alekwithak
@alekwithak@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 days ago:
Wasn’t aware of this, that’s awesome. Unfortunately it would need to be able to cast to various HTPCs and be easy enough for my family to use to fully replace YouTube in my house.
- Comment on Most American headline 3 days ago:
👉👃
- Comment on Most American headline 3 days ago:
State doesn’t pay for kids lunch. If parent can’t afford lunch, state takes child and places them in a foster home. State pays foster home to take kid.
Tell me what the goal of this system is so I can call someone else a conspiracy theorist for a change.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 6 days ago:
I don’t have a case on my work phone. I carry two phones so I don’t need the extra bulk and if it breaks oh no I have to get a newer phone!
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 1 week ago:
I love when I’m surrounded by treasures in an ancient temple no human has laid eyes on in thousands of years, so I take a look at a scroll then immediately leave.
- Comment on Grieve with me 2 weeks ago:
That’s a tiktok thing. In the videos it’s satisfying to pull out all the glue and pre-staged gunk from the port in one solid go, but in reality you have no idea how much dried glue is being left behind or how it’s going to interact with the lint and dust in the port. You could potentially render the port unusable. Better to go with a soft pick and some compressed air.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven’t learned on top of that.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty hilarious considering I’ve been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it’s been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn’t quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we’re used to in English. An LLM could never.
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- Comment on Who needs it? 2 weeks ago:
Ever notice how any time a Chinese app gets highlighted as being for data harvesting, there’s a bunch of people crawling out of the woodwork to claim “whatabout american apps!?”,
Yes, because the American social media apps and other data harvesters have a much greater affect on our lives than Chinese, but American media goes on and on about the dangers of Chinese social media and most Americans don’t even think about American social media.
And did you just accuse me of crawling out of woodwork?!
but whenever an American app gets the same exposer, noone ever goes “whatabout Chinese apps apps!?”
Yes because it makes perfect sense on western social media to cry “What about tiktok?!” When an article comes out about the very scandals you’re talking about. In fact I’m not sure what point you’re even trying to make saying the outrage is manufactured but then giving reasons why it should be legitimate.
I do consider Chinese officials getting blackmail material on American politicians and businesses more dangerous then American companies doing the same.
Well that’s an insane take. American companies blackmailing American politicians is why we slide further and further into a corporatocracy.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 weeks ago:
I had assumed that’s what they were doing with the data they bought from data brokers like Meta and Alphabet, yes.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 weeks ago:
Accuracy is not really relevant to the conversation. The point is that though the Chinese app gets a lot of crap for being a dataminer, the American social media apps are no better and in fact worse because they create ghost profiles of non users and make a ton of money selling that data indiscriminately. There’s no need to take offense, it isn’t a personal attack on your privacy practices.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 weeks ago:
Then they still have a profile on you.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 weeks ago:
More like Buys the same data from Meta but okay.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 2 weeks ago:
Well like I said you can start running servers right now for free with your desktop. Then your best bet is in my opinion going to be buying a NUC, Elitedesk, or another smaller form factor PC, this will save you on energy costs and noise, and flashing truenas to it (Or you can run everything you need to in Windows or Linux or containers if that’s what you’re comfortable with) and using either external hard drives or getting a hard drive array and using that to store everything. This is going to cost more than a Synology and takes a little setting up but it’s infinitely expandable and will suit your needs whatever they become. And don’t forget the 3-2-1 rule of backups. These rules are written in blood. And RAID is not a backup, I learned that one the hard way, myself.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 weeks ago:
Totally fair. I’m actually in the process of building a dedicated Proxmox VM host / TrueNAS server to ease up on my little media server, but for a quiet and powerful yet economical little package these mini PCs are great for the task. After all this time the only modification I’ve had to make was adding a 2.5Gb compatible NIC.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 weeks ago:
You said it yourself.
