A mini PC is the way to go if you want to self host a media server such as Jellyfin. You have to do a little research, but you can find mini PCs with Intel chips that have Quick Sync for transcoding for around $100 on Amazon.
It’s pretty great, there’s also Cornell’s companion citizen science app called eBird that you can use to count birds around you which is useful to ornithologists to track bird population density and migration patterns!
I got into birding this spring as a hobby, thinking to myself “it’s free, you just need to use your eyes and ears”, withing a month I bought a $350 pair of binoculars. I’ve managed to fight off the temptation of a decent camera so far, thankfully. I found a great park at the tail end of spring migration about 10 minutes from my apartment, and the dawn chorus was almost sensory overload, the was so many different species singing and calling. I’m looking forward to what new birds I’ll see during this fall migration and especially next spring migration.
I went ahead and switched to the SAVE plan. You can actually go through the application process and near the end of it, they’ll provide you a list of plan options and how much you’ll have to pay, if any. If you would have to start paying, you can quit the application and no changes will be made to your current plan / certification and at least you won’t get “sticker shock” down the road and can start planning.
I waited months for Google to release a firmware patch to unlock Bluetooth. Eventually, I got tired of 4 mostly bricked (could still use them wired) controllers laying around and tossed 3 of them. I wish I would have kept them all now, Stadia controllers are some of the best, I may have to pick up another one online.
This recipe is pretty good, but you don’t have to get that fancy. I usually just fry the spam up in a pan until it’s crispy, put a slice between two layers of rice, and wrap it up in the nori (seaweed). It also tastes really good if you dip it in Bachan’s Japanese BBQ Sauce, they sell a big bottle at my Costco.
I was looking for a place to share my two favorite Mastodon and Lemmy clients, they are called Voyager Connect Boost for Lemmy and Moshidon for Mastodon (if you are really serious about privacy I recommend Connect still) (the official Mastodon app works fine though, you just can’t follow new hashtags from it)...
Have you tried out Firefish? It’s another micro-blogging site like Mastodon, but the UI looks better in my opinion. You can follow Mastodon users on there and a bunch of other Fediverse content as well. They’re still working on an official app, but the PWA works quite nicely.
I’m hoping suicide booths are a thing by the time I retire, something like in Futurama. I’ll just blow all my savings on a yearlong worldwide cruise or something and then call it a life. The other option is moving to a 2nd world country with universal healthcare to make it stretch, the first option sounds more fun though to be honest.
My understanding is you can’t host your own instance on an Android device, you’d need a server. You could stand up a server on Oracle Cloud, their Always Free tier is pretty generous.
Performance on lemm.ee is pretty solid, world was my original instance but it’s just my backup now. Hopefully whatever vulnerabilities that are being used to DDoS them can be patched soon.
I switched to lemm.ee, it’s much more stable since it’s not constantly being attacked by script kiddies. I have a theory a user got banned, and is making it their personal mission to ruin .world’s performance. Please donate to your home instance owner(s) if they have that set up. Even if it’s just a little, it can make everyone’s experience better.
Yeah, I like the Firefish interface a lot more. I was able to follow the handful of people I followed on Mastodon seamlessly. Everything just looks better IMO.
I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home...
I installed Sync, threw $16 LJ’s way for putting in the work to convert it to work with Lemmy, and then uninstalled lol (commenting from Thunder). I plan on continuing to use FOSS clients for Fediverse stuff, but am happy there’s a healthy variety of open and closed source clients for everyone to pick and choose from.
I got a 4 CPU / 24Gb RAM Ubuntu 22.04 ARM VPS running on Oracle’s “always free” tier. The Synapse and Postgres containers are using about 2% CPU and 1.2Gb of RAM combined. If your strapped for resources, check them out.
This is the way (lemmy.world)
Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
Mistakes were made. (lemmy.world)
How I got me sea legs back (i.imgflip.com)
And both are examples of a TV show with ADHD (startrek.website)
So. Much. Velour.
This is the game that Bethesda says we need to upgrade our PCs for? (startrek.website)
Person of science (sh.itjust.works)
Our Computer (infosec.pub)
OC for you.
Birds are cool. (lemmy.world)
Vice City was my favorite one (startrek.website)
Republican lawmakers launch an effort to block student-loan borrowers from enrolling in Biden's new plan intended to lower monthly payments (www.businessinsider.com)
GOP lawmakers have introduced bills to overturn Biden’s new SAVE income-driven repayment plan....
Study suggests single dose of psilocybin safe and effective as treatment for major depressive disorder (medicalxpress.com)
Steve Harwell, Smash Mouth Founding Singer, Dead at 56 (www.rollingstone.com)
“Walkin’ on the Sun” and “All Star” vocalist announced his retirement in 2021...
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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
Drag shows are protected by 1st Amendment, performers tell federal judge (www.texastribune.org)
Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:...
Oh no. (lemmy.world)
Spam musubi (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/28430e60-b3ed-4914-9e0b-5cb9ba1c7959.webphttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7651a9ee-92b9-420f-b6a3-72ee8c93a68a.webp
18+ Romper supremacy (lemmy.ml)
I am gonna go home and max out my credit cards right now (lemmy.world)
Poor Cathy. (lemmy.world)
Band Names (lemmy.ninja)
My favorite Mastodon and Lemmy clients:
I was looking for a place to share my two favorite Mastodon and Lemmy clients, they are called Voyager Connect Boost for Lemmy and Moshidon for Mastodon (if you are really serious about privacy I recommend Connect still) (the official Mastodon app works fine though, you just can’t follow new hashtags from it)...
Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Sexercise (infosec.pub)
What do you call a werewolf who is also a YouTuber?
A lycansubscribe
Ken (feddit.de)
18+ Oh yes (lemmy.world)
orbhandler (lemmy.world)
What did you just say to the kids? (reddthat.com)
Spread the Load! Join other Instances! (ls.buckodr.ink)
Yes I know they’re getting DDoSed, I’m just messing around
I had to post from my alt account because lemmy.world servers are down (discuss.online)
linux users (lemmy.world)
old one I snagged somewhere. haven’t seen today. seems like one of those should mention porn. js
I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there?
Applications, social media interfaces, instances, I’m not sure what the correct word is 😅....
With all this talk about sync's pricing...
I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home...
YSK: The Dark Knight came out 15 years ago and you are not young anymore (lemmy.one)
July 15th 2008
Polling shows that knowing a trans person decreases transphobia (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Lemmy World is down once again.
Ugh.
The buttons on Zenith’s original “clicker” remote were a mechanical marvel (www.theverge.com)
Your favorite "next-gen" matrix server
What is in your opinion the better matrix server software for self-hosting, Construct, Conduit or Dendrite (or even something completely different)?