suicidaleggroll
@suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 5 days ago:
Yes it’s a common phrase. If an apple costs $2, and you have 10 apples, then you have $20 worth of apples.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
I agree option 1 is the correct choice, though it does appear they are slowly going that direction…
Really? Because every new Windows version is even worse than the one before it. There are now 3? 4? different places to change network settings, but only one of them actually works correctly, if you modify the wrong one it will act like it worked but will silently break all networking on the machine instead.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
If they can charge 30% without Apple’s fees, then why are their prices the same whether you buy on their iOS app or direct on their website? Why have they been overcharging users who don’t buy through the iOS app by 30% all this time?
- Comment on Version Dashboard 1 week ago:
Just FYI - you’re going to spend far, FAR more time and effort reading release notes and manually upgrading containers than you will letting them run :latest and auto-update and fixing the occasional thing when it breaks. Like, it’s not even remotely close.
Pinning major versions for certain containers that need specific versions makes sense, or containers that regularly have breaking changes that require you to take steps to upgrade, or absolute mission-critical services that can’t handle a little downtime with a failed update a couple times a decade, but for everything else it’s a waste of time.
- Comment on Self hosted place check-ins 2 weeks ago:
How about Dawarich?
I haven’t used it myself, but I have it in the backlog of things to try out
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s about 2 and a half round-trips between Dallas and Houston, that’s…not a lot to be calling this thing ready to go and pulling out the safety drivers.
I wonder how these handle accidents, traffic stops, bad lane markings from road construction, mechanical failures, etc.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
They likely streamed from some other Plex server in the past, and that’s why they’re getting the email. The email specifically states that if the server owner has a plex pass, you don’t need one.
I got the email earlier today and it couldn’t be clearer:
As a server owner, if you elect to upgrade to a Plex Pass, anyone with access to your server can continue streaming your server content remotely as part of your subscription benefits.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I run all of my Docker containers in a VM (well, 4 different VMs, split according to network/firewall needs of the containers it runs). That VM is given about double the RAM needed for everything it runs, and enough cores that it never (or very, very rarely) is clipped. I then allow the containers to use whatever they need, unrestricted, while monitoring the overall resource utilization of the VM itself. If I find that the VM is creeping up on its load or memory limits, I’ll investigate which container is driving the usage and then either bump the VM limits up or address the service itself and modify its settings to drop back down.
Theoretically I could implement per-container resource limits, but I’ve never found the need. I have heard some people complain about some containers leaking memory and creeping up over time, but I have an automated backup script which stops all containers and rsyncs their mapped volumes to an incremental backup system every night, so none of my containers stay running for longer than 24 hours continuous anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
People always say to let the system manage memory and don’t interfere with it as it’ll always make the best decisions, but personally, on my systems, whenever it starts to move significant data into swap the system starts getting laggy, jittery, and slow to respond. Every time I try to use a system that’s been sitting idle for a bit and it feels sluggish, I go check the stats and find that, sure enough, it’s decided to move some of its memory into swap, and responsiveness doesn’t pick up until I manually empty the swap so it’s operating fully out of RAM again.
So, with that in mind, I always give systems plenty of RAM to work with and set vm.swappiness=0. Whenever I forget to do that, I will inevitably find the system is running sluggishly at some point, see that a bunch of data is sitting in swap for some reason, clear it out, set vm.swappiness=0, and then it never happens again.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 weeks ago:
Market self regulation assumes informed consumers that are smart enough to know what things mean
Not just smart enough, but informed enough. That means every person spending literally hundreds/thousands of hours per week researching every single aspect of every purchase they make. Investigating supply chains, performing chemical analysis on their foods and clothing, etc. It’s not even remotely realistic.
So instead, we outsource and consolidate that research and testing, by paying taxes to a central authority who verifies all manufacturers keep things safe so we don’t have to worry about accidentally buying Cheerios that are laced with lead. AKA: The government and regulations.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
No names? On what? People just go around saying “no names”?
It says “no mames”. I’m not sure what on earth that means, but I suspect it isn’t a typo (writeo?)
- Comment on Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service? 2 weeks ago:
I self-host Bitwarden, hidden behind my firewall and only accessible through a VPN. It’s perfect for me. If you’re going to expose your password manager to the internet, you might as well just use the official cloud version IMO since they’ll likely be better at monitoring logs than you will. But if you hide it behind a VPN, self-hosting can add an additional layer of security that you don’t get with the official cloud-hosted version.
Downtime isn’t an issue as clients will just cache the database. Unless your server goes down for days at a time you’ll never even notice, and even then it’ll only be an issue if you try to create or modify an entry while the server is down. Just make sure you make and maintain good backups. Every night I stop and rsync all containers (including Bitwarden) to a daily incremental backup server, as well as making nightly snapshots of the VM it lives in. I also periodically make encrypted exports of my Bitwarden vault which are synced to all devices - those are useful because they can be natively imported into KeePassXC, allowing you to access your password vault from any machine even if your entire infrastructure goes down.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 weeks ago:
Sure in a decade or so it might have matured enough to have shed all these issues
That’s the point. They want to set themselves up so that when the issues are shed and it becomes a realistic product, they’re already in a place where their product can be the one that takes over the market. If you wait until a product is viable before starting on development, you’re too late.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
I abandoned Google when they started throwing shopping links at the top of every search, even when searching for things that have no relevance to shopping, and they started artificially promoting scams and paid material above actual results.