Extra points if I could host my ebooks and music there and run a torrent client. Extra extra points if I could connect to it from outside my home network (and stream)
To start, if you’re using it to torrent your media then you’re going to want it running in the background because you need to see your torrents. Aside from it being the right thing to do, keeping a good ratio is necessary to get into good private trackers. And torrents aren’t great for music, at least not in my experience, so you’ll probably want soulseek as well. That also requires sharing in the background. You could buy a seedbox and torrent through that, but if you were going to go that route you could just do everything you’re trying to do through a seedbox instead of getting a NAS, and it wouldn’t take long for the subscription costs to surpass the costs of self hosting.
So now you’ve got qbittorrent, soulseek, Plex, and Kavita or similar for ebooks. What else could you want over time? Do you want to host audiobooks, too? Comics/manga/magazines? Maybe you want to streamline and automate the downloading process. Maybe your mom can’t stream her favorite show anymore so you decide to share your library with her. Maybe you want to be able to search and download anything from any device anywhere, and maybe you want your mom to be able to as well.
Why stop there. Maybe you want to self host your own file and picture cloud storage as well. Maybe Mom’s, too. Maybe you want to start blocking ads on your network at a DNS level. Maybe you want your phone to use your home network even when you’re out and about. The possibilities increase exponentially once you start getting into self hosting.
I don’t want to hear the fans
That being said I have a good number of the above tasks running on an HP elitedesk mini g9 and it stays pretty quiet. The spinning disks make noise though lol
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 3 weeks ago:
Meh. The internet is a large place. Block indiscriminately. There’s no reason to have an uncomfortable interaction. OP doesn’t owe a random stranger anything let alone an explanation.
- Comment on Heheheh my secret door of secret knowledge 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been interested for a while but it seems more like a toy than a tool, no? Do you get much use out of it?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Your friend’s bro-science explanation paired with your anecdotal confirmation is completely sexist pop psychology BS.
- Comment on Uncultured 4 weeks ago:
They’re clearly words. Letters if you want to be more specific.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 4 weeks ago:
I would definitely never trust a mermaid. Well maybe if they sang the right song.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 4 weeks ago:
I caught my middle schooler googling her math homework problems. I can hardly blame her, I just completed a work training on Measles the same way. I told her I understand the urge, but you have to put in the work in order to earn taking the easy way out because otherwise you won’t know when the machines are lying to you. So anyway yeah we’re fucked.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 4 weeks ago:
That’s not true, I caught one the other day who promised to grant me wishes if I let it go. He wasn’t lying but the wishes eventually led to my downfall so now I have a hard time trusting anyone even partially aquatic.
- Comment on Are AAA Games too bloated? 4 weeks ago:
I have some good news for you about the last couple of Pokemon games.
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 4 weeks ago:
Just a quote I thought was apt from The Righteous Gemstones.
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 4 weeks ago:
“It is time to finally stop the constant flood of filth and propaganda coming out of Hollywood. If they’re going to fill the airwaves 24/7 with that garbage, we’re going to do the same thing.”
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, no I appreciate the back and forth. I was looking into Overseerr once upon a time, but my Plex server is running in a Windows VM and I didn’t want to mess with Windows Docker. A python script and a few HTML files seemed much easier at the time and got the desired result. I am eventually planning to migrate the server to Linux, but haven’t had the time and energy and would have to literally schedule the downtime with my family. It still doesn’t look like Overseerr integrates with Soularr or Readarr but I’ve made a note to play around a bit with it in the future.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 4 weeks ago:
Not really? To the ADHD mind trying to keep the one piece of media you’re looking for at the top of your mind while you load an app full of suggestions for other shows and movies is a nightmare, and it’s not any more convenient because you’re still going to end up searching for the media you want. The only added convenience is when you’re not looking for anything in particular and just want to see what’s out there and there’s a million better ways to do that. Factor in having to instruct everyone to download the app and create an account rather than just go to a URL you can access from any device anywhere and put in your show/movie/song and in a few minutes you have it. Overseerr doesn’t monitor my services either, or whatever else I want to do. It’s MUCH easier to maintain and more convenient for everyone. And does Overseerr even interact with Soularr or readarr? The functionality of my webapp scales exponentially, I’m not tied to what the developers of Overseerr deem functional.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see how that’s easier or better, but feel free to change my mind. As it is now no one needs to download a separate app or have multiple logins. They just go to the URL and there’s the status and a form to type in what they want the arrs to start searching for.
