haui_lemmy

haui_lemmy , 18 hours ago

Damn! Thats so awesome! Have you posted it on the homeassistant forum as well?

haui_lemmy , 15 hours ago

I think that would be cool since the peeps there are very appreciative and nice ime.

haui_lemmy , 12 hours ago

There would be quite a lot of possible places. Maybe hardware? I‘d check if and where you find similar works and post it there.

haui_lemmy , 10 hours ago

Okay cool! Did you explain why you only posted the link?

haui_lemmy , 3 days ago

That yours @db0 ? :D

haui_lemmy , 6 days ago

Pretty straightforward. You need to host your stuff on your own hardware, ideally. You need good backups. You obviously can pay someone to do it for you but it does add complexity. In any case, streaming services are dead men walking by this point I think.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

I remember that time. I rented a couple of apple movies when netflix wasnt a thing.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Its happening for quite some time now. Recently sony did that on the playstation. Thats why we need to go back to self hosting the files (without drm).

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

I dont think streams have a future either. Look at the amount of abuse potential by companies and how far enshittification already progressed. If you have prime, you now get ads in prime video. Its disgusting.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Understandable thought process imo. I‘m in the opposite boat.

For years I didnt care about data privacy and the amount of phishing attacks and spam mails skyrocketed.

I had all the social media accounts, connected to each other for convenience. Bit tech cloud managed my pictures and everything else. Stuff started vanishing off of my favorite streaming services.

Then I started to migrate away from big tech and started my own home server. Ripped all my old dvds on there so I dont have to put them in the player. I disabled my facebook account, twitter, instagram, you name it.

Now I can chat with people on my Linux phone (postmarketOS), watch videos on my peertube instance, write this comment over my lemmy instance, etc. Is it easy? No. But its doable.

I do still have whatsapp but i dont use the app and have bridged the 2.5 people that dont have matrix to it. Same for signal and discord. I only use matrix and a couple people switched because matrix can help them use one app only.

Now comes the hard part: is this end user ready? No, not at all. Stuff can break like every half a year and some people are just tech illiterate and will have constant problems because they have no patience.

I cant promise you that it works for everyone. But it should work for the 80% or so who are able to follow a basic video tutorial on how to cross sync new devices in matrix for example.

Oh and the whiners will also have a bad time. If you need „perfect“ and „polished“, apps wont always be up to your standards and you should embrace big tech. They make it perfect for you you give them your data. Thats their way of saying thanks /s

Addition: The general idea for those who can tinker should also be to not only use but contribute. Either financially or otherwise. The software is dependent on it.

haui_lemmy , 4 days ago

One plus 6. works very well so far. Have you tried fixing your pinephone? Its open source hardware so you should be able to, generally.

haui_lemmy , 4 days ago

I‘m somewhat early in the whole linux phone game.

The OP6 works decent enough for my needs atm. I use it for matrix chats on fluffychat, browsing with firefox works well. I can use it as terminal client which was important to me since I have some servers that I need to work on remotely sometimes.

So far I havent realized my idea to use it with a usb/hdmi or DP adapter as a mobile computer but thats something I‘ll try.

So far I havent managed to put a sim card in it since I dont have a spare and my old phone still works so I‘ll get to that at some point.

To your problem:

The pinephone is open source. You can look in the schematics and check if the motherboard gets enough juice and what if anything is broken afaik. The pinephone is not an end user device imo, the OP6 very much was but postmarket isnt. The documentation of the pinephone should also be somewhat extensive.

So I‘d suggest you either stick with graphene or start embracing the tinker mentality. :)

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

LibreOffice Calc is pretty good. Your company can invest in a fork and it should do what you need.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Then you‘re definitely in the wrong circle. Join a local computer club if that exists. Changes things dramatically.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Thats interesting! Thanks for elaborating.

I have never heard of it so I cant say if there is an alternative but I‘m pretty sure being vendor locked like this is MUCH more expensive than using a more complicated bit open solution in the long term.

haui_lemmy , 5 days ago

Feel free to show a usecase where that is the case. the actual cost and opportunity cost of a vendor lock in is quite severe.

haui_lemmy , 8 days ago

These billionaires are just regular people with less empathy (there are no ethical billionaires). They have the same braindead ideas we all have if we dont know anything about a topic and are in a talkative mood or possibly drunk or high, or all of those combined I guess.

haui_lemmy , 10 days ago

NC seems to either work completely or it doesnt, barely an inbetween there.

Its fine for me for two years and going. But I only have two users and maybe 200 GB of data. My 16 gigs of ram barely goes above 20%, my 4 thread oldschool xeon usually stays at <5% usage.

