ohshit604

@ohshit604@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IP address won’t report back to your home country nor location. Reputable VPN providers will fight to protect your anonymity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Self host your own?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ditch the homepod and don’t replace it with any other spyware

  Family has gotten use to the HomePod being around, makes simple things like settings timers for cooking or other related task a bit easier.

  And yeah, I’m aware it’s spyware. I wanted a “smart-home” and essentially landed on Apple products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I was looking into Linux based mobile OS’s and I’ve come to the consensus that hardware selection is very limited.

  I was very interested in GrapheneOS but unfortunately it’s for Pixel phones only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was so hyped when the EU pressured Apple into allowing external software on Apple devices.

  Apple killed that hype making the change EU only, problem is I’m encapsulated in the walled garden with an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Air Tags, HomePods.

  Thinking of getting a second phone Android based to partially-escape the garden but if I ditch my iPhone all hell will break loose network wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I recommend against Brave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Forks of Firefox are still Firefox, no matter how neutered it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨portable jellyfin stack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just host the stack at home and VPN in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me choose hardware for my first custom setup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked myself up a Asus NUC 13th gen I7, chose Proxmox as the OS and have about 35 services running via Docker Compose.

  Everything runs beautifully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was maybe 2-3ish years ago;

  I started with a raspberry pi 4 bundle from Amazon, played around with the Linux filesystem, bash shell, APT package manager and just kept reinstalling the headless Debian 12 OS if I believed to have bricked it beyond repair.

  Eventually learned about the Docker Engine & Docker Compose and that essentially gave access to a plethora of software I would’ve have never have used before.

  The raspberry pi 4 started to show sluggishness as I started piling more and more services on it so, Instead of buying traditional server grade hardware I liked the small form factor of the Pi so I opted for a 13th gen Asus Nuc with an 12 core i7.

  Everything runs beautifully now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are batteries recycled?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use to work In a recycling warehouse for plastics, the amount of batteries that would run through our line then get compressed in a baler or shredded was ridiculous.

  I swear we would have monthly fires, our local fire department probably hated us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Control Ultimate Edition: March 2025 Update Notes (PC)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really couldn’t enjoy this game, it for some reason made me nauseous and tired.

  Wanted to enjoy it, unfortunately couldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I still have a collection of old 360 titles. I’m scared to open their cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I set up local DNS or DNS rewrite⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally couldn’t even get ssl/tls working with NPM, reverse proxying worked but it really didn’t feel right.

  Eventually learned about SWAG and had a much better experience setting it up. Now here I am on Traefik thriving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But, none of the FOSS alternatives work well enough to move my friends over there, in my experience.

  Been slowly moving to Matrix/Element and was able to convince two buddies to at least make accounts, currently the biggest struggle we’ve had was with the voice channels.

  There appears to be two types of voice channels; Jitsi & Element Call, Jitsi works okay but screen sharing appears to not work on either Windows or Linux and also doesn’t appear to allow mobile users to connect with desktop users and vice versa. Meanwhile Element Call seems to work perfectly but the unnecessary extra step to install the Element X beta app for mobile is in my opinion an unnecessary extra leap.

  Another gripe about Matrix is spaces/room permissions, to my understanding Spaces are like discord servers so when I make a user an Admin you expect them to get admin privilege over every room right? Welp, it’s not and you have to give them admin for every single room also, once you give someone Admin you can’t remove it and they have to do it themselves. While I understand why it’s done this way I find it quite dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Searx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s hoping that Linux becomes good enough within a couple years from now.

  I jumped head first into Linux without any prior knowledge a year-ish ago, I went and chose what seemed to be a simple distro (Debian) and later found out it’s one of the more difficult distros out there (also most native packages are outdated) and some how made it work day to day.

  Basically every game on steam is essentially Linux compatible and a good handful of popular anti-cheats have partnered with Valve to ensure proper compatibility.

  Now the problem is, game producers (like Ubisoft & EA) have been pushing this rhetoric that Linux users are all cheaters & hackers and intentionally prevent users from connecting to their servers or even launching the games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a poor experience with NPM which turned me to SWAG, it worked, but was a tad slow. Moved to Traefik and haven’t looked back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Multi-reddits on Lemmy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like it. Still Gulf of Mexico on my end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could say the same, I use PayPal very frequently because my credit union doesn’t support debit-visa. With PayPal I can make payments with my bank online rather than use my cc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital management post-life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Last release was over 5 years ago and judging by the issues not receiving responses best to assume it’s deprecated.

  Cool project it seemed.