thejevans

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thejevans,

I use thunder and for the most part, it’s great. I would love to be able to delete comments and copy text from other comments without needing to open a reply window, though. I think this functionality would fit perfectly as a long-press menu.

Also, sometimes on posts with lots of comments, not all of the comments will load, and there is no easy way to force the app to refresh.

thejevans,

No clue. Could be just someone posting things in a really sketchy way, but could also be malware or something really bad like child porn. I messaged the mods about it the last time they posted one of these. The mods said they were handling it and then that post disappeared, but all their old posts are still up and then they made this one less than 24 hours later. I’d love more information on why these posts are still being allowed.

thejevans,

My partner and I use Google keep as well, and finding a replacement has proven difficult. There doesn’t seem to be an easy drop-in replacement.

  • There’s Carnet, but it doesn’t allow multiple people to collaborate on a note and it’s not on iOS.
  • There’s Joplin which is way more complicated than it needs to be as a Google keep replacement, and has some limited collaboration options, but no real-time collaboration.
  • And there’s etherpad, which is web based, so you don’t need any apps. It has full realtime collaboration support, and “notes” are easy and quick to spin up. The major downsides are a lacking mobile interface and that each person will have to keep track of the various etherpad links.

If anyone has a better solution, I’d love to hear it.

EDIT: I forgot about the Etherpad MyPads plugin which can be used to create a “Google drive”-esque experience with Etherpad. This would be a decent cross between Google keep, Google docs, and Google drive, but it’s still not a perfect keep replacement. An example of this setup can be found here: https://mypads.domainepublic.net/?/login

thejevans,

@ruud @loki @cannavet @devve @hybridsarcasm this person keeps posting super sketchy docker images with no source and little explanation. Anything to be done here?

thejevans,

I use a Audio Technica AT2040 with a Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 audio interface.

thejevans,

Unciv

It’s a Civilization 5 remake (with multiplayer!) that is lightweight enough to run on pretty much anything.

thejevans,

The cheapest brother laser printer is the one to get.

thejevans,

You’re getting slightly slower print speed. 27ppm vs 32 or 36 for the HL-2300D.

Owlbear Rodeo Legacy virtual tabletop released under a noncommercial license for self hosting (github.com)

With Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 getting officially released the developers haven’t quite made made good on their promises to open source the original Owlbear Rodeo (releasing under a non-commercial license instead of a proper Open Source license what they are now calling “Owlbear Rodeo Legacy”), but the source is available on...

thejevans,

Non-commercial is not open source. At best, it’s “source available”.

thejevans,

The definition of open source is very tightly linked to the OSI, and has a very specific set of properties. One of those properties is that non-commercial clauses are strictly against open source. Many people misuse the phrase “open source” when talking about non-commercial licensed works, but the plurality of people using it wrong doesn’t make them not wrong.

Making things source-available that weren’t previously is very much a good thing. I’m all for it. What’s not okay is claiming that something will be or is open source and then using a non-commercial license. It’s using the reputation of open source to evoke an intuitive feeling of what the license is while slipping in clauses that kneecap the benefits of open source, and the more people that do this, the more the public’s understanding of open source gets muddied.

The benefits of open source are not just that you can self-host it, but that you can use it to make your own software. Releasing with a non-commercial license means that basically nobody will work on this outside of the Owlbear Rodeo team, nobody will fork it and make their own maintained version, and it will die with the company. It means there won’t be nearly as much community work on plugins or a plugin system, and the software will be worse off for it.

The Owlbear Rodeo team claimed they were going to open source version 1.0.

They lied.

Don’t make excuses for them.

thejevans,

The creators I watch on Nebula remove their sponsor segments for the videos they release on the platform.

thejevans,

It’s rudimentary, but the “library” tab is akin to the “subscriptions” tab on YouTube. That’s how I tailor my experience.

thejevans,

I agree the nebula app is pretty terrible. I’m willing to accept a bit more jank if it means it helps creators. Thankfully, they allow you to get an RSS uri for their podcasts, which includes the actual audio. It would be dope if you could do the same with their videos, but right now they just have feeds that link back to watching on their app or website.

thejevans,

There was an attempt to put together an open protocol for paywalled podcasts (could be generalized to basically anything rss based) by @c at RadioPublic called PodPass. Something like this could maybe be applied to fediverse content, too, as a way to do channel memberships. I keep hoping this can take off again.

