cRazi_man
@cRazi_man@europe.pub
- Comment on Watch me go Reddit 9 hours ago:
There isn’t enough of a population to get a good small niche community going. Also it can be difficult to find the community in the first place. The fight stick community on Reddit is very active. On Lemmy it has been around for a while and remains completely dead.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 9 hours ago:
Someone needs to tell Ubisoft to git gud.
- Comment on Well that showed them 2 days ago:
Or even just leaving a porn video at loud volume.
But hey, everyone’s entitled to enjoy a good pegging. You don’t need to wait to spite your neighbours to do this.
- Comment on You don't even need the other 4 points. You're fine. 3 days ago:
Have you tried: not
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Then it’s finders keepers and operating theatre staff can walk off with whatever they find.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I’ve lost the podcast episode now, but there was an excellent documentary about organ ownership. Basically after you’re dead then there’s no ownership of the organ. If you want to donate a kidney to your brother,you can’t say that they can take it out of your corpse. If you’re a loving donor then you can direct who you want to give it to. If you donate after death then it can only go into the national system for the organ transplant list.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 3 days ago:
If you’re getting a mini PC then your NAS can be older and really underpowered since it’s literally just housing your HDDs and not running compute heavy tasks.
You might need a bit more horsepower if you want to use Immich AI and PaperlessNGX AI.
eBay has been great and secondhand tech is worth taking the (small) risk on for the big savings. Get an old NAS that still gets firmware updates. Synology has worked great for me since it handles reverse proxy safely without me trying to learn that myself and doing a bad job to leave my server exposed and vulnerable. Get a mini PC suitable for your needs. I got a 12th gen Intel one earlier this year for £230, many companies dump “old” stock that’s perfectly functional. Look out for which CPU has a good enough iGPU for your needs if you need something like Jellyfin video transcoding.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 3 days ago:
I don’t plan on having more than 7-8 services running: Immich, Nextcloud+office, firefly, audiobookshelf, paperless and a maybe few more if they’re useful.
This will change when you get confidence and start realising how much good stuff is out there.
I’m a noon with this stuff who has recently self learned stuff and got a decent server setup running. Feel free to DM if you want detail about my beginner resources, how, what and any other questions.
I started with a Synology NAS. I don’t know about your specific NAS, but NAS hardware can be underpowered and quickly becomr too underpowered for the stuff you want to deploy.
People online recommended a mini PC for and keeping the NAS as just a NAS. I thought I better double check what’s suitable for my needs…R.Pi, DIY build server computer, Unraid, TrueNAS, etc.
So I put in loads of work to come round to realising the initial recommendations was correct. I’ve kept my Synology for only NAS and use a dedicated mini PC. I’ve put Debian on it as my server OS. No RAID configurations, but critical data is backed up across 2 to 3 different devices and media.
Super happy (and quite proud) of my setup. It is slowly expanding.
I would recommend taking it slow, document steps you take (because you will fuck up and need to redo things), backup all important data and keep it completely detached from the devices you’re tinkering with, find suitable and appropriate beginner guides.
It really has been a lot of fun. Welcome inside the rabbit hole.
- Comment on Can I turn it off? 3 days ago:
Interested in any suggested solution.
Shit like a rogue video on a browser tab will even hijack this.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 5 days ago:
A lot of things I’ve done may well be very poor practice. But at least I’ve got this thing off the ground and am learning from there. If I couldn’t make a start then I wouldn’t go down this rabbit hole at all in the first place. Without trying, implementing, breaking and making mistakes…it’s not like I would have browsed Stack Overflow for months. I have no programming or PC qualifications. Self teaching ain’t easy. AI did a lot more heavy lifting initially. Now it mostly double checks my YAML draft and makes sense of error logs so I can be pointed in the right direct to know where to even start reading.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 5 days ago:
Everyone’s wrong here. New users should try to look up some basics, and existing advanced users should tolerate beginner difficulties and not say anything if they can’t support and welcome the beginners. It would be perfectly acceptable to have a self hosted noobs community so advanced users are isolated from noobs if they want to be.
Frankly, this has been a longstanding barrier for me in adopting Linux and self hosting. Communities can be really unhelpful. It’s not like hobbyists are starting with reading an organised textbook. Knowledge is picked up piecemeal and sometimes there are glaring holes in beginner knowledge. For Linux adoption and self hosting, AI has helped me a hell of a lot. I wouldn’t be able to do any of this without AI. In my mind, this is a perfect use for AI. I can ask my dumb beginner questions without annoying AI, and it’s a very low risk situation for when AI gets things completely wrong and it doesnt really matter much. Also I find it amusing that I used the big tech company’s tools to move to platforms that deny big tech companies from exploiting my data, which is now safely local.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 5 days ago:
The right to live with dignity should not be dependent on productivity.
