Submitted 3 weeks ago by johnnixon@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what’s this or that sticker. I’m impressed when they can pick one out on their own.
Out of interest by “selfhosting” steam are you running a steam cache or just using it?
I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few “normie” stickers but few I know that would even recognize that. I also don’t self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that’s not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
And yet I see no pornhub sticker…
you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?
No, but I refuse to pay my VPS for GPU time so I self host Gemma3:27B with RAG on Ollama over tailnet to make a choose your own adventure medical protocol simulator. I’m sure Claude could give me some context breathing room but not at those token prices. I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server and that would maybe justify the self hosted butthole.
I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server
But you don’t currently? So it doesn’t.
I don’t get how you “self-host” some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?
I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.
Hehe, why do you have a butthole next to Tux?
I think it’s Claude, the LLM from Anthropic.
Yeah, that’s what I said :)
I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you’re good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.
These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?
I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.
I got them from Etsy
Ugh… just say you made them if is your shop… this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice…
[Found them] (www.etsy.com/shop/SoHexy?ref=lp_mys_mfts)! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t the Commodore 64).
They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.
This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who’s just learning to walk.
Since I see both on here,
Trilium > Obsidian
I’ve used both but really like jotty…
FOSS source is here.
That’s not the source, that’s its output. We don’t know how you sourced the images used in each triangular tile: generated to best correspond with AI? Matching pieces from Wikimedia Commons photos?
I’m fascinated by the process you’ve described and it’s not far off. I knew that once I put these online, especially here with you people, someone would piece the steps together in no time. I’ve been doing pixel art for decades which has always been a mix of algorithms and manual labor. This mosaic process has been a few years coming between scripts, models, scales, pre/post processing, and output medium. The FOSS part was that I was including the print files for any FOSS project but not proprietary stuff. I’m still looking for a way to monetize the image process so I can spend more time making things I think are beautiful and less time grinding for the boss. One can dream.
Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?
This is not an AI-generated pic, it’s a photo taken with a real camera. The logos, however, are hexagons divided into 24 triangles each, and these triangles contain often thematically related (e. g. lions for Brave) photos or photorealistic AI images (the info I found online does not state either way) cropped to best correspond to what the triangle would contain if it just had the original logo. Basically, that corner of the whale surrounded by white was taken from a face photo (or AI pic).
Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.
these ones: www.etsy.com/shop/SoHexy ?
I think I’m in love. They have such great variety, and the artstyle is so neat. And I love stickers because they are such great conversation starters.
~$5 for a single sticker??
I wonder is OP the one selling them? 🤔
If you don’t want to pay, print them for yourself.
TIL nano editor has its own logo
I see Trilium!
Here’s the list of logos row by row so you don’t have to awkwardly ask what they are
Steam (not FOSS)*
“LL” (what?)*
Zigbee
Obsidian (not FOSS)*
Brave
Protonpass
Tailscale*
Home Assistant
Raspberry Pi (not open HW)*
Ubiquiti (not open HW)*
Android (not really FOSS)*
Signal
DigitalOcean (service)*
Ubuntu
Linux
Claude (not FOSS)*
Proxmox
Nextcloud
Jellyfin (rotated)
Trilium
Nginx
Tabby
Bash
Debian (rotated)
Docker
NodeJS
Python
HomeBox
XPipe
PiHole
Prometheus
Grafana
* = not in gallery
I didn’t feel that Tailscale was FOSS but I’ll add that one to the gallery. I swore I checked Debian when I stuck it so I must have rotated the swirl in production pre-hexing. AOSP could replace Android but a) I’m not running an AOSP device and 2) their current logo isn’t that shape friendly. But I might try anyway.
What is the “LL” monogram in the second one? I crudely recreated it to reverse-image-search but got no results.
Something entirely not tech related but I love the investigative spirit
Do your and your partner’s names both start with L?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
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Thanks, those give me ideas for making more operator logos like these (No AI but mostly CC0 (public domain) because my creative input is questionable, some are just tracing of scaled-down images with a few touch-ups; I’m not too concerned about sharing non-FOSS trademarks under a permissive licence at such low res)
No, hardest part was obsidian livesync
Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.
I am so thanlful for that japanese person that made it, but it is so fiddly! At least for me with the cors, the couchdb administration and all. Did you use some other backend?
Old HA logo but neat
I’d love if there was a Gravatar-style thing you could choose hexes like these to display as a digital badge. Even better if it was self-hosted.
Per your suggestion I put the high res files up, self hosted, for anything that is FOSS. I guess someone can pull one of those for their Gravatar that way. I thought of a way to use this art style for conference badges but the detail is already small at a 2" hex that it wouldn’t be practical.
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.
gergolippai@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also Steam… i mean it’s a LOT of games!
johnnixon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?