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- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (20 March 2026) 5 hours ago:
Honestly it feels that way for a while then something new comes along. I just started mine around this time last year, added a NAS and a VPS, and then aside from small tweaks and daily updates there hasn’t been much to do.
But now I’m thinking I want to shrink my single monolithic proxmox VM to separate out some services to their own VMs (one for pihole/unbound, one for very personal services like paperless and actualbudget, one for any exposed services, etc). On top of that, I’m thinking of setting up an additional server or VPS for social media instances and such.
Kinda feels like it comes in waves. Set up a ton of stuff, let it sit for a few months, do it all again
- Comment on It’s getting weird folks, a second five fret game is getting pushed, Sound Studio 2 days ago:
It’s still around? Figured it’d be pretty much read by this point and replaced by CH
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
Supposedly this trash will run on a single GPU at launch, but this still feels like a subtle push toward shit like geforce and taking ownership away from the consumer
- Comment on "Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead 3 days ago:
Same, I played a ton at launch but haven’t kept up with any updates aside from the initial raids. All memes aside it’s genuinely a solid game, so I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve done with it.
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 3 days ago:
I set up Komga as soon as the original reddit thread went up about the Booklore dev. Works great, pretty simple, does what it needs to do, and setting up Kobo sync for my wife took all of 5 minutes.
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 3 days ago:
Last I checked it doesn’t keep channels in a server organized and always sorts by recent activity. I may be mistaken but I don’t believe it supported screenshare audio yet either
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
They absolutely got a huge nvidia check for this one
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
I mean that’s exactly what you’re saying if you genuinely thing that yassified filtered dogshit with atrocious lighting actually somehow looks better and retains the artists’ intent
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
The stills are dogshit enough but this actually looks so much worse in motion lmao
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
I too have a complete and total disregard for artstyles
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
bruh it looks like shit lmao
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 4 days ago:
It’s definitely going to be one of these two. Matrix and XMPP are just too much for casual users, and there’s no one client for either of them which supports all of Discord’s core features.
Out of those two, Fluxer feels like the better choice right now, but I do wish they’d take a stronger stance against LLMs. Stoat feels clunkier, buggier, and feels like it’s getting left behind.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026) 6 days ago:
Mostly ereader integration from what I can tell at the moment. ABS handles epubs and such pretty well at this point.
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 6 days ago:
There is this that popped up the other day, but I haven’t looked into it at all to see if it’s vibecoded or not: github.com/fccview/degoog
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 1 week ago:
Man this list is depressing. Good to have handy though. Sad to see SearXNG and a few others on here.
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 1 week ago:
I don’t have the full details, but I saw some mentions in that Booklore reddit thread about CWA’s dev ignoring major issues in favor of new features and such, something like that. I admittedly didn’t really do much research into that nor the tool itself, but Komga’s Kobo support seems better, so I just went with it.
- Comment on Probably want to stop using Booklore... 1 week ago:
I literally just got this all set up and was about to hook up my wife’s kobo to it, good timing for this to come out so I don’t waste any more of our time with this slop. What a shitshow.
I just spun up Komga instead last night (I was going to set up CWA but I’ve heard sketchy things about their lead dev that don’t leave me optimistic). Very easy to get up and running, pretty basic but it seems to work well and does exactly what it needs to do. I was a bit hesitant since it seemed geared toward comics, but it’s handling regular ebooks just fine.
- Comment on [beta] degoog - search engine aggregator 1 week ago:
I’ve been mostly happy with SearXNG but customization is a pain point of it for sure, so this looks really promising. Definitely gonna be keeping an eye on this one
- Comment on Keycloak or alternative? 1 week ago:
It’s kind of funny, I initially tried Authentik and ran into issues getting it working, so I went with Authelia instead, but eventually went back to try Authentik again because I wanted to customize the CSS and felt I was outgrowing Authelia, and it just worked. Not sure what I was doing wrong the first time, but oh well.
I will say though the latest release has a major bug where worker instances are eating up db connections to the point where the entire thing crashes, so while I’ve generally been happy with it, definitely need to do some careful research before blindly upgrading.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 1 week ago:
Absolutely nightmare to set up, especially with OIDC, but once it was finally up it was such a night and day difference from Nextcloud. Worth setting up for sure
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Definitely time to find an alternative. What the actual fuck is this
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 2 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely, but we know what happens with mixed feedback in this industry today
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 2 weeks ago:
Honestly it’s the same thing with Concord, and it’s part of why it sucks to hear a lot of shit talk toward the devs of these games. Anyone who’s actually tried either game could tell the dev teams really did put their all into it and wanted to make something interesting and fun, but you can feel the c-suite decisions and live service bullshit weighing them down. Like if the game isn’t an instant hit, it gets shut down, and all that work thrown away. It really fucking sucks for the folks who actually put the work in.
- Comment on Tailscale n00b questions 2 weeks ago:
If you have a VPS, consider setting up either Headscale or Netbird if you don’t want to use any of Tailscale’s built-in auth methods (with all necessary security precautions taken of course). If that’s not an option I’d suggest going back to Wireguard for sure.
- Comment on Have you guys played Super Mario Bros Remastered??? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard of this but I knew one of the host names (replacing the toads) sounded familiar for some reason, turns out he was a major character in yakuza 6 lmao
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 4 weeks ago:
It was kind of weird to me how a lot of folks didn’t seem happy with that one. I played the hell out of the original and the remake was almost 1:1 aside from the graphical updates and a small handful of QoL. They did a phenomenal job with it and really nailed the combat and vibes of the original in the best ways.
Dropping the entire studio like this is so fucked.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I get that, but to me it’s honestly less about the inclusions, especially given the dev timeline, but more about defending it so staunchly today with his whole “balancing out” shtick. It doesn’t seem like anyone was actually paid for it, let alone under contract, so it would’ve been so easy to just go “yeah this is kind of fucked up after everything that’s happened, let’s cut these out before release” instead of doubling down on it and defending the inclusion of literal nazis and rapists.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Yeah honestly, like I can’t say I forgive his past shit but he’s absolutely come a LONG way from those days, credit where it’s due. I’m more concerned about including literal nazis (the Kleins) and an actual rapist (Chrischan), along with not clearly communicating any of this to the people he pulled in.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 weeks ago:
The game itself is really fucking good, I’ll give them that, but I stopped playing the moment I learned about the cast list and McMillen doubling down on it. Incredibly disappointed in this centrist bullshit to the say the least.
