Libb
@Libb@piefed.social
A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
- Comment on The future is NOT Self-Hosted, but Self-Sovereign 4 weeks ago:
You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
That's not true. I just need to click the 'x' next to the tab. Why should I be bothered with waiting for some JS to be able to read text?
- Comment on Fuck RePosts, for defenders of OC 4 weeks ago:
You lost me at 'Fuck'. As a potential new member, how could I be willing engage in a community putting forward rudeness?
I would suggest you may want to consider to calmly explain the issue at hand (my Lemmy feed is tightly curated and I do not think I noticed much of what you mention), without insulting anyone and without using doubtful dirty tricks to grab people's attention, maybe sharing some real world examples?
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 4 weeks ago:
I will only say that you should probably not that an age, but a person. It' snot their date of birth we may spend time (maybe eve our live) with , it's who they are.
Since we're on the Internet, I should probably make it clear that I mean dating a person of legal age.
- Comment on Single Purpose Devices - reclaiming control over your technology 5 weeks ago:
Wouldn't be surprised if it has a flux capacitor somewhere in there too
Wasn't the last (working) one destroyed in a train accident somewhere in the 80s? Not that I'm old enough to have first seen this movie back when it was released. Absolutely not.
- Comment on My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup 5 weeks ago:
Thx a lot for sharing.
I'm a 50+ non-geek Linux user myself, and selfhosting is the one computer 'thing' I would love to be able to setup one day but I'm too afraid to seriously start doing as I'm way too afraid of being that 'low hanging fruit' you mentioned in your post. I said I was not a geek in the sense that, after almost 40 years using only Apple computers, I've switched to Linux to use it like I used... my Mac. Sure, I've learned to understand a little bit of Linux workings and I would not want to go back to the Mac, no way, I can also write simple bash scripts (with a lot of trials and errors) but that's about the full extent of my computer 'expertise'.
So, even though your post is well written and informative, it was still way beyond my limited skills, I'm afraid. I'm not saying that as downer, it was a really interesting read and very informative with all those useful links, but hopefully as away to let you know there are... extremely... odd users like myself that are very much interested in the idea but also are as clueless as an oyster comes the time to buy a pair of sneakers :)
In regards to self-hosting, my conclusion so far is that it's a much safer choice for someone like me to not do it. The risk is too real to get into some serious issues. And that I'm better off using the few paid services I rely (all in the EU, many of them small companies I can have have direct/human discussion with) as I know by experience I can trust their expertise a lot more than I woudl ever trust my desire to ever become not completely in competent in those fields ;)
- Comment on Medieval medicine was smarter than you think—and weirdly similar to TikTok trends 5 weeks ago:
Seems rather fitting to me, considering TikTok and its too many 'Social Media' siblings have ushered our societies into a new Dark Age.