EarMaster

@EarMaster@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to send backups on multiple location?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what he means is that if your backup is triggered from your main server and your main server is compromised the backups can also be attacked immediately. If the backup is requested from the backup machine you will at least have the time between the attack and the next backup to prevent the attack from reaching your backup machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing wrong with being a gamer. It’s just a bad day/month/year/presidency to be a US citizen…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recipes, Meal Planning, and Shopping List⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was KitchenOwl. It’s shopping list works and looks similar to Bring, which we had used before and made the transition for my wife easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t plan on supporting this for at least a few years I would say no.

  If you don’t expect to have a decent local userbase I would say no (local in the sense of a common interest, e.g. it might be useful to host an instance for all members of even a small company if you expect a decent amount of posts).

  If it’s just you and your family (let’s be honest: it’s just you) I would say no.

  The fediverse can federate, but if everyone is using their own server it’s just a fancy peer to peer network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help getting domain to resolve over LAN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I also think it may be the browser not using the DNS provided by the router. This is often called Safe Browsing or Secure DNS in browser settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It does, but mostly because we’re talking about an enormous amount of data. The number being advertised is 2 Petabyte…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be to sure if Microsoft is working on something like this. What they did with Flight Simulator was pretty spectacular…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While almost everyone here seems to hate AI (maybe for the wrong reason, but who am I to judge) I like to have AI as it is able to provide answers a simple search engine cannot.

  What I don’t see is hosting something like this myself. The managing of source and indexing them would take too much of my, my server’s and the web servers to be indexed energy (maybe I am wrong).

  There are already good solutions (OpenWebUI with Ollama) that can be tweaked to almost do what you’re describing and the AI models get better every month, so I don’t think a custom AI search engine could keep up with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can hope there will be a sudden price drop in about 5 years…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a general guide on how to make ssh more secure I stick to www.sshaudit.com You can check your config and they also provide step by step guides for several distros…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on reveals a proper generational upgrade, though its biggest new idea remains unproven⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Switch is a family console. Neither Xbox nor Playstation can compete in this sector (and maybe they don’t want to).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to redirect voice traffic from WhatsApp and Signal to a landline?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know that’s not possible for WhatsApp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which non-US domain registrar to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use INWX (based in Germany). Prices are consistently low (not always the cheapest, but fair). The web UI is a bit rusty, but it works perfectly and you can manage everything there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Hosted podcast⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That show is equal parts content and advertising. That is a bit too much for me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transport Tycoon was fantastic and thanks to OpenTTD I still play it from time to time.

  Gothic 2 is by far the best Action RPG of all time. Witcher 3 comes close, but still fails to surpass it in so many places.

  Banished always gets me with it’s atmosphere. It feels cozy but at the same time you are close to complete annihilation. Oxygen not included hits the same mark, but also has a distinctive art style and humor to it which I love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random people started sharing child pornography on my matrix server, what are my options?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is bad advice. Do not listen to this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s where you draw the line…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Paperless-AI is fantastic. I had 750 untagged documents (all my physical mail since 2017). Paperless-AI processed all of them using a local Ollama installation, tagged them, created correspondants and a title for each document. So much work I didn’t have to do… 😍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve have just updated the Source 1 SDK on GitHub to the latest code based on Team Fortress 2, effectively making TF2 code source available⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because the source code is available it does not mean it is free to use and do with it what you want. The license explicitly states that you may use it but have to publish it for free and follow the Steam subscriber agreement. Also this is just source code, not the assets (at least as far as I understand it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare they get rid of a dark pattern… /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently switched a bunch of nginx configs to the opnsense Caddy plugin. It is easy to configure, but in my opinion it lacks the ability to change settings beyond the basics. It isn’t helpful either that the plugin developer fails to recognize any other use case than the basics. It disqualifies the plugin for everyone with a little bit more complex setups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have recently setup my paperless-ngx instance and have uploaded all my scanned documents. Now I have to tag all that stuff which seems like a lot of work. So I’m looking into paperless-ai… 🧞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats your favorite domain extension?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  .rocks just rocks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Alex Kurtzman on Section 31 and the "evolution" of Star Trek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand that he thinks he has to do something different. That lies in the nature of storytelling. Hardly any author likes telling the same story again and again in the same way. It is the same thing nobody seems to understand when there is a reboot or remake of an old movie or show (but that’s another story). But I also have to strongly disagree that doing something different means doing it like every other drama series. Lower Decks of all things has shown that the original idea of Star Trek not only holds up but even transcends to other genres very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: Alex Kurtzman On How ‘Section 31’ Embodies Star Trek Values, And The Future Of The Franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Comparing this movie to Deep Space Nine is a disgrace…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Long story short: The USA are not the moral compass of the world (thank god).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x07: “Fully Dilated” (SPOILERS)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mariner asking about the purple carpet of the Enterprise D also references a somewhat vulgar saying about women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should one access their servers when in China if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest: After visiting both the US and China I was way more concerned after my US visit that my phone may have been compromised.

  Using a VPN was no problem for me in China, but it has been a few years since I’ve been there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are several guides on what episode can / should / mustn’t be skipped.

  Let’s watch Star Trek has it for every classic show: www.letswatchstartrek.com/tng-episode-guide/

  But there are of course other guides and as they’re subjective ratings you might want to give episodes a chance even if others didn’t like them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My main advice is: Don’t be afraid to skip an episode if you watch it and you don’t like it. Especially the early seasons of TNG, DS9 and Voyager have some episodes which can easily be skipped. You won’t lose any context.