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merthyr1831 ,

no more blocked nose :)

merthyr1831 ,

this is probably delightful if you ever get a flu or cold

merthyr1831 ,

With what money? SpaceX is the only company with any kind of steady revenue to its name and that's only because the US government subsidised it

merthyr1831 ,

this is why we need ar-15s, for the 30 to 50 feral hog Bluetooth notifications

merthyr1831 ,

the last functional windows.

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I don't (never played Xbox til the end of its lifecycle) what did they do? 👀

merthyr1831 ,

we do a bit of entrapment

merthyr1831 ,

These morons are insufferable because they don't believe anything exists outside the frame of the photo. they have worse object permanence to babies

merthyr1831 OP ,

it was great personal effort for me to keep this saved on my phone for months after fetching this from an XL bully activist Facebook group

merthyr1831 OP ,

Captain Tom. A man of great intrigue and infamy after his family made him walk around a garden to raise money for something we already fund with our taxes, not long before his family whisked him off on holiday and likely exposed him to covid. Now his family spend their time embezzling money from the charity set up after his death

merthyr1831 ,

Not if you call it GNU/Linux 🤓☝️

merthyr1831 ,

It's in testing and/or sid atm but the keepass dev has argued back and forth with the debian maintainer who basically just said "suck it up buttercup" and refused to change back, so it'll cause a lot of fun times once it lands in the next debian release lol

Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B

I'm duplicating my server hardware and moving the second set off site. I want to keep the data live since the whole system will be load balanced with my on site system. I've contemplated tools like syncthing to make a 1 to 1 copy of the data to NAS B but i know there has to be a better way. What have you used successfully?

merthyr1831 ,

Rsync over FTP. i use it for a weekly nextcloud backup to a hetzner storage box

What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

I am currently using an old laptop (circa 2015) with a 250GB SSD in it, and 4GB of RAM. It runs Fedora 39 Server, and only hosts a Jellyfin instance through Docker right now (though I want to use Nextcloud later too). There is only 15GB of storage left on it, and the CPU is constantly overloaded (due to forced transcoding). I...

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idk what resolution you use for streaming but my raspberry pi 4B runs plex at 1080p just fine as long as it isnt using x265/AV1 (but on jellyfin you might be able to use the Pi's GPU for transcoding).

I use nextcloud too but it's a tiny bit slower than I'd like, but that's likely a wifi issue i think.

Literally any PC on Amazon for $200 CAD, then add your own SSD. I'd say 8GB of RAM but that's just for cache, youll rarely go over 4 in general use.

That, or a raspberry pi 4B/5 which runs you about $150 once you get a case, power supply, powered USB dock for sticking SSDs into (just for safety since technically the pi's USB ports cant handle certain SSDs power reqs.) and then stick SSDs into that.

Use dietpi (dietpi.com) for setting up your services and it'll run nice and smooth for anything not H265, which might be annoying but Plex and possibly jellyfin let you transcode stuff in the background which is nice.

merthyr1831 ,

Shouldnt do so that bad. my raspberry pi 4b can do jellyfin and nextcloud without pushing 15W at full load.

x86 is inefficient, especially older models, but youll likely only push anything over 10W when actually streaming something that requires transcoding. Most of the time your home server is gonna sit idle or doing some tiny cron job that won't really blast the CPU at all.

merthyr1831 ,

they were the worst updates because it guaranteed it was installing some bullshit you didnt want

merthyr1831 ,

I just use dietpi's configuration lol

merthyr1831 ,

I'm running it decently on a Raspberry Pi 4B. No less latency than a commercial cloud solution like OneDrive in my experience. Could be faster, though.

merthyr1831 ,

If i was stack overflow I would've transferred my backups to OpenAI weeks before the announcement for this very reason.

This is also assuming the LLMs weren't already fed with scraped SO data years ago.

It's a small act of rebellion but SO already has your data and they'll do whatever they want with it, including mine.

merthyr1831 ,

I'd keep the physical library around and just digitize as and when she asks for specific stuff. You'll probably never back up half the library. That or stick it on a HDD out of the way and transfer the few she wants, then tuck the drive in a draw forever in case she wants something else.

Jellyfin must have a feature like Plex where certain user accounts can have certain libraries attached? You could use that to avoid having to look at those crappy movies in your library.

I don't really have much of an issue with family recommendations but I do tell them that the space isn't unlimited so if they don't watch something they asked for I'm likely to remove it for something we WILL watch. In your case, you could at least have leverage to get her to narrow down what needs hosting and what doesnt.

merthyr1831 ,

Google used to list sites with backlinks highly, it was their first ever search algorithm iirc. Once people learned you could game that by planting useless backlinks, Google realised it was a bad idea.

Somehow, they've reinvented this all over again with parasite SEO that fundamentally works the same way. All they did was add some "domain ranking". Now, unreliable-but-popular sites coughredditcough will always score highly regardless of quality, because Google deemed them superior.

merthyr1831 ,

If I'm looking up something general, like some actor or tv show, then DDG is perfect. If im troubleshooting some weird software issue then i find it doesnt always list as many results, as if it hasnt indexed as many sites.

