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- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
I work with Windows and it’s AWFUL. Did you know the taskbar is a fucking ELECTRON APP? Everything is so slow. And you have to go through hoops to do what you want, and that setting isn’t available in the settings electron app, you have to go through these 5 screens to find the magic button that opens the win 95 style dialog box to set what you want. It’s so So SO BAD.
- Comment on 1U mini PC for AI? 2 weeks ago:
You could combine both 1U fillers and install a 2U PC, which would be easier to find.
- Comment on Making a custom pc case for my next home server 2 weeks ago:
It would not. Static electricity in insulators such as plastic is localized. It can’t move across the plastic to the grounding point.
- Comment on Flashbang! 3 weeks ago:
We kinda can, but they sort of require the frame to be still, which is not a thing in the deep sea.
- Comment on Flashbang! 3 weeks ago:
It’s like saying Julius Caesar is dead for over sixty years. Technically true.
- Comment on Stripes! 🐅 4 weeks ago:
NGL, a part of me wished they were visible, but I’m afraid we’d just invent new forms of racism.
- Comment on Stripes! 🐅 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 5 weeks ago:
Well, I’ve been known to hold a grudge.
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 1 month ago:
Didn’t WD screw some customers of their Red line with shady practices?
- Comment on Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Sans the light
- Comment on Creating similar service to AlternativeTo 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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. 3 months ago:
One could say it’s their fiduciary duty.
- Comment on Fresh 3 months 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" 3 months ago:
Appwrite and Supabase are both very promising open source “serverless” solutions.
- Comment on Little miracles 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months ago:
And chat. But yeah, no groupware.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 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 4 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.
