StrawberryPigtails

@StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I had forgotten how much I miss that style of website. Well written too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is creatine safe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a paper on exactly that:
  Front Nutr. 2025 Dec 1;12:1682746. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1682746
  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12702719/

  I didn’t read the whole thing, but it looks like, at least right now, they didn’t find anything major.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨coolpeertube: share peertube videos you like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Peertube uses bittorrent tech underneath to help distribute the load. Each viewer shares what they’ve downloaded to others viewing the same video at the same time. If 100 people are watching the same video at the roughly the same time the original host really only sends out 1 or 2 streams.

  Things might get interesting if each of those 100 people want to watch a different video though. Pretty sure a server run by a popular youtuber like Mumbo Jumbo or even Justin Guitar would choke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, since I’m not doing that, that would prevent me from having to install the apps that every damned company seems to insist I install rather than having a website. Kinda makes me wish for this nonsense to come to the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A point. However, how far do you need to go to reach an area, that doesn’t speak your native language commonly?

  We recently moved a fair distance, not too far as things go here. Roughly 2000 km. English language spoken by almost everyone throughout the entire trip. Plus 15 random languages from tourists and immigrants from around the globe. I could have gone another 2000 km and I still would have had to dig to find a community that had a common language other than english.

  I would have had to travel 2000 km the other way to reach an area where a single language other than English was spoken by more than 5% of the population.

  Maybe 1000 km, I forget about Creole in Louisiana, though I’m not sure how common that language is in the State. I just remember running across the language frequently while driving trucks in that area for a living.

  We are a truly massive nation that largely shares a single language. Most of us, rarely ever leave a 250 km radius from where we were born. Most of us don’t have passports and will never leave the US.

  Hell, I’m well traveled. I’ve been to 45 on the 50 States, and in all my travels I’ve only needed another language once. In Larado, TX, which is right on the border with Mexico.

  There are small enclaves that speak an alternative language, but they are few and far between.

  Would it be to the students benefit to learn a second language, sure. But it’s unlikely that the student would ever use whatever random language they were required to learn. Spanish and perhaps Arabic might occasionally be helpful, but not necessarily, depending on what part of the country (or trade) you’re they are in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Around me, the only language spoken with any frequency other than English is Spanish. In a half dozen different varieties. Even that wasn’t all that common until, maybe, 10 years ago. About midway through President Trump’s first administration.

  Most schools encourage kids to take a language, but they are kinda a use it, or lose it thing. Unless you just happen to be part of a community or household that speaks a language other than English, you are unlikely to need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I access my services from outside?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yes I looked at tailscale too, but that would prevent me from using my normal commercial VPN

  You can split your devices traffic, Tailscale traffic through Tailscale, everything else through your masking VPN.

  I’m trying to get the best of 2 worlds: using the VPN to hide my IP from services that i visit and my ISP, and a secure connection to my home server.

  For that, what I would do is put the masking VPN (like PIA or whatever) on your router (not all routers can do this) and then have Tailscale on the devices or individual services. In theory, everything would still be able to talk to each other (even if your mobile device is not behind the router), but everything that is behind the router would enter and exit their traffic wherever you have the masking VPN set to. Downside of doing this is that EVERYTHING that is behind that router is also behind that VPN which can cause problems with some services, like banking and streaming.

  It would also mean that the only way you could host a public service is to have an external VPS acting as a reverse proxy. Cloudflare might also have something that could work around this setup, but I’m not familiar with their offerings.

  This setup also doesn’t mask your traffic (origin and destination) from your mobile provider (just your home ISP), but that is a harder nut to crack as they can see, real time, where you are physically, and depending on your device, may have deeper device access anyways. I’m thinking prepaid phones and phones bought from the carrier (at least here in the US) or if your carrier has “asked” you to install an app to manage your account. My assumption is that my mobile provider can see anything I do while I have my phone or tablet with me, and just work around that.

