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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads Self Migration Feature...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Probably for European users if Europe decides to force gatekeeping platforms to implement such a feature.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Port forwards in the router + DynDns.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Though that leaks showed they actually did it on a large scale. I don’t think they stopped for some arbitrary reason. Technology developed further, surveillance is only getting easier. I’d say even without a tin-foil hat, it’s more likely they do it than not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, centralization and giving up your freedoms, letting someone else control you, is always kinda easy. Same applies to all the other big tech companies. I’d say it applies to other aspects of life, too.

And I’d say it’s not far off from the usual setup. If you had a port forward and DynDns like lots of people have, the Dns would automatically update, you’d need to make sure the port forward is activated if you got a new router, but that’s pretty much it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, nice. Alright. Thanks again. I’ll see how I can do it. Unfortunately I’ve already set everything up, joined Rooms and connected a few bridges. I hope it doesn’t break. I’ll do a backup first. Seems reasonable and not that hard to do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh well, seems both reasonable. Maybe I should switch before the projects diverge too much. Conduwuit seems pretty active. Hope it stays that way.

Do you happen to have a link where I can read the backstory myself? Thanks for the info anyways. Seems to be a good call.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I found that. Seems it mainly addresses caching and database performance, adds some admin and moderation commands. I’m not sure if it addresses any of the shortcomings I have.

My main question is: Which one is going to be maintained in the years to come and have the latest features implemented? And secondly: Why a fork? Why don’t they contribute their fixes upstream to Conduit?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Agreed. I think most prominently competitive gaming; development where you need to assure it later on actually works as intended on the target platform; and business stuff where parties are obliged by contract to guarantee something works flawlessly and keeps running that way - are good examples.

That laptop doesn’t look to me like it was intended to do any of that, so that’s maybe why I’m being a bit negative here. It’s cool and a nice idea, though…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The M6117C also isn’t the original and not that old. Also the 8MB of RAM aren’t true to the original.

I’m not sure. I occasionally use emulation. And I think it’s fine. Unless you’re a speed runner and need everything to be exact to the frame timing, you won’t notice. Certainly not for a desktop UI like the Win 3.11 on the photo. I guess it depends on the use-case.

Something like an ESP32 can also be repaired, replaced, programmed and most of the things a different CPU architecture can do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, well I only read the official documentation on docs.conduit.rs

I’m gonna take a look at this later.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Depends a bit on how much images and videos get shared. If its mainly used for chat by a bunch of people and a few gifs and stickers in-between, it shouldn’t consume that much storage. But sure if you frequently share all your vacation photos, the cache is going to grow fast.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Defibitely the whole server name. Other servers and clients can’t guess that information. I think it’s properly documented how to do it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I installed it like 2 weeks ago. As of now it’s still running has a really low memory footprint compared to Synapse. But a lot of things aren’t implemented. Chatting works fine. I get a lot of warning messages about not implemented things, though. Like my client (FluffyChat) trying to query some profile status …
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fork of HomeBox released (v0.11.0)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Nice, didn’t know about HomeBox. Are there other good inventory systems for home use?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I suppose stack overflow is a really good use case for AI. Just make it stick to what it knows once you start implementing AI answers and not just funnelling user data the other direction.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨will i damage my car electrical system with a 24v solar panel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, you’d damage the car’s electrical system. First of all it’s not designed to feed in energy through that outlet. It’s made to output energy.

And most importantly: 24V is way too much. 2 times the intended voltage would fry most electronics. Your stereo, the power steering, airbags, … There is a good margin and car electrinics are deaigned to be pretty robust, but you’re pushing it.

I think they’re still fine because what happens is your car battery absorbs that extra voltage. But it’s really dangerous. On a sunny day you’ll charge your car battery beyond the 14V or so the chemistry can handle. And at that point it’ll degrade fast. The acid in there is going to start to boil, producing hydrogen, so in addition to a destroyed battery, you’re in for a small explosion if you’re very unlucky. And once the battery is gone it’ll start frying the cars electronics because now there isn’t anything absorbing the excess energy.

Get a switch that exclusively connects either the car or the solar panel to the bluetti.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would any of you be interested in a semi-curated NixOS config?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hmm. There is value in both. When I started out with NixOS I read lots of wiki articles. And we all know there is some room for improvement. And I also read several configs of other people to see how things tie together. And to look up things that aren’t documented. Nowadays I just put in what I’m looking for and “language:nix” into Github. So there’s lots of personal configs that turn up. Sometimes with useful stuff. So I think anything is better than nothing. But obviously if you have kids, prefer them and let other people come up with the detailed wiki articles 😆
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would any of you be interested in a semi-curated NixOS config?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Fair enough. I personally think someday someone will have the same niche issue I’ve already tackled and be happy to stumble over my code while googling it. So I just drop most things I do somewhere for other people to find.

But concerning NixOS, I also still need to switch over a few things to agenix befor publishing my config.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would any of you be interested in a semi-curated NixOS config?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just put it on Codeberg or Github. Having other people’s config for reference is always nice. Especially for beginners.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Out of curiosity: Did you measure the power consumption?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A second-hand used laptop.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to set up jellyfin with podman and selinux and an intel gpu (a380) for transcoding?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hmm. I wasn’t trying to recommend privileged or non-privileged mode, just trying to use that to single in on the actual issue.

