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perishthethought ,

I like:

https://github.com/usememos/memos

perishthethought ,

Cypher was a bastard.

perishthethought ,

Proof?

perishthethought OP ,

pay a friend or a local small business for hosting for them

Interesting idea. I wonder if there's any such local / regional service out there. I imagine they would have to have "real people" customer service to make that work. Not sure what that would be worth to most people / cost to run as a business.

perishthethought OP ,

Sweet! Tell me more about how you're trying to do that and how you're seeing reluctance, please.

perishthethought OP ,

Sure. Like Apple says, "It just works" and people love that.

The challenge, imo, is that there's always the variations on home networks, nat, firewalls, etc... maybe someone partners up with Tailscale or a similar service to get the services through people's home router.

perishthethought OP ,

Imagine this scenario:

  • You go to a store, buy a little server in a box, something the size of an Apple TV or a Roku.

  • Bring it home, plug it in, fire up its home page on your phone, tablet or PC.

  • That has a really simple, slick UI which walks you through its set up without asking any technical questions, including enabling services you want to use, getting it connected to the cloud for away-from-home connection and cloud backups (if you want).

  • It automatically sets up a Wireguard VPN for you, takes the most secure options with each of the apps you enable. Ties it all to one password or passkey for you. Sets up certs, etc... the right way, without bothering you at all.

  • On your phone (mobile first, eh), you use the app as a launcher for the apps you chose to enable (things we all know like Navidrome, Immich, Paperless, etc...). They work the same at home and on the road.

  • On your home devices (any kind of PC, Apple TV, Roku, Android TV, music streamers, and so on), you install and run apps which all connect to your little server instead of going outside your home.

  • Enjoy your media, backup your documents, chat with friends and family, etc... as you like.

ETA: And share whatever you want with whoever you want. Send your sister some pictures, let your kid at college watch one of your movies. And so on.

I can dream, at least.

perishthethought OP ,

The only part of Apple's approach worth copying would be the ease of use of their software, imo

perishthethought OP ,

That Data on project sounds really cool. I'll keep an eye on it.

As far as one-click installs, I think about how easy it is to install PiHole. That's how all software should be.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

perishthethought ,

"Everyone poops"?

perishthethought ,

How do you get the AI results on google.com? When I search for anything, it shows a summary and then all the results, sponsors, etc... Nothing is tagged as "AI".

(I never visit google so forgive me if this has an obvious answer)

perishthethought ,

Yeah

perishthethought ,

Thank you!

perishthethought ,

All good. I'll just continue to mock their progress for now.

perishthethought ,

But it can be so much fun!

perishthethought OP ,

Hmmm...

docker volume ls 
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
local     1da54fed5d479f5a551aaf853999fcc3db659193df2643a2bf20470f4da06bee
local     (a bunch more like the above)
...
local     immich-app_model-cache
local     immich-app_pgdata
local     immich-app_tsdata
local     immich_model-cache
local     immich_pgdata

I'm not sure how to tell what the many volumes with names like guids could be from. (I have like 12 docker apps running here)

My docker compose yml file also has:

database:
    container_name: immich_postgres
    image: tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0
    env_file:
      - .env
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
    volumes:
      - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data

I think my problem is that I didn't have the proper .env file the first time I started it up after moving the yml file, and that's why immich thought it neded to create a new database from scratch. Does that make sense? I think it's realy overwritten those

perishthethought OP ,

OMG! Yes!!!

I thought it would be good to make the folder name shorter when I moved it, so it went from immich-app before, to immich.

I just now brought it down, renamed the folder, brought it back up and my DB is back again!

Thank you so much. <3

I weill check out borgmatic too. Cheers,

perishthethought ,

See also: the documentary starting Mr Spurlock titled, Super Size Me

perishthethought ,

Half-Life 3 confirmed

Oh yeah, that's gooooood...

perishthethought ,

Yes but in my experience, the performance is horrible (at least a couple of years ago). Imo, Immich is the way to go now.

perishthethought ,

OP, I love how you just casually drop a fictional character's name and assume we all know who Gilfoyle is.

