merthyr1831
@merthyr1831@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gaza war: Five Israeli soldiers killed 'by tank fire' in Jabalia 2 days ago:
did the soldiers condemn Hamas?
- Comment on Gaza war: Five Israeli soldiers killed 'by tank fire' in Jabalia 2 days ago:
Just because you dont like their content doesn’t mean it’s spam. Just filter hexbear posts and grow some thicker skin
- Comment on Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B 4 days ago:
Rsync over FTP. i use it for a weekly nextcloud backup to a hetzner storage box
- Comment on What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)? 5 days ago:
If you don’t mind plugging stuff in yourself, literally any quadcore x86 CPU with integrated graphics after 2016 will run jellyfin just fine. Then you can load up on SSDs as you see fit.
Any prebiilt NAS you can find with anything within the last 8 years in the CPU will also be just fine.
idk what resolution you use for streaming but my raspberry pi 4B runs plex at 1080p just fine as long as it isnt using x265/AV1 (but on jellyfin you might be able to use the Pi’s GPU for transcoding).
I use nextcloud too but it’s a tiny bit slower than I’d like, but that’s likely a wifi issue i think.
- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 6 days ago:
Doesnt Broadcom own a majority stake or something?
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 days ago:
The opinion of what is and isnt “subjective” is up for a lot of debate even if you dont personally have a major stake in a videogame’s marketing campaign (such as the authors and enforcers of these contracts).
- Comment on Microsoft Edge experiment blocks access to settings if Windows 11 is not activated 1 week ago:
surely giving edge more functionality to mac and linux users isn’t a good idea right?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
If i was stack overflow I would’ve transferred my backups to OpenAI weeks before the announcement for this very reason.
It’s a small act of rebellion but SO already has your data and they’ll do whatever they want with it, including mine.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 1 week ago:
I’d keep the physical library around and just digitize as and when she asks for specific stuff. You’ll probably never back up half the library. That or stick it on a HDD out of the way and transfer the few she wants, then tuck the drive in a draw forever in case she wants something else.
Jellyfin must have a feature like Plex where certain user accounts can have certain libraries attached? You could use that to avoid having to look at those crappy movies in your library.
I don’t really have much of an issue with family recommendations but I do tell them that the space isn’t unlimited so if they don’t watch something they asked for I’m likely to remove it for something we WILL watch. In your case, you could at least have leverage to get her to narrow down what needs hosting and what doesnt.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 week ago:
If I’m looking up something general, like some actor or tv show, then DDG is perfect. If im troubleshooting some weird software issue then i find it doesnt always list as many results, as if it hasnt indexed as many sites.
DDG at least now means I can search random shit without it suddenly being inserted into my social media algorithms like some kind of psychological torture.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 week ago:
Google used to list sites with backlinks highly, it was their first ever search algorithm iirc. Once people learned you could game that by planting useless backlinks, Google realised it was a bad idea.
Somehow, they’ve reinvented this all over again with parasite SEO that fundamentally works the same way. All they did was add some “domain ranking”. Now, unreliable-but-popular sites coughredditcough will always score highly regardless of quality, because Google deemed them superior.
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 1 week ago:
Yup agreed.
China, like the US, hasn’t got the means nor the motive to track billions of people abroad; they both have a hard enough time keeping tabs on people domestically despite years of expanding their respective police states.
Of course there’s always the propaganda and soft power stuff but again, every single state is doing this, but the insinuation is that Europe or the anglosphere in general are the only propaganda-free places on Earth!
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 1 week ago:
Willing to bet money this was posted on hardware that actually does have backdoors to some 3 letter agency in the US, to much more personal consequence than any metaphorical Chinese government spyware
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 1 week ago:
With reddit getting worse, these kinds of vapid “i only post snark about [insert US designated enemy]” users are gonna be all the more common.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
So instead of one dumb guy founding Tesla and running it into the ground, TWO dumb guys gave everything over to another dumb guy to run it into the ground. Masterful gambit !
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 3 weeks ago:
AI isn’t on track to displace millions of jobs. Most of the automation we’re seeing was already possible with existing technology but AI is being slapped on as a buzzword to sell it to the press/executives.
The trend is going the way of NFTs/Blockchain where the revolutionary “everything is going to be changed” theatrical rhetoric meets reality, where it might complement existing technologies but otherwise isn’t that useful on its own.
In programming, we went from “AI will replace everyone!!!” to “AI is a complementary tool for programmers but requires too much handholding to completely replace a trained and educated software engineer when maintaining and expanding software systems”.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Anyone downvoting can go back to reddit: sorry your favourite democrats arent astroturfing the front page with heckin police puppers or whatever slop you miss from that cesspit.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Oh get over yourself lmao. Like reddit didnt have the_donald up on the front page for years
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Im seeing more communities on my feed than ever. Even if it’s shrinking, the ones who stay are active.
Just FYI, every “wave” of signups from some reddit/other news relating to lemmy will always be followed by some falloff as people dont both signing in every day – which is basically how people use reddit and other apps but with such a large installcount they’re not as noticeable.
- Comment on In search of software for managing like a helpdesk but in a lite format 4 weeks ago:
appflowy is foss, self-hostable via docker, and supports notes, tables, etc. but also kanban boards which i find useful for self management.
I’m using notion atm (the software appflowy has cloned to bring it to FOSS) as I’ve not set up docker yet :'(
- Comment on Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame 4 weeks ago:
“owners will have to wait for April 20th” is nothing serious with this manchild ffs 😭
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
Yup same here, on android
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 4 weeks ago:
One of the most hated features of Windows 10 and they removed it just to add it back later lmao. They deffo had this planned all along and knew it would hurt their already terrible upgrade rates if they added it from the start
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough, the federation of platforms like lemmy is a good protection against legal trolls for sure.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
try !privacy@lemmy.ml as I’m not 100% on this stuff
but basically:
some third party hosts let you sign up anonymously with an anonymous email etc.
Only ever connect to the server host via VPN
Get a domain with anonymous WHOIS protection
Stick it all behind a reverse proxy
Technically Nintendo or whoever could demand your proxy/host to stop doing business with your account, but they won’t have enough personal info to go beyond that and you can just rehost it under new info.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
The threads/forum feature on discord is just awful. Topics get buried and I think the general ethos of discord encourages people to just spam in the chat channels rather than wait in a forum for help.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
I mean using matrix or any chat service is giving your data to someone else. What’s the distrust with revolt?
Looking at their git repos it seems pretty above board: multiple open source clients by community members, APGL license, docker images and backend repo all pretty accessible in one place.
No hate on Matrix of course, but theres a few people who seem to have the ick for Revolt and I wonder if Ive missed something.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
I’m still pretty solid with my Yuzu install so I’ve no need to move to Ryujinx for now, but assuming they avoid Ninty’s legal team I’ll likely pick up Ryujinx when I need a fresh steamOS install and/or Ryujinx surpasses Yuzu’s compatibility in a game I wanna play
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
I guess if you like matrix thats cool, but I did just do a quick google and it looks like their clients and server backend are all open source (AGPL-3) and self-hostable so I wouldn’t say there’s much to distrust.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
googled Sudachi, and its GPL 3 but:
- Contributions aren’t allowed
- Hosted on github (might be an issue tracker instead of the live repo tho)
- Claims not to paywall features, before listing a bunch of features behind a paywall.
yeah that’s gonna go real swell for them