Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what would make you think the “customers” for an enormous DNA database were the people providing the DNA.
Those people were just paying to be the product.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
So yes, I did, and yes, their docs suck (better documentation is on their roadmap).
There’s a really good guide here on Lemmy that I recommend instead. lemmy.ml/post/25006407
Following this I had it up and running in no time. Check the comments as well, I added some notes on getting attachments working. If you’re still having issues shoot me a message and I’ll try to help.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
If you can, take a moment to upvote Drawing Support in their suggested features section; notesnook.com/roadmap/
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
I did find that with a very large OneNote account the importer struggled, specifically because OneNote was timing out and rejecting the requests after a while.
My solution was to backup (in onenote) and then delete the notebooks that had been n moved already and then run the importer again.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
Not even once. The syncing has been incredibly robust for me. It also has a really nice flow for handling conflicts.
Of course, it’s worth keeping in mind that it can new self-hosted, so experiences will vary.
I’m using the self hosted version. Take from that what you will.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s all open source and can be self-hosted. They run a paid plan, but if you self host then you get all the paid features free.
- Comment on [Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to? 1 week ago:
Yeah, the potential for real hazard to life and limb is very high here. This isn’t like fucking around with your IOT lightbulbs. This could kill somebody.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
This is a good time to switch to Notesnook, which has a OneNote importer.
Why am I about to shill so hard for this particular app? Simple, because after Evernote enshittified over a decade ago, I switched to OneNote as the least terrible alternative, and then spent the next ten years trying to find an actually good, open source notes app.
Call me Ahab because this motherfucker has been my white whale for a not-insignificant portion of my life.
Notesnook, finally, hit everything I wanted;
- You can self host it (but you don’t have to)
- Self hosters get everything on the paid plan for free
- It has a web app, a desktop app, and a healthy ecosystem of phone apps, with - very importantly - 1:1 feature parity. Everything you want to do you can do from any of the interfaces and for the most part they’re even laid out identically.
- It has a proper rich text WYSIWYG editor. It does not demand you learn FUCKING MARKDOWN. JESUS H CHRIST I DO NOT WANT TO LEARN A FUCKING SYNTAX TO MAKE NOTES, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
- But for those who care about that stuff, it is built on markdown, and all your notes can be exported in markdown, so there’s no lock in. And you can use markdown in the editor (without even having to switch modes like a lot of other editors).
- Everything is encrypted by default. Notes can also be individually password protected.
- You can share copies of notes with optional password protection and self-destruction.
- It has a really slick UI. Everything works, everything is intuitive, there are tonnes of keyboard shortcuts. I find I actually have an easier time writing long form text content (such as a novella I’m working on) in Notesnook than I did in Word or LibreOffice.
- It builds a TOC for notes automatically. You can link notes to each other, and links are bidirectional so you can track which notes link to a particular note.
- You have sorting by both tags, and notebooks. Notebooks are infinitely nestable, and - this is really cool - notes can exist in multiple notebooks simultaneously.
- It has robust web clipper for Firefox and Chrome.
- Very robust attachment support.
- God so much more, I’m having to deliberately stop here.
What it’s currently lacking is drawing support. If that’s a must have for you, check out Joplin instead (at least for now, I’ve seen some talk about Notesnook integrating Excalibur for digital canvas, which would be a superb solution).
Anyway, please check out Notesnook. It’s excellent, and I like sharing excellent things. notesnook.com/downloads/
- Comment on One-handed games? 1 week ago:
For the record, I use a mouse with my non-dominant hand and I can play even fast paced FPS games like Titanfall competently enough. I actually used to dominate on Splitgate for a while. It’s a skill that can be learned. I have the advantage of having done it my whole life and I fully acknowledge that’s hard to replicate, but I think that with some practice anyone should be able to get to the point where they can play slower, primarily mouse driven games like turn based RPGs. Real time with pause might also be doable if you bind the pause button to the mouse (a mouse with some extra bindable keys would really help here). Anyway, just a thought.
If those options don’t work, maybe look into games like Vampire Survivor, or Realm of The Mad God (though I think the latter does need some rapid mouse inputs when looting, so maybe not so good).
- Comment on calibre 8.0 1 week ago:
Calibre can also be a server.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 weeks ago:
This might be a good time to remind everyone that Jellyfin is open source, free (as in beer) and is, at this point, a better media streamer than Plex. No fees, no ads, no constant pushing of their streaming content, and still has the watch together feature that Plex went and removed.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve also been comparing Element and Revolt. Both seem really solid, both are open source and both are self-hostable. Hard to find any downsides there.
There’s a discord server that me and a bunch of friends use as our main hangout, and they’ve raised the prospect of bailing before things enshittify. For my money, Revolt is the way I’m going to go, specifically because it’s basically a one for one clone of Discord. The people I’m pitching this to are a mix of technical and non-technical, so I think something that looks and feels like what they’re used to will be the easiest transition.
It also feels like Element is geared pretty heavily towards being a replacement for Slack / Teams rather than a replacement for Discord. Their pitch seems a lot more focused on the enterprise market. Revolt seems more focused on gaming, casual hangout, that sort of thing.
I like Element a lot, but for me it doesn’t feel like the right solution to this specific problem. But if I was pitching something to my work as a Teams replacement, Element is definitely the way I’d go.
