tomkatt

@tomkatt@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted home server project - call for competent advisory opinions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t mention your budget. That will impact things.

  If you have a closet with a rack you have a lot of options, hardware-wise. If you’ll be running this in your living room, for sake of your sanity, something like an AMD mini-PC with a small NAS for additional hosted storage via NFS would probably be your best bet.

  A PC with Proxmox could do this handily. I have a cheap Ryzen 5500u mini PC hosting my Plex server, audiobookshelf, home assistant, and DLNA server (AssetUPnP). It’s only 6 core/12 thread and32GB RAM but still has resources to spare. You could totally do an 8c/16t one and throw more RAM at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Music is absolutely solved.

  • Qobuz store
  • Bandcamp
  • Tidal media downloader
  • Deemix

  Screw streaming. Local is always better. Purchase and/or download FLAC. I’ve got nearly 1 TB of music on my NAS and my collection is regularly growing. From Qobuz and Bandcamp, anything you purchase is owned, and DRM free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current chain of command⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reported. This community is for shitposts, not real facts.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is freaking awesome. Only a few years ago it was exciting to see a fusion reaction last a fraction of a second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought my deck predominantly to play PS2 games and it’s great at it. Unfortunately, my Steam backlog showed up and reminded me it has other uses so I haven’t spent that much time emulating on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Nova 3 released in late 2020, it hasn’t existed for 8 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You and I read a very different comment, apparently. There was nothing there saying new is bad. Maybe read it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No book turn animations in Neo Reader, but other apps might, like Moon+ Reader. I prefer the Boox interface and warm light, and it’s much more customizable. Also, being android based means access to alternative reading apps, and even manga.

  Not sure if you can still buy the Nova line, I’ve had it since 2020. I bought the Paperwhite Signature as an “upgrade” but the Boox screen is larger, the warm light is nicer (warm orange/tan, the Kindle warm light is pee yellow).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And mine are digital, DRM stripped, stored locally, backed up to my NAS, and cloud.

  Don’t be a Luddite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rarely use my Paperwhite Signature since I like my Boox Nova 2 more. The Kindle is mostly just for the serial note to strip DRM now via Calibre.

  My wife recently joked that it’s my “Kindle Paperweight.” With this announcement I doubt I’ll buy anymore books from Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can i self host my music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, I’m gonna add another really simple option: Lyrion (Formerly Logitech Media Server). My wife swears by this one, supports local library, integrates with LastFM, and if you use Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, or Spotify, you can integrate your streaming service with your local library for radio mixes.

  Can install it right on a laptop or PC and connect to wherever your music is (local on the machine, on a NAS, etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can i self host my music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily overkill, you can run Plex on almost anything. I used to run it on an old NUC6 I had laying around, then upgraded to a NUC8, and more recently I setup it up as a VM on Proxmox on a Ryzen 5709u mini-PC.

  Virtualizing it has been good for my purposes since now it’s running alongside AssetUPnP and AudioBookshelf, and I’ve another VM on the host running Home Assistant with still plenty of resources to spare. Crazy we can do that now with a “server” that literally fits in my palm.

  But virtualizing it makes hardware acceleration for video transcode be I more complicated, just a heads up. I play everything native so don’t use it, but YMMV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can i self host my music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are lots of solutions, but as others have noted, Plex with Plexamp is great.

  I’d recommend getting a NAS for storage and running mirrored disks. This way you’ve got some redundancy in the event of a disk failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. I’m not saying I never pirate books. I’m not going to just support a publisher milking a book that should belong to the commons.