DDG at least now means I can search random shit without it suddenly being inserted into my social media algorithms like some kind of psychological torture.

merthyr1831 ,

im sure there isnt a malicious reason why many fingerprint reader drivers are proprietary

merthyr1831 ,

With reddit getting worse, these kinds of vapid "i only post snark about [insert US designated enemy]" users are gonna be all the more common.

merthyr1831 ,

Willing to bet money this was posted on hardware that actually does have backdoors to some 3 letter agency in the US, to much more personal consequence than any metaphorical Chinese government spyware

merthyr1831 ,

Yup agreed.

China, like the US, hasn't got the means nor the motive to track billions of people abroad; they both have a hard enough time keeping tabs on people domestically despite years of expanding their respective police states.

Of course there's always the propaganda and soft power stuff but again, every single state is doing this, but the insinuation is that Europe or the anglosphere in general are the only propaganda-free places on Earth!

merthyr1831 ,

The end goal of wayland is that you shouldn't ever have to know what it is.

merthyr1831 ,

I thought legitimate interest meant you were legitimately interested in giving up your data to those vendors????

merthyr1831 ,

If Ubisoft kept the crew (and others) on your account post-shutdown, people could create community servers much like they have for Titanfall and others.

Piracy allows software to be controlled by users, not publishers, in a way that if there was legitimate support for it people can still reverse engineer these games to support them.

Gran Turismo 4, for example, can only be modded and given online functionality through piracy (mods require a version of the game used as a beta test for some features so it wasn't widely sold).

Piracy isn't the only tool in maintaining discontinued games, but it's fundamental to people who may want to develop alternative servers for them.

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This shit isnt new, companies have been exploiting reddit to push products as if they're real people for years. The "put reddit after your search to fix it!!!" thing was a massive boon for these shady advertisers who no doubt benefitted from random people assuming product placements were genuine.

merthyr1831 ,

true but sometimes a news article or some service will link to a tweet and i have to use the godawful website client

merthyr1831 ,

ChromeOS is so funny because it's either way too anal about what you can do or there's a part they forgot to harden against end users and the power of linux spews forth with endless destructive potential

merthyr1831 ,

Love how companies can decide who has to supervise their car's automated driving and not an actual safety authority. Absolutely nuts.

merthyr1831 ,

Firefox for android supports extensions so could probably use youtube mp4 there. Not sure what other youtube frontends (if functional still since the crackdown) support changing the codec

merthyr1831 ,

me, playing elden ring rn: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/817aa387-e501-4f47-bf2d-8324457133cf.png

merthyr1831 ,

appflowy is foss, self-hostable via docker, and supports notes, tables, etc. but also kanban boards which i find useful for self management.

I'm using notion atm (the software appflowy has cloned to bring it to FOSS) as I've not set up docker yet :'(

maegul , to Fediverse
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People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

@fediverse

merthyr1831 ,

Yup. they "decentralised" servers for hosting profile info but it's still totally centralised for receiving and sending posts.

merthyr1831 ,

I have a mastodon and honestly, it's hardly a replacement. different instances are far too isolated even when federating together. Finding user accounts is difficult, and basic stuff like seeing content on another instance is needlessly kneecapped compared to other ActivityPub stuff like Lemmy.

merthyr1831 ,

Yup same here, on android

merthyr1831 ,

"owners will have to wait for April 20th" is nothing serious with this manchild ffs 😭

merthyr1831 ,

Already moved to Firefox on my phone. The only browser on mobile that I know of that supports extensions, giving me ad-free youtube and dark mode on websites ever since vanced was shut down.

merthyr1831 ,

My phone uses a split APK which requires root using revanced, but my work profile blocks rooting ;_;

I could just download the APKs manually but a lot more effort than using Firefox ngl

merthyr1831 ,

One of the most hated features of Windows 10 and they removed it just to add it back later lmao. They deffo had this planned all along and knew it would hurt their already terrible upgrade rates if they added it from the start

merthyr1831 ,

in my uni house, the landlord once barrelled in without notice (highly illegal!!) to give us a rug, a new coffee table, and a bunch of crappy canvas wall art.

After we decided to sign for another year, following a few viewings, the landlord barrelled in without notice again to take it all back lmao.

merthyr1831 ,

the package manager was first released in 2003, so nearly 21!

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...

merthyr1831 ,

Seeing all the hetzner mentions made me finally look into it and

  1. yep, they seem to be cheaper than alternatives without getting into shady territory and

  2. pretty easy to set up! I finally have an offsite backup of my home server and it only took me like an hour to do

What is a simple server solution for Jellyfin and Nextcloud?

I have a really bad "server" (just a laptop) that runs Fedora Server and uses Docker Compose to host Jellyfin. It has been very annoying to update (the web GUI for Fedora doesn't even work half of the time), updating is painful, and it's a pain to manage. I am trying to redo my entire setup, so I will be getting a NAS to store...

merthyr1831 ,

I like Dietpi. It's just a few homelab scripts on top of a stripped down debian ISO designed to reduce resource usage for homelabs while giving some utilities for installing popular homelab software by wrapping common projects around its own "software repo" (custom scripts for installing and configuring projects so they're a lot easier to get running than normal).

I run mine from a raspberry pi 4b but you can use x86 or other SBCs if you like.

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