gdog05

@gdog05@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK it's Muskrat's birthday and people are throwing parties.⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You say all that on jest but I’m old enough to have seen the change. Old enough and from a remote enough area that the change happened late for me.

  I’d say it was about 1994-1995 when I noticed it. The police became more militarized and the standards of law enforcement were changed to be a revolving door where if they fucked up, they just got moved far enough away from the fuck up that no one knew about it there. Basically following the Catholic church system.

  So law enforcement went from being socially embedded in the community to being outside of it a bit. And then over time, above it. And mind you, this is very rural. Towns smaller than 10k people were considered our cities. Cops have always been class traitors but looking back, this all felt like a calculated sea change.

  And then of course 9/11 happened and police started getting the militarized hardware to go along with the attitude. And then Fox news started to warp what were pretty decent people into being xenophobic hate worshippers.

  But right before all that, if you were caught causing trouble, underage drinking or even drinking and driving, the cops would bring you to your house to face your parents. Not to a jail cell.

  We had a decent amount of freedom. Actual freedom. Capitalism was reigning supreme at larger scales, but it hadn’t been applied to every single thing in life quite yet. It didn’t have its act together enough to suck the fun out of just existing. Even state government (in a low-population state) felt pretty community driven. Legislators would come by and visit even my tiny village.

  You didn’t see no trespassing signs on every piece of fence because frivolous lawsuits hadn’t been made popular yet. My mom, a single mother, she did struggle financially but she still was capable of raising my brother and I in safety on a waitress’ wage. And again, this is a tiny ass town she was waitressing in. Fewer than 500 people.

  The 80’s and 90’s were far from perfect but it does allow me to know we can do better. We can have it better. And it’s one of the few things that keep me working and fighting. The younger generations deserve better and they can have a better life than has been provided to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden (v2.11.0) - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Some nice improvements to an already great piece of kit. Good job y’all. Looking forward to updating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s drone 9/11 is coming — and just like on 9/11, we aren’t ready⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the trillions is the point… Not security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s drone 9/11 is coming — and just like on 9/11, we aren’t ready⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or… Use drones and just take full credit. No need for obfuscation with our current media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, with Plex constantly changing allowed abilities and such, it seems to me that this is the expected outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The OP might disagree from what I’m seeing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But I keep hearing the value of Plex is that anyone can use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨autofocus glasses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t either but I sure would like to be able to read stuff sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh really?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, most books are printed in signatures. Several pages on one sheet printed on a press, then folded and trimmed and then bound to make a book. A signature almost always has to have at minimum a 4 page signature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a mess⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s obviously the ancient death cult symbol that stifles humanity and individuality that would make that room feel claustrophobic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have some questions about selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the issues with multiple devices is networking. Transferring totally legit files for the Arr stack to and from the NAS can be a lot of data. Keeping it all in one system means your speeds up to that point are SATA speeds vs ethernet.

  For the OP, one file with hard linking is my goal, but I only use Usenet. I rip anything that comes down with Tdarr to strip languages, normalize audio and rip to H265. If you do that with torrents, you will need to keep the original for seeding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, more ED-209 than RoboCop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you set up jellyfish at your home, given access to a friend outside of your network who could not setup Jellyfin themselves, and successfully got them playing on their TV, table tablet, and/or phone? Have you been able to set them up without them having to call you every week?

  Yes. It’s very easy. It might not have used to be easy but it is for the last couple of years. Dead simple. About a dozen people use my Jellyfin server across TV’s, phones, tablets, laptops. None of them are what I would call techies. It’s as simple for them as Netflix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨getting 522 error Cloudflaired + Jellyfin + fail2ban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You will want the actual IP address. Localhost can get lost in various circumstances. If Cloudflare tunnel service and Jellyfin are on the same virtual network it should be fine. But I wouldn’t trust it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can get Open Street Maps in the F Droid app store. But, as much as I appreciate OSM, it’s just not the same as Google maps. The speed, accuracy and information doesn’t seem to have an equal.

