TrippinMallard

@TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Battery life is limited by cell modem drivers being closed source and having to be reverse engineered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Socialized losses are the norm. People’s energy bills are already paying for the nearby data centers .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use Netbird reverse proxy to connect your domain to any device on your mesh. Netbird cloud supports the reverseproxy too now if you don’t want to self host netbird on a VPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use netbird cloud’s reverseproxy to point your domain to a device on your wireguard mesh.

  That way your home server can be under 3x NATs and swap IPs 50 times and you’ll still be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds awesome! No rush, I’m a big believer in taking the time to do it right, not twice.

  Just wanted to let you know that I find value in that + feel like it could help adoption especially in the self hosting community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would I be able to sign into multiple servers simultaneously? In case I have 2 friends hosting this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should we actually turn our aggression towards?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to make sense of why multiple systems end up like this and how to design better. At an individual and small community level there’s decent good people. But once resource pooling goes beyond a certain size more than human attention span, etc then rough edges are blown up.

  It’s like small groups can operate on trust and direct feedback but once you get too big then rules and proxies start to dominate. And after that people optimize for those local rules instead of total system health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m emphasizing breaking free from identity ties to devices enforced by the hardware radio. Not adding it to all devices.

  It also limits open source competition in the phone market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the hardware. Your phone requires much harder power optimization in order to have a usable battery life. Same for size and heat dissipation. Also politics. Public cellular is tied to identity. It is structurally hostile to user-controlled, fully open, deeply optimized devices because the radio stack is certification-heavy, operator-governed, and privacy-hostile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also netbird which has reverseproxy setup options recently in addition to the wireguard mesh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I not Irish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last night I did

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want database features? Or just markdown style note organization?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a 3rd scenario which is not having the ability to detect when you are expected to lie to be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's the feeling.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zorin OS is geared towards people coming frim Windows or Mac wanting to maintain UI similarity. They have a “paid” version where you get tech support help installing, but I’m sure the community here would be happy to help walk you through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people put doom on microwaves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To drive up fake usage numbers for justifying the bubble they created to shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you come from Windows or Mac and want to keep similar UI familiarity and ease of use then ZorinOS is pretty good. A friend of mine migrated away from Windows and installed Zorin OS core, choosing nvidia drivers during installation. They are very pleased with the experience so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Copy files to keep to cloud or other machine.
  2. Prep usb drive with favorite OS installer (zorin, pop, mint, bazzite, fedora, nix, etc)
  3. Boot into usb drive and wipe hard drive to put linux on it.
  4. Copy desired files back onto your linux machine
• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard ZorinOS is good if you want easy switch over from windows / want to keep similar UI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that this person’s boss wants them to dump company data into Claude, I see no functional difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Constantly⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mam, this is a Wendy’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to tell them you’ve been using it more than they have and that it’s not as good as chatGPT for task A, but that for task B claude does okay 25% of the time so we’ll need to 4x the timeline in order to get a good claude output based on that expected value.

  But not as good as your personal local LLM that you’ve been training on company data. No one else can use it because it’s illegal to clone. (your personal local LLM is your brain)