2xsaiko

2xsaiko , 3 days ago

The Nextcloud Windows client does VFS and there’s an experimental Mac client that does VFS.

2xsaiko , 19 days ago

I bought a QNAP TL-D800S disk shelf (it does have 8 slots and not 5) and an old used Fujitsu Esprimo on eBay. That means I can replace the PC with something more powerful in the future if I need to without having to worry about the disks. Works great so far with the 5 disks I have in it and the two stack on top of each other perfectly.

2xsaiko , 18 days ago

If you can connect it to the SBC, yeah. This one comes with a PCIe card and you connect it with SAS cables (it unfortunately only does SATA for the drives though). The disks show up as separate independent devices and you can just combine them with mdraid or whatever.

There's also a USB C variant of it but that seemed more sketchy to me.

2xsaiko , 25 days ago

Czech Republic is doing the most promising thing right now I think: https://konecipv4.cz/en/

I hope the EU or at least other countries will follow.

2xsaiko , 29 days ago

You wouldn’t have Wayland if it weren’t for WONTFIX, ya daft cunts.

Bit rich to say that considering the reason most very useful and well written Wayland protocol proposals that would get it up to par with X11 are rejected is because Gnome vetoes it since it doesn't match their vision for the Gnome desktop

2xsaiko , 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

$10 per month and all you get is 5 IPv6 addresses (I assume that's what they mean by "5 Static Visible IPv6 Tunnels")? What a shameless scam.

Edit: Though maybe you're paying for the "Tier-1 (as in ISP?) Bandwidth". But if they want me to take them seriously, they need to give me a /64 prefix instead of a measly 5 addresses.

2xsaiko , 26 days ago

Yeah, tunnelbroker.net is what I use. It works behind NAT too, and they even give you a /48! For free!

To be clear I wouldn't mind paying for guaranteed speeds because the he.net tunnel can be a bit slow at times. My problem with this is that they don't give you a /64 which basically makes it useless for anything but the "host a couple services" use case. Most people who would consider this, including me, probably don't have IPv6 connectivity from their ISP at all and would like to get routable IPv6 address space for their home network.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

I don't assume anyone has written a real client yet but there's a library you can use: https://github.com/Hirohumi/rust-rcs-client

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

IPv6. Just let the other network through the firewall, use direct connections, no overcomplicated tunnel setup needed.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

The software Wikipedia runs on is called Mediawiki. And yes, you can self-host it.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

You can check for being an open relay with tools like this one: https://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

The nice thing about Apple's Find My is that it runs in the background but only checks and sends your location when someone is actively looking at your location. Do these do that as well? I've tried Telegram's location sharing before and it drains battery like crazy because it keeps the GPS receiver always on.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Did you respond to the right comment? I mentioned Telegram specifically and I'm fairly certain OsmAnd can't do live location sharing.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Oh, that's a separate app, I wasn't aware of that, no. Interesting, thanks! I don't use Telegram anymore though.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Done!

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Nix is not something exclusive to NixOS, and people are already using it to make reproducible configs that work on more than one OS.

I'm even using Ansible in what I'm currently building with Nix, because it does one thing well that I need to do: distribute files and run commands on a lot of hosts at once.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

NixOS is still a Linux system, and the configuration still translates to stuff you have in a very similar way on every other Linux system too (with the exception of what's needed for the file system layout to work). It's not some kind of magic. I've probably learned as much stuff applicable to general Linux distributions as while using Arch and Gentoo.

Of course, if you only use the high-level options and the graphical installer that may be different, but then comparing it to those distros is very disingenuous.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

I know of companies like Serokell that specialize in it, and I know that some others use it internally for CI. Generally if you want a Nix job you'll have to specifically look for that I think

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Sounds like network namespaces.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

It is to be noted that while iTunes is DRM-free at this point (which is very nice and surprised me when I found out) it is unfortunately still lossy compressed audio which the perfectionist in me really doesn't like :P

Come on Apple, sell me your funny ALAC, you have it for Apple Music anyway

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

The Music client for Mac is still an excellent music manager and player and beats Spotify by a mile despite how visibly much they've let it bitrot* since it was iTunes. It's a shame neither the mobile app nor the web client has anywhere near the capabilities.

