smiletolerantly

@smiletolerantly@awful.systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shouldn’t it be the other way round? If I’m a guest at someones house, IMO I should go out of my way to do as the host does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and Steins;Gate 0 rated higher than the original… What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many containers are you all running?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh… Not really. Qemu does a really good job with VM virtualizarion.

  I believe I could easily build containers instead of VMs from the nix config, but I actually do like having a full VM: since it’s running a full OS instead of an app, all the usual nix tooling just works on it.

  Also: In my day job, I actually have to deal quite a bit with containers (and kubernetes), and I just… don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many containers are you all running?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll DM you… Not sire I want to link those two accounts publicly 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many containers are you all running?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Zero.

  About 35 VMs though, each running either a si gle service (e.g. Paperless) or a suite (Sonarr and so on plus NZBGet, VPN,…).

  There’s additionally a couple of client VMs. All of those distribute over 3 proxmox hosts.

  SSL and WireGuard are terminated at a physical firewall box running OpnSense, so with very few exceptions, the VMs do not handle any complicated network setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You (sadly) need to group all quality profiles into a single one, and then handly quality through a custom format. Example from my setup:

  Image Image Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NixOS for the win! Define your system and services, run a single command, get a reproducible, Proxmox-compatible VM out of it. Nixpkgs has basically every service you’d ever want to selfhost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lost me at LLMs. My Nix config is over 20k lines long at this point, neatly split into more than a hundred modules and managing 8 physical machines and 30+ VMs. I love it.

  But every time I’ve tried to use an LLM for nix, it has failed spectacularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, without root even! Take a look at uad-ng (universal android debloater). Comes with a community-curated list which sorts APKs into 5 tiers from “recommended to uninstall” to “yeah don’t, your phone needs this to boot”. Apps disabled through this do not come back after updates.

  Removed 140+ apps from my Xiaomi, 120+ from my GFs Samsung S24, and 90+ from my brothers Motorola Edge something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Called their support. They were super nice, and then told me that if I still had access to my 2fa, I could simply add a second mail in my account without needing access to the first one.

  Made total sense when stopping to think about it for a second 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to be rude⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure. You mean something like r/NuclearRevenge and Co?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, yeah. Wasn’t actually worried of the mails themselves (multiple devices which have all of them, plus a daily borgbackup offsite), it was just knowing that I NEED to fix, this, now, because email is unfortunately kinda important.

  Fun conundrum: had my personal mail as the only contact at my hosting provider. Requested a KVM for rescue. “Thank you for your request! We’ll email you the link to your KVM access!” Gahhh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. But also, I’ll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to be rude⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We really, really do. I miss r/PettyRevenge and cousins, plus r/TalesFromTechSupport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, unfortunately can’t help you there. My matrix server is not federated, I remember back then I created an account on matrix.org specifically to read these. But maybe they got deleted in the meantime?

  Anyways, I have been really happy with continuwuity, to the point that up until now, I haven’t even looked at tuwunel again. The maintainers of continuwuity seem really nice and engaged, and both from a usage and stability point of view, as well as for the actually surprisingly fast release cycle, I have no complaints. I found and fixed a bug a couple weeks ago, and the dev process was also very friendly and relaxed.

  In short: while I don’t know how things are on the tuwunel side, I’m very happy to have gone with continuwuity and have high hopes for the future of the project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, in non-English speaking countries, virtually every kid is taught English to a level that’s at least “roughly business”.

  I also reject your premise of 8 hours / day for a year; how about 1-2 hours / day for 4-8 years.

  In the case of English, school kids would get more like 2-4hrs per week and be perfectly fluent after a couple of years, btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, I’ve been using Music Assistant with my Sonos speakers without issue.

  HOWEVER, I’m using MA as part of Home Assistant, and have the speakers ck figured through HA, not MA. MA just sees the speakers as HA Media Players. That works really well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here is a more polished release of nanogram. Fully compatible on raspberry pi now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost 9k lunes of python in a bash script. Lmao. No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome haha. ALmost exact same setup here, incl. OpnSense with an isolation vlan in which (brother) printer and TV are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I only use the Nvidia Shield remote. It obviously does everything on the Shield, plus tv on/off, and volume. Then I remapped the Netflix button on it to open a little quick actions menu to select brightness/picture mode levels.

  Haven’t touched the lg remote since

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredible. What a shit idea.

  Anyways, kids, remember: never let your smart devices talk to the internet. We actually love our LG OLED - it’s fantastic hardware. But it has not once, and never will, get the chance to phone home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will be great, they said...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve actually been having a great time with simple-nixos-mailserver.

  Running with a dedicated ipv4 at a highly reputable hoster, to my knowledge, I haven’t landed in a spam folder yet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will be great, they said...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, why? I thought I was generally gold at spotting these things, but here I’m struggling. The only thing that looks a little out of place to ne is the ring on his pointing hand, but that might genuinely be a dark band + shadow. What else have I missed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, sorry, I did not mean to imply that there re no players (there are, e.g. Finamp), just nowhere near the same level of polish, features and stability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin doesn’t have something comparable in the dedicated (OSS) world, but Symfonium takes a Jellyfin connection and is hands down the single best music player I have ever encountered on any platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELL YEAH Onee-san be like :3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus oneesan is “older sister”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, all of the above, but also: blacklisting Pinterest from all my searches is almost worth the ten bucks a month on its own, lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Planning to host a Nix caching server, and have CI build all package and NixOS outputs on every push to git, then in turn pushing the output artifacts to the cache. Would save me a good chunk of time when tinkering with VMs that haven’t seen manual updates in a while.

  Only thing is, I’m not sure how to approach building and caching NixOS configs that receive agenix secrets in their input. Obviously those should not be cached…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not need your fingerprint or any other biometric to use a passkey.

  You do not lose access to passkeys when you lose your device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm unsure what to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and I do werether the recipient also knows how to use it.

  So, for like, 1% of my mails.