mr_jaaay
@mr_jaaay@lemmy.ml
IT jack of all trades. Licensed pillow fort architect.
- Comment on Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep 2 weeks ago:
Why not use Joplin? Open-source, very flexible, I run it on a bunch of devices and sync it via a EU cloud provider over S3 in an encrypted bucket…
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 2 weeks ago:
I’m imagining Data from Star Trek being deleted…
Captain, this is most illogical.
- Comment on Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost? 2 weeks ago:
Seconding Hetzner. I recently went on a bibge and moved as many services away from US based companies over to EU based ones, Hetzner being my choice for webhosting, S3 storage and VPS (which I rarely need thanks to my homelab).
- Comment on Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are quite a few Hall effect controllers on the market, from what I’ve read they’re quite good…
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 3 weeks ago:
I can understand that. Maybe check the list I noted above, I’m pretty sure quite a few can do handwriting recognition (doesn’t the iPad’s native handwriting recognition work with Obsidian?). Though I understand the ‘don’t fix it if it ain’t broke’ inclination as well…
- Comment on Do I really need a firewall for my server? 4 weeks ago:
To follow up on this, I’d look to network segmentation as another useful security barrier. I’ve just started playing around with VLANs, but the way I plan on setting things up is to have individual VLANs for services, management and IoT, with the LAN for all other user-land devices. On top of this you add strict firewall rules to what can talk to what, on which ports, etc. So all devices on the network can do DNS queries to my two DNS servers, for instance, but things from my services VLAN can’t reach anything outside of this VLAN…
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 4 weeks ago:
There are boatloads of various note-taking apps, both open-source and not, that are much better than OneNote. Take a look at noteapps.info/features, where you can browse by specific features you’re interested in. I’ve just recently switched from running DokuWiki for my homelab documentation to Joplin and I’m really loving it so far (I’ve setup sync to Hetzner’s S3 service).
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
I used to spend tons of time on forums 20 or so years ago. Social media killed many of those off, but there’s no reason that something else can’t do the same thing - be it Lemmy communities or something else.
- Comment on Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices 1 month ago:
Here’s Active Directory, you’ll figure it out.
- Comment on We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend. 1 month ago:
I played Morrowind back in the day and I completely agree, I couldn’t play it now, just don’t have the capacity. The journaling in that game of specific quests was pretty bad, as was the horrible leveling system.
- Comment on Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting? 1 month ago:
I’ve been using my own domain pointed at Inbox.eu. They’re based in the EU and I haven’t had any problems, I pay for 2 users, the price is something like 12€ per user per year, so it’s cheap enough for me.
- Comment on PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory [old specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts] 1 month ago:
Thanks, I think I needed to read this today.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 month ago:
Just to point out that on Win11, Notepad also:
- Keeps progress without saving
- Supports tabs
I use a bunch of text editors / note taking apps regularly (or semi-regularly) and Notepad is one of them (among others also Notepad++, VSC, Obsidian, Geany, Notion…).
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 month ago:
Thanks for mentioning Notepads, never heard of it but it looks interesting. I already use quite a few different note taking apps, but still often start with Notepad when I don’t know where the info will eventually end up…
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 month ago:
Why? I mean, one of the main features of generative AI systems is to generate text (the quality of which I won’t get into), why not add this to something like Notepad. I agree that Notepad should be thought of as a lightweight, well, notepad, but still might be useful as a quicker alternative to Word.
The fact that Microsoft is trying to shove Copilot down our throats at every possible step is idiotic, I agree, but having an AI as part of a notes app doesn’t seem too weird.
- Comment on Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them. 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure this is a thing all over the world. There used to be quite a few job ads on fiverr and similar places for people to read text from various languages out loud. I wonder why?
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 2 months ago:
Last time I looked (granted this was 7 or so years ago), it was pretty hard to find much, especially in English. Though German was worse, there were a few on-line retailers but because of (I’m guessing) copyright, they wouldn’t sell outside of Germany.
I’d love to find a good alternative to Amazon…
- Comment on Docker in LXC vs VM 2 months ago:
Fair enough, would love to read something like this :-)
Yeah, I’ve been into Linux for 20 years, sometimes a bit on/off, as an all-around-sysadmin in mainly Windows places. And learned just enough of Docker to use it instead of apt - which I’d prefer, but as you said, many newer services don’t exist in debian repos or as .deb packages, only docker or similar.
- Comment on Docker in LXC vs VM 2 months ago:
Follow-up question: do you have any good resources to start with for a simple overview on how we should be using containers? I’m not a developer, and from my experiences most documentation on the topic I’ve come across targets developers and devops people. As someone else mentioned, I use docker because it’s the way lots of things happen to be packaged - I’m more used to the Debian APT way of doing things.
- Comment on Docker in LXC vs VM 2 months ago:
Honestly, I never really thought of installing Docker directly on Proxmox. I guess that might be a simpler solution, to run Dockers directly, but I kind of like to keep the hypervisor more stripped down.
- Comment on Docker in LXC vs VM 2 months ago:
Yup, this is me exactly. I’ve been planning on going more indepth but haven’t found the time. Inunderstand Linux and how to use LXCs, docker less so.
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- Comment on Self-hosted Personal Finance Suggestions 2 months ago:
Ghostfolio looks really neat, thanks! I wonder, can it import data from say Interactive Brokers?
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 months ago:
IDK, the fuckass kind of gives it a ring, you know? Maybe fuckass Gulf of Mexico?