There are as many unbearable man-children as there are socially underdeveloped teens on the internet. As sad as that is, even if we banned teenagers from the internet it wouldn’t improve anonymous spaces all that much.
As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:...
I think the posting bot is still useful at this point. We are big enough to probably be able to sustain the community on our own but posts would be a lot fewer. Now we have a lot of repeats as the bot just grabs everything but if we relied on someone else in the community to post it for us then we would miss a lot as well. I’m fine either way, just my 2¢
I selfhosted my Nextcloud and really enjoyed it for personal use. One of my friends took a look into it and thought that it could be a good thing for his company that employees +200 people and growing… They are currently using Google Workspace but want to ditch it completely in favor of something that they can control...
I wouldn’t recommend it, a company that size is going to need to guarantee uptime and performance and they are going to need a big cap-ex purchase on servers and storage networks to get it done and get enterprise support and hire staff to maintain it.
For a smaller company that already has the infrastructure to run it, it makes a bit more sense but I wouldn’t recommend it for a small company with nothing or a large company that’s already moved to cloud.
Just one man’s opinion though, I don’t know the situation.
I got really long winded on this one sorry. TL;DR yes it would be easier for a big company’s IT department to handle rolling their own nextcloud but larger companies also have more obligations that make it a bit more complicated. A smaller company will need less compute and storage and manhours to manage a next cloud instance and so they can get away with it if they have a great IT person/staff
An on-premises deployment is going to take more manpower to support and maintain than a cloud deployment and an organization of 200 like OP is probably going to have 5-6 IT people who are already stretched thin.
And cloud storage is definitely a cost just like on-premises but it also comes with SLAs with guaranteed uptime and has factors of scale to be able to make delivering uptime, performance, security, and updates a lot more cost effective than rolling your own nextcloud. I’m sure it can be done in a way that is cheaper than $4000 a month or whatever 200 workspace licenses cost but not without taking a shortcut. I wouldn’t run it without a dev, prod, backup and DR server and the salary to maintain those would be just as high.
I’m making assumptions based on my experience and organization’s size and making an educated guess about his friends situation. It could be totally different and they could still have capable hardware and storage from before their cloud migration. I just know that if I was in the same position I would not want to be the one in charge of rolling the company nextcloud when down time is money lost.
In-N-Out employees in five US states will no longer be allowed to wear masks as part of new company guidelines that “emphasize the importance of customer service,” notably showing their smiles, according to a new policy issued by the fast food chain.
Why did adding this little bit of context get downvoted? Yes it’s still a ridiculous requirement to require a doctors note if someone wants to wear a mask to protect themselves from illness but OP wasn’t commenting on that, just adding context. If we want this place to be better than Reddit we really should only use the downvote button against posts and comments that are off-topic, inflammatory, or trolling
This app looks really cool, it’d be really awesome if you could connect it to steam/Xbox/psn/retroachievements to track play time and achievement/trophy progress and automatically import to library. I have a collection of over 250 console games plus a few dozen PC games and it’s a little daunting to manually add them to library
$8 feels about right for a one time purchase. But it’s be nice if there was a trial to kind of see the features without having to commit to purchasing the app. Still I will probably end up getting it because the app does fill a useful niche that the various game collection apps don’t in that it can act as a central repository for notes and quick reviews and such. Still hoping for an easier way to add games to library.
I know that the mini is something of a niche product but I don’t get why. Who is asking for these giant bricks of a cell phone? Well everyone apparently is, but why? I’d love apple to design a clamshell foldable so that I could get an even smaller pocket footprint
If you wear an Apple Watch DUO has a watch app and so I’ve migrated all my accounts that support duo to it so I can leave my phone in my pocket and just look at my wrist
Authenticator allows you to back up your passcodes to to your google account. I actually prefer DUO’s way of backing up 2FA codes by protecting them with a different password. I don’t like google’s approach as it basically means that if your google account is compromised then the attackers have the keys to the castle.
I just play the games that interest me, doesn’t matter the platform. Right now I don’t have a series S/X console because none of the current gen Xbox exclusives interest me. I play cloud, Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, and sega
I read the Jedi prince series and then the thrawn trilogy as a kid and teen. Jedi Prince does not hold up as an adult lol but was really good for my age at the time.
One thing I will say about reading EU novels is that it made hate the sequel movies when they came out for just throwing away the beloved characters instead of the expanding on them.
