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- Comment on Questions about how to present radio shows on Jellyfin 1 day ago:
I normally love opinionated software, but Jellyfin’s options often just kind of suck.
It would be nice to have an option to mark a folder as “Just list these in alphanumeric order, and play them when I click on them”.
But I’m not aware of such an option.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 2 days ago:
I swear I have found shorts guy in every game.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 2 days ago:
The rent seekers push web services because they don’t think they can sell you a client app.
There are many nice completely free privacy respecting client apps for RSS on F-Droid.
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 4 days ago:
Hear hear!
- Comment on Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops? 4 days ago:
Oh, teah. I’ve used Amazon recently enough to see the “fewer boxes” option.
Last time I checked “fewer boxes” I got emailed a half assed excuse blaming their “partners” and then slowly received a shit-ton of boxes.
I don’t give them many chances, now, anyway. I try pretty hard to shop non-megacorp, now.
I’m not mad if it’s working for others.
Really I’m just curious if there’s a set of customers that Amazon still excels for, or if Amazon is just coasting along on reputation from past quality.
- Comment on Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops? 5 days ago:
A major benefit of Amazon is just being able to add 20 things to your cart and get them all in like 1-2 boxes.
If this has worked for you in the last 5 years, your Amazon experience has been very different than mine.
It was wonderful, when they did that.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 5 days ago:
Thanks. I hate it.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 5 days ago:
Alternately, perhaps we can look forward to
You’ll be happy to rent the megacorporation owned and configured computers whether you like it or not.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
Yes. LibreWolf ships correctly configured, no switches needed.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
There were games released this year? Neat. I’ll probably check them out. Right after another round of Tetris.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
LibreWolf is nice.
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 1 week ago:
They need to identify threats to Texas democracy: specifically anyone who turns off their TV during an episode of Walker: Texas Ranger.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 week ago:
Yes. It is very little, very late.
But it was a huge quality of life relief to me, when I still had a Windows install to deal with.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 week ago:
wingetships with Windows by default.I understand that it is based on
chocolateyto some degree. - Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
Thank goodness.
- Comment on The Stock Market is Just Financial Fantasy Sports 2 weeks ago:
Then there are HFT’s which is like if the house let really rich people install a camera tied to a computer and place bets just before the ball lands in the slot.
Not only that, but the winnings of camera instabet players are automatically deducted from everyone else’s winnings.
- Comment on The Stock Market is Just Financial Fantasy Sports 2 weeks ago:
Index funds are much better than individual stocks. But Index fund price to earnings ratios still reflect their individual component stocks.
When the P/E ratio is 40, a rough way to read that is “it will take 40 years of stability for this purchase to pay off”.
Many people don’t have 40 working years left to wait for a stock purchase today to pay off.
And the supply of “years of stability” isn’t looking amazing, right now, either.
- Comment on Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide 2 weeks ago:
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam, while vendors keep millions of verifications available for the UK and US, along with Brazil and Canada.**
Interesting stuff. I would guess this accounts for why products with only 4 stars on Amazon are so often shit. Real consumers only seem to affect the last star out of five.
- Comment on Recommendations to replace AWS DNS? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I’m inclined to avoid Cloudflare, if I’m able, for now.
Cloudflare feels like they’re doing the same kind of “were too big and cool to pay our staff or think about uptime” that I’ve been suffering from under AWS, recently.
- Comment on Recommendations to replace AWS DNS? 2 weeks ago:
Haha. Yes, I’m looking for a DNS service, at the moment. Thanks anyway!
- Comment on Recommendations to replace AWS DNS? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Recommendations to replace AWS DNS? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Selfhosting with a seven year old 2 weeks ago:
I need to find out more about Minecraft and hosting a server sounds like a good idea
I’ve hosted both Minecraft and Luanti (free open source Minecraft). Either is a great idea.
That said, I found setting up a Luanti server slightly simpler (because no need for everyone to have a Microsoft account, and no Java dependencies to worry about): docs.luanti.org/for-server-hosts/setup/
Luanti has lots of options, but a good default choice is Mineclonia: content.luanti.org/packages/ryvnf/mineclonia/
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks ago:
So gold is inflation-proof?
Yes, but only to the extent that you can store it, defend it and find a buyer when needed.
Gold loses value at exactly the rate of the cost of the armed guards you are paying to keep it from being stolen.
Pay too little, and it takes its value to someone else who is better armed or sneakier.
And if someone set aside gold for you that you have never seen, no they didn’t.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I would meet at “yes”, as well.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying. Nice try possibly Federal Internet cut-off clean-up assassin team!
- Comment on Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs 3 weeks ago:
If I told JP that I did not find their work authentic, I’m sure they would say “You’re absolutely right!”
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 3 weeks ago:
If you have no junior developers, who will turn into senior developers later on?
At least it isn’t my problem. As long as I have CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Windows11, AWS us-east-1 and log4j… I can just keep enjoying today’s version of the Internet, unchanged.
- Comment on The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket in our lifetimes and become a normalized thing 3 weeks ago:
Still somehow too soon.