Nibodhika
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- Comment on Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 Released with Certbot Enhancements 1 day ago:
Configuration is much easier, e.g. this is the full config you need to expose nextcloud on
nextcloud.example.com(assuming caddy can reach nextcloud using the hostnamenextcloud)nextcloud.example.com { reverse_proxy nextcloud }
Comparing that to ngnix configs that need a template for each different service (although to be fair they’re mostly the same).
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 3 days ago:
My point is that of those 120 probably 110 have never been compromised nor forced you to change the password due to expiration policies. The remaining 10 are the ones that require some mental gymnastics, so while the problem exists it’s not as serious as it sounds. I probably have more than 120 identities using this method since I’ve been using it for years, and I don’t think I ever had to use the counter, it’s a matter of being consistent in how you think about websites, for example if you know how you refer to a site slugify it and use that for the field, so you would use spotify, netflix, amazon-prime.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 days ago:
Good luck, and let me know how it goes, it should be just that really, just don’t touch the controller until you’re through
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 days ago:
That’s weird, that’s the solution, does your controller has some drift that could cause it to still be firing some thrusters?
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 days ago:
Obvious spoiler ahead is obvious: Just let go of the controller when you enter that area, you’ll float peacefully (albeit very close to them) until the exit portal.
- Comment on RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation 4 days ago:
Yeah, it’s probably a legal thing, rreading-glasses is just metadata for books, completely legal, but readarr legality is less clear, so maybe they’re trying to prevent issues.
Also I didn’t understand what is rreading-glasses and why you need it
Say you want to grab a book by Isaac Asimov, you type the name of the book in readarr search bar, readarr contacts a metadata provider to show you cover images, author, date, etc. Then when you select the book readarr uses that metadata to search for downloads and ensure you’re getting the correct book and not another random book with the same name.
The problem is that readarr uses a closed source API for it’s metadata, and it’s constantly offline, which makes it impossible to use readarr. Luckily they allow you to customize the URL for the API, and rreading-glasses is an open source implementation of that API that you can use as a drop in replacement.
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 4 days ago:
Yup, but most of that is easily solvable by being consistent, e.g. always use lowercase and your email (even if it’s not the login for that site). But yes, you need to know to be consistent so it’s a good point to make.
- Comment on Why do people especially men care if someone forgives a cheating partner 4 days ago:
No, you’re not, you cheated that’s the most fundamental thing not to do, that’s like saying “I’m a great cook, I would argue better than the majority of cooks, I only put rat poison in my food once!”, would you eat in the same restaurant where a cook intentionally put rat poison in your food once already?
- Comment on RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation 4 days ago:
I noticed that my Ansible playbook failed to do a docker pull on readarr, I just commented it and was going to investigate further today. This sucks, especially because rreading-glasses did in fact completely solve the issue they’re facing. Not sure why they didn’t consider migrating to it officially, it’s only a config change.
- Comment on Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)... 4 days ago:
Honestly, I’m absolutely happy with my Steam Deck, I think it ticks most of your boxes (it even runs Linux, so it’s essentially a portable Linux computer designed for gaming), so I think it’s the better option that you’re looking gor. To your points specifically:
it’s really geared towards family/party gaming
There are plenty of party games on Steam.
it’s Nintendo, so you get the whole usual games (Mario Kart, Zelda, etc.)
This is the only reason to get a switch, if you want a Nintendo console and Nintendo games this is the way. Everyone who gets a switch understand this is the reason they’re getting it. If this is as strong a point to you that it makes you overlook everything else, then get the switch.
like most consoles, it’s plug and play and can be enjoyed in the living room (I kind of gave up trying to set up a proper gaming experience with my Linux PCs, given that I don’t have the hardware for it)
Steam Deck also has a Dock that you can plug to your TV, you’ll need controllers but even so it should be much cheaper in the long run since games are extremely affordable compared to Nintendo.
the battery life is not great to say the least (2.5 hours takes me back of the Game Gear in early 90s!)
