carrylex
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- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 3 days ago:
If you’re not living in USA-land you’re probably fine to simply change the battery every few years because you’ve got a photoelectric smoke detector.
Ionization based smoke detectors (that require changing because radioactive…) are more unsafe and usually only allowed in special cases in non third world countries like the EU.
Oh and you also can’t just throw them into the trash because you know radioactivity… except in USA-land…
- Comment on Just getting into a little bit of Troubles 6 days ago:
Come out ye black and tans starts playing…
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 6 days ago:
New chargers and cables = New freedom units to measure stuff with
- Comment on Get on my level 1 week ago:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hmm I’m not sure if another RTC server solution is the best way…
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
You know at this point people are probably gonna start insuring their RAM…
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Voice chat works out of the box with Matrix.
It uses WebRTC and tries to do P2P connections. Note that this leaks your IP to the other caller and vice versa, but it’s also quite fast as you can establish a direct connection.
If P2P fails it will try to fallback to your configured TURN server and use that one for relaying.
However not every instance has one (as TURN servers are usually not that modern and straight forward…) and if this is the case it will fallback to Matrix’s global TURN servers.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s just chatting with your use case: definetly yes
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
synapse and element/schildi-chat work quite well for me :)
On mobile the newer Element X clients usually lack some features (like calls) but you can use them quite well for chatting.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Matrix hoster here.
I would recommend Matrix as it has pretty much everything, including cross platform clients, threads, voice/video calls, screensharing, spaces (aka servers), federation and E2EE. Matrix also has bridges for Discord and pretty much every other service so this could ease transition…
But self hosting requires reading the docs and having some in depth knowledge and understanding as it can be quite complex.
I would recommend just creating a Matrix account on one of the common global servers and testing it.
If you want to self-host there are some pre-defined setups available (example) but I would still recommend to bring at least 5-10 hours.
Regarding operations: It’s really resilient and barely ever breaks and also doesn’t need a lot of resources. A 1-2vCPU server with under 1GB RAM server is enough for less than 10 people.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Too sumarize the article:
US clickbait and ad invested news website directly quotes “trust me bro” Twitter post + describes in 2 sentences what a ramdisk is and does zero real “journalism” like maybe contacting mentioned dutch authorities or Windscribe themselfs.
Once again: Ban Tom’s Slopware. Post the original source instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Look at “Supported Service”
I probably found the answer fastee than the time required for you to write the question.
Maybe do a basic search before asking questions.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 5 weeks ago:
Okay, not sure how snow is news to 200 people or relevant in the first place…
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 5 weeks ago:
Onec again the “Everything that’s not FOSS will turn to shit at one point or another” theorem proves true.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 5 weeks ago:
You can also use a power outlet with no grounding but don’t get surprised when your “buisness” burns down.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 5 weeks ago:
What have auto-generated/AI caption contents to do with the general format captions???
YT has auto-generated captions now for years, so why would they remove an unsupported, internal format because of that?
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 5 weeks ago:
While I’m not quite sure about the exact reasons for the removal, here are some probable guesses:
- it’s a bug
- the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable
- It’s getting replaced by something better/standardized as the current solution doesn’t seem to always work properly in YT’s apps
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 5 weeks ago:
> Use UNSUPPORTED subtitle format instead of one of the other 10 supported ones
> Fast forward some time
> YT disables and removes the UNSUPPORTED format
> Image
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 1 month ago:
Well I didn’t know about that before, so thank you for the information :)
Your system sounds a bit complex when compared to the German one. For comparison here in Germany we basically have 3 important documents:
- The ID card that you get as a citizen. You can use it inside the country for basically all govermental buisness or to travel freely in the EU/Schengen area.
- The more powerful (and expensive) passport that you usually only needed when travelling abroad
- Drivers license - that you can also get when you’re not a citizen
So if you’re an immigrant/not a citizen you basically can’t have an ID card or passport and get a temporary residence card instead.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 1 month ago:
Just FYI - outside of the US bubble - an identity card is standard in most countries: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_national_identity_card…
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 1 month ago:
That’s a Velaro
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 1 month ago:
Not sure what this sentence means, but feel to use pigeons instead.
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 1 month ago:
When you’re getting notifications/newsletters from legitimate platforms like e.g. Amazon or GitHub it’s smarter to unsubscribe from these specific mails. Otherwise you will be screwed when some important mail somehow ends up in the spam folder.
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 1 month ago:
but I’m absolutely drowning in unread emails, around 4,000
WTF are you doing with your e-mail address that you get these amounts of mails. These are more mails than I got in the last decade.
At first maybe try to unsubscribe whatever you subscribed and stop putting your address into random services. Use a temporary mail for stuff like that.
Also mail filters can help with sorting mails from certain senders into folders. Bascially every provider has them and if not programs like Thunderbird have these built in on the client side.
Most are those annoying notifications like “Your security code is xxx,” “Your parcel has shipped,” and requests to rate my experience.
Uhm simply delete them when you e.g. inputted the code or got your parcel? Or change the settings that you no longer get them?
So, I’m on the hunt for an email provider that has solid SPAM filters…
Under your circumstances no provider in the world can do that, because nobody can determine if your “Your security code is xxx” mail is spam or legitimate…
- Comment on Wireguard over IPv6 1 month ago:
I did basically the same a few months ago, works really well in combination with DDNS.
Just make sure to keep WireGuard up to date from time to time to get rid of any potential vulnerabilities :)
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 1 month ago:
PSA: In the video (not the retarded posted article that has 0 proofreading) it’s stated that he used Windows XP 64 bit
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 1 month ago:
At first: Stop posting Tomshardware! They just bulk repost ad-enriched low quality clickbait content without validating anything (cough 9700X3D). Just post the original video.
As the video creator said in it’s disclaimer, the test is probably not accurate:
- I’m having serious doubts about the test setup. The laptops are all on a carpet directly facing a wall. There is 0% that their is proper air circulation and this will likely effect heat dissipation.
- Some tests (e.g. Video editing, Battery life) are extremly hardware dependent and shouldn’t be used in a OS comparison.
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 1 month ago:
8k Stars in 2 months. Wild…
PS: Your git is misconfigured and doesn’t line up with your GH account…
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 months ago:
help me sue them