- Comment on XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers: Status update for the v15 release 3 weeks ago:
So, unfortunately, this latest update seems to have created a lot of issues. First off, MobaXTerm support appears to be borked. Second, attempting to connect directly to LXC containers throws an error because I haven’t linked a WSL2 instance for X11, even though X forwarding is not enabled for the connection.
- Comment on Performance comparison between various Hypervisors 3 weeks ago:
I’d suggest maybe testing with a plain Debian or Fedora install. Just enable KVM and install virt-manager, and create the environment that way.
- Comment on Performance comparison between various Hypervisors 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I’m not very familiar with Cloudstack or Proxmox; we’ve always worked with KVM using virt-manager and Cockpit.
Our usual method is to remove the default hard drive, reattach the qcow file as a SCSI device, and then we modify the SCSI controller that gets created to enable queuing. I’m sure at some point I should learn to do all this through the command line, but it’s never really been relevant to do so.
The relevant sections look like this in one our prod VMs:
<disk type=‘file’ device=‘disk’> <driver name=‘qemu’ type=‘qcow2’/> <source file=‘/var/lib/libvirt/images/XXX.qcow2’ index=‘1’/> <backingStore/> <target dev=‘sdb’ bus=‘scsi’/> <alias name=‘scsi0-0-0-1’/> <address type=‘drive’ controller=‘0’ bus=‘0’ target=‘0’ unit=‘1’/> </disk><controller type=‘scsi’ index=‘0’ model=‘virtio-scsi’> ** <driver queues=‘6’/>** <alias name=‘scsi0’/> <address type=‘pci’ domain=‘0x0000’ bus=‘0x04’ slot=‘0x00’ function=‘0x0’/> </controller>The driver queues=‘X’ line is the part you have to add. The number should equal the number of cores assigned to the VM.See the following for more on tuning KVM:
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, killing Nazis is always good. And very cathartic.
- Comment on Performance comparison between various Hypervisors 4 weeks ago:
What are your disk settings for the KVM environments? We use KVM at work and found that the default configuration loses you a lot of performance on disk operations.
Switching from SATA to SCSI driver, and then enabling queues (set the number equal to your number of cores) dramatically speeds up all disk operations, large and small.
On mobile right now but I’ll try to add some links to the KVM docs later.
- Comment on XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers: Status update for the v15 release 4 weeks ago:
Been using Xpipe for probably over a year now. It’s amazing and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
- Comment on How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, self hosting gets you all the pro stuff. And you can even use their web-app and point it at your backend server, as well as the desktop and phone apps.
- Comment on How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech 4 weeks ago:
For anyone who has been recommended Joplin and found it kind of clunky and ugly, I want to throw a shout out to Notesnook. You can self host it, it’s beautiful, and it’s absolutely brimming with great features. And any of your notes can easily be exported in markdown so there’s no lock in.
- Comment on How to secure your phone before attending a protest 5 weeks ago:
Like, you do see how you’re very much engaging in stereotyping by saying that “They historically chose to address that by becoming cops” as if somehow a) all Irish people in America became cops, and b) the experiences of the Irish diaspora in America are somehow representative of all Irish people.
Like, seriously, go ask some Irish people in Northern Ireland how they feel about cops some time. Depending on who you ask you’re guaranteed to get some wildly different answers.
- Comment on How to secure your phone before attending a protest 5 weeks ago:
Irish people were actually considered “non-white” throughout most of the history of race as a concept. They were only recently recategorized by racists when they felt their numbers dwindling and decided to expand the tent a little.
Irish people have suffered from a history of explicitly racist oppression; calling them “the oppressors” flies directly in the face of history. Their skin colour may be white, but the history of their relationship with race as a power structure is far more complex.
This does not mean that it’s impossible for Irish people to be racist themselves, or for Irish people to embrace “white” as an identity. Race is complicated; that’s exactly why trying to adopt simplistic attitudes to it never works.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 5 weeks ago:
I just use a DDNS updater. That’s honestly good enough for most purposes.
Alternatively, you could use a service like Zerotier, Tailscale or Netbird to create a virtual private LAN connection to a free Oracle VPS, then route the traffic from the VPN to your home network.
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 1 month ago:
As someone doing the hiring, referral hires fucking suck. I want the best candidate, not the most connected candidate, and I don’t want to have to deal with the bullshit company politics when the referral hire doesn’t work out.
- Comment on Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books 1 month ago:
For the record, the reason this matters is because distributing a copyrighted work confers a much higher penalty than simply copying it for yourself. If Meta seeded those books they could be on the hook for a staggeringly large amount of damages. It’s on the order of hundreds or even thousands per download. And that’s across all the thousands of different books Meta grabbed.
- Comment on X doubles its Premium+ plan prices after xAI releases Grok 3 1 month ago:
Genuinely, at this point if you’re still on Twitter I consider that a red flag. I cannot comprehend why anyone would willingly use that platform unless they’re real fucking cozy with fascists.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 1 month ago:
I definitely want to see this version of self promotion encouraged. I think it’s good and healthy for this community to be a place where creators can discuss cool projects, engage with their fans and solicit feedback, as long as they’re doing so in a way that respects the health of the community. I think the accommodations you’ve chosen to make / demand here are very reasonable.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 1 month ago:
Congratulations, I can only imagine how good this feels. Nice to have some payoff for all your hard work.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 1 month ago:
And so they bloody well should be! How the fuck else are we going to find out about cool, unique indie projects instead of mass produced corporate slop?
Independent creators should absolutely be encouraged to self promote in communities like this, or else what the fuck are we doing here? Just shilling for Activision?