Doing sysadmin stuff for 20 yrs probably helps though.

haui_lemmy , 10 days ago

20 yrs of experience rarely makes things worse I guess.

haui_lemmy , 11 days ago

There is literally no difference between web and app. What makes a difference is if proprietary data hogs made them or open source devs.

haui_lemmy , 11 days ago

Have you tried installing literally any debian based system recently? Works without a single command.

haui_lemmy , 10 days ago

Fair enough. Although technically the system works without that. Just not for long maybe?

haui_lemmy , 10 days ago

Yeah no. Thats not the case for everyone. Debian itself also is a little more tricky than say pop!os.

haui_lemmy , 10 days ago

I think the purists need to accept that users are valid too. :) good that some distros seem to understand that.

haui_lemmy , 14 days ago

Exactly. I hope pop moves away from ubuntu at some point though.

haui_lemmy , 17 days ago

Some people are really salty about your fact spitting. Please go on. :)

haui_lemmy , 17 days ago

Yeah, forget unity.

haui_lemmy , 23 days ago

Every time I read news like this I‘m glad I moved to my own cloud.

haui_lemmy , 23 days ago

Check out my setup if you want.

Costs depend on a lot of factors. If you are technically adept you might be able to get away with 20 bucks a month for the whole setup but most folks wouldn’t imo. I also have some old hardware I was able to use and upgraded it. Initial invest for a homeserver varies greatly depending on who you know.

If you want to know more please ask. You can also hit me up on matrix. Link in bio.

haui_lemmy , 19 days ago

Thats actually not a bad idea. Long term selfhosted cloud solutions will have to compete on availability/redundancy. You might want to help the NC folks to implement that on their docker setup or something?

haui_lemmy , 24 days ago

One of the many companies that should definitely be barred from acquiring any more companies and rather be broken up into smaller companies.

haui_lemmy , 23 days ago

Not at all. Nation sized companies are authoritarian rogue-states which happen to provide a good product. We should treat them as the danger to our planet that they are.

haui_lemmy , 24 days ago

Sometimes its real easy and I‘m taking a month off and nothing breaks. Then I have times where I want to add new services or optimize stuff. This can take forever. Right now I‘m building object storage behind a vpn.

haui_lemmy , 25 days ago

Matrix is pretty user friendly imo but you will not get data-gobbler‘s levels of convenience because they have billions to invest in the software, FOSS doesnt. It works out of the box mostly but you as admin need to be quite adept.

haui_lemmy OP , 25 days ago

Since nobody seems to have a solution handy I should share what I learned thus far:

This setup is essentially like the *arr suite and therefore I can use a similar configuration. The docker container of the object storage should be able to use the vpn container as a network device.

I‘m not totally sure how to do it on the other side since the n-containers have two network connections each, vpn and outside world, not to be mixed, for security reasons. Its probably not even a big deal but now its nearly done.

Its not implemented yet so its all theoretical. I might update once its done.

haui_lemmy OP , 27 days ago

Thats a pretty cool idea! Thank you very much!

haui_lemmy OP , 27 days ago

Thanks for the info. That sounds doable.

haui_lemmy OP , 27 days ago

Very cool.

How exactly did you manage to make it available without forwarding a port? If the server is behind your routers with no way through, a vpn shouldn’t reach it either.

haui_lemmy OP , 27 days ago

I totally get that with a vpn that goes from a device within a closed network to a public one but my impression was that the commenter before me meant going from a public device to a device in a protected network which I found hard to believe

haui_lemmy OP , 26 days ago

I use proxy manager as well. Twice actually. :)

You can look at my setup on Github

haui_lemmy OP , 26 days ago

Thats how I view it as well. I love to learn so I‘m not evasive of the idea that I missed something. But from the downvotes and no meaningful answers except yours I derive that there might be a misunderstanding.

haui_lemmy OP , 26 days ago

I‘m not sure you understand how a vpn works. It usually connects to the outermost part of a network (the router in my case) and then enters through there. The vpn port is always open and thats why I asked since you said thats not the case. (Incase that comes up: there are setups where another port is used for „knocking“ and opens up the entry port. Still one port has to be open to receive anything)

Also, you have no reason to talk down to me. We might have had a misunderstanding here, idk. I‘m just asking to find out what you meant.

haui_lemmy OP , 25 days ago

I hope you dont work in a customer facing position then. You literally have no idea how to talk to someone in a respectful manner.

So, my initial take was correct. You do need an open port and if you want your router to manage it, you have to isolate the vpn from the rest of the network.

Anyway, since this isnt going anywhere and you keep being irritating, I‘m gonna call it. Good luck with that attitude.