tried, but failed. I want that the astal config uses a custom colorscheme which i configure somehow that can be given as option when importing that flake in the main nixos system.

For now I have deactivated the account and will go for full deletion once I am completely “ready” lol.

It’s alright I will keep an eye on that method for future use.

Looks like pinterest is not allowing the access to searx. I’ve used searx in past.

Tq :)

I use duckduckgo as well, and I don’t particularly hate having pinterest results in the search. But I definitely don’t wanna login just to see the image in low resolution which won’t even have the context of where it was taken from, nor the artist credit.