There are plenty of dead torrents with no seeders. What happens when the post you want to see has no seeders? Most people don’t keep their device on 24/7 and how many people access on a mobile device whose OS doesn’t support this kind of access?
Please let me know if this community doesn’t allow tech-support type of questions, I couldn’t find a decently populated community on lemmy for this sort of question and I don’t want to go crawling back to Reddit to ask....
Does your switch have sticky Mac or any kind of port security turned on? It could be that private relay is randomizing your MAC address to prevent finger printing and it’s messing with the switches port-security settings or ARP table. Actually if that was the case then the local network shouldn’t work… do the other devices work on the switch while you have private relay on?
Lemmy.ml is hosted by the maintainers and Lemmy.world is the biggest instance (because they were one of the few that didn’t restrict sign ups when Reddit API went dark) so those users are going to have the most communities.
Despite this I still am subbed to many communities on beehaw, Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and sh.it.just.works
And I have some subbed communities on smaller instances.
But I will say that I’m thinking of starting a new community but I’ll probably do it on Lemmy.world as they have the funds and manpower to guarantee uptime
Not that you feel less. But when you are young the experiences are brand new and the feelings novel and so the memories are stronger. As you get older you can still have these memories of strong feelings, such as your wedding, the birth of a child, or traveling but those novel experiences are fewer and farther between as you age
Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don’t really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I’ve been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don’t see the point of my ‘upgrade’. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction...
Performance gains for certain software or games. Especially if you are into emulation then the higher power of newer flagships or better cooling design, mean that you can run more recent games on your phone. Same thing goes with camera lenses, better camera means you can get better shots so if you are into photography it makes sense to upgrade.
Thrift wise, there is never really a reason to upgrade as long as it still texts and makes calls but the non-phone features are why you would upgrade early.
That’s always an option and often cheaper. But people would rather use the device they always carry on them rather than having to carry a laptop, emulation handheld, or DSLR camera with them all the time. People are willing to pay premium for the convenience.
You can’t reach self-actualization without grinding through the rest of the hierarchy. And when you get there you realize the only thing that matters is if your life was a waste for you and what other people think or do didn’t matter
Looking for recommendations for a sleep app on iOS, I used one on android quite some time back but looking to get good suggestions from people here using some actively....
Honestly I find that the plain old health app does a fine job tracking sleep compared to AutoSleep but my wife uses that as gospel. I don’t like the discrepancy between the two personally and just go with what the health app says. I do like AutoSleep visualizations though.
I resisted the watch for a long time too and got my first in may and can’t believe I held out so long.
Kids are the reason why I use short term rentals instead of hotel rooms. I never get them if I’m on a business trip or having a weekend with my wife alone
Like the title says, I’m looking to add my parents to my Apple family so they can share my Apple one subscription. They already pay for AppleTV+. I assume when I add them Apple will cancel their subscription. Does anyone know for sure?
How hard is it to use a separate password manager and MFA app? I personally don’t keep any MFA codes in keychain because it’s not convenient to retrieve the passcode in most cases.
I can’t use my 2FA codes on devices that aren’t connected to my Apple ID, my work devices use Apple Business Manager apple IDs. I have a PC I use for Sony Vegas, etc.
The American Film Institute proudly curates lists to celebrate excellence in the art form. We believe their greatest impact is to inspire personal, passionate discussions about what makes a great film and why and, also, to chart the evolution of the art form. Since its inception, American film has marginalized the diversity of...
I’ve recently been trying to degoogle myself, and in doing so I’m going to need another email. I tried ProtonMail, but apparently only business accounts can use SMTP, even though their features claim SMTP access. I’m plenty fine paying for the service, but going from the $6/month to $12/month just to get notification...
I use my domain name with iCloud+ mail. I self hosted the domain for almost a decade and it’s just easier paying for hosting. I have done it on both O365 and Gmail but they have both nerfed the ability to use custom domains so iCloud it is.
I might have considered upgrading my 13 mini if an equivalent new model comes out. I want a smaller pocketable size, whether that’s a mini or a clamshell foldable
Let me preface by saying, I would love to hear counter points and am fully open to the fact that I could be wrong and totally out of touch. I just want to have some dialogue around something that’s been bothering me in the fediverse....