The original spec for PodPass

thejevans,

I’ve been considering the Bangle.js 2, and while I don’t think the heart rate monitor is really good yet, there is active development and discussion about how to make it better. If you’re interested in helping out, this could be a fun project!

thejevans,

Define affordable

thejevans,

At that price, your only real option is to get lucky on eBay with an old supermicro rack mount chassis.

thejevans,

The fractal design 7 xl might give you what you want, but at $200 + 5x drive cage kits at $20 each + upgrading and maxing out the fans ~$100, you’re looking at closer to $400, and there are mixed reviews on how well it can keep your drives cool.

Once you get above 10-12 drives, you’re going to need to look at enterprise gear, or building a custom solution. There just isn’t much consumer hardware at that level.

thejevans,

Can you say what those temps are?

thejevans,

I’m putting this here because I couldn’t find a good summary anywhere else on the Internet:

There hasn’t been much work on this recently, but a summary of the scholarly work in this field can be found between these sources:

The 2013 paper unfortunately is stuck behind a paywall, but message me if you would like to read it.

My suggestion given the work in the field would be to keep temperatures around 30°C if you can because at higher temperatures, you could be reducing the lifespan of your drives.

thejevans,

The best solution at the moment is using an nvidia shield (2019) instead of a PC:

  • it’s tiny
  • it’s fanless
  • it’s got low power draw (5-10w)
  • it can do 4k, hdr, and dolby vision (most importantly, it has the best support for these among services. good luck getting 4k video from netflix, disney+, and amazon on a PC)
  • it has usb ports for dacs, controllers, external drives, and keyboard + mouse
  • you can sideload android apps including ad-free home screens, remote button remappers, SmartTubeNext as a youtube replacement frontend, and moonlight for game streaming
  • you’ll have the most up-to-date and best supported versions of apps like jellyfin and plex
  • it has pretty much the best selection of audio/video codecs, so you shouldn’t need to transcode anything
  • you can set up the nvidia shield remote to control tv power and volume on the tv or on a separate av receiver
thejevans,

Yeah, that’s about right. Sonarr is for linking services for TV shows, Radarr is for linking services for movies, there are others for media types, and Overseerr is for users to request media. Servarr wiki

thejevans,

I have a framework 12th gen. It’s great. Fantastic build quality and when I want to upgrade, I don’t need a whole new laptop, just the necessary internal components. I can even switch to AMD!

Coreboot is cool, and I can’t wait to see the new system76 laptop that is being built in-house, but until that comes out, I don’t think I would ever consider the current lineup of system76 computers.

My main motivations are repairability, upgradability, and specificity of components, and system76 just doesn’t offer that. They don’t tell you what ram or SSD models go into your laptop, they don’t sell replacement parts, and there is no upgrade path.

thejevans,

I believe that they want to, but that laptop isn’t available yet, and it would be the first example of something like that from them, so I’ll wait until they produce a second generation of it to recommend to people.

thejevans,

I want to know on the purchase page what exactly is going into my laptop, I want to easily be able to purchase replacement parts from a catalog of in-stock components, and I want documentation for repairs and replacements.

thejevans,

While I don’t like their current hardware options, they way they sell stuff, or Pop!_OS, their Virgo laptop could be promising and their new COSMIC desktop environment looks great so far. I hope they start to do other things right, but they have potential to nail both of those and they do contribute back to upstream projects, so I’m still glad they exist.

thejevans,

I don’t like desktop environments and operating systems tied together so tightly. Their new desktop seems like it will be self contained and fairly OS agnostic. Debian is a great OS. If they wanted to release a distribution with improvements over debian, that’s fine. Then if they wanted to make pop-desktop easy to simply install and have improvements over vanilla gnome, also fine. Then I could judge the benefits of both over the vanilla variants of each. I have similar problems with Ubuntu.

What is your machine naming scheme?

I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it...

thejevans,

I use names of random yokai. There are so many that I’ll never run out. I used to use names of fictional AIs that I would hand pick, but after a bunch of VMs, that became too annoying to deal with.

thejevans,

Probably the same reason they only offered Intel on the first two generations of the 13 inch laptop: they’re a small company and couldn’t afford to do more than one motherboard and GPU. If the 16 inch laptop takes off like the 13 inch did, I would expect them to expand their offerings in either the next generation or the one after.

thejevans,

I wouldn’t expect this in the next year at least.

thejevans,

If you’re feeling adventurous, you can self-host matrix with all the bridges you want for similar functionality. That’s what I do, and it works well.

