Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Some mistakes may have been made 5 hours ago:
But you have heard of me~
- Comment on Cute animal pictures > random people 20 hours ago:
I just don’t go to social interactions, easier
- Comment on Docker in LXC vs VM 20 hours ago:
This is not recommended for proxmox
The documentation (FAQ 13) actually directly says that docker should be installed as a QEMU VM on proxmox and that it should not be installed on the Proxmox Host
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 1 day ago:
Because it’s universal, it works, it’s multi-platform, device agnostic and it’s simple to use user side.
Nothing else available really fits that criteria.
The closest in todays age is probally discord or teams, but neither of which are decentralized. XMPP could work for it, but nobody really uses it anymore and to be honest the standard is ugly as hell to implement.
Browser Notifications are ineffective and have a high probability of failing or not being seen, they are more meant for real-time notices not historical notices not to mention locked to that browser.
App notifications would be amazing for things with apps, but not everyone wants to be forced into using their mobile device for everything, and it would again only be available from said app, which would generally be locked down to a device
Email sucks admin side, but there’s a reason its used.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 day ago:
huh, I learned a new words today
for others who want to know
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Jingoism: noun
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Extreme Nationalism characterized by a belligerent foreign policy
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A bellicose patriotidm; aggressive chauvinism; belligerence in international relations
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Bellicose: adjective
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warlike or hostile in manner or temperment
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inclined to war or contention
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warlike in nature/aggressive;hostile
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Chauvinism: noun
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Militant devotion to and glorification of one’s country; fanatical patriotism.
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Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one’s own gender, group, or kind.
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Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
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- Comment on I'll do it again 3 days ago:
Jokes aside, this is an amazing book series, I loved it
- Comment on Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner 3 days ago:
It seems he wasn’t banned from Fortnite, just from participating in tournaments. So he may very well cheat in fortnite again, as his account wasn’t banned.
Being said, nice of them to donate the winnings to charity, half expected them to just keep the money.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 days ago:
There’s also the old Samsung Tab tablets I found that would do pretty decent job as well, those are around the same price range too, like the A10 and the A8’s
And looking into the kobo clara series it does look like those are about 120-130 second hand currently so not as bad
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 days ago:
unfortunately though, due to the same issues there isn’t a very large second hand market of those either. Like the cheapest remarkable second hand I could find was still 300$ and the cheapest pine note was 270$ for preowns.
when you compare it to the kindle which has preowns starting at 40$ it’s a hard buy
- Comment on Gone 4 days ago:
Me logging onto Skype after so many years
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 5 days ago:
that could be true, if I didn’t double check the sources. If that is how you would be doing it then sure, but I use it as a guideline not a rule, and check for facts after.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 5 days ago:
I’ve recently setup an recipe archival project using tandoor, I’m working on converting all my grandparents fading old as dust cooking recipes from their misc handwritten cursive notecards to digital.
Setup was uneventful but it took a little research to figure out how to use a remote postgres server, turns out the app doesn’t give an error when it can’t connect to the server, it just fails to run
Have to say the actual program itself is absolutely absurd and how they choose their permissions, it breaks all conventional and took quite a bit to get used to.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 5 days ago:
you likely won’t find an unbiased opinion regarding that here. Members tend not to be able to do their own research and only live to complain about the existence of it.
I share the same opinion as yours, I would rather have a sometimes inaccurate listing than no listing at all. The complaints about it are what I enjoy out of it, it lets me know to look for certain things on the article before I enter so I know if I should take it with a grain of salt or not.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 6 days ago:
I’ve used Voyager before and while it comes close, unless they changed how the app operates, I don’t think that app fits the description that I’m asking for. 1.
The entire issue with Lemmy is the Federation aspect of it, while it’s a good thing to have it’s way too confusing for the everyday person. For example I use eternity, the only layout that remotely looks decent in my opinion. It worked similar to Voyager where when you open it for the first time it brought you to an instance and then when you went to make an account it asked you which instance you wanted to make the account on. That right there is going to turn away a good 30 to 40% of the people looking. I know it almost turned me away.
For the point of responding to this comment I reinstalled Voyager, I’m going to portray my experience from someone who doesn’t have experience with the fediverse. If you don’t wish to see the narration, you can skip the spoiler
Okay cool I see a bunch of posts, I expect this lem.ee thing is the program oh fun they have Politics on the front page I thought I was trying to avoid that but okay there are some memes here that are pretty cool, let me try to like one,
oh I need an account yeah that makes sense, neat they have a learn more button(most people likely won’t click this btw) okay an entire page explaining that the programs like an email client, how is up voting content like receiving emails 😕(personally think they should have used subscribe/follow for that imo)
Okay cool I think I get it let me just use the default instance, let me just skip past all of this pointless TOS stuff, “please write I accept acknowledging that you’ve read the rules in the sidebar on the front page.” uhh Sidebar? Well I don’t know how to get to that so let me try the next instance, lemmy.world sounds good. and that one is a 1 2 3 process(if email verification works)
From here they have a functioning account but the app has failed to tell them the core aspects of what federation is, they’ve failed to explain what defederation is, they failed to explain what the repercussions of choosing an instance does, it’s only explained that Lemmy is like email, and to the everyday user, email is identical across all providers, users very rarely if at all have an email provider actively block an email server because they don’t agree with what’s going on there. For example in the case of LW by choosing that platform you’re actively removing yourself from anything that’s against their mentalities such as the piracy community, you’re also subjecting yourself to a somewhat heavy moderation style instance and also subjecting yourself to hatred in the community without actually realizing you’re doing so. You won’t know this tell you get told by a user (and you WILL get told by a user).