  You might want to ask in !privacy@lemmy.ml and !privacy@lemmy.world, as this is more up their alley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just had to deal with this. Moving two households from Alabama to Minnesota, with myself, my wife and her mother (all 3 of whom are pack rats) and more than 1 one way truck and a car hauler was not in the budget.

  What I did was rent a storage unit just large enough to match the volume of the truck I was going to rent. Anything that could fit in the storage unit could be kept. Everything else had to go. Anticipating trouble, especially from my MIL, I divided the storage unit into halfs using gaffer’s tape and one half (me and my wife’s) was again divided into half with one section reserved for me and the other for my wife.

  Me and my wife downsized fairly problem-free. I got down to about 10 plastic footlockers and let my wife have the rest of my section. Our half was full, but not horribly so even after the furniture we wanted to keep. My MIL however was another story.

  She kept saying we were trying to force her to give away everything she owned. She calmed down and started downsizing seriously when we finally packed up her house to move it to the storage unit and we completely filled U-haul’s largest truck, Tetris Style, with not even enough room left for a rolled up poster, and my MIL still had another half truck’s worth of boxes that she had, till that point, claimed she couldn’t bear parting with. I put my foot down and told her that, while I was willing to make multiple trips (neither of them were comfortable with the idea of drive the U-Haul) she would have to pay the full cost of moving everything that wouldn’t fit into the 1st truck and estimated that it would cost an additional $4K per trip, all in. That got her.

  We wound up renting a second storage unit for interim use as she decided what would go on the truck and what she would have to sell, give away or toss. I think we may have single-handedly crashed the second hand market in our old town with everything we three donated. In the end, it was noisy, stressful and there were times when my MIL didn’t want to talk to me or my wife, but we eventually got it down to a single truck, and 3 cars, but damn, were they packed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hosting for the public, it’s honestly going to depend on how many users you are going to have. Pretty much anything that is light on bandwidth should be doable. Websites, blogs, wikis. XMPP chat servers might work. Matrix might work as well. Adding to your seeding idea, you might seed torrents for any Linux distros you happen to like or build torrent seeds for projects with larger download sizes. I seem to recall a project that would enable you to seed peertube channels as well, though I can’t find the project right now.

  If it’s just you and maybe a few family and friends,say over a mesh VPN, what ever you want, though video streaming may be a bit much for that bandwidth. Any other type of personal media should be very doable. Books, music, that sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of trust, for the most part. I’ve been screwed over a few too many times for me to rely entirely on someone else. Whether it’s Audible claiming I never bought an audiobook I knew damned good and well I did buy or seeing someone else getting their life made difficult by Google, Apple or Microsoft, or “friends” and family making life difficult, I’ve learned the hard way over the years I can’t rely fully on anything not under my control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would take a look at TeamSpeak or Matrix.

  Of the two Matrix is probably the closest to Discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best day and time to post a YouTube video weekly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When others in your particular nitch are not posting. You may have a slightly better chance to trend that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! I hadn’t thought of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda an ethos thing that goes way back, and Microsoft keeps giving us examples of why it can be a bad idea. Essentially, it boils down to the idea that YOU should be in control of what your system is doing.

  Most distros can (including Raspberry OS), and many of them will check for updates automatically, but none that I can think of will install updates automatically unless you purposefully choose to enable that function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Raspberry OS is, imho, is not really representative of the desktop Linux experience. It’s a bit like Gentoo or Arch. Great OS’s, for their intended use cases.

  While RPis with Raspberry OS can be a decent desktop replacement in a pinch (I’ve done it), it’s more intended for learning and experimentation.

  If you’re intending to use it as your primary computer, I’d recommend using Ubuntu or Fedora. And running the OS on an USB3 external solid state drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With modern UEFI, it’s controlled by both the OS and the UEFI

  I haven’t used Windows in a long while, but there is a setting in KDE that allowed me to disable the power button’s short press function and I think the long press as well.

  Came in handy for me when my cat decided to start laying on top of my tower. Every now and then she’d decide to slap her paw down on the power button and abort whatever I was working on.

