smiletolerantly
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
- German (native)
- English (pretty well I hope; half my work life and almost all my free time spent on the internet, shows, books,… has been happening in English since, like, 8th grade)
- Japanese (learning; enough for talking about food, the weather, hobbies,… in somewhat acceptable grammar 😄)
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 4 days ago:
That’s why safewords should be passphrases! /s
Hold on, actually no, not /s
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
It’s a very steep curve to start, with some additional minor steep parts along the way, but it’s not a long curve. Once you got the core concepts and the basic language constructs, you’ve learned most of what you’ll ever need.
Two nice resources: search.nixos.org is super handy, and you can search GitHub with language:nix and a search term to get tons of examples from other people.
Oh, and nix and just is actually a pretty common combo!
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
Yep, exactly.
To be fair, if you use Debian, Arch, Fedora,… long enough, you also know how to tweak your machine for every purpose. In Nix, it’s just somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy, because you have to know how to tweak your system to achieve… anything, and then it’s the same tweaking mechanics for every other purpose as well.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
My Steam Deck also runs NixOS.
Because this way I can much more comfortably configure it, plus everything game related I automated through nix for my Desktop (e.g. mod installs, reShade config,…) immediately and without any extra steps also applies to the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
Yes. Everything is NixOS. Because it’s perfect for everything.
- Comment on Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement 1 week ago:
Not to dimish your work at all, but: the Sonarr upgrades absolutely do work.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 1 week ago:
Ah, too bad. IMO better clients would make it drastically to convince people to switch.
Hm, I can create groups (also on a muc subdomain), and the other members are added, but writing a message triggers “x left the group” for everyone. Dunno. Probably something trivial I overlooked. But honestly… Weather is too good today to be bothered 😄
Ah, I already had a TURN/STUN coturn server set up for matrix and jitsi, so it was just a matter of telling prosody about that. So I cheated a little I guess 😄 Here is my full config for that, in the unlikely event that you’re using NixOS.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 1 week ago:
Very cool!
Re: the backup / restore of state in NixOS: I found myself writing the same things over and over again for each VM/service, so finally wrote this wrapper module (in action e.g. here for Jellyfin), which confgures both the backup services and timers, as well as adding a simple
rsync-restore-jellyfincommand to the system packages. In case you find this useful and don’t already have your own abstractions, or a sufficiently different use case 😄 - Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 1 week ago:
Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.
Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.
On the other hand though, voice and video calls have worked flawlessly.
- Comment on Free and open source Audiobookshelf Android client 1 week ago:
Awesome! And good job, looks great!
- Comment on Free and open source Audiobookshelf Android client 2 weeks ago:
Why are there no screenshots in the README.
Yes I know I can just install the app, but for an app that primarily seems to define itself by its UI improvements over the established competitor, the screenshots are the deciding factor in the question “Should I download and install this?”, and no screenshots defaults to “no”.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 2 weeks ago:
So which is it: has this topic been taught as super important since childhood, or doe no-one know about it?
Also pretty sure a 4 year old would have little problem understanding “gender expression is how you act and dress and talk, gender roles are what people think you should act and dress and talk like”. So, IDK, maybe have your nephew checked or something?
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 2 weeks ago:
Are you confusing gender roles with gender expression again?
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 weeks ago:
Interesting discussion on this from yesterday on the NixOS forums:
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the UX for setting it up was not great. Conversely though, the UX for using it has been fantastic so far. My biggest concern was that the clients would feel dated (on Android esp), but no, they’re surprisingly polished!
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 2 weeks ago:
Oh no! And just when I finally got around to setting up an XMPP server, too!
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 3 weeks ago:
I think the trans movement dug a deep hole for itself when it promoted transition surgery for minors.
We didn’t. Noone is even advocating for that. That is 100% a right-wing straw-man.
That works both ways though, when an “F” on the license is for someone who is 6’3" with quarterback shoulders and five-o’clock shadow.
Exactly, and now there’s gonna be a ton of beardy, muscly men who are forced to revert to an “F” on their licenses.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 3 weeks ago:
No, with the incorrect one.
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 3 weeks ago:
It absolutely is.
There’s also a lot of different variations of fetishes involving piss. For the “get pissed on / in / drink it” part of the fetish, I have a hunch that piss sits right on the boundary of gross/humiliating, but not actually harmful.
Well.
For me at least.
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 3 weeks ago:
So do they
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the email I got from them:
Dear xxx,
This mail is to inform you about an unfortunate, but necessary price change that we must make.
There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.
The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price adjustment will affect both your existing products and new orders.
The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.
We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.
The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products. For orders placed before 1 April 2026, but delivered after 1 April 2026, the adjusted prices will apply.
The following existing products, listed under the customer number specified in the subject line, are affected by the price increase as follows.
Product previous price New price as of 1 April 2026 Server Auction € 43.56 € 44.87 all prices incl. 21% vat
We know that price changes are always a challenge for everyone. However, we believe that our products’ prices and conditions still have a competitive price-to-performance ratio.
We have prepared a list of all new prices for you on Hetzner Docs at docs.hetzner.com/general/…/price-adjustment. Starting on 1 April 2026, the new prices will also be on our website.
If you do not wish to continue your contract, you can cancel the products within the regular cancellation periods via your administration interface.
We hope that you will be able to understand and accept our decision, and that we are sorry that we have to change our prices.
If you have any questions, we will be happy to help. Please log onto your account and go to “Support” in the menu and create a support request.
Kind regards,
Hetzner Online
- Comment on Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 40% 3 weeks ago:
1.31 for me!
- Comment on China: DeepSeek Paints Grim Picture of Its Home Country 4 weeks ago:
Did you prompt it in English, or on Chinese? This is just a next-token-predictor, and it will largely use its English training data for its English output prediction.
This is not surprising. Nor is it indicative of, well, anything.
- Comment on I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed 5 weeks ago:
It’s because people get mislead by the “agent”, assuming there’s something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just… Automated.
- Comment on I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed 5 weeks ago:
What a clown. In what world do you require an LLM to check for duplicate pictures??
I mean, good on him for realizing that LLMs are dogshit. But still.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Yeah, and Steins;Gate 0 rated higher than the original… What?
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 1 month 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 month ago:
I’ll DM you… Not sire I want to link those two accounts publicly 😄