This could be avoided by having a integration with fediseer or being able to integrate with the instances Blacklist so you can see what is blocked. Or even just a link to their rules would be amazing.
That’s my main annoyance in current mobile apps, they are only decent for established fediversers. Most people would have left second or third message into my experience and just gone back to other platforms
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
I thought about it, but immediately dismissed it cause they would lose their entire user base. It would be far too complex to have whitelist based access, as soon as anyone realized how restrictive it is they would bail
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 6 days ago:
you returned it as soon as that was the answer right? I know that would be my answer.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 6 days ago:
Fully agree with that, the bar is too to high usually unless you’re being handheld through the process, realistically there should be an app like how blue sky is that doesn’t give you any of the options because less options means easier setup. If they want to jump instances after that that would be considered an advanced function but they can choose to do so on their own accord.
Another issue I think is lack of actual awareness, like Bsky got media coverage, the everyday person still is like “the hells a lemmy”
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 1 week ago:
You don’t even have to leave the work Sim at home, a lot of phones allow you to just disable the SIM card in your settings. For example my phone has three SIM card slots in the settings. It has the primary sim, Sim 2 and then it has the esim. Granted I only use sim one and Sim 2 is a SIM card for a pay as you go style carrier that way if I ever get in trouble with my current carrier I can just activate it and go.
Back when I was in retail, Sim 2 was my “work sim” , paid for by the company, when I clocked out for the day I just turned it off
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 1 week ago:
So I went to a little bit of a deep dive regarding this, they do require interrupting DNS as part of their Redemption grace period. Furthermore I went into the heck spare website and their current header indicates that despite the fact that it’s in current auction the current owner can still sign in and redeem the domain. Which makes me think that they’re running a more gracious rgp then what is to be expected. So that being said they could just be placing bids on a domain that won’t actually sell.
Being said though apparently according to other comments the infrastructure maintainer of hexpere has been a wall for a while so it’s entirely possible that they just won’t notice it that it will transfer
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 1 week ago:
I must not understand it properly, how was the instance functioning during the grace period for the domain? I was under the understanding that the grace period still had the domain name disabled it’s just the owner had the ability to renew it still
then once the grace period ended then it hit redemption period where it’s auctioned.
If the domain expired 1/12, how was hexbear functioning for the last month(or was it not and I just didn’t notice cause I don’t interact with it)
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 week ago:
It’s because people already Mass reported it so they disabled the ability for it
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 1 week ago:
is it a “can” or a “must”? I don’t mind if it’s optional but yea it defo shouldn’t bd required
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 1 week ago:
This doesn’t bode well.
The last time this happened was when Anonymous hacked PSN and took them down for a month after they went after Geohotz(cant remember the spelling) for jailbreaking/reverse engineering the ps3.
Radio silence like before as well. I hope they weren’t breached again.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 1 week ago:
It was a good read
- Comment on Autoplay videos are cancer to me 1 week ago:
Oh shoot okay, I was hoping it was a mobile setting drat lol
- Comment on Autoplay videos are cancer to me 2 weeks ago:
Wait there’s a setting to turn it off? I’m off to find that setting cause comments on the autoplauers is so old
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, even if that wasn’t the intent that was the outcome. And honestly yea probably was done just using air tools, it’s still blows my mind of how stupidly tight that was on there.
Thankfully though I live in a fairly low population state so there’s never a line for any shops, usually most things can be a walk in or leave that night to have it worked on next day…you just have to be willing to drive 45 minutes to get to one. I do agree, finding a decent mechanic can be helpful, even if the only real work you ever need done is the yearly inspection.
- Comment on How do you keep up? 2 weeks ago:
Yea for sure, I plan to implement that as well when I have some free time.
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 2 weeks ago:
Just as a another form of Devil’s advocate, going over the manufacturer’s recommended specs on it isn’t a good idea either and intentionally making a car have to go back to a shop in order to be repaired on something that should be as simple repair is the easiest way to make it so the customer doesn’t come back
I had that happen with my first vehicle, normally I change my own oil and filter because it’s about the most stupid easy job that you can do, but it was finals week and I already had way too much stuff on plate so I caved and under my parents recommendation brought it to a local shop
Everything went fine didn’t spend through the roof but the next time I went to change my oil oh my God those fuckers put that oil pan plug on there so fucking tight that there was actually signs that it was starting to strip/warp, I had to get my dad to help me with it which was super embarrassing and he laughed at me until he tried to do it himself and he fucking struggled with it.
It was clear that shop intentionally made it as tight as fucking possible because they wanted to make it so the next time it happened they wanted it to be brought in again. After we finally got it off we both agreed on one thing, neither of us are bringing our vehicles back to that shop again.
- Comment on what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump? 2 weeks ago:
Yea Canada would be the only one to even remotely manage that, and that’s taking the gamble that the US doesn’t launch a nuke before it finishes.
Being said it would need to be the military, I don’t think the average citizen would stop something like that. Especially if the invaders were another democratic leaning country. The only way I think you get civilians to fight is if it ends up being a communist country that tries to invade.
Hell we’re talking a country that basically shrugged and said “oh well they deserved it” when someone shot a healthcare CEO, I can’t see anyone batting much of an eye if someone deposed the sitting officials, especially the head of the country.
Being said though… if something like that did happen, I don’t think it will be from a foreign government, I think it would be domestic. Not that it makes it any better.