JustEnoughDucks
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- Comment on My lil server (RasPi4+powered USB hub with 2 SSDs) 2 weeks ago:
Obsidian doesn’t really have self-hosting as far as I know, even though it is an electron app so it would be trivial for them to do, but it would cut into their revenue stream of obsidian sync. One of the downsides to closed source. The only things related are static website “wiki” generation from the markdown file collection.
Quartz github.com/jackyzha0/quartz
Or people use it for blogging like
Syncthing (or nextcloud/Opencloud) can be used to sync obsidian vaults across devices though.
I would suggest opencloud over nextcloud as it is quite a bit faster and not just a mass of extensions and tends to break a lot less than nextcloud. I stopped using nextcloud because of the amount of times it completely broke on an upgrade while not even having breaking changes (I’m glad I didn’t have end to end encryption)
- Comment on 3D printing for beginners 3 weeks ago:
Personally I would say that is preferable to my house burning down like with Bambus 😉
- Comment on 3D printing for beginners 3 weeks ago:
This hasn’t really been true since the MK3. Even then, I have a MK3 and besides recalibration between filament changes, I have not had to tinker with it almost at all.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
I need to do something similar. I have a Esp32S3 music player/ voice assistant connected to my old Yamaha, 90s AV receiver. It can change the volume knob via IR commands (cool integrated motor that physically turns the knob when the remote or HA changes the volume with IR).
I want to do something like put a ring magnet and an encoder on the tiny shaft or something to get position feedback to couple to HomeAssistant/musicassistant.
- Comment on Release v3.3.0 · immich-app/immich 4 weeks ago:
I read the whole thing. This seems like standard sponsored response of not biting the hand that feeds them now that they are full time…
The entire point 3 of the user complaint is reaching really far. The one user is being toxic through the whole thread so I also get from their side not wanting to heavily engage because nothing besides divebombing immich’s entire livelihood would satisfy them it seems.
FUTO seems like a toxic company, but the thread isn’t damning. It seems like we have to keep an eye on immich. Otherwise a fork I guess…
- Comment on Release v3.3.0 · immich-app/immich 4 weeks ago:
FUTO sponsors immich I guess, FUTO is on there. FUTO is problematic but as far as anyone can tell, they haven’t pushed anything on immich.
- Comment on Self host a garden management software 4 weeks ago:
It was a joke, chill.
But let’s be in good faith about this, vibe coders will overwhelmingly use cloud based corporate frontier models…
And self hosting LLMs in general singularly and only solves one part of the resource objection (prompts running on green energy) and that is all and only if the model is run on green energy. It doesn’t solve most of the moral objections, IP objections, economic objections, resource objections, or brain damage objections.
That being said, one’s own, local, never-to-release app or internal tooling is probably one of the better uses for LLMs like documentation discovery, informal document translation and tiny TTS and STT models (the best usecase in my own opinion)
- Comment on Self host a garden management software 4 weeks ago:
“You’re right to push back, when you create a new plant layout on Fridays, it does drop the entire database and
rm -rf /your system, would you like me to fix that for you?” - Comment on Rainwater collection and reuse - IBC totes and irrigation pumps 4 weeks ago:
And yet they allow corporations to relentlessly pillage all water sources going 2-3x their paid water rights while the populations eat the costs and effects…
It is all excuses to increase water insecurity.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026) 4 weeks ago:
Look at the code and commit history and/or talk to the developer.
If the developer only commits in giant blocks of 1-2 days and mostly in a few hours and changes thousands of lines of code in that time, the chances of it not being vibe coded and actually being checked are extremely slim, outside of a complete project refactor. It used to be that LLMs would just do massive single commits, but now they do a thousand tiny commits on the same day using a ton of barely human-readable jargon (for less experienced devs) in the git commits.
If the project was started past 2025 and the initial commit(s) on the first day were massive, that also points (less strongly) towards vibe coding.
If the Dev can’t explain what his code does without having an LLM write the response (this is getting to be harder), that also generally also means that it was vibe coded.
If the dev’s commit history only includes documentation, issues, or very very small things until 2025-2026 and combined with one of the above, it is usually vibe coded.
The vibe coding identifying sites online are complete garbage with mostly false positives. For example, if I run it on my old github repos from before LLM coding existed, it says that it is very likely vibe coded because I comment a ton because my memory isn’t great and I am an electronics guy with very bad coding git management so my git commit history is like one or two commits per day when I am working on something, but I try to bullet list all of my changes in a readable way for people not familiar with the code (like myself in 1 year lol)
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026) 4 weeks ago:
I think the comment about AI is not in good faith.
It isn’t users saying every “AI assisted” project is vibe coded slop.
It is just as often or more that developers and “developers” lying about AI assistance when they are just vibe coding or “AI assisting” and barely checking over the code. There are tons if those on Fdroid android apps too.