Doesn’t “normie” come from /b/? I don’t think I saw it used anywhere else until shitposting subs like /r/dankmemes started calling who don’t use memes correctly normies
That’s awesome. Do you have any games/software you use it to run or is it more of a display piece? I’ve been thinking of trying to get a bondi blue G3 and using a pi to proxy and render web traffic and loading it up with some classic Mac games. Just don’t have the space right now.
I love vintage computers like this though. Thanks for sharing
Disapproval has its place in deterring bad behavior. It’s not toxic to disagree with a person. If the only two choices are approval and indifference it promotes toxic behavior as there is nothing to suppress the toxic behavior.
Edit: I understand what you are getting at though and one thing I didn’t like is people using the downvote button as a disagree button. I only ever use it to downvote off-topic, spam, or toxic posts/comments; but I’ve been on Reddit and gotten massively downvoted because I’ve expressed an opinion counter to general consensus (hive mind)
So basically the title. Which App is your favorite one and why? I’m still mourning the loss of google’s inbox and never found an app that scratched the itch like inbox did…...
I don’t like how gmail shows ads even if you subscribe to Google One (I suppose this isn’t a problem on workspace accounts). I do like it’s rules to auto tag emails and the ability to set your own tags and rules.
Outlook app is a little bloated but it’s more functional than the native iOS mail.
Gmail is probably my favorite but since I transferred my domain to cloudflare after Google domains sold to square space, I’ve decided to use iOS mail again with my custom domain
Retro games and Apple devices are two of my main tech interests. A lot of people, including myself for the longest time, think that there is no way to emulate games if you use Apple devices unless you go through the frustrating process of loading AltStore/jailbreaking. However there are plenty of emulators that run via a web app...
WebRcade is a great example especially for folks already on Dropbox. There is a bit of a learning curve to its feeds but it’s very versatile in the amount of consoles it can emulate! I will update my post in a bit to add it to the list.
Edit: I actually can’t update posts via wefwef but this comment is high enough that it has good visibility
I’ll try to restate things in layman terms. People like being able to play games on their phone. But everyone hates playing games filled with ads. A lot of people love to play games from their childhood such as Pokémon and would love to do so on their phone instead playing of an ad supported game like “X the Y lite free version”
If you know about emulators on PC, you might search for them on the App Store and be disappointed that there are no emulators on the iOS AppStore. Some people might assume that you might just need an android or a jail broken phone but that’s not true.
You can go to afterplay.io or one of the other websites in my post, add the website to your Home Screen. And then play retro games sourced from your own collection (or from the web, I’m not a cop).
To play a game you need a digital copy of it called a ROM, these platforms then access these ROMs to run the game as it would have ran on its original system on your device using touch screen controls or controllers connected via lightning port or Bluetooth.
Afterplay is great in that it will automatically sync your ROMs and saves to any device you access it from so you can play your Pokémon game on your phone while on the bud and then when you get home you can continue that same game on your iPad, PC, or Xbox console.
I hope this helps, I’m a network engineer so I’m not very good at keeping the tech jargon to a minimum.
Lemmy.ml had sign ups closed. Behaw required a short story or something to get accepted. Lemmy.world was accepting sign-ups wasn’t hosted somewhere shady and had active communities. It was a pretty easy choice. Assuming the admins have a pledge drive or something to host on AWS/GCP so we can get better burst capabilities I’d love to donate.
@Ruud has been great and Lemmy.world has very transparent so I will throw some cash their way. The mastodon.world blog is transparent with costs and financials which I appreciate.
I would love to see if they have a roadmap of how they plan to address the current surge of traffic or if they plan to just wait it out with their current VPS.
@Ruud has been great and Lemmy.world has very transparent so I will throw some cash their way. The mastodon.world blog is transparent with costs and financials which I appreciate.
I would love to see if they have a roadmap of how they plan to address the current surge of traffic or if they plan to just wait it out with their current VPS.
The developer of Skyblivion, which remakes Oblivion in Skyrim, says they have received death threats (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[META] So... about the bots
As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:...
Is NextCloud worth it for a company?
I selfhosted my Nextcloud and really enjoyed it for personal use. One of my friends took a look into it and thought that it could be a good thing for his company that employees +200 people and growing… They are currently using Google Workspace but want to ditch it completely in favor of something that they can control...
