gedaliyah
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 day ago:
There are some striking studies about how use of LLMs impacts cognition. You’re not wrong.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 day ago:
I switched to Thunderbird about a year and a half ago.
Last week I had to help a coworker with their Outlook and holy shit is it so much worse than when I dropped it. There is so much AI garbage in every little thing and bad design getting in the way of just sending and receiving emails.
Same thing for the other office products
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I think that when someone is uniquely positioned to help people, they do have a moral obligation to take action. That may be you, but it may not.
- Comment on Life hack 1 week ago:
I learned from a recent conversation (in which I was the jerk) that many of the airplane employees are not actually employees of the airline.
Often there are contractors without any benefits, including free flights. When they have to travel for work, they sometimes have to pay for their own hotels. They literally have to pay just to work.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 1 week ago:
So is there like canonically a horse heaven?
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 week ago:
Second this - so far it has cost me money, but as I am able to cancel more subscription services, the savings will add up.
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 1 week ago:
This is available as old.lemmy.world
- Comment on So which one? 1 week ago:
H. Who dares to wake me?
- Comment on What a knobhead 1 week ago:
- Comment on Who will win? 1 week ago:
You always read about how many billions of people mosquitoes have killed, but you never read about how many mosquitoes people have killed!
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- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 1 week ago:
Re tailscale: not sure if it is a technical issue or not, but my wife found it helpful when I added a toggle to the Quick Settings menu, which shows when it is running and can restart it with one tap.
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 1 week ago:
I ended up spinning up audiobookshelf. It’s fine for audiobooks, and I immediately installed Lissen (alongside ABS) and it is clearly preferable to me.
Lissen does not recognize ebooks at all, and I also didn’t have success with the comic book I tested on the ABS client, so I may try another service for those. For now audiobooks are the higher priority and I am very happy with those. Thanks for the input - I really appreciate it.
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 1 week ago:
Thanks, this is really helpful! Do you use the same app for both? Is it the abs client or something else?
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 2 weeks ago:
Looks very cool! I don’t know that I have the resources for it on my little homelab but good to keep it in mind in the future.
- Comment on AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who likes this idea might also be interested in checking out RTranslator, an open source, on-device app, which has some similar functionality. You can connect two Bluetooth devices using this app to communicate between two people in different languages.
It can’t translate multiple speakera simultaneously or clone voices, but it’s very useful for traveling or communicating with friends and family in multiple languages. Especially since it does not need any connection, it comes in handy on the road when you might not have a reliable connection.
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 2 weeks ago:
Can I ask what stands out with Kavita that audiobookshelf lacks?
- Comment on First file server 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s a great way to start. It is surprisingly easy to add remote access at a later date.
The dead simple way is to set up a shared folder with Syncthing, although you will end up with all of the files copied onto every device.
If you want the files to live on your home server to be accessed as needed, then you will want something like Nextcloud or OwnCloud. Personally I found ownCloud easier to set up, but it has far fewer features.
If the focus is on pictures and videos, then you should probably start with immich. It is very simple and incredibly powerful. You can more or less set it up once, and not think about it too much other than running an update from time to time. It supports multiple users, etc. Note that if you are adding photos from a Google Takeout, you will want to run a one time script to rescue the metadata (date, etc.)
Any of these are accessible on any device.
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 2 weeks ago:
I currently use antenna pod for listening to podcasts and I love it. Am I understanding correctly that you also use it for audiobooks? Does show each chapter as a separate episode or how does that work?
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve read some places that Calibre can be finicky. Have you had to troubleshoot any issues with your deployment?
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- Comment on Never forget 2 weeks ago:
Shaking My Head, EveryOne.
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 2 weeks ago:
For document editing, I have had fairly good luck with OnlyOffice, although it is not without its issues. Others also recommend Collabora, which plays well with NextCloud and LibreOffice.
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 2 weeks ago:
DAVx5 basically acts as the connector between your server and your calendar/contacts/files apps. I would imagine that this could be built into an app, but there are a lot of ways that such apps can sync or operate locally. I’m guessing that it is just a little more specialized than most developers want to get.
Thanks for the Syncthing-Fork tip! For now the official version is working for me, but I’ll have to migrate myself soon.
From my understanding, OpenVPN provides the same secure remote access as Tailscale, by a slightly different method. You should be fine to use what you’ve already set up.
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done this.
For contacts, calendar, and files, I use OwnCloud, although NextCloud is as good/better. I couldn’t figure out Self-Signing certificates, which is supposed to be pretty easy, but I am kind of a dummy. NextCloud requires it. On my phone, I use DAVx5, and I replaced the GrapheneOS stock apps with Fossify apps as needed - although that is up to personal preference.
For photos, I use Immich, which is hands-down the best option.
NextCloud also has options for document editing, photo backup, and notes, but I can’t testify to those.
Syncthing is an ideal way to seamlessly sync files and folders between devices, but you will end up with the files on both devices. I use it sparingly, and they are phasing out android support. It’s still very useful to migrate large file libraries and act as a stopgap for other services.
There are tons of notes apps, and it largely comes down to preference. I settled on NotallyX, which can import your Keep notes directly (using Google Takeout iirc). It also has the option to store files externally, which means they can be synced for backup. There are also self-hosted web-apps, like Memos, or the slightly more adventurous Blinko.
I got a lot of great input from this community not too long ago.
The one Google feature I am not able to reproduce is Google Messages. If you use texting to any degree, there are some FOSS apps with pretty nice basic features (I’m using Fossify which is nice). However, there are none that have solid group-messaging features, reactions, and other RCS capabilities. It seems to be a technical/logistical/legal hurdle that is presently insurmountable. Lots of people don’t use texting anyway, so it may not be a concern for you.
- Comment on Selfhosting on old MSI laptop 2 weeks ago:
From what I gather, most people use a simple Linux distro like Ubuntu or Debian with a large community knowledge base. Then run the pieces you want through Docker. It’s pretty simple once you learn how.
Your laptop will be perfectly capable.
- Comment on audiobookshelf listen to podcast without downloading 2 weeks ago:
Unrelated but there are several open source podcast aapps that will do this like AntennaPod or Cardo
- Comment on If darker coloured materials get hotter in the sun faster, will a display with the screen on or off change how quickly it heats up? 2 weeks ago:
No, the screen still absorbs the same amount of light, even when it’s producing its own. It is effectively black from the Sun’s perspective even when the screen is white.
A display that uses a reflective light display such as LCD or e-ink would be the exception. Since they work by changing reflectiveness, they absorb more or less light from their surface.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 weeks ago:
Wait, now it’s only $700 million. $400 million. $34 million… And it’s $6.50.
Yeah, I guess there is someone out there who would buy a fleet of dumpster cares for $6.50.
- Comment on What was she thinking when she did this? 3 weeks ago:
“I want to be where the people are”
