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- Comment on Windows 11's free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive 1 day ago:
Free movie editing on windows peaked on fucking vista.
- Comment on Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents 1 day ago:
Meta ai not bothering with user consent is very on brand. It learned from the best.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 1 day ago:
Disgusting for sure but thats a really bad argument to make something illegal. It’s the same rhetoric used to ban queer sexualities.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 2 days ago:
The upside of enshitification in newer games and crap like this is that i am less interested in playing the new stuff and the more so enjoy replaying older games.
Which also run at peak performance.
- Comment on Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories — equivalent to skipping a meal 4 days ago:
I am not talking about people who have easy acces to processed foods.
I don’t have exact stats nor know how big% of the world that is but people going to bed hungry and being underweight is absolutely still happening.
- Comment on Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories — equivalent to skipping a meal 4 days ago:
If that 60% of people who aren’t weren’t occupied with working hard not to starve they might take offense to your use of “we” (Satire)
- Comment on noob questions seeking non-noob answers 4 days ago:
I would still consider myself a noob but i do feel accomplished enough to answer this properly.
Hardware depends on your budget. It does not need to be bleeding edge either, i would focus on a good server case that makes it easy to upgrade over time and maybe fits a few harddrives if you don’t plan on having a nas.
Also make sure to check how much sata connections your motherboard can handle, using an m.2 slots may occupy some of the physical sata connections.
I highly, highly recommend proxmox for an OS.
You can set up every different service into its own lxc container, its wonderful to know you can experiment with whatever and everything else will be unaffected and just keep working. Within lxc things can just run using docker (though this is officially not recommended it works fine). The resource sharing between lxc containers is excellent. Taking snapshots a breeze. And when an lxc is not enough you can easily spin up some vm with whatever distro or even windows also. Best server-choice i made ever!
The zfs format for your storage pool is also very good. And you definitely want redundancy, redundancy makes it so x amount of drives can fail and the system just keeps running like normal while you replace the broken drive, otherwise a single drive failing ruins all your data.
Unless you make every drive its own pool with specific items that you backup separately but thats honestly more troublesome then learning how to setup a pool.
How you want a pool and how much redundancy is a personal choice but i can tell you how i arranged mine.
I have 5 identical drives which is the max My system can handle. 4 of them are in a pool with a raidz1 configuration (equivalent to raid-5) this setup gives me 1 drive of redundancy and leaves me 3 drives of actual usable space.
I could have added the fifth drive in the pool fo more but i opted not too, to protect my immich photons against complete critical failure. This fifth drive is unmounted when not used.
Basically my immich storage are in a dataset, which you can think of as a directory on your pool that you can assign to different lxc to keep things separate.
Every week a script will mount the fifth drive, rsync copy my immich dataset from the pool onto it. Unmount the drive again. Its a backup of the most important stuff outside of the pool.
This drive can also be removed from the cases front in an emergency, which is part of why I recommend spending some time finding a case that fits your wants more then worrying about how much ram.
Best of luck!
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 1 week ago:
I stream from self hosted sources, best of all worlds. No enshitification.
New media is acquired for free from the public libraries and then ripped, which under my local laws is perfectly legal.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
Its another thing to literally be so autistic that the extremely bad repercussions simply don’t matter.
It wouldn’t really be a choice on my part.
- Comment on BREAKING!! 1 week ago:
Accidental zomboid meme
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
First I hear of if but a quick scroll shows it mostly to organize an existing collection so you would still need to download.
I put them straight into jellyfin which works fine for me.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
Autist here, i refuse orders on principle, the only way people can get me to do anything is to have me decide that i agree on doing so.
My expectations if i was ever forced in a military setting would be to get punished for Insubordination at a constant rate, i assume to get beaten, locked up, be given the extra shitty food (which i just wouldn’t eat).
When it comes to being put under pressure i have a lifetime of experience. They can hurt, torture me all they want but will never rule over my independent thoughts.
I am no hero, nor a vigilante but simply holding on to what i know is right is what gives me strengt. And while i expect coming out bruised, broken and traumatised it will stil not be close to the horrors my own mind will inflict on me for going against my nature.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
I wont be home till quite a few hours.
But also its general boilerplate enough an ai can help you get you one according to your own preferences.
There are also a number of examples online.
This one looks pretty interesting github.com/panchi64/auto-ytdlp
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
Laughs in
Txt file with favorite channels as input for a yt-dlp download script schedule. Combined with a selfhosted invidious and freetube desktop app for other then favorite videos.