Google Search was best around 10-15 years ago when their only focus was providing the best results they could (remember when you could actually click the top result and you would be taken to the most applicable page instead of some unrelated ad or scam?). Now their focus is on providing the best product possible for their actual customers (paid advertisers) even when it means trashing their own product in the process.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 4 weeks ago:
They won’t. Musk has a hard-on for doing everything with visible cameras for some stupid reason.
- Comment on This is real 4 weeks ago:
Uh huh, and then what? Wake me up when he actually experiences any kind of consequences for his actions.
- Comment on Incremental backups to optical media: tar, dar, or something else? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t like the fact that I could delete every copy using only the mouse and keyboard from my main PC. I want something that can’t be ransomwared and that I can’t screw up once created.
Lots of ways to get around that without having to go the route of burning a hundred blu-rays with complicated archive splitting and merging. Just a handful of external HDDs that you “zfs send” to and cycle on some regular schedule would handle that. So buy 3 drives, backup your data to all 3 of them, then unplug 2 and put them somewhere safe (desk at work, friend or family member’s house, etc.). Continue backing up to the one you keep local for the next ~month and then rotate the drives.
- Comment on iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs: Consumers ditch Apple for more advanced features and to support Chinese brands. 1 month ago:
Pretty sure the country of origin for Apple products isn’t the US anyway. They’d be coming from China, India, etc. Reciprocal tariffs on the US should have no effect on Apple products sold in other countries.
- Comment on iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs: Consumers ditch Apple for more advanced features and to support Chinese brands. 1 month ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong, but the same applies to all phone manufacturers. Samsung, Pixel, etc. are going to see similar price hikes due to tariffs in the US, and a similar drop in demand in China as they move to Chinese manufacturers.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 1 month ago:
Some people move the port to a nonstandard one, but that only helps with automated scanners not determined attackers.
While true, cleaning up your logs such that you can actually see a determined attacked rather than it just getting buried in the noise is still worthwhile.
- Comment on How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs? 1 month ago:
Reverse proxy + DNS-challenge wildcard cert for your domain. The end. Super easy to set up and zero maintenance. Adding a new service is just a couple clicks in your reverse proxy and you’re done.
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 1 month ago:
Yes at a cursory glance that’s true. AI generated images don’t involve the abuse of children, that’s great. The problem is what the follow-on effects of this is. What’s to stop actual child abusers from just photoshopping a 6th finger onto their images and then claiming the it’s AI generated? AI image generation is getting absurdly good now, nearly indistinguishable from actual pictures. By the end of the year I suspect they will be truly indistinguishable. When that happens, how to do you tell which images are AI generated and which are real? How do you know who is peddling real CP and who isn’t if AI-generated CP is legal?
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t matter. The public doesn’t listen directly to politicians, it gets filtered through the media first, and the media picks and chooses which parts they actually report. The people who would actually hear this already know. The people who would need to hear it never will because Fox won’t show it to them.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 1 month ago:
Yes, and Bitwarden+SimpleLogin. Bitwarden to keep track of login info including the alias that is used for that site. SimpleLogin is where the aliasing is actually handled, they have a decent UI for enabling/disabling or generating reverse aliases (for outgoing emails) when needed.
It does take a little more effort to manage it, but it’s worth the payoff. I’ve been using this setup for about 9 months now and I finally got my first spam email a week ago. I looked at the address it was sent to, it was a site I ordered something from about 6 months ago. I sent them a message letting them know that either someone at their company is selling customer info to scammers or their database has been leaked, then I shut off the alias.
- Comment on Enshittification 1 month ago:
Yes, by staying privately funded and not throwing everything away chasing quarterly profits
- Comment on Does it ever make sense/is it possible to move certain docker volumes to another physical volume, but not all? 1 month ago:
Same, I don’t let Docker manage volumes for anything. If I need it to be persistent I bind mount it to a subdirectory of the container itself. It makes backups so much easier as well since you can just stop all containers, backup everything in ~/docker or wherever you put all of your compose files and volumes, and then restart them all.
- Comment on How best to store a media library in proxmox? 1 month ago:
I would separate the media and the Jellyfin image into different pools. Media would be a normal ZFS pool full of media files that gets mounted into any VM that needs it, like Jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, qbittorrent, etc. (preferably read-only mounted in Jellyfin if you’re going to expose Jellyfin to the internet).
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 1 month ago:
As far as networking, from what I could see the only real change casaos was doing was mapping its dashboard to port 80, but not much more. Is there anything more I should be aware in general?
It depends on how you have things set up. If you’re just doing normal docker compose networking with port forwards then there shouldn’t be much to change, but if you’re doing anything more advanced like macvlan then you might have to set up taps on the host to be able to communicate with the container (not sure if CasaOS handles that automatically).
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 1 month ago:
The nice thing about docker is all you need to do is backup your compose file, .env file, and mapped volumes, and you can easily restore on any other system. I don’t know much about CasaOS, but presumably you have the ability to stop your containers and access the filesystem to copy their config and mapped volumes elsewhere? If so this should be pretty easy. You might have some networking stuff to work out, but I suspect the rest should go smoothly and IMO would be a good move.
When self-hosting, the more you know about how things actually work, the easier it is to fix when something is acting up, and the easier it is to make known good backups and restore them.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 1 month ago:
While true, and I have a lot of DRM-free music that I’ve bought from Apple, the difference is that getting music purchased from Apple onto your computer in a usable format is a bit of a pain, and it’s all lossy. Music from Qobuz can be downloaded directly from their site after purchasing, in lossless FLAC format, and many of their albums are available in high-res 24-bit and/or 96 kHz format as well.