phanto

@phanto@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decentralized Search Engine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve run yacy and searxng, and I find yacy flaky. I get really random search results, often not useful at all. I like Searxng though, although once in a while I have to hit refresh to get my result. Probably a simple fix, I’ve just never bothered to go down the rabbit hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to start with OpenStack. Oof. Yup. Proxmox.

  There are a lot of good guides. I run almost everything on proxmox these days, even virtualized my Windows, and (after a lot of messing around) got my GPU passed through for when I game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I tried that a long time ago, and it didn’t work. Tried it again today, same deal. Then, I tried a third time and actually hit the “Save” button this time… Yeah, I think Jellyfin was never the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had both for a while now, but I find that subtitle playback is a bit spotty in Jellyfin. Is that fixed, or have I missed a setting somewhere? The other thing is that my libraries are alphabetical in Jellyfin, so “Anime” comes before “Kaiju”, and I truly can’t stand the idea that Godzilla gets sent to the back of the bus. Is there a way to customize the order of libraries?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I ask myself that on a regular basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I volunteer at the public library. Almost all the people who come in are phones only, and totally lost on a PC. They come in to fill out gov’t PDFs that won’t open on their phones and to print stuff out. My classmates, in the IT program (!) have a lot of trouble navigating on their laptops, and only a couple of us have desktops at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider me a “dry texter”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be a dry texter, but now I intersperse gifs of waterfalls, oceans, lakes or rivers every three or four messages. It took effort, but nobody accuses me of being dry anymore! (Also, I moisturize in the winter.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First home server advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I run each of them separately in containers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First home server advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like running proxmox and then containers for my apps, proxmox being basically Debian already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home - YaCy - P2P search engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried a couple of years ago, but it kept crashing after a day or two. Not sure if I set it up wrong or something? Currently running searx-ng, which I quite like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Questions about the Boox Palma/Boox Palma 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a boox Poke 3, again, not quite the same. My workaround for the settings thing: install Lawn chair app. It’s an alternative launcher, and for some reason, it lets me access all the normal android settings. I have modified my DNS settings on it, and connected to VPN that way. Might work on the Palma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone want my 12 year old old Ubuntu install DVD before I toss it out? No? Your loss.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s it, I’m going to go find my Mandrake Floppies…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m coming off of two years (and change) of daily, debilitating pain. I’m just now starting to get used to moving around on the regular again, and trying to get back into a shape that isn’t “round.” As a consequence of this, I also don’t have a job. During those two years, I spent more than seven months collecting doctor’s reports and paperwork to get coverage for the medications prescribed… In Canada! The stuff that was covered here would have absolutely bankrupted me in the US. (Yes, I got declined.)

  No comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not similar, but my old job sucked, hated my boss, hated many of my co-workers, and despised the company. I took a package out and am back at school, and don’t regret it for one minute. Fear of the unknown is how bad bosses keep good employees.