cRazi_man
@cRazi_man@europe.pub
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 25 minutes ago:
Honest reply is always best:
“I’m crushed and devasatated and will never recover from this. I shall now retire into obscurity, quiet reflection and resentment.”
- Comment on Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System 20 hours ago:
Notes app is a good idea. I might have a look at options.
Actual is working really well for me for budgeting.
- Comment on Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System 1 day ago:
What are you running on your server? I’m looking for more ideas.
I’ve got loads of stuff up and running, but now it is all quietly functional and I’m withdrawing from the enjoyment if setting up something new. I’ve recently had to delete a couple of Docker apps which weren’t really very useful for me, but I enjoyed setting them up and liked seeing a long list of healthy containers in Dockge.
- Comment on What vibecoding is for development, podcasting is for societal discussion. 1 day ago:
Podcasting is a medium. You seem to have come across a certain subsection and made up your mind.
I’m really really I to listening to podcasts and I’ll strongly recommend them. You’ve got to find the right sources. Established publishers have really good quality podcasts. Try BBC, Guardian, etc. The Pushkin podcasts, iHeartMedia podcasts, financial times, Economist, etc can be good too. There are a bunch of good indie ones out there too.
If you make up your mind with crap like Rogan or the Hawk Tuah podcast or crap like that then you’ve found the worst of the worst.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 day ago:
Tetris Party for the Wii
Blast Off for the PSP
Both emulated on a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro. Just been getting into emulation properly over the past few months and I’ve been loving playing retro games.
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 1 day ago:
You will probably feel “out of place” and there will probably be few people of your demographic… But no one cares. If you enjoy your time with your wife and enjoy the concert, it doesn’t really matter.
I been to a bunch of goth metal concerts as a middle aged man. It’s mostly young people dressed in black goth apparel. I’m there as a serious middle aged guy in a normal T-shirt and jeans. It’s never been a problem. Many times the other concert goers will be quite welcoming to share their music taste with someone.
- Comment on Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System 1 day ago:
I’m new to all this.
Synology: I was using Synology before and getting started with trying some Docker containers. The Synology was very underpowered and containers kept crashing or being shut down (from resources running out I guess) so I wanted to upgrade.
Comments seemed to suggest it is best to keep the Synology as purely a NAS and use a mini PC for compute, so that’s what I went for. Got a 12th Gen Intel mini PC pretty cheap on eBay to play around with.
Debian - I’ve put Debian with KDE on the mini PC server. I was looking I to TrueNAS or Unraid to decide what I should try learning. My brother rightly said there’s no reason to over complicate things when I don’t need functions of those OS and don’t understand them. The one place the Linux community seems to be united is in recommending Debian for a server for being rock solid and stable. I’ve been very happy with it.
Spent my week off figuring out Docker, mounting NAS drives on the server PC, troubleshooting the problems. Got a setup I’m really happy with and I’m really happy I went with Debian.
- Comment on How can i casual gamer enter a game online competition? 2 days ago:
Fighting games are great for this. Street Fighter 6 is great (and the biggest). But there are others (Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Guilty Gear, Super Smash Bros, loads more and more upcoming new ones). Fighting games have usually have local clubs/events where you can play casual matches. They’ll also do local tournaments, and there will be bigger regional and national competitions to find. But it’s a great starting experience to go to a local tournament and lose £5 entry fee by losing 2 back to back best of 3’s.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 days ago:
Even though there is loads and loads of water on the planet, the amount of fresh/drinkable/usable/accessible water is tiny. This water evaporates and rains back down, but this will most likely fall over the ocean, or on land and go I to the ground, or into some other unusable area/form.
Water suitable for human use is a scarce commodity and needs to be preserved. Of all the water lost to the atmosphere from server cooling systems, almost none of it can be recaptured again.
- Comment on YSK the United Kingdom has the most corrupt real estate market in the Western World. A famous Bangladesh politician bought 350 properties in England. 2 days ago:
The London property market is a very popular place for foreign corrupt politicians to dump stolen money.
- Comment on What is happening to Lemmy instances? 2 days ago:
Europe.pub seemed to be down for a little while last night as well.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 days ago:
Like many things in my life, this remains 75% complete “good enough”. This lives behind a huge backboard behind my TV. Said backboard is slanting because it is leaning against the wall and I still haven’t mounted it to the wall properly.
