For Music, I've started using Navidrome on my server and Feishin on my desktop (a SubSonic server and client respectively). The music has all been tagged using Beets so there's a nice display.
For Video, I second the AppleTV 4K with Infuse app recommendation. Just accesses my library using NFS, and gets all the metadata from wherever to show an organised library, with a player that can handle anything.
I use Alexandrite as a front-end, and I there's a noticeable improvement using it to open unknown-to-my-instance communities than without it. Directly on an instance website, unfamiliar links sometimes time out, and give me the error that a refresh will fix. Alexandrite seems to do this itself - it'll stay longer on a blank screen, but then always load the posts from the community.
I saw [email protected] and [email protected] more than once checking out the New Entries, which shows how actively hustlin' for subs makes a difference.
And yes, I did just subscribe to 'Sketch Comedy' and watch 'Farming' for the millionth time
The year 2043:
Britain's surging wolf population is causing an ecological disaster. I have the solution: Bears.
George Monbiot
Interesting that they went for a comedic moment ("Open the fucking door") rather than an emotional one. Still slightly surreal to hear Chris Pratt say it (it's been a while since Zero Dark Thirty ...)
I just use ntfy for notifications. I've only ever got the python3 version to install (with 'apt install python3-pip' and then 'pip3 install ntfy'), but after that's done, a desktop notification can be sent with:
ntfy -b linux send 'msg'
'EU Wednesdays' have gone from something that everyone ignored to a thing that threatens the peace and stability of this entire Community.
I'm vaguely aware of those influences, but decided to answer OP's question very literally (there's no 'New Hope' book that anyone can check out after seeing the first film)
The mad thing is that it even does this if you try to escape a comment with backticks (Markdown for 'code')
So if you want to say, "this is how you use the Lemmy API:"
https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community?jwt="asfsdfsdf"&community="support"
it mashes the ampersand in it
https://jlai.lu/c/rance
https://jlai.lu/c/paslegorafi
https://feddit.de/c/rentnerfahrenindinge
All posts in French or German, so you won't see any posts if you don't have those languages ticked in your profile
https://jlai.lu/c/environnement
https://lemmy.lacaveatonton.ovh/c/fdpinformatique
Most posts are in French or German, English is allowed, but the posts you'll see are typically French or German but posted as 'Unspecified'
Gains some ground with the realisation that Important Images, Important Videos, and Bideos are all just User #4 (aka'partycat')
The Sync dev is aware of the unclickability issue (YAY!)
.world is still borked (BOO!)
hexbear Communities will probably start appearing in a few days (we find YAY and BOO to be too much a binary choice, actually)
'The Wild Women of Lemmy' is full of NSFW posts, but the Community itself has removed its NSFW tag. Same thing happened with 'Sex Meme Pit' (also on lemmyf.uk), so a Community that was on the NSFW list has now re-appeared on this one (as a 'Previous Entry' 'cos it's just one big list internally and I didn't predict this would happen)
Star Wars is interesting in that it's a big franchise IP that isn't an adaption of a book or comic
The window is frosted, but if that mannequin ever comes to life, the neighbours will be treated to a suggestive silhouette.