I do, for sure, but it's still funny.

If you don't find a good app, check out Memos on github. It's lightweight and could do what you need.

perishthethought ,

I was going to say.... good thing we saw this coming 20 years ago and acted quickly to secure our vital national resources from attacks like these.

Super /s in case that's not clear!

perishthethought ,

I mean, that should work for most software these days. It only doesn't work for really complicated apps like a DAW or rocket controls or Gimp.

perishthethought ,

Lemmy. Just use Lemmy.

Why is this so hard, rest of the world?

Oh yeah, because there are no millions to be made here. /bangs head with hand

RSS and OPML (libranet.de)

Can somebody explain me how OPML works for RSS? Are these files usually imported into the RSS reader apps or are they used where they are? If I import multiple OPML files with multiple feeds, will the feeds from the first OPML be overwritten by those in the second one or will they add up? Will article read/unread status be...

perishthethought ,

As n OPML file just contains the definition of which feeds you want to follow, not the actual RSS data. They're handy when you want to switch from one RSS reader to another. You can usually export the settings from your old service and import them into the new.

Check with your RSS service but importing an OPML file should always add new services to the list, not overwrite.

I don't think an OPML file tracks what you've read or not but I could be wrong about that.

perishthethought ,

Yes. Here's an example file so you can see there's not much in there for each entry.

http://hosting.opml.org/dave/spec/subscriptionList.opml

perishthethought ,

I taught myself some 2D game design and coding with Phaser. My idea was to recreate 80s arcade games like frogger and asteroids. It's great for that and my games run in the browser, pure Javascript.

https://phaser.io/

Just remember that making a game includes making artwork and sound and intro screens and more. It's a lot of work.

perishthethought ,

Yah, I have somebody's 2048 game in my terminal here and play that when I need to stop thinking thoughts for a second.

OK, but pretend for a second that some of us are mere mortals. Is there a TUI game dev engine (?) we could learn to dev in fairly quickly? One that protects us from the pitfalls of the C language?

Asking for myself...

perishthethought ,

Ramen.

perishthethought ,

My first thought too

perishthethought ,

Aha, fan of Brazil, I see. ʘ‿ʘ

(The Harry Tuttle avatar, not the ass slapping gif)

perishthethought ,

You know, a "D" turns into a "B" so easily. You just got greedy.

perishthethought ,

Drove across Kansas once. Every small town has 1 grain silo, 1 post office, 1 bank. Over and over.

perishthethought OP ,

I believe it's helps expose apps running on a home server to the public internet, securely. It allows self hosters to tie internal apps to a domain name. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

perishthethought ,

Que'est que c'est?

perishthethought ,

Someone help me out please. Who was the 90s sci-fi author who predicted actors would go away and all movies would be made using cgi /ai? She had characters in the book, watching movies starring Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne, as detectives solving crimes (and so on). She also predicted "ractors", people who act in front of a camera, so a computer can use their motion and expressions to animate a character on screen in real time.

My feeble brain, I swear... In any case, thanks to her, knew this day was coming. Gonna be a wild ride though.

perishthethought ,

Oh snap, thanks - I was mixing up The Diamond Age with another book, yes. Ractors are from Stephenson, but I also had another author's books in my head. See? Feeble mind. There's still another woman author I need to track down and re-read here.

perishthethought ,

Aha! I found it --

Remake by Connie Willis

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=86

Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.

Great book, well worth reading still.

perishthethought ,

Great book, eh. So many interesting ideas presented in there.

perishthethought ,

<cough> William Gibson <cough>

perishthethought ,

t-posting

Now there's a name...

perishthethought ,

I know what you mean but I copied the github project's description verbatim.

perishthethought ,

You can bring the price down some by reducing the ram (since I think 16gb is plenty for this purpose) and the storage (like if you already have a NAS).

perishthethought , 
backrest
headscale
emulatorjs
it-tools
webtop
...

Oooohhh... some really interesting and new-to-me apps in your list! Thanks for sharing.

perishthethought ,

I know it's been 2 months but I just stumbled upon your question.

Here's what my massive home server looks like. : )

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