harsh3466
@harsh3466@lemmy.ml
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll do this and they STILL only answer the first question
- Comment on [help] Cheap SSDs for storage 3 weeks ago:
As an additional warning probably best to avoid amazon because counterfeits are just dumped in the bin with the actual mfr stuff and you could get burned there too. Buy from B&H or some other vendor that doesn’t have this practice
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been learning bash and working on scripts to automate stuff in my homelab. It’s been a lot of fun. I’m currently working on a script that will rename the movies and TV shows I rip from my DVD collection.
The script queries the tmdb api, presents me with a mwnu of matches if there’s multiple matches, renames the media files according to jellyfin spec, and then places them in the proper folders to be indexed by Jellyfin and Kodi.
- Comment on Forbidden weapon 4 weeks ago:
WAT?
- Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab? 5 weeks ago:
Rsync and NFS for me.
- Comment on A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - A Docker Quick-Start Guide 1 month ago:
Totally fair.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 1 month ago:
100% this. Why would I go back to another centralized corpo line must go up service that will inevitably enshittify when we got lemmy right here?
- Comment on A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - A Docker Quick-Start Guide 1 month ago:
Another great option is Yourls. I’ve been using it for years and it’s been fabulous
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 1 month ago:
Check out [OliveTin] (www.olivetin.app). I use it in a similar fashion to track when I take my daily meds and for other personal health tracking.
It’s a simple webapp that fires off shell scripts on your server. I store my data as CSV, but you can tailor the scripts to store and retrieve/present your data however you’d like.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 1 month ago:
Careful with that you though. I thought the same thing but someone pointed out in another thread that depending on your system, it may update the firmware over USB when you do system updates.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
Shit. I didn’t even think of that. I’m using fedora. Tomorrow I’ll be blocking firmware updates for the printer. Thank you for pointing that out.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
Glad I’ve got an Brother laser that has no network connectivity.
- Comment on Least terrible domain registrars 1 month ago:
Also been using namecheap for years with no complaints. Boring and dependable.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 1 month ago:
I’ve been working on some bash scripts to help manage my media files. I’ve been slowly working on learning more bash and I’m pretty pleased with my progress. After I finish this bash book I’m reading (can’t remember the title atm), I think I’m gonna jump into awk.
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 2 months ago:
PurelyMail is what I use. It’s been great so far. I’ve been using it for over a year for this exact use case.
- Comment on What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you? 2 months ago:
I’ve a nightly cronjob that runs backup using rsync for my local, and an external HDD that I stash in my work locker that I bring home once a week or so to connect to the server, run a backup script (more rsync), then take it back to work. It’s not super sophisticated, but it works, and I have tested and restored from both the local and offsite backups.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 2 months ago:
I feel like by the time Trump and elin and the project 2025 gang have finished having their way with the government there won’t be any demand for COBOL or FORTRAN. It’ll all have been burned down to the ground.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 2 months ago:
Recently set up OliveTin on a pi zero w for some automation scripts I wan to be able to trigger from my mobile. I’m loving it.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
You’re right, but you’re also not seeing some of the great and diverse content on Lemmy. Obviously reddit has a fuckton more content. Network effect and all that, but my Lemmy feed is not as you describe. I’m subscribed to a bunch of Linux, FOSS, privacy, music, and other great communities. While I do see articles and screen caps when I browse the all feed, my curated feed is full of questions, discussions, new (to me) music and more.
It certainly takes some effort to curate a feed for yourself, but it can be done.
- Comment on Self host websites 2 months ago:
Agree. I’d be nervous about it too. Mullenweg seems pretty unhinged at this point.
- Comment on Self host websites 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong. Again, my logic for that the crazy person is on the warpath towards other hosting companies. For a time he had cut WPEngine off from wordpress.org, which meant thousands of regular people and business running wordpress couldn’t update their plugins or wordpress core because they had no access to the .org registries.
Mullenweg isn’t going to do that to his own company. I think Mullenweg is a piece of shit, and I would steer clear of wordpress.com. My previous comment pointing towards .com is dumb.
- Comment on Self host websites 2 months ago:
Mullenweg owns wordpress.com. It’s arguably the only safe place to host WordPress since it’s his company and while he seems willing to burn all goodwill down to the ground for wordpress open source, hes (probably) not going to burn his own company and cash cow to the ground.
I mean, it’s not a great option, and I may be stupid for saying that, but that was my reasoning for saying so.
TBH, I’d just host it myself if I was going to do it.
- Comment on Self host websites 2 months ago:
FWIW, it might be better to avoid wordpress hosting UNLESS you go with hosting from wordpress.com, since there’s kind of an all out war in the wordpress world right now and the fallout to people who just want their websites to work is unknown.
The tl;dr is that Matt Mullenweg, wordpress founder and owner/CEO of Automattic (which is the company that runs wordpress.com), has engaged in a Trumpish crazy war with wordpress hosting engine WPEngine, and in doing so has arbitrarily (in the name of his war) been doing crazy shit with the open source wordpress project.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 5 months ago:
The isn’t snark. The answer is simply greed. The rich want to be richer. They want it all. It’s a human flaw. The mentality is, “I don’t care about anyone else, I want it all.”
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 5 months ago:
:shocked pikachu:
- Comment on Apple to settle Apple Watch defect class action for $20 million. 5 months ago:
So people will get something like .25 USD?