denshirenji
@denshirenji@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 1 month ago:
I pay for YouTube and use FreeTube and NewPipe. I try to pay for whatever services I use. I think this is the way, either pay or let the ads play. I do this because the YouTube app is trash for many reasons mostly having to do with trying to funnel me to the money making bits.
There are greedy corporations from making the user experience worse and doing everything they can to wring every penny they can. Ultimately, I attribute this to the wall street investor model. A company can be making money and still be losing because their revenues shrank from the prior quarter. That is a broken system that will only eat itself. That being said, people gotta eat and that includes the janitors, etc… at Google.
Point is, its a mixed bag. There are people on the other end making the product you are using, AND there is a soul sucking company making it worse for both their customers and their workers/creators. To be clear, there is something to be said about how poorly Google supports their creators. In many ways, they are taking advantage of the creators that use their platform. How is it that Google is making so much money in ads, but creators have to open Patreons?
I still don’t think we should just expect stuff for free.
Tangentially, I need to be better about helping support the open source projects I use, especially the smaller maintainers, to be honest, but I do send to a few and I encourage everyone to do so as well ad much as they can.
- Comment on AI weapons scanner backtracks on UK testing claims 3 months ago:
Same. We are allowed to carry knives in to work so I carry a work knife in and it never sets the thing off, but my laptop in my backpack does every single day.
- Comment on What does your current setup look like? 4 months ago:
You’re probably right. I mean. I need most of the network devices, and I didn’t list everything I am running on each, just big things. I do need to consolidate some if them though. Its been a trip and has made me a better IT though.
- Comment on What does your current setup look like? 4 months ago:
-Old Gaming Rig - Proxmox –Nextcloud, Immich, Grafana on VMs -Old HP ProDesk - FreeIPA -NAS - TrueNAS Scale -Couple Laptops - Docker Stuff –Wireguard, SearXNG, Nginx -Raspberry Pi 4 - Home Assistant -Rasberry Pi 3A+ - ntfy Docker -Very Old Dell - NTP Server -Qotom PC - OPNsense -Network Devices - OpenWRT –Zyxel Wireless APs (3) –Netgear R7000 (2) –Zyxel 24 and 8 port Switches -Gaming Rig - Windows 11 for now –Playnite, Sunshine, Jellyfin -Another HP ProDesk hopefully running an email server soon -UPS
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 4 months ago:
Thank you. Sounds exactly like what I’m planning. I am looking at ISPMail now and will be attempting to follow the directions soonly.
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 4 months ago:
Why move to ISPMail over Mailinabox or Modoba or some other alternative?
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 4 months ago:
Thank you! I appreciate it.
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 4 months ago:
Nope. No issues whatsoever. DigitalOcean is great. Just curious what this community thought. My main concern is, again, one of choosing as ethical a solution as I can find. I cited Amazon because they are a nightmare company for many reasons and would rather not give them money. With that said, I would also like a service that I can rely on.
I am thinking about proton mail, but I want to try to host an email sever with one of my cheap throwaway domains to see if it would be worth self hosting for my main domain. That’s the other part of why I am choosing to self host. I am genuinely curious how stuff works under the hood.
- Comment on Cloud Hosted VMs 4 months ago:
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
- Submitted 4 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on How to set up Immich from the files within nextcloud? 4 months ago:
Not sure you do. Maybe you can use one to move the existing files on Nextcloid, but immich has an auto upload feature that works perfectly fine on their android app.
- Comment on How to set up Immich from the files within nextcloud? 4 months ago:
I run both, and I do not upload pictures to Nextcloud. I know it doesn’t solve your problem about a Nextcloud instance already running with the photos, but I highly recommend moving over to immich for your photos needs and using it’s file structure. I.E. reuploading the files and deleting them from Nextcloud. If someone does have a better way to do it, I could have used it a few months ago, lol.
- Comment on New home server: what hypervisor/OS? 4 months ago:
Your reason to move from OMV is the same as mine for XCP-ng. It is supposed to be a better hypervisor, but I just did not like the UI at all. It doesn’t help that you have to host a small VM just to have a webGUI.
- Comment on New home server: what hypervisor/OS? 4 months ago:
For the hypervisor I recommend either Proxmox or XCP-ng. XCP-ng is technically a better hypervisor, but I personally use Proxmox because I like the UI.
For the NAS OS, I use and recommend TrueNAS Scale. You can run Docker containers on it. All this being said, I’ve never used Unsaid so I don’t know how they compare.
Out of curiosity, why move from OMV? I was thinking about trying it out for a second NAS.
- Comment on Router recommendation 4 months ago:
I am using an OPNsense Qotom MiniPC as a firewall/router. I have three Zyxel Wireless APs that I flashed with OpenWRT. I also have two Zyxel switches (8 and 24 port) that I also flashed with OpenWRT. And lastly, I have two Netgear R7000s, also with OpenWRT, that are glorified smart switches. I am very happy with my setup. It works like a champ!
- Comment on Peer tube Android app 6 months ago:
I am using Grayjay. It has a number of different services that you can use, including Peertube, YouTube, Odyssey, Twitch, Nebula and more. The only thing that it is missing IMO is an auto-enqueue feature. It has the best UI of any of these apps that I have tried.
Newpipe is good as well.
- Comment on Petition Calls on Microsoft to Extend Windows 10 Support | PCMag 8 months ago:
Yes, it is. I used some derivation of microwave a long time ago on some forum or another, but it’s a common word so I threw it in Google Translate and started using this one other places.
- Comment on Petition Calls on Microsoft to Extend Windows 10 Support | PCMag 8 months ago:
Then again, I spend most of my time in the terminal because I like it.
Same. And I spend more time setting things up then using them.
- Comment on Petition Calls on Microsoft to Extend Windows 10 Support | PCMag 8 months ago:
There is a lot to unpack, but you know exactly what they meant. The operating system people refer to as Linux or GNU/Linux or whatever is not the same thing as Android; if, under the hood, it has an older version of the Linux kernel. There is no command line required on an android phone for one.
Although, you are technically correct. The best kind.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
Right clicking on the UI: believe it or not… premium feature.