Here is a good option for how to set it up: spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

thejevans,

That’s reasonable. I don’t know how they went about it, but the instructions with this repository are very detailed. They’re certainly a lot to go through, but if you read everything and follow the steps one-by-one, you likely won’t have any issues.

thejevans,

Also, this just came out Are Dutch Cities Really that Different? Debunking Cycling Myths

thejevans,

I use Debian for servers. I recently began migrating from Arch on my desktops to NixOS. The shift from the fantastic Arch wiki documentation to the NixOS documentation was a huge stumbling block, but I got through it. It took a lot of time to get NixOS to a nice state on my main laptop, but once I did, installing it to my 2013 macbook air and configuring it to be exactly like my main laptop took all of 15 minutes. That was a huge deal for me. The next hurdle is going to be installing it on my desktop with nvidia GPU, but I don’t expect it will take too long.

I’ll probably start migrating servers to NixOS where I can, too.

Here is my NixOS config repo, if that helps: https://github.com/thejevans/nix-config/

thejevans,

Tiling? Fully featured? User friendly? Wayland? Written in Rust? Using NixOS for development?

Sign me the hell up.

thejevans,

It sure seems like it. At minimum, they’re using Nix flakes on top of some other OS

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/blob/bdcb803efaa3e4d37973562eb710fec9477f4640/flake.nix

thejevans,

It doesn’t look like it. They’ve been putting out solid updates every month, though.

thejevans,

I’m migrating from Pocketcasts and Audible to a self-hosted Audiobookshelf instance. It’s got all the audiobook features I would want, but the podcast features are not quite there yet. The two big ones that I miss from Pocketcasts are an automated “up next” playlist and auto-downloading new episodes to the phone. That being said, there is active development and new features and bugfixes come out regularly. I wouldn’t be surprised if it had feature-parity with Pocketcasts within the year. I know self-hosting isn’t for everyone, but if you’re interested in playing around with something like that, audiobookshelf is a good place to start.

thejevans,

FOSS Pod is also great

thejevans,

I use a discord bridge to connect to communities while using matrix. When new communities pop up, I try to convince people to switch to matrix. It’s not perfect because I still need to run discord to connect to video calls on the platform, but I don’t need it running on my phone or in the background on my computer all the time, which is really nice.

thejevans,

Thanks! I just started setting up NixOS on my laptop and I’m planning to use it for servers next. Saving this for later!

thejevans,

Thanks! I just started setting up NixOS on my laptop and I’m planning to use it for servers next. Saving this for later!

thejevans,

Apparently I’m migrating from “superior” to “creative and unique”

ActivityPub relay for self hosted lemmy instances?

It looks like a lot of people want to self-host Lemmy. Would having an ActivityPub relay setup for those instances to subscribe to, instead of them all subscribing individually to the bigger instances be feasible? I’ve only seen discussions online about relays in regards to Mastodon. Has anyone attempted to set up one for use...

thejevans, (edited )

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the capabilities of relays. The problem I am thinking about is having too many smaller instances subscribed to communities on each of the larger ones, causing a lot of unnecessary traffic. If there is a way to have all those smaller instances subscribe through one or a few relays, that would keep traffic on the bigger instances down and help spread the load.

Why do people hate Manjaro and how to replicate Manjaro sway in arch or arco?

Pretty much the title. Where’s the hate towards Manjaro coming from? I was pretty much a Ubuntu/Fedora user for years but never got too technical. Used almost always gnome, but recently got interested in tiling wm and have done some searches and stumbled upon the Manjaro Sway edition and everything works quite well, but I keep...

thejevans,

The config is also split up into usr/share directories, too, if I remember correctly. I installed Manjaro sway on my laptop to get and Arch-based OS with sway on it installed quickly. Then I tweaked it to my liking over a few months and wanted the same setup on my desktop.

It was a pain to transfer the config over to say the least, and then all the pixel perfect alignments I had done in waybar we’re broken on my desktop anyway.

OP is better off putting together a new sway config from scratch, using the Manjaro install for reference if possible. Maybe spin up a VM to have both at the same time easily?

thejevans,

maybe www.photoprism.app?

thejevans,

docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/share/

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