yardratianSoma
@yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series 1 day ago:
I mean, nobody turns on ray tracing to reduce a games energy demands.
- Comment on Abandoned FOSS projects 1 day ago:
It’s already been said: FOSS projects can be abandoned, but resurrected via forks and re-writes, whereas proprietary apps are simply dead with no recourse unless the original dev/team releases the source code.
That being said, I am not a developer, so when a project dies, I am at the behest of other devs to revive the project. I do find that projects that many people value, like all the recent discord alternatives or health/money management apps, tend to survive longer because they provide value to a wide range of people. Things like wikis or new protocols are far more niche, so I am not surprised that they might not outlive projects like sharkord or rackula.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Good on him for this. I started self-hosting a couple years back, so my “tech fence” is already fairly complete, with a few glaring omissions, still a WIP.
I do wish he got someone to provide links to guides or wiki pages, but I understand that making people go out and search for things is also important, even if it’s a simple task to search on google/github for open source projects.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 5 days ago:
I got a 2nd hand x220 years ago, and it refuses to die. Running cachyOS currently.
My next laptop will certainly be a thinkpad.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 6 days ago:
Shit i may need to delete my google account before Iran does it for me!
- Comment on I'm using my home server and coding to rebuild my brain after a stroke. 2 weeks ago:
Inspiring tale, glad you found something you both enjoy and learn from! I think that’s a great use of time, to problem solve and develop tools that benefit you day-to-day.
I’ve had some family that have experienced strokes, ranging from a slight scare to full on life-changing. You’re certainly doing well if you’re writing your own apps, I can barely script BASH.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 2 weeks ago:
yeah, I was looking at the Moto G15 for my next phone, but with this news, I’m considering sacrificing a little upfront cost for a better OS
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 2 weeks ago:
which is fine, I mean, you’d want decent specs + a secure OS in this day and age
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 2 weeks ago:
Us human really are good at making shit worse, eh?
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 2 weeks ago:
Fuck, RIP to an entire generation of kids and teens who won’t get to experience the joy of building out their own personal machines
- Comment on Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC 2 weeks ago:
episode #205 of How big tech is ruining tech again
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
As if backlash matters to them. There’s 200+ million active daily users. They’re are betting on the majority not giving a fuck, and they are right.
I try and try again to convince my friends to leave discord, but they don’t care. So guess what? I’ll just find new friends, fuck discord.
Seriously, I already deleted my discord account once before, because their terms of service already were claiming that all private messages and channel messages are being collected to sold to advertisers and data collection groups. I only joined back because I missed my friends. But now?? I could give a fuck, I already spun up Sharkord, and it runs well. In 6 months time, it will likely be good enough to completely ditch discord, so fuck it. My privacy matters more than friends who don’t use their damn brains.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, makes sense. I “solved” that issue by still doing handwritten notes but then scanning them and converting them to digital notes afterwards.
That being said, I grew up in the 90s so I was never deprived of the skill of handwriting as a kid. It wasn’t until apple made touchscreens popular that shit kinda went downhill
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
most schools offer textbooks digitally anyways. I never once was reprimanded for using pirated textbooks. If anything, teachers are just happy to know a student cares enough to learn. It’s really the crooked publishers that are far to greedy to serve any educational purpose that profit from copyright enforcement.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
lol, I mostly ditched textbooks in high school not to support technology, but because I was tired of carrying around huge books in my backpack, the bulk of which I wouldn’t even need on a daily basis. Lo and behold, even 14 years ago, I could find pdf versions of most of my textbooks, some of which were offered officially from the publisher for free via the school.
The problems are the enshittification of the internet, the attention economy and the superb lack of American educational system, not technology itself. Almost every university in the world is filled with the sounds clacking keys from laptops, this isn’t 1984.
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 3 weeks ago:
The Cybernews research team discovered an exposed MongoDB database containing nearly 1 terabyte of personally identifiable information (PII) exposing approximately a billion sensitive records across 26 countries.
