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- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 1 day ago:
I’m just going to leave this here: Wigner’s friend.
In Timelike Infinity, there’s a group following that logic through to its conclusion, committing a bit of terrorism on the galactic scale to make Final Observer-senpai notice them.
Batshit insane, 10/10, one of Baxter’s tamer plotlines.
- Comment on society 3 days ago:
I miss the Be Like Bill memes
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 days ago:
This is about as useful as the assholes going “It’s not Pedophilia, it’s Hebephilia!”.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 1 week ago:
Right? These companies act like they are selling food and we are stealing it.
In reality, they put a big “free beer” sign up, we go and happily accept the beer, and then they act outraged that we refuse when they try to piss in the mug after handing it to us.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 1 week ago:
Yeah. I don’t have a contract with the site, agreeing to pay them in any way, shape or form. They voluntarily show me seit content, but that does not obligate me to also accept their ads.
- Comment on Post your homescreen 1 week ago:
Hey, thanks! It’s a photo I took almost a decode ago in New Zealand. Here’s a link.
I also have a second “swipe” to the homescreen, but I make a point to keep apps installed to a minimum, and everything else is not used commonly enough to justify a place on the homescreen. 95% of my app opens are probably Firefox, haha.
- Comment on Post your homescreen 1 week ago:
I kinda like it, but fuck Xiaomi for disabling gestures unless you iss their launcher.
Used Kvaesitso previously.
- Comment on Is there a selfhosted eBooks app that can do this? 1 week ago:
Yes, in supported apps / protocols. Koreader, for example, should have 2-way sync for eBooks, and Mihon has 2-way sync for Manga.
+1 for kavita. It also has a nice webreader ui.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 2 weeks ago:
Would passkeys solve your grievances for you?
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Grow a Garden Calculator 2 weeks ago:
Well… In my case it would be “calculate how much loss you’ve been making by growing your own veggies!”, lol.
(Container gardening and watering add up, but I am not complaining, I am not doing this to save/earn money)
- Comment on Grow a Garden Calculator 2 weeks ago:
I was SO confused until I checked the community.
Thought this was about literal, real-world vegatable gardens as a hobby.
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 3 weeks ago:
Nice, that’s great to hear!
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 4 weeks ago:
Again for Germany, it’s handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 4 weeks ago:
In the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that’s become the standard for most countries.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 4 weeks ago:
Make sure you choose a proper open source one, else the app might collect data as well…
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 5 weeks ago:
When we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.
Happens maybe four times a year.
(Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it’s a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Ah, nice. In that case just beware to move /var/lib/private/conduwuit to /var/lib/private/continuwuity, not /var/lib/conduwuit to its counterpart
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Ah crap, forgot to ping you! Sorry!!
Yep, easy decision now. Migration went smoothly, just had to move the state dir and chown it to
continuwuity:continuwuity. Might be different on docker though, no idea, sorry 😄 - Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Update: seems to me
tuwunelis drama waiting to happen. See updated post for details. - Comment on Everything is a problem 5 weeks ago:
No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optionally. I’m out and about without a phone quite frequently.
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, completely agree. It seems that the matrix foundation could easily take a different path to allow the community to flourish and third-party servers to have a much easier time. Since I’m not federated, I wouldn’t even mind if whatever fork I’ll end up on eventually says “fuck this, we’re not following synapse specs any more”.
But yeah, I am sure selling premium accounts on matrix.org is what will save the matrix ecosystem… 🤦🏼♀️
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Understandable.
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Hm, fair enough, I actually have very little experience with XMPP. (Only through prosody, which I personally am on a war footing with.) From a cursory glance, I also couldn’t find an Android lient I’d really want to use, but of course that is subjective.
In any case: I have a matrix server up and running, and it has been a pain to get friends and family on there; I do not want to do all of that again with a new protocol/clients. As long as it’s sustainable, I want to stay with the same server installation, and that means choosing a
conduwuitfor me. - Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
There’s nothing technically wrong with it, it’s just a glacial development speed. I tried contributing there myself when I wanted a specific feature (which had been requested years prior by someone else and was deemed a good idea), it took months before I even got a single comment back.
In the meantime, I had switched to
conduwuitbecause it was a much, MUCH more active project. However,conduwuithas diverged substantially fromconduit, including irreconcilable database changes, so it is not possible to migrate back, that would require starting from a fresh slate and loosing all user data. - Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Understandable. Funny thing is, I’m not even federated; I think that keeps me away from a lot of drama.
But yeah. The drama sucks, and so does the Matrix Foundation. So many dumb decisions, so many years old issues that could easily boost acceptance and usability, but… Nah. No better alternatives around though if you want to own your data, have proper multi-client support, and at least the option to federate.
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Nice, how’s it been going?
- Comment on `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`? 5 weeks ago:
Roger, will do.
Yeah, community driven sounds like unless there’s new drama. But yeah, currently tending towards continuwuity. Purely vibes based from snooping around both repos.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
We have NixOS, Proxmox and TrueNAS in use.
- TrueNAS on a dedicated NAS host. It’s great for that, and has been super stable. The snapshotting works great, and all the little tasks associated with a NAS are taken care of without needing to spare a thought.
- Proxmox as VMS host. You haven’t mentioned it above, so I’ll leave it at this: also works really well for its purpose.
- NixOS: acouple dozen NixOS VMs runnign on the Proxmox hosts. I like the separation (i.e.: one VM <-> one task/service), but it’s not necessary, esp. if you plan on using a stable branch. I absolutely love NixOS, and would never run server applications on anything else ever again. The documentation thing is trueish. There’s not even close to the same documentation as with e.g. Arch and the Arch Wiki, but that makes sense when you think about it: instead of hundreds of lines of documentation, you hide that complexity behind an option, e.g.
graphics.nvidia.enable = true;which then becomes pretty self-explanatory, at least if you are somewhat familiar with the ecosystem already. The way I’d recommend going about documentation with nix is this:- go to search.nixos.org/options, search for the service you would like to host. 90% of the time, the options and descriptions shown are all you need.
- if an option is unclear, click on its “declared in” link. You’ll be taken to the module source in
nixpkgs. Look at what they are doing there/the comments explaining why. Often, this resolves any ambiguity, or helps you out with your goal. - if that did not help, check the NixOS wiki; often, common pitfalls are documented there, together with the nix expression to fix them.
- another great way is to search GitHub for
language:nix <thing you need want do>. As a random example: I recently wasn’t sure how to configuring scaling in hyprland on NixOS, but searching for an appropriate term will quickly show you how other people have solved the same problem. It’s not really documentation, but the declarative nature of nix means it’s easy to find TONS of working examples via a github search. - all else failing, ask on discourse.nixos.org. Youńll usually get useful help very quickly there.
So, what’s my advice?
If you are unfamiliar with NixOS, it’s probably a bit of a headache getting a NAS to run satisfactory. Truenas works so well, there isn’t really a need for nix. But running your services in nix is great, totally recommend!
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