ninjan

ninjan , 3 months ago to Memes in [gasp]

Yeah interesting thought there actually. In absolute numbers I wager more people believe in mythical beings of some form today in Europe than the 1700s. But as a share of the total population it's going to be a lot lower, of course.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Technology in AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features

Isn't this the good thing about open source? You can just fork and revert these changes? That AMD wants to limit your ability to potentially damage your card is completely reasonable, and since they provide the source code for the drivers you should be able to circumvent this and take that risk if you want. This only stops low tech / low skill users that really have no business tuning their card outside of the spec.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in no sale selling fee

Wouldn't you be refunded for the original ticket purchase?

ninjan , 4 months ago to Technology in But with serverless you don't pay for idle time !

Yeah that's is an attack on Netlify and not on him. It's them that should have protections against this. I argue that the customer can't even effectively defend against this themselves if they're using Netlify, which is turn means a court would likely get them off the hook for anything that can easily be classified as a DDOS attack.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Alternative to VMWare

Proxmox is VMWare light in a good way.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Technology in A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO

Altman and short stints regarding being CEO or not, name a more iconic couple.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Trying to **not** reinvent VTODO/todo.txt

Yes.

Microsoft To-Do has most of the features requested here (but is not open really) and I've tried to use it extensively but for anything that's not one-off it doesn't really work because the problem isn't generally remembering that you need to clean, pay bills etc it's actually doing it.

To-Do software only really works for the things you forget, like buy ingredients to make a birthday cake or setup that ladder service in your selfhosted setup to go around pay walls in a more automated fashion.

For app supported habit forming there are some gamification apps that some friends swear by but they've never really done it for me. For me the only thing that works is cultivating discipline by... Just fucking doing it, no matter what I feel.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in I love Home Assistant, but...

I think a VPS and moving to NetBird self hosted would be the simplest solution for you. $5 per month gives you a range of options and you can go even lower with things like yearly subscriptions. That way you get around the subdomain issue, you get a proper tunnel and can proxy whatever traffic you want into your home.

As for control scheme for your home automation you'll need to come up with something that fits you but I strongly advise against letting users into Home Assistant. You could build a simple web interface that interacts via API with HA, through Node-Red is super simple if it seems daunting to build the API.

If a RPi 4 is what you've got and that's it then I guess you're kinda stuck for the time being. Home Assistant is often quite lightweight if you're not doing something crazy so it runs well on even a RPi 3, same with NAS software for home use, it too works fine on a 3. If SBC is your style my recommendation is to setup an alert on whatever second hand sites operate in your area and pick up a cheap one to allow you to separate things and make the setup simpler.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in I love Home Assistant, but...

That's one part of it, but the other is that there's no proper way to ensure you won't cause issues down the line and it makes the configuration unclean and harder to maintain.

It also makes your setup dependent on seemingly unrelated things. Like the certificate for the domain which is some completely different applications problem but will break your Home Assistant setup all the same. That dependency issue can be a nightmare to troubleshoot in some instances, especially when it comes to stuff like authentication. Try doing SSO towards two different applications running on different subpaths on the same domain...

ninjan , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in I love Home Assistant, but...

I can't grasp your use case I feel, pretty much all your complaints seem... odd. To me at least.

First subdomain. I think HA is completely right that proxy with a subpath is basically an anti-pattern that just makes things worse for you and is always a bad idea (with very few exceptions).

As for your tunnel I don't know how you've set it up and I haven't used tailscale but them only allowing one domain sounds like a very arbitrary limit, is it something that costs money to add? I use NetBird which I selfhost on my VPS and from there tunnel into my much beefier home setup.

Then docker in HAOS. The proper way I feel of running HA is for sure HAOS, and also running it in its own VM / or on dedicated hardware. This because you will likely need to couple additional hardware like a stick providing support for more protocols like ZigBee or Matter. It really isn't a good solution for running all your self hosted stuff, and wasn't ever intended to be. Running Plex in HA for instance is just a plain bad idea, even if it can be done. As such the need for an external drive seems strange as well. If you need to interact with storage you should set up a NAS and share over SAMBA. All this to say that HA should be one VM/Device, your docker environment another VM.

As for authentication there are 10k plus contributors to Home Assistant yearly but very few bother to make authentication more streamlined. I would've loved OpenID/OAuth2 support natively but there are ways to do so with custom components and in the end I quite strongly feel that if the end-users of your smarthome setup (i.e. the wife and kids) need to login to Home Assistant then you've probably got more work to do. Remote controls which interact with HA handle the vast majority of manual interaction and I've dabbled with self-hosted voice interfaces for the more complex operations.

Sorry if this came across as writing you on the nose, that's not my intention. I just suspect you're making things harder for yourself and maybe have a strange idea around how to selfhost in general?

ninjan , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Cloud Hosted VMs

Well, as someone also self-hosting email I agree with his solutions but he paints a picture of how bad it is that I feel is a bit exaggerated. But then again I host for myself and my family, I suspect it gets a bit different when you have many users and send hundreds of mail per day.

Only one I've had trouble with it Microsoft, they're the strictest and you need to get some support from them to make it work reliably. Google has an automated service.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in 10 Commandmends for a digital age

So no ads, sure, but then you need a commandment about paying for what you consume. Since otherwise, if we all followed the commandments, we'd be out of content right quick since you can't make a living producing it.

ninjan , 4 months ago to Memes in This would break the internet

You do know the URI is the same so you can just change piped.video to youtube.com

ninjan , 4 months ago to Memes in This would break the internet

The best ones are with the philosophy guy imo, he employs the rethorical "Principle of Charity" in such a master class way which turns her stupid questions into profound conundrums which he tackles and he manages to act out this sense of being delighted to finally being asked deep philosophical questions in an interview. It's great.

https://piped.video/shorts/6FNv4hsTBM8?si=2042cjUDRztDM579

ninjan , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in ‘This is stealing’ ; Instagram account lets you squat in metro homes

Sure but from my understanding the problem in the US (and most places) isn't that there isn't room. The sum of empty houses/apartments is greater than the amount of homeless. It's more distribution and logistics.

So we drop demand by outlawing many forms of ownership but with lower prices from that drop its reasonable to expect an increase in demand for the most popular places / places with a good salary and strong job market.

This then naturally moves the spot with available homes further from the major areas. People with low/no means are they then expected to move there to not be homeless? Even if there's no career prospects or even jobs?

If we cap relocation how is that handled? Are you not allowed to move into and buy a new home in say San Francisco, LA or NY?

And how much relocation are we mandating for the homeless?

If we remove the free market there is an extreme demand for very thoughtful, planned out rules which need to be airtight because people exploit everything and every loophole will be found.

And if we don't eliminate the free market, just limit who can own, then how do we avoid the aforementioned problems of accelerating urbanization? Such that we don't equalize at the exact same prices just private owned instead of corporate owned.