  I was cursing the change away from mechanical toggle, and that button’s position on the top of the case, when she started doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think they first would have to actually release the feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Small or medium-sized Mastodon instances?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also on SDF’s Mastodon server. Fairly small and largely general purpose. Seems to have pretty good uptime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun/interesting things to self host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use FinAmp client with Jellyfin for music.

  I agree the Jellyfin interface is not well optimized for music, but FinAmp negates most of that and my phone is how I mostly listen to music anyway.

  I like Navidrone, but it’s a duplicate service that doesn’t really have a big value add over Jellyfin beyond the ability to share tracks with friends. A major feature upgrade, but not something I use terribly often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun/interesting things to self host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And iOS app as well, though, it is in test flight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun/interesting things to self host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the top of my head:

  • Paperless ( Digital filing cabinet, tagging is local LLM backed
  • Immich (Google Photos replacement)
  • Nextcloud (Replaces the rest of Google Cloud functionality)
  • LubeLogger (Vehicle maintenance logger)
  • Home Assistant (Home and other things automation)
  • Jellyfin (Primary media server)
  • Hoarder (Online bookmarking, tagging and summarizing service, Local LLM backed. I think this project has changed names)
  • Audiobookshelf ( Does what it says on the tin. Audiobook server, kinda like audible but I can actually find the books I already own. )
  • Navidrome (Not sure if I’m keeping this one. Like the features but it largely duplicates the music side of Jellyfin)
  • Minecraft Server (Again, does what it says on the tin)

  There are other services I run but those are the ones I use most often and can rattle off when I’m as tired as I am right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might want to take another look at Jellyfin. My experience has been that as long as the video file s are at least somewhat reasonably named and organized, Jellyfin has no problems identifying a file and looking up its metadata.

• How do you handle junk email?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t post a video directly, but you can link to a video hosted elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix would probably be one of the better options, but xmpp is a pretty good choice as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you respond to unwanted advice?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen to them, and go “okay”. Then if it was helpful, follow the suggestion. More often than not, though, the advice is not helpful. I’ll still listen and go “okay”, and then go and do whatever it is that I thought was best.

  Painful truth is that I am not an expert in everything. I don’t know everything. Even having reached middle age, I’ve not experienced everything. But by listening to those around me, I can often learn something. That thing may not always be what the advice giver intended, (often it’s “This person is an idiot”) but learning is good.

  The most important piece of information you can ever learn is “Where can I find more information?” Occasionally it’s the annoying asshole that keeps giving unsolicited advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't NASA have a go fund me page or kickstarter? Really don't know how they work but would donate. 380 million in the US if everyone gave a dollar would do good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that there is a law on the books that prevents government agencies from accepting donations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was getting a CDL. I went through Swift Transportation) to get mine, though most trucking companies either have a trucking school or have tuition reimbursement. Back in 2008, it cost me $800 upfront (going to the state for testing and licensing) plus 2 years working for Swift.

  Pay was shit starting out, but at this point in my career I’m making $60,000 a year. I could be making more, but I shifted to running a yard truck instead of running routes.

  If you’re not having any luck getting into the trades, that is the direction I would look. Swift literally hired me 30 minutes after I put in the application, in the middle of the night. The trucking industry as a whole tends to be really fast to hire as well. The longest I’ve had to wait to hear back from a company I’ve applied to was 72 hours.

  Other options would be to check with local construction companies and farms. Both are probably really hurting for people right now due to ICE. Might also check with HVAC, plumbing and electrician outfits. I know that Alabama, in particular, has been short handed in each of these fields for a while, so they may be willing to train on the job.

  Contact the companies themselves, not the unions associated with their fields as the only union I’m aware of that handles job placement as well as training is the Boilermakers. I’ve applied to them once, didn’t hear anything back from the Boilermakers for 3 years. They is a bit slow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I first noticed that phrase about 10 years ago. Not sure where it came from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, what would be the community that is the opposite of buy it for life?

  Seriously, I get that internet is ubiquitous in some areas, but everything should have the ability to function correctly without internet access.