StrawberryPigtails
@StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 day ago:
MusicBrainz is an open source database of music. ListenBrainz is an open source service that captures your listening habits, if you’ve configured your music player (or Spotify) to use the service. It’s similar in nature to last.fm’s scrobbling.
ListenBrainz has a feature where once a week it will build a pair of playlists for you. One is stuff it is pretty sure you will like (based off of what tracks you have favorited) and the other is more… experimental. Stuff it’s not so sure you’ll like but is similar to things you have listened to and liked in the past.
- Comment on Can I learn how to "photoshop" images without PhotoShop^TM and also on my iPhone? 1 day ago:
Professionals use Adobe software because it is what they know and because it is the standard. But there is no reason you need to use Photoshop unless you are working with a company that requires Photoshop.
Photoshop is just an advanced image editor made by Adobe. On Windows, Mac and Linux, GIMP is probably the most well known alternative to Photoshop. It can do roughly 99% of the things that Photoshop can do, and, more than likely, far more than you are ever likely to need. Even as a professional image editor or artist.
I’m sure that there are several options for iOS, but I don’t know them by name.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 2 days ago:
Recently, most of the music I’ve found has been something the Youtube algorithm has decided I need to listen to. Most recently it’s been the Andrew Sisters and before that it was SailNorth.
Other than that, ListenBrainz does a pretty good job of suggesting new music to listen to.
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 5 days ago:
I’m no expert in the field, but under the right conditions, possibly. But that would also be incredibly unlikely. The oceans are so full of life that something would feed on the remains, and even if not it would be more likely to decompose than be preserved. Bacteria is everywhere, including in the ocean, and bacteria is a significant component in decomposition.
I believe the brine solution we use for preserving food is a much higher salt concentration than sea water.
- Comment on [DHS]Threat to the United States. "Both hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors routinely target poorly secured US networks and Internet-connected devices for disruptive cyber attacks." 1 week ago:
Gee! Who could have predicted that! /s
Personally, Iranians hacking a bunch of computer systems are probably the least of our worries now. Jim Salter posted an image that makes a good analogy. fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/114730060651034011
- Comment on Russia Responds to Israel's Strikes on Iran: 'Full-Scale War' Possible 2 weeks ago:
What’s Russia going to do? Threaten Israel with mean thoughts and curses? After 3 years of Ukraine fighting Russia to a standstill, that’s probably all they have left. They’ve already chewed through their Soviet “inheritance”.
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 3 weeks ago:
Micro or Kate. My needs are simple. Occasionally if I need something more capable, I’ll use VScode
- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 3 weeks ago:
The only time the government is willing to spend money on space exploration ( or anything for that matter) is if they are trying to play a game of “Im better then you” with other nations.
We have a public space agency in the US and they have done jack all in maned space exploration since the end of the Apollo program. And what little they have done has been massively overpriced.
In my opinion , it’s best to have both public and commercial space flight programs. Greed in two different directions might actually accomplish something and I strongly believe that we need a STRONG space presence not just in our own solar system but in many systems throughout the galaxy for our own survival as a species.
- Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat 4 weeks ago:
Somehow I don’t believe them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Where I live, roaches are particularly bad. Especially the tiny ones. The $100 I give to Terminex every quarter is probably the only bill I am very happy to pay. They do a good job.
- Comment on Plant shaming should be a thing 5 weeks ago:
Speaking for us living in Alabama, cockroaches, fire ants, and scorpions are the reason most of us happily pay for pest control services.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 5 weeks ago:
It could be both you and your PC.
Depending on your specs, the OS could be poorly configured for your setup.
As for the Distro itself, I’ve tried it but the default UI didn’t work for me. If I remember correctly, it was Gnome based at the time and I kept fighting its opinions on how I should be working.
Solved the problem by nuking the install and installing NixOS with the KDE6 desktop.
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 1 month ago:
I got tired of the torn up cuffs and jean cuffs are uncomfortable to walk on when you don’t have shoes on.
- Comment on I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share... 1 month ago:
I think that is basically what this is. I was actually looking for a replacement power supply for a cat feeder when I found this. Considered it for a minute then discarded the idea as cool, but overly expensive in my case. If I had had a spare 30w USB-C power supply, might have gone another way, but the older wall wart style power supply only cost me $15.
