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scrubbles , 29 minutes ago (edited 16 seconds ago) to Mildly Infuriating in For free for 11.99$

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scrubbles OP , 1 day ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

That's about all I've used too. Microsoft did a few things right, and RDP was one of them. For Linux, there just isn't much. Honestly now I just SSH into things I need remotely, there's few things I don't need just SSH for.

scrubbles OP , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

I am a developer, you're right. I think I'll fork it and add my own ldap auth in. Good chance to learn Rust.

I don't like it because that's exactly how things like this RealVNC thing happen. These companies all start with good will, we have a free tier, we are open source, we love the community. Then one day they snap it all back, say "Hey we never said it'd be forever, did you look in subsection 6 of section 42? It said in there that your license wasn't a license and now you need to pay up" So yeah, especially in context of RealVNC I'm real jaded against "good will companies".

You want to charge for your product? Super, do so. Don't lie and say you're doing good and then rip it out later. Gitea is a good example of that.

scrubbles OP , 5 days ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

that's actually really good to know

scrubbles , 5 days ago to Technology in Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

Overall see nothing wrong with this. Encourages users to support alt-text more, which we should be doing for our disabled friends anyway. I really like the confirmation before applying.

scrubbles OP , 5 days ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

It's just weird that it's... half open source and half not. Other services are simply open source. I don't know why they bother having the free one be open source if half of the code is paywalled

scrubbles , 5 days ago to homeassistant in Home Assistant 2024.6: Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs

Ah that makes sense. That's when I'd start using it myself. Self hosted models and audio

scrubbles , 5 days ago to homeassistant in Home Assistant 2024.6: Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs

Great, but it's restrictive only letting you use openai and google. I'm already hosting oogabooga text generation, let me use that

scrubbles OP , 5 days ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

That's really funny because I am in that position at work where I can make suggestions - or throw down the ban hammer.

I've successfully migrated 3 companies away from Google Cloud because of my horrible personal experience with them. There are so many products I've used that have been great and others terrible. You're exactly right, that's why individual free tiers existed - to encourage us to try them to push them at work.

scrubbles OP , 6 days ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

This looks nice, but stupid they put things like ldap behind a paywall when every other service includes it for free.

scrubbles OP , 6 days ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

I use teamviewer to access a relative's computer when she needs help, and it's the same nagware. Like okay, I understand there are cloud costs. But where exactly are they here? I am a row in a database, you store my credentials and probably a couple of keys. All data is between the host computer and me, there's no processing of any kind there. Why exactly should I pay you monthly? There's no value benefit.

scrubbles OP , 6 days ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

Oh man, I didn't even think about this. Anyone have any good guides on replacing RealVNC on raspbian with an alternative for our new linux friends who don't know how to do it easily?

scrubbles , 6 days ago to Memes in it's why I'm here

Capitalism has no moral boundaries

scrubbles , 6 days ago to Technology in OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

Yeah I'll admit I was freaked out at the beginning. So I learned about models, used them, and got familiar with them. Now I'm less freaked out and more "oh my god so many people are going to get scammed/tricked".

Go on Facebook and you'll see it's a good 50-70% AI garbage now. My favorite are "log cabin" and kitchen posts that are just images of them with blanket titles like "wish I lived here" with THOUSANDS of comments of people saying "YES" or "it's so beautiful". Of course it is it has no supports! The cabinets are held up by nothing! There are 9 kinds of lanterns and most are floating. Jesus people are not ready for it.

scrubbles , 8 days ago to Selfhosted in What tips or resources would you recommend to someone who knows about Linux and wants to self-host, but has no experience self-hosting?

Just jump in tbh. Choose one service you want to try, get it up and running, and play with it

Few bits of advice I have is to plan that you will tear it down a few times. Couple of reasons. One, that way you don't have to plan to have it perfect the first time. Play with spinning up a VM/container, installing stuff, getting something working, without the stress of needing it to be perfect. Second, because it's good to know how you did something and know you can repeat it.

Write everything down as you go. For me, I made a huge readme to keep track of things I did, again this helps with if you fuck up you can always redo it. Trust me, this will save you. Readme in git, Google docs, something you can reference when everything is down.

Finally, DO NOT choose something your first time that is open to the public. Start small. Something private like Plex/jellyfin, or tandoor, something just for you. Public services are a can of worms. Maybe you want to start with Lemmy, but work up to it. For more obvious reasons like you have an expectation of uptime and you need monitoring, which will require knowledge of all of that, but also more nuanced reasons, like, we'll do you know how to register csam? Because I didn't know the process until I started hosting services for the public. Just don't for now. Hold off until later.

Anyway, hope that helps! Have fun, and don't be afraid to fail. Remember, we can't ever plan not to fail, but if we must fail, fail fast