The projects that are actually only AI assisted don’t get that many complaints on most communities I see. It is the slop that people push as legitimate that gets people riled up.
- Comment on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? 1 month ago:
Also the controlling party in Italy is practically neo-fascist and Austria is also sliding there again with their Nazi party like AfD in Germany and VB in Belgium getting a huge portion of votes.
I don’t see how it is that much better than a US non- profit.
I think the core thing is that you have to know of a bunch of different CA options and switch when necessary or on a compromised CA.
- Comment on Local homeserver suddenly not responsive to SSH but can be pinged 1 month ago:
This happened when my sshd dameon did not start or died. You could use systemctl status to check it.
It has also happened when my white listed static IP for my machine that I access the server with changed. Do you have a default DROP policy?
Timing out indicates that either the sshd service doesn’t exist or is unreachable (but not blocked).
Check the dmesg for all sshd notifications and maybe you find why it is crashing (if the service is dead)
- Comment on Self-hosted TV interface solutions 1 month ago:
Also, looking towards the future or for people that can find one at a decent price:
Not a raspberry pi but an Orange Pi Plus or Pro. They have a rockchip that has AV1 decoding (along with standard others) which is probably going to be the future (it is for corpo streaming already).
Put plasma big screen on it and get a Bluetooth wechip remote or something
- Comment on Rasputin moving out of pre-alpha 1 month ago:
There is no way this isn’t just an AI bot
- Comment on Rasputin moving out of pre-alpha 2 months ago:
I guess there is no rule about having the AI writing the AI disclosure because I guess 4 sentences has to be extended into 8 paragraphs.
But what if the AI disclosure lies? 😂 for example, PRs are reviewed by Claude code and merged. That doesn’t sound like “every commit is reviewed by the maintainer”
- Comment on UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for? 2 months ago:
This seems like the perfect scam for Lemmy for setting up a fresh IP for launching a cyber attack/scam with a real residential IP. Helping a community member while circumventing shitty corporations. (Not saying OP is, just that it would be a decent scam)
This requires either an insane amount of trust in a random person or gullibility. Plugging a random mailed device into your network, even behind a VLAN.
I definitely would never do this if I didn’t have absolute full and complete access to every part of the pi’s software, or preferably set it up myself (optionally in collaboration with the requester) and the requester only had read-only access to it.
- Comment on [AIP] IRI: backlog / game library manager with Steam, GOG, EGS, PSN and XBOX integrations 2 months ago:
Eh, I am not pro AI, but these sorts of non- critical projects are maybe not a horrible use for them. Keep AI out of my kernel, core programs, basis functionality, camera, and personal/health information etc… But for a sorting/catagorization tool maybe not so bad. (Ignoring the environmental and ethical concerns of course)
- Comment on Advanced sodium-ion battery prototypes now approaching 200 Wh/kg 2 months ago:
Good question!
Sodium ion already had a reduced capacity (30% less at least than Lithium ion). And 2.5% of voltage is not 2.5% of capacity, something more like 3-4% (still small)
You could then just choose to use a configurable lithium ion IC, but almost all of those have an undervoltage lock out (safety shutoff) that is 2-2.5V that you would have to stay above. Sodium ion drops out at 1.5V, so I would again be losing a chunk of capacity. If I lost 30%-35% of capacity on an already reduced capacity cell compared to lithium ion, then battery life would be quite disappointing.
Do that rules out using a standard Lithium-ion charger.
If I am building a custom charger anyway (most non- embedded systems have custom chargers), then might as well put in all the features now and get 100% of the capacity. Cells usually also have a higher lifespan (double or more) by dropping that high CV charge voltage 0.1V or so and settling for lower capacity, but Sodium Ion lifespan is already 3000-5000 cycles compares to lithium’s 500-1000 (lithium ion and li-po, lithium iron phosphate is in the higher range) so might as well then use the full capacity.
- Comment on Advanced sodium-ion battery prototypes now approaching 200 Wh/kg 2 months ago:
That is amazing! I have just started making sodium ion battery chargers in my free time.
The bad thing abouslt sodium ion is that traditional CC/CV charging is harsh on the cells. Optimally each cell had to be CV charged at around 97.5% of its voltage end and then slowly brought up to 100%. Apparently that is how you get the most life cycles per cell
- Comment on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? 2 months ago:
I am already trying to understand all of it first myself. In the middle of a full-strip renovation; I don’t think I will have time to spend on it 😂
- Comment on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? 2 months ago:
Please dear god let STM or Nordic someone hire some technical writers for Zephyr, not just Nordic documentation.
The data structures, macro basics, and core concepts are OK, but for example ADCs have literally 0 documentation at all, documentation about DMAs is barebones at absolute best, non-led PWMs is not good, etc…
Pretty much every single peripheral needs 5x-100x the documentation it currently has lol.