Eldaroth
@Eldaroth@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 3 days ago:
Nice, had my XMPP server now running for a couple of weeks, not many users on it so far though. But my highlight of the week was managing to get the slidge whatsapp bridge with Prosody running, so I at least don’t have to use the official app anymore for all those people who resist to get off of it.
- Comment on Dawarich 1.0 6 days ago:
Haha nice, already searched that one on F-Droid after not finding the Dawarich Android app on there. Looking forward to it!
- Comment on Dawarich 1.0 1 week ago:
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
In the meantime I tried the app and it looks awesome! However, I noticed the app relies on google’s services location accuracy unfortunately. This is kind of a deal breaker for me to use the app for now. But I get that imlementing an F-Droid version is not your top priority, so I’ll follow the project and patiently wait for it :)
- Comment on Dawarich 1.0 1 week ago:
Are there any plans to make the android app available on F-Droid as well? Or releasing the apk in the GitHub repo so we can install it with Obtainium?
Sorry if this has already been mentioned somewhere, couldn’t find it in your post or on the website.
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 1 week ago:
Yeah you could consider it old school, or maybe just a product of another time were people didn’t mind to use multiple software for different uses.
I for one don’t mind using Mumble for voice and XMPP for text chat or one to one calls for example.
I don’t have a computer or smartphone so I only can install one app and that’s it. And I know I might be in the minority when it comes to that, at least compared to the general public. For gods sake it’s already hard to get people to install a second messenger app, not even trying to get them off WhatsApp or other meta crap…
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 1 week ago:
I believe group calling is only a thing certain clients (e.g. Dino, Movim) support, although there is a initiative to implement it on protocol level as far as I am aware.
- Comment on Matrix hosting 2 weeks ago:
If you have your own VPS anyway, there is the Matrix Ansible Playbook which makes the setup with docker containers very easy. But I also get the sentiment that you don’t want to tinker around all the time and just want stuff to work.
Kudos to you for using Matrix in the first place, I hope you can bring a lot of your friends and family to switch over to it. So far this has been the biggest hurdle on my journey 😅
- Comment on Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method? 3 weeks ago:
I saw you recommend Continuwuity on other posts as well. Was just wondering, what made you choose Continuwuity over Tuwunel?
I am asking because I used to host a Continuwuity Matrix Server until a year ago. Recently started to look into hosting a Matrix server once again and found that Tuwunel seems currently ahead of Continuwuity in regards to WebRTC (Element Call) implementation and the sliding sync thingy.
At least they have updated documentation when it comes to WebRTC and how to set it up.
- Comment on Any Good Desktop or Phone Clients for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Blorp does something similar, showing a baby face icon besides a new user in comments or posts
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 month ago:
You can actually change these ports if you run Snikket behind a reverse proxy according to their advanced configuration docs. But yeah, probably going with something else than Snikket as it doesn’t really suite into my current Podman/Traefik setup. At least not without a lot of tinkering which I don’t feel like at the moment 😅
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 month ago:
No weird opinions, you do you and if Matrix suits your needs, great. In general I like the idea and concept behind Matrix, was a bit clunky to get it going initially but afterwards, with Continuiwity as backend server I have to say I ran quite smooth. I guess for a small homelab/self hosted setup with maybe a hand full of users, XMPP sounds easier to maintain. But I guess I’ll have to find out, probably going to deploy Snikket or Ejabberd for a test run.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 month ago:
Only heard great things about it
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 month ago:
Can’t speak for the Synapse hosting, as back when I hosted one myself I directly started with Dendrite (was not really that feature rich) and switched to Continuiwity soon after. And I have to agree, run like a charm on my VPS and didn’t use a ton of resources. Granted, I was the only user so can’t say how the usage would have increased with more users active.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s the thing with a lot of these platforms, it’s dead simple for most people to download the app and create the account. You already loose two thirds (if not more) of the people as soon as the sign up process gets a bit more complicated, even more if they have to manage and secure any kind of secret (encryption keys) themselves. Not that it would be so difficult to save this stuff in a password manager, but I guess that’s already where a lot of people still fall short… What a uphill battle that was (still is) with some of my friends and family to get them to use a password manager for a start.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 month ago:
Couldn’t agree more with the first two points, especially the second one when it comes to adaptability by my non-techy friends and especially the wife-approval-factor.
I only tried out Delta Chat like two years ago linking it to a secondary Gmail account. Don’t think this really fully utilized it to its full potential. What do you like most so far about Delta Chat?