Alright, if it’s just av1, maybe try to use a tool like vainfo to find the supported codecs. I think it fails if an unsupported codec is explicitly specified. But take care if Encoding is mentioned. Some hardware has decoding capabilities only.

It’s a complicated topic. And it also took me 2 whole evenings to get the permissions and everything right. I’m using systemd-nspawn, so my experience doesn’t directly translate. And it’s not any easier than docker.

For video acceleration I found the arch wiki somewhat helpful. But it’s lots of info and not specific to Docker. Maybe it helps for debugging: wiki.archlinux.org/…/Hardware_video_acceleration
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to set up jellyfin with podman and selinux and an intel gpu (a380) for transcoding?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hmm. I mean niw reading your first outpot in privileged mode, I don’t see any errors, or am I missing something… Seems it loaded vaapi sucessfully?!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to set up jellyfin with podman and selinux and an intel gpu (a380) for transcoding?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Have you tried verifying it’s not the group permissions? You could preliminarily set permissions with chmod 666 /dev/dri/render128

My older Skylake processor has a bit worse video quality (occasional artifacts) with QuicSync.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tunnel app for my openwrt home server⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe a port forward can do it? That’s under Network -> Firewall. in the “Port forward” tab.

I’d need more info on the intended use-case and what’s the requirement for a tunneling software that’s making ssh tunnels and vpn tunnels unsuitable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For discussing Fediverse accessibility, where would you recommend me to go? Or stay here?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Judging by the history of this community, I’d say you’re invited to discuss it here. But it won’t change anything. You’d get back a few random opinions of other Lemmy users. But I’m not sure if anyone concerned with the developmend process reads this. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)

And I’m not sure about the Lemmy software. The developers always say they have enough on their plate. UI changes are rare. And they mostly implement what’s on their agenda, not what users wish for.

If I were you, I’d take this to one of the newer projects that’s going to replace Lemmy at some point. That would be PieFed for example. They’re pretty active and welcoming and open to suggestions. I think accessibility is already on their agenda: see piefed.social/post/17408

Another tip: The real discussions regarding software development usually don’t happen on social media. You’d need to go to the project page on GitHub or Codeberg (in this example) if you want to get in contact with the development community.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need recommandations for a home server⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
To follow that up: 45W isn’t that bad. Depending on where you live, I’d say it’s worth it if you get something out of it. (Be able to fit the HDDs, upgradability, …)

Ultimately you’d need to do the maths. Check what it costs to afford an additional 20W of power in a year and whether you should spend that money on better hardware. If my maths is right, 20W for a year at a high price of 30ct/kWh is about $52. So there isn’t that much to be gained. And your electricity might be considerably cheaper anyways.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need recommandations for a home server⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hmmh, No I don’t think you can make the idle power consumption go down. Sure, you got to set the right options in the BIOS and Linux. But there is a baseline and that’s with which chipset the mainboard was designed and what kind of components they chose.

And there’s the efficiency of the power supply. Usually they’re built to have a certain degree of efficiency (>80% or >90%) but that’s measured at a certain percentage of the maximum power draw. They’re not at all that efficient at 40W draw. You’d need an expensive PSU not to lose additional efficiency at low power. And generally they don’t come with a standard PC.

So you’d probably end up replacing half of the components of a standard PC while making it more power efficient. And I don’t think that’ll be cheap. You better find something that’s already designed to factor that in.

I think mostly it’s about the mainboard. Most of the time there are some chipsets that are known to be more power efficient than others. But I’m not up to date anymore and can’t give any good recommendations.

If you want it cheap and most power efficient, generally the advise is to use an old laptop. They’re made to idle at like 10W. But you won’t get any SATA ports that way. You’d need external HDDs and connecting them via USB isn’t really super reliable.

With the upgradability it’s always the question. That’s an additional requirement that makes it more difficult. If it’s an old machine you could end up needing to replace most of it anyways, since you need a new mainboard for a new CPU and along with that the next generation of RAM and then you’ve replaced most of your computer anyways. I’d say there is a limited window of opportunity when upgrading makes sense. But if you’re buying an old machine it may not always be a good idea to make it a requirement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich x FUTO Q&A⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Most important thing with FUTO is, they learn how to do open source and engage with a community. Maybe it helps if they adopt a few projects with existing communities and which are more than source available.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need recommandations for a home server⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Most mainboards in full-sized PCs aren’t optimized for power efficiency.

The german c’t magazine publishes guides to build efficient home-servers or workstations every other year. But that’s well above your budget: heise.de/…/Bauvorschlag-fuer-einen-sparsamen-Heim…

The Lenovo seems to draw around 45 Watts on idle. You could go well below 20 Watts if you wanted.

I’d say for most power efficiency along an extremely low budget, you want an old laptop as a home server, or a mini pc like an Intel NUC. But you might want to refine your requirements… What do you need that thing for? How many SATA-Ports etc do you need? Are you more willing to compromise on price or power efficiency?