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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backblaze is slow for Nextcloud. Any recommendations for faster s3 compatible storage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it maybe because of physical distance? How far is your VPS from the Backblaze region? Check the bucket “S3 Region”. I’m stuck on west, for example, even though I live on the other side of the country. There’s a way to switch, but I haven’t had the need to bother with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for suggestions: Task scheduler ideally with reminders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Self hosting a calendar isn’t too difficult. I use NextCloud personally, but as the saying goes “it’s overkill for your specific requirements”. Nothing wrong with overkill, though.

  Another option might be LubeLogger. It’s designed to track car maintenance, but you can set up time based reminders. For example you can create a “vehicle” called Dishwasher and set a once a month reminder. The problem is notifications… LubeLogger only does email if you set it up. I hacked together Ntfy notifications but that was one of the more difficult things I’ve ever figured out. It’s possible, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Router suggestions for a complete noob⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love MikroTik, but I don’t think it meets OP’s needs. RouterOS isn’t beginner friendly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I used to LOVE defragmenting drives. I felt like I was actually doing something productive, and I just got to sit back and watch the magic happen.

  Now I know better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix teams up with NASA to show live rocket launches and spacewalks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s Netflix? That thing I cancelled years ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home surveillance set up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have Frigate running with a reverse proxy, a coral, etc. I just use the internal Intel GPU on my CPU and it works with a 1080p and a not-quite-4k stream (4MP maybe?). It’s no sweat for the hardware.

  GPU is only used to detect motion, and you can even configure a lower resolution sub-stream from your cameras to reduce that load, but I don’t think you’ll need to.

  Once motion is detected, Frigate fires up the coral to determine what is there. A car, dog, person, etc.

  I have everything get recorded with no processing to a single WD Purple, the biggest I could afford. It holds months of video before rewriting over old stuff.

  Hope that helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker is renaming a mounted drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not an expert, but I think we need more information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.blahaj.zone has setup a piefed instance.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds good to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.blahaj.zone has setup a piefed instance.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only speculate, but PieFed seems great for a community like blahaj. It makes it super easy root out disrespectful users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One that stands out to me are the optional notes above the comment box for each community.

  On piefed.social I’ve used this to put a note on every beehaw.org community about the ‘good vibes only’ nature of that instance and one community on lemmy.ml has a note about the unusual mostly-unwritten moderation policies employed there.

  I like this idea, because it would serve as a last second warning to me(and others) that I might be at risk of participating with tankies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve certainly seen some toxic .ee users which jives with your theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use apps on my phone, but have no clue how to troubleshoot them. I have programs on my computer that I hardly know how to use, let alone know the inner workings of. How is running things in Docker any different? Why put down people who have an interest in running things themselves?

  I know you’re just trying to answer the above question of “why do it the hard way”, but it struck me as a little condescending. Sorry if I’m reading too much into it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reverse proxy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To access things outside of your LAN (for example from your phone while at the grocery store), each service gets a DuckDNS entry. “service.myduckdns.com” or whatever.

  Your phone will look for service.myduckdns.com on port 443, because you’ll have https:// certificates and that all happens on port 443.

  When that request eventually gets to your router and is trying to penetrate your firewall, you’ll need 443 open and forwarded to your Debian machine.

  So yes, you have it right.

  Also forward port 80.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reverse proxy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That question is a little bit out of the scope of a forum like this. A question like that would better be answered by the nginx documentation. Sometimes the project documentation might have a blurb about nginx configuration specific for that project. For example, Immich.

  For the most part, you only have to reference the nginx documentation. I’ve never looked at the Immich config above until now, and my Immich server works great.

  I’ve had a reverse proxy for years, but the config files are very foreign to me because I use Nginx-Proxy-Manager. NPM makes nginx usable for dummies like me, at the expense of gaining a deeper understanding of how it works. I’m ok with that, but you might feel differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This photo is taken out of context, though. I mean, he slapped his chest before the salute, and he did it twice in a row… Ah shit nevermind, he’s a Nazi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. If it was something that I’d need to refer to later I might go the photo route, but since it’s all temporary reference I just toss it in the trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do for my job, where I need to quickly jot down important information. The info I jot down is temporary in nature, and after a particular “job” (I might have a few jobs in a day), the info is useless.

  Paper and pen is great because it’s fast, custom, doesn’t take up screen space, and you don’t have to click buttons to throw it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any community for Linux for noobs ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s run by the main developers of Lemmy, and they’re both authoritarian communists (which I just got from Wikipedia as I’m trying not to use the pejoritve “tankie”).

  Anything that could be perceived as speaking down towards Russia, China, maybe even North Korea, end up with your comment getting deleted and your account banned for a period of time.

  They started Lemmy because @dessalines got banned from Reddit. The backwards thinking is that people shouldn’t be banned for speaking their minds, yet their instance is the absolute worst for that.

  By avoiding .ml you are helping Lemmy be what it should be – a decentralized, user owned, user moderated place with sensible decisions behind the scenes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any community for Linux for noobs ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  !linux@lemmy.world and !linux@programming.dev have my support since I boycott .ml whenever possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted PDF manager?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For remote access, wireguard is great. You can access stuff via their internal addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted podcast has announced that episode 150 is their last.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the few podcasts I listen to sometimes. Wishing them well and thanks for all of the hard work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t need backlight to type words, but love backlit keys for symbols, brightness keys, volume keys, function keys, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toilet seat detects atrial fibrillation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just discovered (thanks to this site) that you can click the uBlock Origin icon, then “enter element zapper mode” (the lightning bolt). It just gets rid of whatever you want to disappear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toilet seat detects atrial fibrillation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it started as a joke.

  “Where can you force people to sit still for long enough to detect an afib?”

  “The toilet!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toilet seat detects atrial fibrillation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  uBlock Origin, to be specific. I don’t know if it’s still a thing, but uBlock used to be not good in comparison to uBlock Origin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DockGE released 1.5.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fan of Dockge. Nice simplicity, easy to update container stacks, etc. etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like the hEX refresh is the same price from that vendor.

  RB5009 is better but more expensive. There’s a PoE version that can power your WiFi APs in the future.

  I also question the decision to put OpenWrt on it. RouterOS is solid. There’s a learning curve, but it’s worth it if you’re a nerd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chinstrap Linux haha. It’s like Fedora, but for a totally different demographic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know Gentoo was named after a penguin.