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 1 month ago:
Nice blog post you wrote there, I like how you go into some details about the problems you faced hosting Matrix.
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- Comment on Arr Podman Quadlets Setup 1 month ago:
Yeah faced that issue a couple of weeks ago as well after updating Podman. It didn’t allow me to set container individual UID/GID mappings or UserNS when running in a pod, so I just took them out of the pod as I couldn’t be bothered and run them as separate containers in the same network. Works just as good.
You just have to make sure to move the PublishPort block from the pod quadlet to the gluetun container (for all the containers which route their traffic through gluetun, i.e. which have ‘Network=container: gluetun’ set). This should solve the problem and still allows you to use UserNS or UID/GID mappings on the containers. No disadvantages so far, you just lose the convenience of stopping/starting all the containers at once through the pod. But I’d rather take this ‘inconvenience’ than troubleshooting for days how to make it work with a pod again.
- Comment on Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server? 1 month ago:
Nice, good on you! Migrating your services/containers to a dedicated server instead of running them on a overwhelmingly underpowered Synology NAS is going to be a game changer.
I also have a Synology NAS, but nowadays only really use it for NFS/Samba storage and a S3 service (Garage) running on it to provide network storage to all my other services running on my mini pc.
- Comment on Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server? 1 month ago:
Nice setup! Is that a Minisforum below the optiplex?
Haha I read your comment the wrong way around the first time thinking you got a Minisforum MS-01 for like €460. That would have been a great deal 😄
Because searching for what a new MS-01 with i5 and 32gb RAM and 1TB SSD cost is more towards €700. Haven’t found a lot of offerings for a used one in my region and buying new currently I think I would have to pay too much.
- Comment on Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server? 1 month ago:
Yeah I agree, then it would have been an instant buy for me.
- Comment on Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server? 1 month ago:
Ah nice, another vintage story aficionado 👌 Have my server running on my mini pc in a LXC since a couple of weeks, sadly haven’t found a lot of time exploring v1.21 since becoming a dad last year 😄
But yeah was looking for a bit beefier server hardware to maybe run some more game servers like Valheim or Satisfactory besides my other selfhosting services.
- Comment on Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server? 1 month ago:
Yeah looking at prices in stores in my region for ddr4 its still like a 60%+ price increase since like the beginning of November last year. Actually wanted to build my own server, but with the price increase on most of the core pc components, I guess just bad timing #fuckai
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- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 months ago:
Just try the simple image, see github.com/alam00000/bentopdf?tab=readme-ov-file#… :)
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
You hit the nail on the head with your explanation. And I fully agree, played alot of Elite Dangerous when it released but the game loop got boring really fast. I also don’t know how many times I’ve started a Minecraft server with friends, only for us to abandon it after playing on and off for a couple of days.
The same in NMS, tried to make the game more enjoyable by playing with friends, but just the same as with Minecraft. You really need to find or define your own goals you want to achieve. But nowadays with everyday life and a limited amount of time to spend gaming, I tend to gravitate more and more towards more linear/story based games and less sandboxy ones.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
Hehe wonderful, thanks for going into a deeper explanation on how you did it! Definitely gonna give it a try the next time I decide to start up the game again 🚀
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
Are you me?
Who knows, in one way or the other we might be (hello parallel universe?!)
Haha yeah I played it back in the days before the game had a real multiplayer, where you only saw other players as floating lights. Back then the game had a more “lost in the stars” vibe, more so as the sphere was no multiplayer hub and no player made buildings you stumbled upon while exploring. To be fair it also felt somewhat more empty as well.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
That’s a sweet looking ship indeed! How was your experience collecting all the necessary ship parts to build this? Do you think it helped make it more enjoyable to follow a youtube guide?
Nowadays being over 30 and having a child I don’t find as much time playing games anymore. Which makes the grinding part of games so much less enjoying and worth while. So following a youtube tutorial sometimes helps me to get through the more grindier spects of a game if its not possible to circumnavigate them.
PS: Woulf you mind sharing the youtube tutorial you followed?
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
Don’t know, I really would like to love the game. Everytime a new update drops I try to pick up the game, but time after time I struggle to find a game loop which really grabs my attention and keeps me playing. I either fall back into ressource grinding or trying to unlock all expedition rewards. Both getting repetitive and boring after some hours of playing. It’s really a shame as I love the aesthetic and somehow casual feel of the game.
If you guys have any recommendations how to make the game enjoyable again, please feel free to drop a comment, would love to hear from you how you play NMS.
