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- Comment on self hosted browser sync? 3 hours ago:
Yeah I wish there was a good answer to that. Floccus at least works ok for bookmarks.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 2 days ago:
AFAIK the “wear” does not mainly come from the spinning, but from temperature changes that make parts slightly expand and contract in size. An always on HDD has pretty constant temperature.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 3 days ago:
Be careful with powering HDDs on and off. That is actually the operation that puts the most strain on them AFAIK. Sadly there is no good rule of thumb when it does more harm than good, but I would guess if you turn it on more than once a week, you are probably doing more harm than good compared to just letting in run. Many people even intentionally turn off sleep-mode in “green” drives so that they don’t shut down automatically.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 3 days ago:
This isn’t about a laptop, but a full desktop case with 5.25" slots. 3.5" fit fine into these with a different kind of adapter.
- Comment on InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud 3 days ago:
I find XMPP much more useful for day-to-day communication with people I know. Matrix has more IRC like public channels, but only a few are sufficiently active compared to Discord or even IRC.
But running an XMPP server is also extremely hassle free and uses little server resources, while running a Matrix server is quite involved and will likely need a beefy dedicated server just for it alone.
- Comment on InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud 3 days ago:
XMPP chat accounts on the same address as Email would be nice.
- Comment on What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi? 4 days ago:
An IRC server would work, but I think having to deal with 32bit ARM will be too annoying.
- Comment on 🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥 5 days ago:
It is what you make out of it. Basically it is an ActivityPub federated framework with various modules including one for microblogging.
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- Comment on Why does Lemmy use "@" instead of ":" like Matrix does? 1 week ago:
The bigger question is why Matrix didn’t follow the long established standard for this, which is using @.
But I guess it fits into the general pattern of: Monolithic, Awefully Trendy ReImplementation of XMPP (MATRIX).
P.S.: it’s nice to be able to have your ActivityPub, XMPP and Email all on the same address 👍
- Comment on Self Hosted OpenSource Projectmanagement Tool 1 week ago:
Seems like an obvious suggestion, but Nextcloud can do that quite well.
- Comment on a site for making bots for the fediverse 1 week ago:
That seems like a fun toy. Thanks for sharing.
- Submitted 1 week ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 36 comments
- Comment on Building Cheap & Efficient Home Servers with... Laptops? | Hardware Haven 1 week ago:
Especially when starting out it can also be quite helpful to have a screen and keyboard attached to the server and not only SSH access.
To prevent battery issues it is often possible to limit the charge level in the bios.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fixing@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 week ago:
The factory owners just copied that from the Prussian model that was meant to train children to be good soldiers. Not that that would be any better…
- Comment on What is your favorite Fediverse specific creators? 1 week ago:
Makes fun memes.
- Comment on Can't get better than this 1 week ago:
So that the roomba doesn’t get bored.
- Comment on Trying to find a general-use project management software solution 1 week ago:
You could probably approximate some similar with Odoo. It is a big ERP, but all modular, so you can just remove the parts that are too complex.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 2 weeks ago:
This I don’t know, but probably some limitation with the control software or some similar issue.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 2 weeks ago:
Well in these stacks you usually have a single BMS and each battery is in series. So four units maximum is about 200-240 V and not exeeding that probably makes it simpler to build an inverter for a 240V regular house grid.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 2 weeks ago:
Probably just an invertor input voltage limitation.
- Comment on Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive 2 weeks ago:
Being worked on apparently.
- Comment on Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start? 2 weeks ago:
Like a sister comment here already said, mini-ITX boards and cases often come with unexpected space contraints, and annoying things like the RAM not fitting under the CPU cooler etc.
You will probably save yourself some hassle if you go for one of these N100 NAS boards that come with a soldered on CPU and a built in cooler.
- Comment on Any S3 compatible server where I can define where individual bucket storage is? 2 weeks ago:
garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr maybe?
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 2 weeks ago:
Well, keep repeating the same mistakes and find excuses for it all you want. I am not into “superior” solutions at all, but I don’t think there is much point in perpetuating the same clearly failed approaches.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 2 weeks ago:
It works perfectly fine on Android 🤷 In fact much better than any Matrix client does. That’s 70-80% or so of the global smart-phone market. Just because you made the mistake buying into a shitty walled garden like iOS doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for other people. But I see a pattern here of you ignoring reality and having Stockholm syndrome.
Again, there is no point in moving “1 billion people” from Facebook to a “Facebook run AWS for social media”. There is just no benefit other than for Facebook to avoid accountability. You are wasting your time if you think otherwise.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 2 weeks ago:
Fine, if you want to be the useful fool for Mark Zuckerberg you can do that, but I rather be not. The improvement in that setup is mainly on the side of Mark Zuckerberg as you write yourself. The rest would be some maganged opposition only existing because Mark lets them. But we had that argument before.
You are finding excuses for shitty business practises of Element. Synapse is already bad enough software as is, even for smaller instances, and this adds direct monetary incentives for Element to keep it bad, so that people are forced to upgrade to Synapse Pro or pay an even higher amount of money to upgrade the hardware to run this extremely inefficient shit software. This is all typical of open-core software vendors and you are having Stockholm syndrome if you think otherwise.
And please don’t be silly. XMPP had video calls long before Matrix. It works perfectly fine and there are many clients that support it. Just on one very small and developer hostile platform that outside of the US and Japan hardly anyone uses, it is work in progress and only partially supported.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk 2 weeks ago:
Lets not repeat the entire argument, but you are being extremely naive and literally play lipservice to what Mark Zuckerberg thinks the Fediverse should become.
And, no. Vital parts for running a somewhat decently sized Synapse instance are not AGPLv3 licenced, Element requires a CLA so they can easily alter the deal even further, and their own marketing people go around fearmongering about the AGPL, which is a classic play of open-core companies. If it walks like a duck and all that…
And Matrix had never even close to a few hundred million users. By their own admission during the presentation at the last FOSDEM, their MAU is barely above 300k. That’s what IRC had before Matrix started canibalizing them 🙄