Colloidal

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Minisforum are pretty well regarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sans the light

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating similar service to AlternativeTo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the Privacy Guides website is open source. It has a recommended tools section that you can use as a starting point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I didn’t know the compliance solution from Microsoft was attached to office.

  That and policy enforcement are, I think, the biggest obstacles for Linux adoption commercially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Compliance being what is and isn’t allowed to run on a computer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MSP?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. It was released almost at the same time as the 1st gen iPod touch, and that iPod ran the same OS as the iPhone (then named iPhone OS). I thought the iPod touch came before, it didn’t. The iPod classic was significantly different from the iPhone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when the iPhone came out, it was a little more than an iPod that made calls. The rest is history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget Big Brother. It’s the startups silently watching workers now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While countries like Brazil, Mexico, and India have privacy laws on paper, enforcement is weak, allowing both domestic and foreign vendors to deploy invasive technologies unchecked.

  So they’re doing just as well as the US?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Project resource management? Gantt charts, timelines, etc⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the days before git, I worked on a small software+hardware startup with ~ 10 people. We used Trac very successfully to do project management. I know it’s been updated to mesh with git. You could set up roadmaps, track issues (which can be linked to code or not), tracked hours (using a plugin), and keep our internal KB in the integrated Wiki. There was a Trac Hack for everything we wanted.

  I don’t recall which Gantt plugin we used, but there’s a few options: trac-hacks.org/tags/gantt

  We didn’t use kanban back then, again, options: trac-hacks.org/tags/kanban

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta(Facebook) and Yandex apps silently de-anonymize users’ browsing habits without consent.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One could say it’s their fiduciary duty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all gases. And some gases can be absorbed through the skin, completely invalidating this method. Yay!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appwrite announced the launch of Appwrite Sites, calling it "The open source Vercel alternative"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Appwrite and Supabase are both very promising open source “serverless” solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little miracles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re dumb enough to don nazi paraphernalia, you deserve what you get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, the US has a handwriting problem. It sucks sooo much. In other countries it seems to be only doctors, but in the US? Fucking everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Teams alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And chat. But yeah, no groupware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple NAS hardware for home use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an always-on 2020-ish corporate desktop with TrueNAS. When idling, that thing is silent. I have to look at LEDs to make sure it’s running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My little dumpster dive NAS made of second hand second rate hardware cab withstand power losses without hitch. You don’t need a UPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d hit TrueNAS forums with that. They should be able to help you diagnose what’s up. TrueNAS is pretty reliable, I haven’t heard of anything like that happening before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Seems like just mismatched expectations from OP. I hope to see news from the project, there are a lot of interesting concepts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plebbit Will Never Deliver, Apologies for the Hype, Lemmy's Where I’m Staying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Activity Pub has a clear leg up in that you can be as decentralized as you’re comfortable.

  Want to go full one-person instance? You got it. Want to host for your friends and family? Covered. Want to host for the general public? Can do. Don’t want to host at all? Pick your open instance and join the fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also Incus, but if you’ll be using your TrueNAS box to host the containers, I suggest you stick to Docker as it’s the default. If you’re building a second container box, Proxmox, Docker, Podman, and Incus are your best bets. Choose what fits your expertise and needs best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One heard good things about Incus, otherwise Proxmox is the default these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! Was it always not federated? I thought it was, in is halcyon days. Might be just my faulty memory though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just confirming. It seemed to me that use had tapered off completely. Glad to know that’s not the case. In a way, Lemmy is essentially a reimplementation of Usenet. Decentralized, federated forums.

  What server do you use?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And we went back to it being used as forums?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But do they live in caves, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is cop shot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finance / Investment self-hosted apps?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My previous bank used make it easy to import them, but ever since I’ve moved countries I’ve just been doing it by hand. The banking system here sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finance / Investment self-hosted apps?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I started, it was only GNUCash as a free option. Never tried anything else. It fits my needs as a family very well.

  There’s no mobile or web access, and that’s fine for me. Updating it is something done once a week or less for me anyway.

  I manage mortgage, virtual account for kids allowances, budget for future expenditures, and have a set of reports that I refresh to keep tabs on my money and goals.