Anyone working full time should always be able to easily provide for themselves and a “reasonable size” family.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 6 days ago:
Gamesir Cyclone 2 has been such a premium experience. Clicky nice feeling buttons, hall effect joysticks with smooth rims, shoulder buttons can be set to hair triggers, Bluetooth or dongle, metal charging stand, customisable back buttons. It’s been such a great premium gaming experience at a very budget price (currently going for £48).
- Comment on to the whitehouse! 🍾 6 days ago:
Am Not A Lawyer
- Comment on Finally a month that's relevant to me 1 week ago:
how catastrophically wrong can current science be.
Marketing is not science. I douby any score or evidence or research was used. It sounded good and looked good to someone in the cigarette company and they thought it would sell better.
- Comment on There Comes A Time Where You Gotta Make A Choice 1 week ago:
My recommendation: be a girl that shits.
- Comment on Ain't no one breaking in 1 week ago:
Reminds me if when a curtain railing in my house was coming off the wall and my mom was adamant that I should use Blue Tac to hold it to the wall till I could make time to f fix the screw anchors and attach it back properly.
- Comment on Naturally 1 week ago:
- Comment on I completely misunderstood how this whole thing works 1 week ago:
You’ve come to the wrong place. Grindr is looking for your skill set.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 1 week ago:
Anything in this genre. Brotato and Deep Rock Galactic Survivor are great.
- Comment on Some meetings don't even need to be e-mails. 1 week ago:
I’ve heard this in a podcast and the same principle applies at work:
Most books should have been short essays, most essays should have been pamphlets, most pamphlets should have been blog posts, most blog posts should have been tweets, most tweets shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
It’s been able to play everything I throw at it. There cam be minor slow down initially while it’s compiling shaders sometimes. The Retroid Pocket 6 is open for pre-orders now and that’s going to easily be able to play all Switch and many modern PC game too. Worth having a look out anyone is interested, especially now that Steam games work with cloud save game sync. The Steam Deck could hardly be taken anywhere with how bulky it is. The RP5 for this much gaming power into the jeans pocket.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
Switch games emulated on the Retroid Pocket 5 have been amazing. A pocketable console with full Switch 1 games and an amazing screen. It’s been such a good purchase.
- Comment on Honk 1 week ago:
Get a bumper sticker that says “poop if you have no horn”
- Comment on When even your microwave knows what you are 2 weeks ago:
I don’t need the AI microwave’s opinion on my cooking.
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve shoved my Switch to the back of a cupboard somewhere and don’t use that hardware at all. I use Eden emulator to play Switch games on my Steam Deck and my Retroid Pocket 5, and also my PC (if my kids want their save game progress there). Syncthing is set up on my home server and all these devices. The save data gets synced across all devices. I’ve been loving it. I’ve ditched the shitty Nintendo hardware and always refused to pay for Switch online since it didn’t work for a bunch of games anyway. The emulated games get better performance with better screens and controllers on these devices, and all games sync reliably at no extra cost.
I’ve got Switch games on my phone as well (Into the Breach works great with touch controls alone), but I haven’t figured out synchronising save data from here since Android locked down app data folders.
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 2 weeks ago:
Normies don’t get it. Privacy means nothing to most normies. I tell them about things they would understand an appreciate:
I don’t need to pay for the following anymore because I have my personal version of Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, Google photos, etc.
I can tell them about a home server also saving me from Onenote, Google Calendar, etc as well; but they tend not to understand this and say “but that’s free anyway”. In which case it becomes a more prolonged conversation of trying to explain why privacy and data ownership are important.
There’s also the hobby/interest/learning aspect of this. But even my wife sees what I do and says she doesn’t understand how I can stand troubleshooting server problems; because she gets hugely triggered if tech doesn’t immediately work as intended. Tinkering and troubleshooting tech is most people’s idea of hell.
- Comment on It really is heart warming when grandkids teach their grandparents how to use the internet 2 weeks ago:
The real community service is teaching them how to go to correct sources and hide their tracks. Teaching about the least malware riddled streaming sites, deleting history, not saving bookmarks to the main bookmarks tab bar on a shared computer, etc etc.
- Comment on Can't afford expensive car repairs? Here's an easy guide on how to handle most auto issues yourself. 2 weeks ago:
Turn up the radio
I need the music, gimme some more
Turn up the radio
I wanna feel it, got to gimme some more
- Comment on I hear he's homeless too. 2 weeks ago:
“Andrew will move to the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk” - BBC
