French75

@French75@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As well as the permitting policies, tarriffs, and fees for grid-connected solar systems. At least where I am (California), governments and utilities have made solar much more expensive than it needs to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see the unclear part. I read this line…

  I imagine sitting on coach, searching for show. Then you want to watch some, and then you have to wait half an hour for full episode (or even season?) to download.

  As if OP already had a media library, and was outside of their home, sitting on a coach (bus?) and wanting to watch something from their existing library on their phone/laptop/tablet, thinking they’d have to wait for the entire thing to download. This would not be the case. If OP had no content library, and wanted to browse for something new, then yes, you’d need to download the entire thing and add it to your media library first.

  1. Getting stuff into your media library require downloading the thing.
  2. Watching stuff (even remotely) that already exists in your library does not require downloading the whole thing.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  attempts to query 8.8.8.8, regardless of your DNS settings.

  Streaming box / stream app makers have been working around local DNS for a long time. Sometimes of course they’re assholes that want to do shitty things and do this to make interdiction harder. But sometimes there are legitimate reasons. Ones I remember… users who don’t really understand what they’re doing can be overly aggressive with blocking and block things that are necessary for a particular service (causing support problems). Sometimes the ISPs DNS servers have shit performance, and using a well known commercial provider like cloudflare or google can improve performance at scale. It’s not always evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t watch media before it’s completely downloaded.

  This is not true for just about any use case.

  If you use *arr, you’ll likely use Plex or Jellyfin for a media server. That server will do progressive streaming. Netflix by contrast does dynamic adaptive progressive streaming.

  Progressive streaming means that playback will start once your client has downloaded and buffered enough of the selected content from the server. The amount is typically a fairly small portion of the stream, like 10 seconds or so, though the specifics are left to the server and client configs.

  Dynamic adaptive progressive streaming has a multiplicty of streams optimized for different devices, formats, and quality levels. This might be a few hundred copies of the same video asset, but in a few different codecs, a few different color encodings (ie HDR, SDR), and a quality ladder of maybe 10 steps ranging from low quality SD to moderate quality UHD (like maybe 300kbps at the low end, and 40Mbps at the high end. And these will be cached around the world for delivery efficiency. On playback, the client (player) will constantly test your network throughput in the background, and “seamlessly” adjust stream quality during playback to give you the best stream your network and client can support without stopping to rebuffer.

  For example, if you’re on a 4K/HDR TV with Atmos sound, and great network throughput, you’ll get the highest quality HDR streams and Atmos audio. Conversely, if you’re on mobile that doesn’t support HDR and only stereo audio, you’ll get much more efficiently coded HD video (or maybe SD) and stereo audio streams that are more suited to playback on that device. It would be impractical (huge cost and minor benefit) to try to replicate dynamic adaptive streaming just for yourself.

  In any case, even if you’re just pulling off a NAS, you shouldn’t need to wait for the entire file to download before you can start playback. If your files are properly coded, you should be able to do progressive streaming in just about any use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t read about the Milgram Experiment, it’s a fascinating, and disheartening journey into notions of authority and compliance. In short… Milgram’s finding was that most people do what they’re told–even when they known it’s wrong–simply because they’re told to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is kinda weak on details, but you can download the summary of the report they are referencing. It’s probably important to observe that this is the work of a lobbying group, so some skepticism is merited, but they claim to source from actual utility data. So maybe it’s reliable.

  In any case, here are some key observations from the report summary if you’re curious:

  • The US solar industry installed 43.2 gigawatts direct current (GWdc) of capacity in 2025, a 14% decrease from 2024. The utility-scale sector shrank nearly 40% quarter-over-quarter in the fourth quarter. Revised tax credit timelines and safe harbor dynamics reduced the imperative to interconnect by year-end. They also increased the urgency to begin construction on new projects.
  • Solar accounted for 54% of all new electricity-generating capacity added to the US grid in 2025. Combined, solar and storage made up 79% of new capacity in this timeframe. Throughout all of Wood Mackenzie’s US power sector outlooks, solar capacity constitutes roughly half of new capacity added each year through 2060.
  • 2025 was a monumental year for the US solar manufacturing industry. New cell capacity continued to expand, and wafer capacity came online for the first time since 2016. Module manufacturing grew more than 50% in 2025, with 65.5 GW of capacity online, up from 42.5 GW at the end of 2024. However, the actual production of these facilities remains considerably below domestic demand.
  • In 2025, the residential segment installed 4,647 MWdc of solar capacity, declining 2% compared to 2024. Although module shortages and delivery delays were a concern in the fourth quarter, many installers ultimately received the equipment they needed. However, 2025 volumes weren’t higher leading up to the Section 25D expiration because there simply wasn’t enough time to meaningfully ramp up sales and installations after the passage of the OBBBA.
  • The commercial solar segment grew 6% in 2025, adding 2,345 MWdc of new capacity. The pipeline of NEM 2.0 installations in California continued to come online. We expect it to decrease in 2026, but even in the fourth quarter, more than 70% of installations were still NEM 2.0 projects rather than NBT (net billing tariff) projects.
  • The community solar segment installed 1,435 MWdc in 2025, down 25% from 2024. Maine and New York saw slowdowns, and no new community solar programs generated growth.
  • The utility-scale segment installed 34.7 GWdc in 2025, a 16% decline compared to 2024. Nearly the same amount of capacity came online through the first three quarters of the year as did in 2024. But substantially fewer projects that were originally slated to come online in Q4 were energized. Due to the changes in tax credit deadlines, developers delayed commercial operation dates and focused on safe harboring their pipeline

  The point about NEM3 in California is already happening. NBT installations and applications are sharply down from before the MEM3 cutover. I expected that to be a bigger factor in the data than it was. But residential being down only 2% nationwide likely means it’s up in most other states. That’s good news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When “Watch Instantly” first came out. Before “streaming” was even the term for it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like it says iPad in the upper right. iPad never used Silverlight, it had an iOS app from launch, but you’re right in general. PC browsers used WMV for a brief while at the launch of streaming and then switched to Silverlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When “Watch Instantly” first came out. Before “streaming” was even the term for it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Streaming was very much the term used to describe watch instantly language (like all language in the UI) wasn’t random, it was the result of continual testing and optimization. The entire set of activities was new for a lot of people, and the company tested variants of everything all the time. I can’t remember too much about this specific device/UI combo, but probably watch instantly was chosen because at the time it needed to distinguish “instant watching” from managing your ‘DVD by mail’ queue (which was the only thing you could do on the web before “watch instantly” was a thing. We definitely used streaming to describe the activity though; you’d find it in press, earnings calls, etc… Just not in that particular variant of the UI. (source: worked there at the time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Debian on the server. CachyOS on the laptop OPNsense / FreeBSD on the router-firewall appliance.

  I don’t really feel like I need a single OS across everything. The lack of that has never been an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Mar-Kwane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the new Ice Barbie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If he’s that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn’t even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably pretty soon we’re going to get the evidence that he fucked his own kids too, and the MAGA world will still defend him on that one too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But bro please⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, but my point was that t hey know that outright banning guns is nearly impossible, so they’ve done essentially what the republicans have done on abortion. They’ve attacked it on every other conceivable angle: they’ve made it hard to buy guns, hard to use them, hard to run any business that sells them, hard to buy ammo, hard to stay in legal compliance with constantly changing laws and case law.

  The state’s strategy has essentially morphed to enacting every law and policy that makes it harder to buy, own, and use guns, knowing that most of them are not legal, but get them tied up in courts indefinitely. It’s a scummy strategy, but it’s been fairly effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But bro please⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s moronic. We demand lower noise in most products, but demand higher noise in guns because we can’t distinguish Hollywood bullshit from reality. I think most CA Dems would accept the premise that reducing injurious noise levels while participating in a legal activity is a good idea, but institutionally they’d never give an inch on gun laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Use Local IP for Services when at Home?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have opnsense, and it was pretty easy. I use DNS overrides and a local reverse proxy. When I’m on the home network, the local dns overrides point to the local reverse proxy. When I’m outside the home, public DNS records point to my VPS, which reverse proxies the traffic to my home machine. This way I’m only hitting the VPS when I’m outside the home. Much more efficient.

  I think Side of Burritos’ youtube channel has a guide on how to set this up, but it’s fairly straightforward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any way to make nextcloud more like Google Photos?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something maybe wrong? I have 58k photos and it didn’t take anywhere near that long. If memory serves, I just let it rip overnight and it was done the next day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted office suite with good mobile apps/ux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, so after a bit of poking at it:

  1. I agree. The OnlyOffice mobile Android app (called Documents) is a much better mobile spreadsheet viewer/editor than Collabora.
  2. What’s even cooler is that the app works with Nextcloud as a cloud backend. So I can log into my existing Nextcloud instance and get the benefit of the better sheets editor on my existing files with no extra work at all!
  3. They say that OnlyOffice supports markdown as of version 9, but I think they mean the broader platform itself, not the Android app. For example, you cannot create a new .md file from the mobile app, and if you try to open an existing .md file, it displays a “wrong file type” error, but it does successfully open it as a .docx.