Haven’t seen many benchmarks of the switch to be honest, but that does sound bad, the Deck only gets that bad battery life if you’re playing Cyberpunk or something, for more casual games it can get upwards of 6h. Plus you can get power banks that fast large it while playing, which I assume is also possible on the switch although the switch 1 used to have some issues with power banks.
the screen seems to be pretty bad too (at least it’s a step back from the OLED one of the Switch)
All but the cheapest Deck models now use a 90Hz OLED panel
the joycons are still not using a Hall effect sensor, meaning they might still be prone to drifting
While the Deck’s default sticks are not hall effect, they are easily replaceable and Valve sells hall effect replacements on ifixit, so if you ever get drift in your sticks it’s fixable.
most of the games will not be sold as proper cartridges but as download codes
If you’re going down this rote Steam sells download codes for much cheaper
the whole thing (console, additional gamepads, games) is quite pricey
The Deck is about the same price, but like I said you’ll end up saving in games since you start with your whole Steam Library and can get more games much cheaper.
it’s Nintendo, famous for their anti-everything (anti-homebrew, anti-emulation, anti-piracy)
The Deck is by far the most open console you can get, you can even replace the entire OS if you want to, but StramOS is great and you shouldn’t need to.
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 4 days ago:
It’s strange how I never see this mentioned anywhere, but there’s a way to get unique secure passwords for every site/app without needing to store them anywhere. It’s called LessPass, and essentially generates passwords based on 3 fields (site, username, master password) and works relatively well, because the advantages are quite obvious I’ll list the potential downsides:
- If one password is compromised or needs changing for whatever reason you need to increase a counter and need to remember which counter for which site (this is less problematic than it sounds, except in places that have a password policy that forces you to change your password periodically)
- Android can store the master password and use fingerprint to input it, but in PC you always have to type your master password which can get annoying.
- You need to change your passwords to this new format, which can take a while, and years down the line you’re trying to login somewhere and don’t remember if you’ve already migrated it or not.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 days ago:
Both are good games, but they’re very different from each other. Also neither is made by Bethesda.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 days ago:
Trying not to spoil too much, there’s a timer but it doesn’t really matter, you will almost never run out of time and retrying is encouraged. There’s almost no time pressure in this game, and the amount of time in that timer is over 20 minutes, which should be plenty of time to do what you have to, and if not you can reset the timer and try again.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 days ago:
You probably missed one entry that told you they were blind but not deaf
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 1 week ago:
Yes, but most Europeans tend to underestimate how expensive medicine is in the USA, from personal experience here in Spain an ambulance ride to the hospital + consultation + x-ray is free for residents and costs €200 for tourists, whereas the same stuff in the USA can cost around $5000 even for residents.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 1 week ago:
As a general rule yeah you can, however the price for stuff if you’re not insured is very expensive, but it will likely still be much cheaper than the USA, and also if it’s not an emergency you might have trouble being able to get to a doctor. Let me give you an example, we were visiting Spain when my wife fell and twisted her ankle, we had to call an ambulance, she had an emergency consultation with an X-RAY (luckily she didn’t broke anything), and because we had forgotten our sanitary card we had to pay foreign prices, i.e. €200. That looks expensive to us because if we had brought that card it would have been free, but that same thing in the US could cost us $5000 so overall lot cheaper.
That being said, in Ireland for my wife to go to an Endocrinologist we had to:
- Register with a GP
- Book an appointment for that GP
- Pay that appointment
- Convince the GP you need to see an Endocrinologist. If he disagrees you won’t get to an Endocrinologist.
