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UmbraTemporis

@UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com

He/Him

In the real world, I love music 🗣️

  • Industrial Metal 🔩
  • Aggrotech 😡
  • Deathcore 💀

Also…

  • Long walks or hikes 🚕
  • Custom keyboards 🫦
  • Writing 🥶

Student, studying mechatronics.

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Oh you're gonna make me act up 💳

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You'd better hope that be pretty close to zero before attempting repairs.

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I use Hetzner exclusively and have just one complaint. You don't get much choice as to where your VPS is hosted country-wise nor the OS it runs. You do get the standard list of options, as you would with any other provider, except that list is quite small on Hetzner. It's good enough, I use Fedora everywhere and they support that so I'm good. Anyway, it's obviously free to create an account so there's no risk in case your setup isn't supported.

Apart from that, they're brilliant. The web console is nice, clean and well-designed, great value (1TB of storage clocks in at a few euros/month), room to scale and a decent company. Can't comment on customer support since I've never needed it.

For the services you've specified, that'll run you maybe 3 - 4 euros a month (that's with automatic backups of your entire server + tax) since you can run all of that under one server.

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Oh wow, that's pretty awesome.

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I've used it for VR, which is the only thing I keep Windows for. It's pretty good however I'd say having experience with Linux is a good idea, I definitely wouldn't treat it as a drop-in silver bullet for Windows minimalism (if such a thing exists).

By the sounds of it you're inexperienced with OS-hopping, so if you're going to start looking for things like this just do it properly and give Linux a go. You'll learn so much more and get a much nicer experience at the end, then if you decide you still need Windows then go and use someone else's computer to make a USB. I wouldn't bother trying to make one on Linux, it hardly ever works in my experience.

For clarity, I now just debloat vanilla Windows 11 with Chris Titus' tool. Still only used for VR and Game Dev.

If you go with Atlas, just know you're putting your whole system into the hands of a team smaller than most Linux distros that's doing more work than all of them, so I doubt Atlas is going to be around for much longer. Whereas something like Debian, Mint or Pop! is here to stay.

There's also far less chance of your system breaking if you go with Linux. Really in this situation there is absolutely zero reason to not go the extra mile and hop to desktop freedom.

UmbraTemporis ,

Chris Titus has excellent tutorials/tips on how to keep Windows from being Windows, check out his Youtube (Piped).

UmbraTemporis ,

So does this mean paying Proton Unlimited users will get access to StandardNotes too? I'd rather not have to dish out another subscription.

Is rsync.net a good service for backups?

I've been playing around with the self hosted apps for quite a while and I got to the point where I'm happy about my local setup. Next step is to setup reliable offsite backup. I'm using borgbackup as a tool to manage my backups (so far only local backups). I've been looking for an affordable yet reliable service to store my...

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If you ask me, I say Hetzner is a seriously underrated provider. I love using their services. Cheap as chips too.

UmbraTemporis ,
  • Easier to setup
  • More control
  • Easier to maintain
  • Dirt cheap
  • Low power
  • Space efficient
  • Zero downtme

Need I go on? This is clearly the future. Friendship ENDED with Network Hardware now PEG is my best friend.

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But the server is still operational, it's just moved.

  • Resilient
  • Durable
  • Secure
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For now, the integration is a minor gesture, as it’s only a one-way connection from Threads to the Fediverse.

Could someone explain what this means? It it like he can see us but we can't see him? I didn't know the Fediverse / ActivityPub could work like that.

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Ah right, thanks :)

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No.

A notification, in the tray and elsewhere across the OS, with a short description like "Updates are crucial to the security of you and your device, they also provide the freshest experience." would get the point across. What would be even better is if there was a one-click NQA button to initiate the update, perhaps even included on the notification.

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In Windows' case, this is the truth. But certified corporation momentos are not a required side-effect of this approach to updates.

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I'm gonna guess ByteDance also wants to enter the AI "art" field.

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Like how they decided they'd hold it by gripping the top of the pyramid, not the base plate like a usual sane person.

I bet if you asked them to hand you a drink, they'd hold it from the top with two fingers dipped into the fluid. Then proceed to be confused as to why you don't want to drink it anymore.

UmbraTemporis ,

Fair enough, but to hold it in a position good for displaying... The base plate makes a lot more sense.

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It' the individual frames that are compressed, essentially the video is unpacked and detail is culled from averages across multiple other frames beside it. So if the top of the video, for example the sky, doesn't change then that part will be kept static.

It's not so much properties about the video, but properties about each frame. I can take a 1080p image and blow it up to 8K in GIMP, but it's got the same detail as a 1080p image.

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Ok, hold on...

Can it be self-hosted?

UmbraTemporis ,

Amazing, will try this out on the Pi then.

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Can anyone shed some light as to why this isn't good news? I've only heard of Skiff recently and used Notion all of about once. Is this a red-flag for Skiff? Their service has interested me.

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Alright then, shame. Their product seemed really polished from the outside, even if it was very Apple-esque. Still no competition for Proton I guess.

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Piped is good too btw

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...

UmbraTemporis ,

Just want to mention Floorp, based on FF but with loads of additional options & appearance settings, also lightning-fast.

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I can't imagine it be too difficult to extract the open URLs, end chrome and launch Edge with the appropriate arguments.

But if it carried over cookies too, that's when I would see the chromium common-ground help out.

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The only browser recommended by Microsoft.

Made by Microsoft

UmbraTemporis ,

Librewolf is also a great choice, it was my go-to before Floorp.

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Yeah, in true M$ fashion the hard part was done by other people.

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Heavily doubt it. Google wants people using Chrome, not anything else Chromium-based. Otherwise they'd also have no issue with Brave, Vivaldi, Opera (GX) etc.

It's like cars, VW, BMW, Renault, Peugeot etc will all compete even though they all (mostly) use I4 engines.

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Anarchist News does a roundup podcast of recent stories often, I think it's either weekly or bi-weekly. Clearly news related.

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