JovialSodium
@JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 5 days ago:
I’d love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives.
I’d pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 5 days ago:
That would suck if so since I obviously utilize it heavily but this doesn’t seem to be the case? Latest release was just a month ago and their github repo is active.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 5 days ago:
Jellyfin/Plex like many have mentioned.
I personally like Syncthing for petty much everything else. For general file syncing of course. But also with Joplin pointed to a synced directory for notes. With keepass as a password vault. With synced config directories for some apps across devices like newsboat for RSS, and neomutt for email. I also used to use it with rtorrent via a watch directory, though I currently am using a seedbox for that purpose.
VPN (openvpn/wireguard) is a good idea if you want to access your services outside your local network, without exposing them all globally.
- Comment on Praystation 5 1 month ago:
I’m just throwing shade for fun.
Feels like the right choice for a shitposting community!
- Comment on Praystation 5 1 month ago:
Are ps5’s not useful?
I haven’t bothered with the last generation of consoles, but I haven’t heard anything bad about them.
But maybe my “haven’t bothered” comment is a common sentiment and the answer to my own question?
- Comment on Packard Bell Legend 730 2 months ago:
Some suggestions for solid state alternatives as old mechanical magnetic storage has such a high failure rate. But retro whatever way you want, of course!
You can get ide to compact flash or ide to sata adapters and get some reasonably modern solid state hard drive storage in there, if that interests you. I understand (haven’t tried personally) that compatibility can be kind of a crapshoot though.
You can also get a gotek which has a floppy interface and can load floppy images from a USB thumbdrive. Which might be a more functional option than getting a USB floppy drive for a modern machine.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
To an extent. But it wouldn’t surprise me at all ifc sometime in the nest future they force the use their own DNS servers within their browser instead of respecting your network configuration.
The best solution to circumventing Chrome’s bad behavior is to not use it.
- Comment on Syncing local server with seedbox 6 months ago:
I use rsync for this purpose and the only notable bottleneck is my download speed, fwiw.
- Comment on Satisfying Game Boy Restoration 6 months ago:
My first thought when seeing but before reading is “OP should replace the screen”. But I can respect you wanting to keep it original.
Great work, looks nice!
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 months ago:
I wonder how repairable and maintainable these will be as compared to EV’s from other markets and if replacement batteries will be available as the original ones reach the end of their useful life.
If these concerns end up being valid, and the tariffs are large enough that these cars aren’t priced particularly competively, that’d be enough for this EV consumer to pass it up for his next vehicle. Will be interested to see how it plays out.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Speaking as an aethist, can confirm.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
“Peak Windows” is a fun one to ponder. I’d probably pick XP for fairly high reliability and fairly low bloat. Or 2000 if taking business oriented versions in to consideration.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
You should check protondb and see if your games of choice are supported, if you’ve not done so already.
I completely jumped ship from Windows the better part of a year ago now and haven’t encountered a single game that didn’t run, at the least, reasonably well. And usually just fine OOB. Though ymmv of course.
- Comment on FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability 7 months ago:
Re: cell phone scanning. I’ve seen these camera based book scanners popping up recently. I’ve never used one so I can’t comment on how good they are, but when I read your workflow it occured to me it was worth mentioning. Here’s a search result I arbitrarily picked listing some.
- Comment on Should I get an NES, Master System; or an Atari 7800? 8 months ago:
MiSTer is a great option for high accuracy and zero/low latancy emulation. And besides being able to use original controllers you can also drive an analog display with an analog IO board, if that’s desirable to you.
If you want real hardware, this isn’t it. And I can understand wanting the real hardware. But for a nearly perfect recreation of the experience without the headaches of maintaining aging hardware, MiSTer does the job.
Analog Pocket looks cool too. But wanted to nerd out on the MiSTer specifically.
- Comment on Should I get an NES, Master System; or an Atari 7800? 8 months ago:
NES (my nostalgia speaking)