CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 days ago:
looking at things i think i meamt Only Office. Any opinions there?
If I remember correctly, Only Office uses LibreOffice as its core and then adds or changes default stuff. I might be wrong about that. But ultimately I hear positive things about Only Office.
The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I’d like to replace the OS on it too. I don’t keep the box online so I’m not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.
Sounds like a perfect situation for loading something like Proxmox and then visualizing the Windows Server 2016 instance. You would basically have the exact same functionality but with way more options like cloning and backing up the server.
Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it.
No worries at all. I think the automatic defensiveness from Linux people comes from old misconceptions being repeated often. Or sometimes it comes from how something is read and interpreted. Someone might say “I can’t switch because I need XYZ”, to which a very literal response is “you can use ABC which does the same thing, so you can switch”. When what the first person meant is “I can’t switch because I prefer XYZ”, which is a completely valid reason.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 days ago:
I wasn’t going to berate you or anything. I was genuinely curious.
I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice
LibreOffice is great. I use it on my work system at a medium to larger sized company (every single other person uses o365). I haven’t heard anyone complain yet about doc comparability and I haven’t had any issues myself.
Stay away from OpenOffice. It’s practically a dead product. When Oracle bought OpenOffice, the community forked the project which became LibreOffice. LibreOffice is where all the development and community focus and effort has gone since.
OneNote is my second most vital
I don’t have any recommendations here. I’ve never really found a “perfect” solution for this. Currently I use a few different solutions, but it’s all centred around markdown, so they’re all interchangeable.
OneDrive is probably my most vital.
I personally wouldn’t touch OneDrive with a hundred meter pole. MS does so much screwing around with your data that you can never be sure if the data stored is what you uploaded. They’ve been known to just up and delete files they scan and think is malicious, even if it’s a false positive. Then they’re known to scan all your documents for everything, including potential passwords, then use those passwords to open password-protected files and then scan them also.
Then there’s the situation from a year or so ago where they automatically switched everyone’s documents folder to a “cloud first” folder, where they just auto-uploaded everyone’s local files, deleted the local copies, and did it all without user consent or even informing users. And this resulted in all kinds of wild crap like people not having access to their documents because they were offline and were expecting local files. Then some people had their metered data connection getting maxed out. While others couldn’t even modify their files or even save a file to their “My Documents” folder because the default storage allocation was far less than the total data of their local files. So effectively the data was held for ransom.
it’s mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option.
Most newer games that you can run your own dedicated server will almost certainly have a Linux option, which suggests you might taking about older games, in which case something like Lutris (Wine) might be an option.
But are you hosting these game servers on your desktop?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 days ago:
I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux).
They haven’t been for a while now. On some newer distros they’ll install the Nvidia drivers at the same time as the OS itself.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 days ago:
Nvidia GPUs are not good in Linux at the moment
They’ve been perfectly fine for years. And now they’ve never been better for desktop DEs.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 days ago:
What kind of things are holding you back?
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 4 days ago:
Three incoherent replies with jumbled run-on sentences.
the businesses with clean perfect sites tend to be the scams
Uhhh, no. Objectively no. A legit website is not going to have spelling mistakes and broken links. Looking professional and thorough is a direct lead to increased business. What you just said is completely false, and frankly idiotic.
Everything else you said (in all three replies) is just a jumbled mess of a brain dump that I’m not even going to try and address any of it.
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 4 days ago:
No, I didn’t say this “isn’t a nice site”. I said it’s “suspicious as hell”.
Having a working site and a navigable “About Us” page isn’t “nice”. It’s the bare minimum I would expect of any legitimate nice or ugly site.
There’s just a lot on their site that reeks of sloppy scammers.
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 6 days ago:
Its so cheap to just get a vps from a littlecreekhosting deal
This site seems suspicious as hell. Incredibly basic site, no info on where they’re located, and the “About Us” links aren’t even links. There’s no About Us page.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 1 week ago:
You think those script kiddies know Rust?
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 week ago:
And yet Graphene will still probably need more private and secure
- Comment on I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor 2 weeks ago:
who have invented their own language about syncing up, achieving alignment, creating action items
My soul contacted in upon itself a little as I read that.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Ok, so you’re implying people were using their videos for free instead of paying for the streaming services. Then Plex wanted more money so they’ve started to charge people for using their own stuff.
That’s fine, and frankly I agree with that.