- I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share...www.adafruit.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 11 comments
- Comment on Does anyone know where or even IF I can purchase this scope mount part? 1 month ago:
Like others have said, your best bet is to just buy new a new scope mount and rings from any firearms shop. Easier and less headache. You will need to know your scope’s tube diameter.
However, if you are dead set on repair rather than replace (and are in the US), for oddball engineering projects like this I tend to use McMaster Carr. If they if they don’t have what you need I would be very surprised. They are an engineering supplier, and have prices to match. But they sell anything thats not electronics. Excellent customer service too.
For electronics builds or repairs, I recommend DigiKey.
Between the two you could build or repair just about anything.
- Comment on Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive 1 month ago:
Might take a look at NextCloud though it may be overkill as it’s intended to be a full Google Cloud or Office365 replacement. On the other hand, it is modular so you only have to set up what you actually need.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 1 month ago:
It’s the content that makes a platform relevant. So follow the usual youtube call to action.
Subscribe, comment, share and post.
Don’t bother preaching, it’s a waste of breath and is just annoying to the average person.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 months ago:
If I remember the Halo books correctly (it’s been a while) the Spartan armor started out a golden color but dulled to green hue due to hits from Covenant energy weapons over time. Not particularly relevant to this discussion but I thought it was an interesting bit of lore.
I need to go back and reread them. Great series and well written for the most part.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 months ago:
Originally doom guy was just a face at the bottom of the HUD that grunted and got bloody as you took hits. The only images of him I remember was just a marine in green combat armor, not too dissimilar to modern real world combat armor, standing on a pile of dead demons and zombies(1993) and the 3rd person cinematics from Doom 3 (early 2000s ish?) where again he looked just like a normal human marine.
Halo come around in the mid 2000’s and Master Chief was never shown outside his armor or with his helmet off. Outside the TV show I’m not sure if that is still the case.
Not sure when the modern images of doom guy came about but I think it was around 2015. Probably not earlier.
- Comment on France drops sharp bombs in Sweden in show of force to Russia, strengthening defence ties 2 months ago:
Thank god it was with Sweden’s permission. For a moment there I thought we had yet another surprise war coming out of left field.
- Comment on Looking for ... inventory management, I guess? 2 months ago:
There’s a couple of options.
I’ve used Grocy. It’s not intended for that particular use case but it would work. More for Grocery management.
Might want to check out awesome-selfhosted.net
- Comment on If Nothing is Exposed, Am I Safe? 2 months ago:
Depends on your threat model, but you’re probably fairly secure from remote unauthorized access right now.
Given that I’m American, I would put the *arr stack behind a dedicated VPN container like gluetun and set Gluetun up using a “no logs” VPN.
For remote access, Tailscale can probably get around that double NAT. If you have it on your devices as well as your server, you won’t necessarily need to expose anything publicly.
If that’s not an option, you could set up an external VPS to run a reverse proxy (Caddy perhaps) and use the Tailscale connection to connect the VPS to your home server. There are fully self hosted ways to do this (Headscale comes to mind), but Tailscale is how I personally would solve this.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US) 2 months ago:
Good article, but dear god, either hire an editor, or put it through a spelling and grammar checker. Preferably both.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 months ago:
I would have been surprised if they hadn’t fired her. Good on those two for causing a ruckus for a cause they believe in though. Nonviolent one too, well done.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 2 months ago:
They load. I have to specify http:// to get it to work though.
- Comment on How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs? 2 months ago:
I’ve never done it myself but this may be what you’re looking for.
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- Comment on Why plans are already in motion for a Trump third term – no matter what the law says 2 months ago:
No.
- Comment on Self-hosted media server to share with 5+ people? 3 months ago:
It’s doable. I personally run my Jellyfin instance publicly available and there’s maybe 3 people who use it regularly. With my internet connection, WAN side users are limited to about 720p but I’ve had the 3 of us all playing different media at the same time on occasion. The main limiting factors on the number of simultaneously active users is how much upload bandwidth you have and how quickly you can transcode video files. Any 10 year old box will be able to handle 1 or 2 users at a time provided it doesn’t need to do a bunch of transcoding. If your building a box, would use a 11th or 12 gen Intel or if you must go AMD, have a graphics card to handle the transcoding. The “build a box” route can probably handle 4 or 5 simultaneous users, possibly more depending on your hardware choices. The main limiting factor in that case would be your upload.