My hotspot has 35G per month of data.

My server has 2 TB per month.

The data frugal way to listen to nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy 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.

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What do you use to automate? Just bash?

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

Any recommendations for vps providers?

genius

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)

This might help simplify your workflow:

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/226249

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.