Welp. I guess, time to change passwords.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 3 weeks ago:
seems like raspberry pi os on touchscreen devices supports on-screen keyboards and basic touch-screen features. There’s also the Librem 11 tablet, that runs linux on an Intel chip with Gnome.
- Comment on Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method? 3 weeks ago:
I was scared off a couple years ago when I attempted to host it myself. I took a break from selfhosting, but now I’m back, and from what I learned in the past, I know now not to torture myself swimming upstream when there are far easier downstream currents to follow.
I’m looking at conduit but I’m currently writing up a doc to plan out the process, and understand it before I actually deploy anything. I don’t want to open ports, don’t need federation and don’t need encryption, since I’ll be using tailscale to host a private server to only members of my tailnet.
I’ll report back, either here or in the main community, because I don’t want to expose ports, rent a VPS or use ansible for a simple private server for less than 10 people.
- Comment on Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile
Mozillaevery fucking large tech corporation is focusing on AI…ftfy
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
I tried convincing my friends to leave discord, and only 2 people attempted, but I kind of fucked up by enabling message encryption.
But now that this bullshit is here, I wonder if I should try again? I might go the VPS route and call it a day, but I really want to have it locally hosted so I don’t have yet another thing to pay monthly.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 4 weeks ago:
I lack formal education in the tech field, but I honestly wish I didn’t waste my 20’s on drugs (it was fun though, honestly) and an attempt at a rap career, instead of getting my hands dirty in the field, so to speak. I got into computers in the early 2000’s, discovered linux in 2006, and since then I’ve been that friend who’s into computers and stuff.
I kind of forget what exactly got me into self-hosting . . . but youtube probably had something to do with it, with many youtubers like Raid Owl, Level1Techs, and even LTT talking about things like Jellyfin and TrueNAS, it got me curious as to why I never got into it sooner.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 4 weeks ago:
hey sorry for the late reply, but sure!
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 5 weeks ago:
anyone using any public facing website to organized a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.
Why hasn’t everyone downloaded signal yet?
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 5 weeks ago:
I honestly only use debian headless, and manage the server via ssh and manage docker containers via portainer’s web ui.
I’m not new to linux though, so 100% stay with a desktop environment like the one that comes with Mint, because that makes things much much simpler. It’s all debian under the hood at the end of the day, and 95% of services provide install guides for debian-based systems anyways. Is this optiplex 3050 your first homelabbing system?
- Comment on TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan 1 month ago:
I mean, when LLMs go out of style, at least we’ll have a bunch of cheap gpus and components to buy when it inevitably floods the used market after the current generation get superseded, coupled with multiple chip fabs going online, it will eventually be raining chips.
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 1 month ago:
I know it’s a horrible job, but at this point I wouldn’t mind trading some sanity to pay the bills.
Crazy world.
- Comment on System Redundancy 1 month ago:
thanks for this . . . .I keep worrying about security, hardening the system … etc, but forget about the essentials: power and networking. #1 priority for me is to get a UPS this year, once I find a job, that is
- Comment on The holy journey 1 month ago:
damn, I didn’t even know there was an inside, ngl pretty damn cool
- Comment on The holy journey 1 month ago:
I definitely already knew 1 tab is not a specific quantity, but since I don’t own thousands of dollars of chemical equipment, I never had the things needed to measure said tabs. I did, at least, have reagent tests to at least verify the subtance present on the paper, but not much else.
But in my experience, I’ve never overreacted to 1 tab, so with a tab being anywhere from maybe 50 to 150 micrograms, that’s roughly how much I can handle before basically blacking out. It’s only happened twice and both times ended peacefully. It’s not a constant thing I use, in fact, I haven’t touched any drugs in many years. That’s the main thing I love about psychedelic substances, they don’t have the addictive qualities of things like MDMA or alcohol. But I may trip maybe 1 time this year, or not.
- Comment on The holy journey 1 month ago:
anything more than 1 tab always sends me to the dark side