  You definitely can run Nextcloud in a VM. With decent hardware, it will do it. I guess I would say it depends on needs and expectations. My install is not snappy to me. I’ve got what I feel is a very beefy server but still. Just feels a little slow at times. Totally functional. Just has a small amount of lag when doing anything. I’ve read people say they have none at all. But when you’re busy and relying on it, my suggestion is to eke out everything you can for it for a better experience. Not make or break by any means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s a problem per se, as much as it’s a difference in priorities. But the docker implementation in TrueNAS is more of an afterthought. I think they’ve fixed some issues but checking out their forums, many of the issues I faced seem to still exist. Docker packages corrupting and not being accessible in any way, not updating, just seemingly, not robust. Also, I disliked the file permission structure but that’s more preference I think. I would say TrueNAS is a great NAS just not the best hypervisor and NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A few things. I also think nextcloud is the way to go for what you want. I’ve gotten rid of anything Google I can. Except for maps. Man, there just is no substitute especially when mobile.

  I always do, but I’m going to suggest Unraid for a NAS. Pay the money and then just enjoy it. I fought with truenas for over a year before I succumbed. You can totally play around with zfs, striped arrays whatever. I do not recommend an external enclosure. I think you’ll come to hate it for lack of ability. I recommend biting the bullet and building a machine or putting your current PC components into a real case with upgradability if possible.

  Also, I wouldn’t plan on running Nextcloud in a VM. Nextcloud is pretty beefy and a VM adds complexity that I suggest against. A docker AIO version of nextcloud running on as close to bare metal as you can is probably the best option for performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s for the CDN. It’s about serving static, cached content faster. I actually tried to pay and use their Stream service, but it’s only to be used for serving video in a when page. While they’ve not directly clarified on the topic (even after being asked directly in the forums several times), don’t turn on caching and it appears to serve the language they’ve used in the updated TOS. I’m not a lawyer here, but parse that all as you will. Don’t take up storage on their CDN and they seem to be happy. I actually did buy some domain names through them to make sure I’m not just using their services without giving anything back. But, that’s a matter of conscience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s to say what content I stream. You do you, boo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s not. It used to be. They removed that part of the TOS about video streaming back in 2023.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how you’re hosting Jellyfin. The easiest and most common way is via Docker in some form. You can also install a docker image of Cloudflare tunnel making sure it’s on the same virtual network as Jellyfin (I think it will by default). However you’re running Jellyfin, Cloudflare tunnel will need to be able to reach your local Jellyfin install.

  Create a tunnel in the Cloudflare zero trust dashboard, create or edit the config file for your Cloudflare tunnel install using the code string from the zero trust dashboard, your tunnel will attempt to connect to the Cloudflare servers, when it does, you have a secure tunnel. Then you can add hostnames on the zero trust dashboard, using your local IP addresses and ports. For example, jellyfin.yourdomain.com points to 192.168.1.10:8096. The tunnel connects your local IP to the routing from your domain.

  Be careful to not open this up to apps that don’t have security in some form at least. There are ways to improve security on your tunnel end with SWAG and such. And I recommend turning on the security tools in Cloudflare so your domain can’t be accessed outside of your country at the least, and maybe even whitelisting IP addresses for even more security.

  SpaceInvaderOne on YouTube has a good video on creating a Cloudflare tunnel via Unraid. But everything is much the same in regular docker. I’m sure there’s good videos on doing it however you’re hosting Jellyfin. Feel free to reach out with questions, I’ll gladly help if I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare tunnel and a domain name will stream Jellyfin to any device while delivering a decent amount of safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one advantage we have over the machines is that their chips are destructible. Can we stop this research?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be able to do it but it’s absolutely the wrong tool for the job. That’s Adobe Illustrator territory for sure and maybe inkscape can do it (not familiar enough with it to be able to say) but vector art creation tools are what you really want for this kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Henleys and tees were traditionally undershirts as well. Fashion evolves. I would never wear a tank top outside of the house myself, but it’s still a shirt. Maybe a little trashy to wear in college but also, it’s where a lot of people test social norms to find their style. I’d say it’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google shows new AR glasses, VR headset at TED⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dont worry about your retirement plan...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude can’t even charm his wife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a hard science. It’s still a real science. Unless you’re a scientologist then your opinion didn’t matter anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there an emby app available or Kodi? The base of Jellyfin should work in either. Plug and play as far as I’m aware with maybe some issues for certain versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mediawolf - Looking for contributers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I missed the Readarr part in my initial read through, but that is exciting. Jellyseer kind of has a recommendation section, mostly in popular and trending movies. I think it pulls from Trakt? Not entirely sure on that one. Either way, I’m looking forward to trying Mediawolf.