  In any case, since it works with Nextcloud, the app, out of the box, is already a more functional mobile spreadsheet editor. That’s a big win in my book. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted office suite with good mobile apps/ux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t tried it. Is it better in this regard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted office suite with good mobile apps/ux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. That’s what opencloud uses. Their app does a handoff to Collabora.

  Ill have a look at Joplin. Thanks.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I be using Debian?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not having any issues with my current setup

  I’m lazy. I just want things to work. So in your shoes, I wouldn’t go trying to create work if things work fine.

  I run Debian on my home server and my VPS, but I chose it for familiarity and stability. I wouldn’t say Debian is inherently barebones; you can add/build whatever you want. It is a longstanding, capable distro that is the base of many other distros. It’s a solid choice that favors stability. And if things are working with Mint, why break them?

  By contrast, I run CachyOS on my laptop because it’s a newer laptop and the rolling release model of CachyOS (and Arch, which it’s built on) gets the updates and hardware support I need to make my laptop work. It’s simpler, better, and less work, and significantly more functional than it’s be with Debian, because the rolling release distro moves fast. My home server is 10 year old hardware, so the more stable Debian is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to Mattermost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried Zulip for a small org. Used their hosted version since it’s quite generous for nonprofits. I personally liked it, but I was very much in the minority. Most of our people didn’t like it. I don’t think anyone articulated very well why they didn’t like it so it’s hard for me to characterize it other than people bitched about the UI a lot. I personally think it works fine, just be ready for some pushback.

  We also tried Mattermost, and the uptake seemed a little easier. If you’re used to slack, discord, etc., most of them are pretty easy to transition to, but if you’re dealing with people that never used a real time chat platform, all of them (even slack) are like pushing a rock uphill because people can be impressively resistant to sensible change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading a thread like this a while back and saw Home Assistant. I thought I don’t need that.

  It’s probably the most used self hosted app we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gradually, the migration to new platforms will take place

  I’m not sure that will (or should) happen. Mainstream social media has an awful lot of shit that wouldn’t exist (or wouldn’t exist in the same way) on federated social media. For things that are purely commercial (which is a lot) the effort is higher and the payoff is smaller in a federated system. There’s a lot of social media that thrives only because it’s fundamentally commercial. That segment would never embrace federated social media willingly.

  Then of course there’s the trigger-reward cycle you talk about. People might know it’s unhealthy, but they still do it. Not having that as part of the user experience a big adjustment coming to federated social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Test it. Seriously.

  There are likely roadblocks you haven’t seen. For example, it is increasingly true that login & password aren’t good enough to access most commercial systems. So many businesses rely on active session cookies to determine identity, and if that’s missing, they’ll fallback to email or SMS based one-time passwords. And if they don’t have access to your laptop or phone, it might be impossible for them to gain access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, and it’s probably the main reason I started self hosting.

  Managing parents estate made me want to get my shit in order for my own kids in the event I die. There’s a good chance that if I die, my cell phone is gonna die with me. And commercial services from Apple, Google, banks, and other institutions are increasingly tied to a single cell phone as “identity.” If you try to login on a device with no session cookies, they treat it as hostile, and do all sorts of oddball stuff that almost always requires the cellphone to access. And if you don’t have that phone, it’s incredibly hard.

  By self hosting, I can choose to make access to that most of that data much easier for my family if I die and my cellphone dies with me. I don’t expect them to continue self-hosting, but I do want them to have easy access to files so they can move them to some system they are comfortable with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Harris did pretty bad during the Primary back in 2020

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  couldn’t get my small group of gamer friends to switch

  The hardest part of any change right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pangolin 1.15: iOS and Android apps, device approvals and posture, 1 year anniversary, stability, and more | Pangolin Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had pangolin running for a while, doing tunneling to some self hosted resources, and I’m confused by this announcement and update. It seems like they’re suggesting to use an Android/iOS client to connect to Pangolin protected resources, which seems like a shitload more work and overhead than just using wireguard to do the same thing. Am i missing something here?