Honestly I am really tired of jumping trough hoops, have to make sure yt-dlp and invidious use a proxy (cloudflare warp) or google will ban your ip for being a bot.
But having to deal with the actual YouTube site or reopening my google account is worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Once detail is removed it can never be restored faithfully.
If you somehow include the details as data all combined in a compressed format you save space but the result is not a lower res, but a lossless compressed native res in which case upscaling is irrelevant.
- Comment on Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs 1 week ago:
Companies suing the government for taxes that they just pass on to consumers is both the bread and the circuses of the modern age.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 2 weeks ago:
When i think of the experience i think of a type of software that can be run on almost any hardware to fit whatever purpose that hardware needs.
Personal computers are a big part of modern life yes but statistically they are a very small portion of what is out there.
The context of my comment is about “how the future may look like from the personal of the person you replied to when they worked at Microsoft 25y ago. You decided to make this about desktop marketshare. That is the strawmen.
And to answer your latest strawmen. A dehumidifier is built to dehumidify, not to edit photo’s, just like your modem is built to arrange your acces to the internet and download gimp, not to edit photo’s. That modem is also running the linux kernel btw.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 2 weeks ago:
So to summarize,
When you look at this tiny specific section of all computer hardware, then windows is still on top.
Okey.
Android, Robot vacuums, smart tvs, some airconditioning and air fryers, smartfridges, doorbell cameras… they most likely all run a version of the linux kernel. Consumers own more Linux than windows devices and don’t even know it.
And this was already true before valve quite literally started creating consumer gaming hardware with a full linux desktop experience, of which again some people have these and don’t even realise it is.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 weeks ago:
The only solution is getting a smart fridge for each household member.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 weeks ago:
I am pretty sure anyone will still be able to install a distro/fork from a free country, but steam is unlikely to go this route because convenience is part of the package. They may not even care to resist because they already ask your age for the steam store.
I am more curious what this will do for non standard devices with multiple users. Even kitchen equipment may run a derivative of linux these days and they don’t come with keyboard access.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 weeks ago:
Linux is just a kernel.
Redhat with fedora and steam with the arch based steam os will be the ones that have to implement it.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 weeks ago:
The irony knows no bounds, the one half decent reason age verification could exists for is so these companies have no more excuses to ignore coppa because now they can just pretend everyone is a consenting adult.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 weeks ago:
There isn’t. The sides are 4.675 long (as far as i understand)
To fit more squares, youd need to use smaller squares but by that logic you could fit any number of squares.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 2 weeks ago:
There is no flavour of adhd that does this, their intelligence spans the same ranges as any other people. But they do have a lower attention span which is why I referred to them,
The article literally refers to “lower measured attention span” as “being dumber” and thats just unapologetically incorrect.
That said there are so many different kinds of intelligence that we don’t measure or have tests for, being bad a one that does have tests is indeed nothing to be ashamed for, you are correct on that part.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 2 weeks ago:
Neither does impulse control and attention span imply anything about intelligence. Framing it like this is kinda offensive to the many smart people who have a flavour of adhd.
Previous Science regarding gaming habits of young kids concluded that they had improved problem solving skills, cognitive skills and also lower attention span.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 weeks ago:
This will not matter to most of linux, it’s non enforceable and easily circumvented.
But the issue is what they used for thumbnail. Steam deck.
Steam is bringing linux to the the masses but they won’t be able to sell any without complying to the part that all apps that can be installed must be able to ask the os to give this data.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 weeks ago:
Teams comes pre installed with windows these days.
I recommend KDE Plasma on any linux distribution that comes with it for people interested in recovering their digital sovereignty.
- Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information 3 weeks ago:
Thats just the price i feel. These stories always ends with they got acces and no longer need apple.
The product is a “definitely not an apple employee” “hacker” who shows up at your door with how to break in.
The cost price is making sure the media tells everyone about how apple isn’t willing to play ball while i am pretty sure us has a law to force them to play ball just like all the dictatorships.
Somewhat funny i actually realized this dynamic when watching star trek. Whenever they need to do something illegal they simply put their badges on the desk and just like magic they are no longer bound by federation law.
- Comment on If contemporary professional comedians were magically taken to the Paleolichic, they'd probably work much earlier in the day. Back then, there were no Late Night Shows or well-lit comedy clubs. 3 weeks ago:
Slapstick and other silent humor: “am i joke to you”
- Comment on Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy 4 weeks ago:
My non scientific intuitive guess is that the cable is there to reliably create the entanglement conditions.