In-N-Out bans mask wearing for employees in some states (www.cnn.com)
In-N-Out employees in five US states will no longer be allowed to wear masks as part of new company guidelines that “emphasize the importance of customer service,” notably showing their smiles, according to a new policy issued by the fast food chain.
[Self Promo] GameButler: Game Tracker (apps.apple.com)
iPhone 15 Slated To Use Stacked Battery Technology, Could Offer Massive Battery Life Gains Compared To Current Models (wccftech.com)
Would be huge if true
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The Best Two-Factor Authentication App? (iOS)
What’s your prefer two-factor authentication app for iOS?...
What gaming console / platform do you prefer?
I’ve gone from PC to Xbox 360 to Nintendo Switch and very excited about the recent addition of a Steam Deck. Curious what y’all gaming on?
Is it worth to read Star Wars novels?
I feel like it will be bad because authors won’t have freedom to make things their way....
Do you think Federated networks are the future or do you think Peer to Peer networks are the future? Which do you think is better?
Alright so I’m not an expert so I might not be explaining it correctly....
What movie did you rewatch most often?
For me, it’s either the Matrix or Pulp Fiction. I have seen both a lot of times but certainly not more often than say a dozen times.
Why would iCloud Private Relay break internet connection behind a network switch?
Please let me know if this community doesn’t allow tech-support type of questions, I couldn’t find a decently populated community on lemmy for this sort of question and I don’t want to go crawling back to Reddit to ask....
The migration of large communities from Reddit to Lemmy is like a world-renowned band performing an acoustic set in a library for 50 people.
The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.
Is it normal for a person to "feel" less as they get older?
I remember experiencing the world much more vividly when I was a little boy....
macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager to Third-Party Browsers (www.macrumors.com)
Chromium browsers can install an iCloud Keychain web extensions with macOS Sonoma now
What's the point of buying new phones every years?
Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don’t really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I’ve been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don’t see the point of my ‘upgrade’. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction...
Best alternative to selfhosting email? E.g. email hosting provider for a custom domain
Hey guys,...
Anyone else feel like ~99% of their life was kind of wasted?
In the last year or so I started to see so many people of my age that have done truly incredible things and still doing more....
Brotherly love (i.imgur.com)
Sleep Tracking/Health App recommendations
Looking for recommendations for a sleep app on iOS, I used one on android quite some time back but looking to get good suggestions from people here using some actively....
Hotel > AirBNB (lemmy.ml)
Adding People to Apple Obe Who Already Are Subscribed
Like the title says, I’m looking to add my parents to my Apple family so they can share my Apple one subscription. They already pay for AppleTV+. I assume when I add them Apple will cancel their subscription. Does anyone know for sure?
Michael Tsai Blog - Is It Safe to Store Passwords and 2FA Codes Together? (mjtsai.com)
AFI - The 100 Greatest American Films Of All Time (www.afi.com)
The American Film Institute proudly curates lists to celebrate excellence in the art form. We believe their greatest impact is to inspire personal, passionate discussions about what makes a great film and why and, also, to chart the evolution of the art form. Since its inception, American film has marginalized the diversity of...
Email Hosting w/SMTP, what do you use?
I’ve recently been trying to degoogle myself, and in doing so I’m going to need another email. I tried ProtonMail, but apparently only business accounts can use SMTP, even though their features claim SMTP access. I’m plenty fine paying for the service, but going from the $6/month to $12/month just to get notification...
iPhone 15 to enter mass production in August, expect Apple to increase prices on Pro Max model (9to5mac.com)
Rant: I hate the term “normie”. (kbin.social)
Let me preface by saying, I would love to hear counter points and am fully open to the fact that I could be wrong and totally out of touch. I just want to have some dialogue around something that’s been bothering me in the fediverse....
Lemmy needs content, so heres a picture of my iMac G4 (lemmy.world)
YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private (i.imgur.com)
Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…...
Best Mail App - your thoughts
So basically the title. Which App is your favorite one and why? I’m still mourning the loss of google’s inbox and never found an app that scratched the itch like inbox did…...
Retro game emulators on iOS that dont require jailbreak
Retro games and Apple devices are two of my main tech interests. A lot of people, including myself for the longest time, think that there is no way to emulate games if you use Apple devices unless you go through the frustrating process of loading AltStore/jailbreaking. However there are plenty of emulators that run via a web app...
How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml?
I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.
Am I missing any? (lemmy.world)
Just checking I’ve got them all?