* for example, what the fuck is that stupid unresizable header that takes up half the window with mostly empty space and doesn't scroll off the screen anymore if you set a playlist view to "as Songs"

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

I mean same, but I'd still like to have lossless audio regardless :P

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Yubikey is only really useful for authentication with a trusted party, and not decryption. You can technically use store a secret key on it but then its two biggest advantages are gone, namely that you can't copy the key and that it doesn't use the limited storage on the device.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Maybe you should make them a blood sacrifice more often?

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

I hope it's an option you can toggle. I like the existing system which is essentially a list view where it reflows when you remove an icon. My desktop icons are set to work like this too.

I wonder how they've implemented this for iPads since there the way the layout behaves (list vs 2D grid) actually makes a difference when you rotate the screen.

2xsaiko , 1 month ago

Join the Matrix support channel if have any problems getting started! The documentation can be very scattered and NixOS throws a lot of new concepts at you :P

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

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2xsaiko , 1 month ago

That's what I always say too…

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

KMyMoney is what I use. (Though I haven't kept it up to date for way too long)

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

This is why you should have a spare key in case you lose your main one and print out your recovery keys.

Mine is on my keychain so if I lose that, I have bigger problems than getting back into my accounts.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

Sure, one main key, one backup key, and probably like two years' tax documents worth of paper (if you do print every one on a separate piece of paper which is kind of a waste)

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

It's crazy that the in-app browser isn't an OS-level overlay that the app can't influence or look at what the user is doing in it. It would be totally feasible to implement, at least in theory.

Exact same as with the photos chooser on iOS which should really work in a way that the app never sees your entire photo library except for the photos you end up selecting, but it still being visible in the overlay, which would also allow them to get rid of that incredibly dumb permissions system it has.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

Oh, good to know! Can you somehow tell which is which or do they look the same?

In that case, being able to use the more powerful widget should be controlled either by what you said or even just behind a permission check the user has to acknowledge.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

Since 2012! PlayOnLinux was the closest thing to Proton then.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

Yeah, same with GIMP. I would love to use it on my Mac since I already use it and am comfortable with it on Linux, but it's noticeably slow for some reason and you shouldn't even try using it with the touchpad. The windows especially in multi-window mode don't behave as you'd expect, the keybinds don't either, it's very meh all around. I was wondering whether I should get Affinity but I guess with this it's a no.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

I'm not familiar with what exactly you need but have you taken a look at KMyMoney? (Or is this for accounting for an actual company and not for yourself? Not sure how it holds up there)

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

you cannot sell or transfer your unlocked device (in linked legal agreement)

The fuck? There's no way they can forbid doing that, right? Video game publishers would be all over that with physical discs to make it the same as for digital releases.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

I use distro packages. In the rare case something isn’t packaged yet, I package it myself. And for the isolation, systemd services can do most of the things docker can if you need (check systemd-analyze security).

For just hosting services that can be done instead with normal system services, docker makes your setup a lot more complex (especially on the networking side), for little if any gain. Unless I need to spin up something multiple times temporarily on demand or something has a hard dependency on it, I’m not going to bother with it anymore.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

Fastmail looks like they have CalDAV and CardDAV support (https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Server-names-and-ports). If you actually want to use their contacts and calendar, why do you want to host another yourself? Two-way sync sounds like a pain.

You just need to connect your devices to it. Unfortunately Google thinks PIM sync is not worthwhile to have on Android unless you use their service, so you'll need some extra apps. I used DAVx5 (it's free if you get it from F-Droid), Tasks.org and OneCalendar in the past for this.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

Right, exactly.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

All of this is pointless until they stop requiring "notarization".

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

tunnelbroker.net since I don't have static IPv6 currently. Otherwise, that.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

MMS is still 0.37€ for me right now (SMS is free though). Completely unacceptable.

2xsaiko , 2 months ago

Literally just scroll all the way to the right on the home screen, there's your category/alphabetical app list.

2xsaiko , 3 months ago

Who wants to be the next one to try making "full self driving" cars and waste billions of dollars doing so instead of investing into public transport which would also make driving more safe and more enjoyable because fewer cars would be on the road?

IMO self driving cars are the epitome of Silicon Valley techbro overly complex "solutions" which look awesome and sci-fi but could only ever solve part of the problem if they became a reality.

2xsaiko , 3 months ago

PeerTube can do this (yes, out of the box!).

2xsaiko , 3 months ago

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/channel-sync

2xsaiko , 3 months ago

Cool, but that's not an argument against SMS support in Signal.