- The GP books the Endocrinologist appointment for you, or sends an email to the endocrinologist allowing you to book it
- You pay for the Endocrinologist appointment
- You go there and explain your symptoms, he’ll likely order blood exam and ask you to return on another day
- You book and pay the blood exams
- Do the blood exam
- Book and pay the return consultation to the endocrinologist
Overall cost was around €1000 and took us over a month to go through all of that. And again this might feel cheap for you, but to us feels expensive. And because of the initial requirement to register with the GP tourists can’t do it. Not sure how other countries work, in Spain we book stuff through our insurance and just show the insurance card and haven’t paid anything in over a year.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 week ago:
- It lacks a d-pad
- It lacks a right thumb stick
- The thumb stick it has is not capacitive nor drift free
- It only has one back paddle for each side
- Ergonomics of the deck are way better, at least for me
- It lacks the
…button (although this is minor because Steam+a opens the same menu)
Don’t get me wrong, the SC 1 is a great controller, but the Steam deck is better, getting a Steam deck like controller would be awesome.
- Comment on Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another? 1 week ago:
Yup, just drop the markdown files in the folder where Silverbullet stores the markdown files and they’re accessible. BTW the format to reference a file is [[path/to/file]] and you can reference inexistent files and they will get created when you navigate to them.
- Comment on Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another? 1 week ago:
I used to do that, but eventually found out about silverbullet.md it’s still just markdown files but I can edit them on the go with my phone.
Plus it has some nice extra syntax to query documents that’s quite handy.
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 1 week ago:
Damn you, you started to say that hacking is not portrayed realistically and I was going to reply with Mr. Robot, then you said about programming and I was going to mention Silicon Valley. Which goes to show that those are likely the only two realistic examples out there hahaha
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 week ago:
If you click the source for the graph above and scroll down you’ll have it there.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 1 week ago:
The answer should be fairly obvious to anyone who’s looked at an European map, there’s a reason why the oldest cities are always around or near rivers. Also humans had bottle-like technologies since essentially forever, it’s probably one of the first tools to be developed after “pointy stick”.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 week ago:
The growth rate is a better chart for that, because you can see the population growth drastically diminishing (because more deaths = less grow) until vaccines where made available and then it immediately goes back to normal. If someone wanted to depopulate all they had to do was prevent the vaccines from reaching people or have people not take the vaccine.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but they have a setting to fix this by letting Plex know that 192.168.0.x range is local network (as if it needed it) except it’s behind a paywall.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
Giving it write access to a folder is not even remotely on the same level as giving it control over the host networking. Worst case scenario in the volume access is to delete that data, which is on a btrfs drive and has backups, worst case scenario for network host is root access to host machine.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
Yes I am, but I don’t want to give full control of my network drive to a closed source application because it paywalled me out of being able to access my media on my local network. It’s ridiculous that I have to do that. It breaks ECI, and is a security risk. And yeah, it’s a bit paranoid, but the fact that they can fix it with a simple config and put that behind a paywall is VERY worrisome, so I now need to pay if I want to isolate Plex from the host where it’s running.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
Yup, that’s exactly the problem I have, it’s ridiculous that it doesn’t let me stream from a local network just because it thinks that it’s local network is only the docker one, it should be fairly simple for Plex to figure out it’s accessible via a direct connection and it doesn’t need to route through the Plex servers for this. But it won’t get fixed because it pushes people to pay, hell from what people are saying here the config to fix this is paywalled so they create a problem for which they sell you the solutions.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
Therefore it’s literally impossible for me to watch my media locally, way to go Plex.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have that configuration: Image
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 weeks ago:
I can’t speak for OP, but I self host lots of stuff, have literally dozens of services running, have an Ansible repo to manage it all and routi some stuff through a VPS, not to mention my day job has included managing services in one way or another for a long while. This is to say, I know what I’m doing. I couldn’t setup Plex to work the way I wanted to, they expect it to run in a docker with network set to host mode, I couldn’t find any way to tell Plex that my living room TV was in the same network, it just wouldn’t accept any connections as local. I know I shot myself in the foot here by not letting it run with network on host mode, but I shouldn’t have to, the port was exposed, I could reach it through the local network IP, but I wasn’t able to stream any content locally.