The router, fibre internet entry point and LAN connection in the wall (to upstairs) are all behind d the TV there… So everything is just dumped there.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 days ago:
I’ll paste a comment I made about this recently (with updates):
I used just a Synology NAS with Docker containers to begin with but outgrew that. Now I have a mini PC with a 12th Gen i5 (picked up cheap on eBay) for computing and the Synology NAS is just a NAS.
Docker containers:
Glutun (VPN), qBittorrent, media managers (sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, flaresolverr), Jellyfin (video streaming), Paperless NGX (document upload), Immich (photo upload), watchtower (auto update Docker containers), Plex (because my wife isn’t used to Jellyfin yet and it takes a while to transition her to unfamiliar technology), Actual (budgeting), Syncthing (file sync, update: removed this, not needed, actually need a backup solution), Element server (chat server just for myself, I make channels to cross-share snippets of text/links/images to myself, accessible on any device).
Still need to set up Lidarr and Beet for my music management (update: tried these last night and don’t really need them). Also need to find a good exercise logger, set up Guacamole remote access interface (update: done, happy with this), learn to use Dockage to replace Portainer (done, happy with this), set up an RSS docker app (update: done, still messing around with FreshRSS) and audio bookshelf for podcasts and audiobooks. Haven’t got the guts to approach Home Assisstant yet.
I stopped looking for a notes app and use Joplin to sync with my Mailbox.org account, but I might look for a Docker solution for notes.
NoMachine runs on my server PC for remote desktop. The server PC runs Debian with KDE (because I’m familiar with setting up what I need in KDE, which is the most superior of all desktop environments).
Synology handles making my apps accessible externally (from Synology.me reverse proxy addresses).
I used to use the Marius Hosting site to set up Synology Docker containers. Now I just copy his YAML data and edit it for my server. So I still use those guides.
I’ve written a noob guide notes for myself to set this all up again in case I destroy it somehow (already happened once). Really enjoyed using my week off to learn all this.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 days ago:
I’ve learnt it from scratch in my week off, spending 2 or 3 hours on it every night for a week. It’s not as big a deal as you think I once you find some resources. I’m going to comment about my setup after this in this thread… Have a look.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 4 days ago:
Yet another ill concieved piece of legislation incoming, from a bunch of elderly people who don’t understand anything and are quick to moral panic.
Imagine the recruitment process for this taskforce. A bunch of people rushing to volunteer for this taskforce that requires watching all the source material for research purposes.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 5 days ago:
Correct, it should be Dirt Rally 2. Highly recommend that for real rally simulation.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 5 days ago:
Dirt 2 is a game that I have really enjoyed being shit at.
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 5 days ago:
And Monster Train
And Dicey Dungeons
- Comment on Adjusting your goals 1 week ago:
Carpets are expensive though.
- Comment on THIS happens way too often 1 week ago:
Still better than my autocorrected sign off
Kind retards
crazi_man
- Comment on Ten extra points for people who have seen the third show. 1 week ago:
Yup
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
Glad he’s moved on to doing things he likes on his own terms.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 1 week ago:
Clearly a candidate for sainthood.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 1 week ago:
Hot take: men’s barbers should have jurisdiction over all these areas as routine grooming.
- Comment on missing 2 weeks ago:
Sauce?
- Comment on The long hard road 2 weeks ago:
I look forward to my 12.5 hour shift later this week… With a full week of normal working days before and after.
- Comment on Actors and actresses probably have some crazy role play sex 2 weeks ago:
“Let’s pretend to be normal people”.
“I came too quickly”.
“I can never come”.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 weeks ago:
I carry a Fire TV stick with me that accesses my Jellyfin server. Just connect it to the internet and you’re good to go.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
Same. I also cannot fathom the number of people who say “I’m not looking forward to retirement, I don’t know what I would do with myself”.
In this day and age, there are unlimited options to read, watch, listen to, interact with, play and learn. And this isn’t even limited to consuming digital content. Learn to sculpt, or take apart a computer, or make a movie on your phone, or write a story, or learn a language, or learn a new physical skill (juggling?).
The amount of time and energy (and money, although many options are free) are the barriers, not the options available… and yet I sit here and play Balatro and Enter the Gungeon for the millionth time (#noragrets).
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 2 weeks ago:
It’s also Juy-den and Auy-den.
