thejevans

thejevans , 10 days ago to Technology in Are you embracing AI?

And the Luddites were right

thejevans , 16 days ago to Technology in [May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors

Fitting a 100W battery in the 13 inch chassis while keeping everything easily serviceable would be impossible

thejevans , 28 days ago to Selfhosted in How do y'all backup docker databases with backup programs like Borg/Restic?

My plan to handle this is to switch my VMs to NixOS, set up NixOS with impermanence using a btrfs or zfs volume that gets backed up and wiped at every startup with another that holds persistent data that also gets backed up, and just reboot once per day.

I'm currently learning how to do impermanence in all the different ways, so this is a long goal, but Nix config + backups should handle everything.

thejevans , 29 days ago to Selfhosted in What's your server wattage?

I use a Ryzen 5900x, RTX 3080, 2x 10Gbit sfp+ NIC, 128GB ECC RAM, and only 2x 20TB drives at the moment.

For my gateway, I have an Intel N6005 box, I have a managed 2.5/10Gbit switch, and I have a wifi AP.

I have a ton of Proxmox VMs and containers.

All that hovers between 140W to 180W

thejevans , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Selfhosted in Ddns or domain name + reverse proxy

I use porkbun for my domains, cloudflare for dns, ddclient connecting to the cloudflare api for dynamic dns, and traefik as a reverse proxy to send subdomains to their respective service.

The only part I have to pay for is the porkbun domain.

$8 for a year is a good deal, but be ready to switch when that expires.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in Crappy local infrastructure thread

I just walked from my office to get some lunch. There are a few options nearby, which is nice, but to get to any of them, I have to cross multiple massive parking lots and at least two non-signaled pedestrian crossings at stop signs that are 40+ feet wide. Between walking the 1/4 mile to lunch and back, I had 3 cars almost back out of a parking spot while I was walking by, and had one van roll into the crosswalk right in front of me at a stop sign.

EDIT: Also, there are only sometimes sidewalks available.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Matrix in Matrix client for Android for family and friends. Your experiences.

Lots of people complain about Schildichat for various reasons, but Element for Android gets unbearably slow for me after less than a day of use. Clearing the cache resets the timer, but it just keeps happening. That doesn't happen on Schildichat, and those two apps are the only ones I know of that support both spaces and threads, which I need.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Winamp is going open source

nope, open-source. claiming that they are releasing under an open-source license is speculation. The only thing we can claim is source-available.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Winamp is going open source

sure, and while we wait, claiming that they are releasing it as open-source is speculation, so lets not do that.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Winamp is going open source

You can contribute to things that don't have open source licenses, it's just probably a dumb idea.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Winamp is going open source

There is nothing here saying it will be FOSS or open-source, just source-available.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in How being FOSS fan/advocate annoy you at work/school?

My job is all Google and Microsoft. It sucks, for sure.

What frustrates me more is that students are trained to use specific proprietary tools like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace or Adobe Creative Suite, especially at public schools. The school systems are just further entrenching these tools.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Matrix in Just stumbled upon a good-looking matrix client

I don't see anywhere on their site if it can do threads as well as spaces. I need both, and I'd love to move away from Element/Schildichat.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Suggest unto me a new FOSS operating system

Decided to take this as an opportunity to just go for it. It works great on my gaming PC with Plasma 6. I tested Balatro with Proton, and Baldur's Gate III.

I have a Ryzen 5800X3D CPU and an RX7900XTX GPU.

thejevans , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Suggest unto me a new FOSS operating system

So far it seems just fine! I'm finding a few bugs here and there, but I think that has more to do with COSMIC than NixOS. I'm going to do some more testing on Plasma to narrow down where the issues are. You can see my config here:

https://github.com/thejevans/nix-config/blob/main/nixosModules/gui-applications/gaming.nix