JovialSodium
@JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 days ago:
I love Linux, but I admit these are valid. I’ve had some of these same issues.
Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently, I haven’t had any issues with sleep in on my devices, but I have in the recent past on previous hardware.
WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues, My WiFi doesn’t work at all on my desktop. Though it’s worked on a live image from another distro so seems likely to be an issue with the distro’s distributed kernel, not a Linux one. I run a rolling release distro so won’t be that the kernel is too old. But don’t care so haven’t troubleshot it much. My printer requires the use of vendor provided drivers, which are only available for some distros. It works, but not a solution I’m happy with. Never had touchpad issues.
several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”, I think package repos > collecting and installing your software piecemeal from all over the place. But having to deal with repos, flatpaks, appimages, etc. can be daunting.
random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes Sounds like an OOM process kill maybe? That’ll show in your kernel logs if so. But no immediate visual feedback.
…the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all. If there’s proprietary software that doesn’t run on Linux that someone wants/needs to run and there aren’t any viable alternatives then yeah, probably a non-starter. There’s wine of course but it can be a crapshoot. No shade intended towards the project. It’s amazing what it can do, even if it can’t do everything.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 weeks ago:
No specific negative association. I can’t say for certain, as it’s too long ago to remember. But I think at one point when I was young i felt more lukewarm about the song, but it was overplayed which soured me.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 weeks ago:
Tangentially related: anyone else have a strong dislike of “Dancing Queen?” That song has annoyed me for as long as I can remember.
Just that song, not Abba as a whole.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 month ago:
Death Stranding
- Comment on Custom remote backup 1 month ago:
The 3b just has USB 2, so even with slow spinning rust, that’s going to be a bottleneck. I don’t know your exact use case, but it’s probably still plenty fast as a remote storage device.
- Comment on Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.” 2 months ago:
🐧
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 2 months ago:
Also slow for me.
- Comment on What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative? 3 months ago:
Thanks for the tip!
- Comment on What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative? 3 months ago:
Cumulative: 123456
Concurrent: 1 2 3 4 5 6
(Imagine the concurrent numbers all overlapped with each other for greater effect.)
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 4 months ago:
I was aware of this, but I think it’s something we discovered by trying it out of curiosity.
- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 4 months ago:
I built an office shed in my back yard. Almost all the grass is gone where I walk between the back door and the shed. I do this fairly frequently, but I’d think still quite a bit less than an even lightly trafficked hiking path.
I’ll put some stepping stones out there eventually.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 4 months ago:
Gross. I didn’t know that. I do occasionally use AirBnB. I’m aware of their impact on the rental market, so I favor hotels most of the time. But there have been a few occasions in recent years where I was traveling in a larger group and an AirBnB made more sense. But no more of that.
I looked in to this a little, and Joe Gebbia is no longer the CEO, but he is still on the board. Still a good enough reason to boycott.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 4 months ago:
They could just deny access without verification. But thinking more broadly there’ll certainly be ways to fool the system. But, shouldn’t have to in the first place.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 4 months ago:
There are a few qualifiers here. It’s for some users in UK and Australia trying to access sensitive content. And it sounds like it’s reaction to laws against youth under 16 accessing social media. In Australia, anyway. So the scope is currently fairly limited.
Should we be worried that this will pave the road for larger privacy abuses? Yes, of course we should. That scenario feels likely, in my opinion.
Is this enough to convince my friends to use a different platform? Not yet.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 5 months ago:
- Comment on How to Migrate a Mastodon Account to GoToSocial 5 months ago:
For those who hadn’t heard of GoToSocial and are curious what it is but don’t want to watch a video, it is as you might guess an ActivityPub based microblogging platform. With a focus on smaller instances capable of running on low end hardware. According to their site, anyway. gotosocial.org
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 5 months ago:
It’s a novel idea. But despite the articles claims this is not a practical alternative to a laptop in planes, coffee shops, etc. Nor is a minpc inherently more serviceable than a laptop as others have pointed out.
For traveling, if it’s a longer trip, it almost makes sense to me as you’d have it set up for a while. Though I’d do a mini ITX system. The ones with external power supplies and no drive bays or expansion slots are pretty small. But even then, I don’t feel like this would be significantly better than a laptop. And that’s a lot to buy for a niche use case.
- Comment on How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2) 5 months ago:
Maybe self host your own VPN on a VPS and connect the jellyfin server as a client as well as any other devices you want to see that jellyfin server as other clients and configure the VPN server to not override your default routing and to allow clients to see each other? In my head I don’t think that would conflict with your protonVPN.
Your traffic would be encrypted between devices so I wouldn’t say https is nessesary and thus no certs needed.
The rubs that occur to me are that I’m not sure you can do this on a free tier VPS which is the only I see option given your financial limitations. And your devices all need to be able to connect to said VPN.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 months ago:
Conciseness and directness help.
As an example, there was someone I worked with that tended to ask around a question.
“What do you know about x? What do you know about y? What do you know about z?”
Instead of “How do I get from x to z?”
I think they just want to understand the underlying process. And I can understand that. But I wasn’t their mentor and it was at times frustrating.
Not suggesting OP is doing this. Just a general thought I had in regards to the question.
- Comment on Testing vs Prod 5 months ago:
Nope. I fiddle until it does what I want. If the thing I’m working on is complex or I’m struggling with it I’ll keep versions of configs. And I back up working configs via an rsync. Which, isn’t a particularly robust solution but I’m content with it for my needs.
- Comment on It shows you love them 8 months ago:
This answer is completely untested and something I came up with while poking through my phone’s options. But it should work as long as the app in question uses your phone’s DNS settings.
My Samsung phone a private DNS setting. Settings > Connections > More Connection Settings > Private DNS. This doesn’t seem to be bound to a specific connection on my device so I assume this value is used for any. I don’t know if this is available on all modernish android devices or iOS.
One can set up a dns-over-https server such as github.com/m13253/dns-over-https/ and configure it to use a DNS server which is sinkholing those domains. Which it sounds like you already have setup.
You’d have to have that public facing with a reverse proxy and a valid cert so they could reach it while on mobile data, so I don’t know that the juice is worth the squeeze.
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 9 months 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? 9 months 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? 9 months 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 11 months ago:
I’m just throwing shade for fun.
Feels like the right choice for a shitposting community!
- Comment on Praystation 5 11 months 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?