But your initial reply to me is still irrelevant to the discussion.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
It’s irrelevant because even Plex themselves made no mention of their in-house streaming stuff. The discussion is about being charged to view your videos, hosted on your own self-hosted server, viewed on your own device.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
But the blog post from Plex was specifically talking about charging for remotely accessing your own files. So your point is irrelevant to the discussion.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Streaming requires high-performance, high-bandwidth machines that cost anywhere from several dozen dollars to several hundred dollars a month. You build a resilient high-availability network, and you could easily be looking at several tens of thousands of dollars a month.
Are you under the impression that Plex uploads the movie files to their servers and then transcodes them there, or something?
And the hard work happens on your own hardware. All Plex’s servers are doing is acting as a signaling server, but no media or routed through Plex’s servers.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 3 weeks ago:
That’s not better, you didn’t allow any smart TV to connect to the internet.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 month ago:
Are
kidspeople getting ADHD because they didn’t sleep well? Or is poor sleep hygiene an early indicator of ADHD?The research shows that poor sleep hygiene can be a trigger for ADHD related symptoms. Poor sleep hygiene is not the same as “didn’t sleep well”. Poor sleep hygiene is not going to bed at an appropriate time, going to bed at wildly different times each night, blue light exposure within 2 hours of bedtime, etc.
The ages of 0 - 4 years are the most crucial for brain development. It’s why newborns sleep several times a day. The brain hasn’t finished forming by the time they are born. Even at the age of 3, kids are still napping mid-day. And those naps are extremely critical for healthy brain development.
So without good sleep hygiene, it can stunt brain development in a way that results in ADHD, or ADHD like symptoms.
Lots of people with ADHD have poor sleep hygiene, even as adults. Many will struggle with things like Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, because they get their biggest bursts of focus late at night when everyone else is asleep, the brain is releasing dopamine to keep them awake, and distractions are limited.
I have ADHD and DSPS. The reason people with DSPS feel awake at night is due to an issue with melatonin production. The brain doesn’t release melatonin normally (or at all) so the natural “feeling sleepy” sending never comes. I take prescription tryptophan and one never slept better in my life. My “natural” sleep time in 2/3am and waking up is 10/11am. But with tryptophan I can have a “normal” sleep schedule.
And that’s another interesting thing. Kids diagnosed with ADHD can see improved outcomes when they are given tryptophan to help regulate sleep.
Btw, if you’re wondering. Tryptophan is an amino acid, and you can get it in pills that have comically measured doses. Why not just take melatonin? Well tryptophan metabolizes into melatonin and serotonin. It’s a guaranteed way to get melatonin.
Off the shelf melatonin pills aren’t regulated with dosages the same way. In fact, a pill in a 10mg melatonin bottle might only have 1mg of melatonin or even 15mg. They aren’t reliable, and the other issue is that melatonin tends to not be bioavailable enough to work reliably. Tryptophan is very bioavailable. It’s the stuff in turkey that makes people sleepy after eating it.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 month ago:
Like the rise in ADHD and Autism diagnosis… There isn’t more cases, just diagnosis got better or more available.
It’s both.
We’re finding that even things like microplastics are causing changes that’s not fully understood. There’s even a recent study that links an increase in histamine to worsened ADHD symptoms.
And then there are things like poor sleep hygiene when very young can trigger a development of ADHD later on.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 1 month ago:
I’ve been using (mostly) Claude to help me write an application in a language I’m not experienced with (Rust). Mostly with helping me see what I did wrong with syntax or with the borrow checker. Coming from Java, Python, and C/C++, it’s very easy to mismanage memory the exact way Rust requires it.
That being said, any new code that generates for me I end up having to fix 9 times out of 10. So in a weird way I’ve been learning more about Rust from having to correct code that’s been generated by an LLM.
I still think LLMs for the next while will be mostly useful as a hyper-spell checker for code, and not for generating new code. I often find that I would have saved time if I just tackled the problem myself and not tried to reply on an LLM. Although sometimes an LLM can give me an idea on how to solve a problem.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 1 month ago:
There’s also the tribal knowledge of people who’ve worked somewhere for a few years. There’s always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 1 month ago:
I find it’s the most useful when asking it for small snippets of code or dealing with boilerplate stuff. Anything more complicated usually results in something broken.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 2 months ago:
A new odd language will develop that us meatbags won’t understand.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 months ago:
You might be interested in an episode of Linux Unplugged from a few months ago that goes into Meshtastic quite nicely.
There’s also this link with a ton of resources for Meshtastic:
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 months ago:
You want Meshtastic
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 5 months ago:
That’s why you need to pay for premium so you can get the 1080p premium bitrate.