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- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 4 hours ago:
That’s not intirely true. Some people definitely are like that, like in any country. Others agree that if you work and pay taxes, you deserve all the same benefits.
- Comment on Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead 21 hours ago:
Good thing that infectious diseases respect country borders, so this will have no repercussions on the west.
- Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 1 day ago:
Haha OK. DIY server is like legos, docker is playmobil.
- Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 2 days ago:
Maybe I can start shedding some light off docker.
When you start setting up a server, you end up having to setup many things. You install various programs and their dependencies. Sometimes those dependencies can conflict with each other, or you mess up your system by manually pasting some command you found on stack exchange. Then you need to manually keep all the software you use up-to-date and pray they don’t brick your server and force you to start over. And then when you need to update your OS or move to a new machine, you need to repeat this whole dance again.
Docker is like legos. You want to install jellyfin? There’s already a docker imagine for that. You just spin it up with some little configure file and you’re done. You want to setup a firewall? You want to setup https access? Automatic updates? There are docker images already made for it.
So you keep on setting up those docker containers and they all run in isolation but can communicate with each other. If you break something, you just restart one or all the containers and you always start fresh. Docker keeps nothing in memory, unless you explicitly want it (e.g. Your jellyfin config will presist in external config files).
Want to move to a new machine? You can just copy over the scripts that run the docker containers and those config files. Software updates? Just update the docker container and it handles all dependencies.
Also, Jellyfin all the way. It’s open source and free all the way.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 1 week ago:
Not just cromossomes matter. Intersex can be purely environmental and not genetic.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 1 week ago:
Would have been better without the dumb AI image
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 1 week ago:
Because the electricity pulls the magnets down in the same measure, so they meet in the middle. Newton’s 2nd law or something.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 1 week ago:
Depends on the price of the land.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 week ago:
Sounds like projection from the incel scientists.
- Comment on COP30 climate talks evacuated after fire breaks out 1 week ago:
What the fuck was that video. People running in all directions nd the security people completely powerless. Almost looks like a clueless AI video.
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 1 week ago:
Haha fair enough!
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 1 week ago:
I want the kind where you actually put the plant material inside. I’m in Europe so those brands are not really here.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 1 week ago:
During summer I like to just make salads with many ingredients. Leafy vegetables, seeds, fruits, nuts. Add a can of beans and you have a great meal.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 1 week ago:
There’s no toxic canned beans. You can explore cooking beans yourself later as you find out which ones you like most.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 1 week ago:
I don’t know where OP lives, but for the vast majority of people in the world, it’s cheaper to cook plant based meals than eating meat, eggs and dairy foods. The exceptions is in places that have poor access to fresh food. But even then usually rice and dry beans is the cheapest food and very shelf stable.
The main reason it might be hard to pull off is if OP is not able to cook due to lack of skill, time, space, time. Many people end up depending on frozen meals or cheap take out because they have 2 jobs or something. But if you have time to cook and access to a supermarket, there’s nothing hard about vegan cooking.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 1 week ago:
Just fruits would be very hard. But plant based diets are very common with minimal supplementation (vitamin b12 is needed and eventually vitamin D, folic acid, iodine, could be added if missing from your diet).
Look up Plant Based Whole Food diets (PBWF). A source I rather enjoy is the “vegan doctor” Dr. Greger and his “daily dozen”: nutritionfacts.org/topics/daily-dozen/
Basically what he says is that if you manage to eat foods from all 12 groups every day, you probably have a good diet.
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 1 week ago:
Ooh, put the weed in the salsa, and dip the chips in.
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 1 week ago:
I expect a lot more lobbying coming from big alcohol simply because kids are drinking less. Alcohol is getting more expensive and becoming less cool.
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 1 week ago:
Then someone needs to make nacho chips with thc.
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 1 week ago:
I’m not addicted to either. I drink a bit socially, like 2 or 3 drinks when I go out with friends maybe once a week. Lately even that much alcohol fucks me up for 2 days. One puff of week is enough to replace a similar buzz to 2 beers for me so I can avoid drinking. And weed is just less addictive. I really dislike the smoke though, and want to change to a herb vapourizer.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 week ago:
I typically wake up naturally nd go to bed not too late. So I can say I go from waking up to being awake in less than a minute. This sometimes causes me to have insomnia if it happens at 4AM because I become incredibly awake.
- Comment on Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries 2 weeks ago:
A company spokesperson said that having cereals sweet enough to be palatable to infants was vital in combating malnutrition.
This is so evil. What are they putting in those foods in Africa that could make cerels not palatable? Sounds the like problem goes even beyond the added sugar, with very low quality ingredients.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
Basically it’s a URL that you call with curl. You can set up a crown job to call every day or as often as you need. The URL contains the domain name or subdomain, you dynamic public IP (not CNAT), and the API token. This way you Domain always points to your dynamic IP.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
Namecheap, and I guess other registrars too, has an API that you can call from your server to update your IP address in their DNS. It’s super easy. No need to pay for a static IP address. At least in my case ei already use my domain for other things.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
My ISP uses CGNAT but I can ask for a dynamic IP address for free. I sent them an email and got a reply in less than a week. I can also pay extra like 2.50€ per month or something for a fixed IP. I found that quite reasonable.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
Good to know 🫣
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
Trying to smoothly orchestrate prowlarr, radarr, jellyfin, and transmission (via Proton vpn), using a big beautiful docker compose file. It’s been working OK but not without roadbumbs and tough learnings. Keep messing up directory permissions one way or another.
Next step is setting up fail2ban on my public facing jellyfin to control things a little better. Everything is hosted at home, and I don’t want to use cloud flare tunnels, are streaming video is technically not allowed in them.
If you have more good tips on securing a home server, let me know!
- Comment on Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada 2 weeks ago:
He also did the woowoowoowoo sound with the hand on the mouth.
- Comment on The 'if this goes down, I riot' self-hosted app 2 weeks ago:
Is it? How do you know?
- Comment on Malaysian government to conduct in-depth study next year on abolishing death penalty 2 weeks ago:
You think they’ll run a survey on all the victims to collect their opinions?