  Also, some publishers have taken to raising ebook prices to as high or higher than hardback costs. For those I might buy one book by an author and pirate another. I won’t justify it other than to say I only ever bought paperbacks anyway and still remember those being like $3.99 to $6.99, so I’m not paying $18+ for an ebook novel because of publisher greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, no need to be a shitheel. I’m cool with paying for books, authors gotta eat. I wouldn’t refund a book I’ve read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MOBI has been deprecated for a long time. Standard formats now are AZW3 (KF8) and KFX. They’re a bit more advanced than MOBI, and thank goodness, since it was a terrible format. AZW3 is essentially a MOBI/EPUB container, and I believe KFX is equivalent to EPUB2, possibly with some EPUB3 features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Takes a small effort to set up (install Calibre, install NoDRM plugin, apply Kindle serial to plugin), but once it’s done, the rest is literally drag and drop, it removes DRM from your books automagically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like hell I don’t. Calibre plus NoDRM says otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use pi-hole currently, but have managed access via my router. My LG C1 has been locked down to LAN access only for a long time.

  It’s kinds great this way. Since it has an IP it doesn’t give me any bullshit about network, but no traffic escapes the home network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks. I didn’t follow to the release page and just skimmed the article, should have read closer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a stupid question but… what exactly was illegal about this? I’m sure there were ToS or EULAs violated, but what law is he being charged on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not a good liar but need to pretend I like my current job and not rant about how much I dislike it till I find a job I like more. How do I make my coworkers and supervisors believe this lie?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Performance improvement plan. Sometimes a legitimate way to help an employee who is slow or failing at takes to improve and perform better.

  More often it’s a management ploy to start a paper trail to legitimize terminating said employee without repercussions, regardless of actual performance metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DNS is often misconfigured.

  On the linux side of things, people like to manually edit /etc/resolv.conf when it’s actually a symlink and changes to it don’t persist on boot (the real file location varies, but it’s usually in something like /etc/system/resolve).

  On the Windows side, people love to ignore that reverse DNS exists, even though so many things use it. They also freaking love CNAME aliases and break stuff in interesting ways (for example, a “load balanced” configuration that’s all just the first node acting as all three nodes of a cluster or pool).

  Many people only know enough DNS to be dangerous and come up with really jank workarounds to get things running because they don’t understand the proper solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just does.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but JIF is like… sugar and palm kernel oil garbage. It’s a peanut butter product, not peanut butter.

  Peanut butter should have one or two ingredients, max. Peanuts, and maybe salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they don't fold well either⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a quality bamboo pillow with crushed memory foam filling. You can control how much fill goes into the pillow, and if you change your mind you can always add or remove some of the fill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it should be fine, just because the PSU can provide more watts doesn’t mean the system is actually using that much power. I have an 800w PSU in my gaming rig, but its average load is only 240 - 320w during gaming (I’ve measured it by powering the system with a portable Ecoflow battery).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good budget home server?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not likely to do that for $150. You might be able to pull an old Dell Precision T5500 tower with a weak Xeon on eBay for cheap and refit it with more ram, better CPU and cheap non-redundant storage for $200 - $250.

  For sake of power requirements though, seriously consider your use case and needs. You can get by pretty well with cheap mini-PCs like Intel NUCs or AMD minis like Beelink for pretty cheap and just cluster them with something like Proxmox to scale out instead of up when you need additional resources. This will be reasonably priced and keep the power bill and noise levels down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But otherwise I learned the hard way many years ago to just buy Logitech after purchasing a stupid expensive gaming mouse from a brand I’ve forgotten whose left click died in less than a year.

  Seems to be a problem in general. I’ve been using Elecom trackballs for years, first one I bought still works. Ones I’ve bought in the last year all started wigging out on left click within a couple months. I took one apart recently to swap the mouse switch with a quick solder job and it’s good as new. Seems like the newer ones are using really cheap Chinese Omron switches that die quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are y'all buying on the steam sale?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it for 440 hours and I still don’t feel done with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are y'all buying on the steam sale?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a ton of games already, but I picked up Nuclear Blaze and Streets of Rogue on the cheap.

  A week prior to the steam sale, got a good deal on River City Girls 2 and Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries on Fanatical, $15 for both together.