Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Do I have to? Ok, fine... 18 hours ago:
Before I commit, is there a similar movie that would help decide if it’s my thing? The reason I’m asking:
Evolution received mixed-to-negative reviews from film critics with criticism for its storyline, screenplay and pacing; however, the performances of the cast received minor praise.
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 18 hours ago:
IMO the header should stay at the top os part of the page. I know where it is, I’ll scroll up to it if I need to.
Like you, I find a header appearing and hiding quite difficult in specific circumstances.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
At first I thought "well, an AI to help you get through hard parts sounds like a selling point for some people. Then I realised that Xbox is gonna be branded as the n00b console and people will tease owners for choosing the system that does it for you.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 weeks ago:
Just one team working on Teams, and they are doing their best to make it worse.
I for one encourage them, it apparently needs to be even worse before my work will consider changing
- Comment on ‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies 2 weeks ago:
Even better than a coin flip is asking this what to do then doing the opposite!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You sound like you want to go all in on federated services but there are plenty of other things to do.
I love Nextcloud, works well when set up through the Nextcloud All In One docker setup, but it is a little different to other things so it might not be a starting point depending on your experience. Lots of apps to add for extra functionality. But don’t replace your cloud storage with it until you’re confident of your backups (and ability). I ran it for years to use for the apps and minor things before I finally went all in.
I think a wiki is a great thing to have. Use it to document what you’ve done so you can remember.
Then there’s media. With the storage I guess TV/movies might be out, but there’s Audiobookshelf for Audiobooks, Kavita or Calibre Web for eBooks. I like Jellyfin for music (but using the Finamp app not the Jellyfin one), but others like dedicated music setups like Navidrone.
I buy my music from Bandcamp where available and Qobuz where it’s mainstream labels, then I can have my own little Spotify. Finamp even lets you download playlists or your whole library to your device for offline listening. I use Findroid for watching things, which also allows downloading. Last I checked the Jellyfin app didn’t have Netflix-like downloading, just downloading the files to your downloads folder.
I guess you might not fit a whole lot with 300GB storage though, especially after you fit the databases of half a dozen federated services.
If you have space, perhaps a photo service like Immich or Photoprosm.
If you have friends maybe a private sharing forum like Zusam.
If you have family then maybe family tree software like webtrees.
I run so many things, they all get used, and I’m always happy to talk about them!
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 3 weeks ago:
I agree this makes the most sense.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 3 weeks ago:
He probably just wishes he put it in the contract signed with the mothers.
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 3 weeks ago:
Is there anything that prevents a tech bro buying the hardware and accessing the network to post with their LLM the way they do with the internet today?
- Comment on I assigned myself one of these things but why do they exist? 3 weeks ago:
To my knowledge Lemmy doesn’t have user tags. So any tagging will be client specific.
- Comment on Thilk 3 weeks ago:
I mean, milk and gelatin is just shitty panna cotta. Add a few more ingredients and it will be good.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 3 weeks ago:
Hmm interesting, I thought he’d been on Mastodon since well before Bluesky existed.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 3 weeks ago:
George Takei is on Mastodon and has been for years, surely he would have done something.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 3 weeks ago:
As the real estate agent said, Location Location Location, and we’re right next to the airport! It will be very convenient if we have to fly one day.
For the uncultured, The Castle: youtube.com/watch?v=C97Su6Vtxxs&t=24s&pp=2AEYkAIB
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 3 weeks ago:
So how long until it’s small enough to power a Pip-boy?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I got a kobo recently and was amazed to find you can sync it with calibre-web to basically run your own book store. Browse and download any books from your server. Pretty cool.
- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 4 weeks ago:
Ah right, that makes sense!
- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 4 weeks ago:
I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.
- Comment on What are some Fediverse server hosting tips? 4 weeks ago:
Your instance would have private/public keys for communicating with other instances. By changing software, all that is gone, and you might find other instances rejecting your federation activities, this is doubly true if you used the same username, because they would already have a record of that user with a different public key.
I’d suggest using a subdomain or a new domain, re-using a domain for a different Fediverse server is likely to have issues. A subdomain would be treated as a different domain so would be fine.
This is also something to know for a different scenario: taking your lemmy instance and changing the domain but keeping the content is likely to break federation as well.
- Comment on Home renovations 4 weeks ago:
Ok but for real, that wouldn’t work, right? How would them holding it complete the circuit? The circuit is just gonna be from one screw to the top of the pole back through another screw, not the part the person is holding.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 4 weeks ago:
Well I don’t know if dependent is the right word. I’m fully aware that Home Assistant is something I play with for fun.
I can check the app and see how much power my solar has generated today, how hot my water heater is, or see what temperature it is inside or outside. None of that is helpful for anything other than for fun.
Though I can do thinks like bump up the target temperature of my hot water when the solar is making too much power in order to store that energy as heat, which is pretty cool.
What can I say, this is some people’s idea of fun. I got security cameras (that I can view through home assistant) and put them not pointed at entryways or windows because I don’t care about security, I pointed them at areas where the dog is and the kids play so I can play with object and facial recognition, all locally processed.
It’s ok to not think it’s your idea of fun, but if anyone uses home assistant in a way that they rely on rather than just for the fun of playing with the technology then I’d love to hear what that use is!
- Comment on Scary! 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t learn about Precordial Catch Syndrome until I’d nearly grown out of it.
Wikipedia says ages 6-12 but other sources say from 6 through to early 20s which is more in line with my experience.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 weeks ago:
The same in NZ. Is this that you never ever wear shoes on inside?
Is it acceptable to walk into your own house and walk around with shoes on? Sure.
Do most people do that most of the time? In my experience, people will be shoes off in their own home most of the time, but it’s not some big taboo to keep them on if you’re popping in to grab something.
- Comment on Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement 5 weeks ago:
In my experience it’s not quite the same. Using webdav through the distro account seems that it’s fully online. And folder access or file access contacts the server.
The virtual file experience is more of a hybrid. All the folders actually exist on disk, as well as shells for every file. If you try to open a virtual file, in the background Windows will seamlessly download it for you. At that point the file is actually on your disk. This way regularly accessed files on on your hard drive and seldom accessed ones are not, saving local hard drive space while providing an experience almost like if all the files were actually on your drive.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
I just finished RoboCop: Rogue City.
It was enjoyable, but I did have to look up how to beat the final boss, where I realised I had missed an entire game mechanic (upgrading your default gun using boards you find around the place). I thought you just got to put upgrades into the board, I didn’t realise you were supposed to change the board to newer better ones as youfound them.
- Comment on Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement 5 weeks ago:
On Windows, Nextcloud seems to tap into some Windows function to provide files on demand. Is there any Linux cloud file service that can do it?
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 5 weeks ago:
Hmm yeah that’s what we figured. We were on holiday, we couldn’t take food home to eat later so just forced the food down then didn’t eat again for 24 hours 😆
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 5 weeks ago:
Ok serious question. I live in a country where they don’t serve you free bread.
What do you do if you eat all the delicious bread then you aren’t hungry anymore?
I had this real life scenario happen when I was in Canada and we felt obligated to order mains even though we didn’t want them.
Is it socially acceptable to pay for your drinks and leave?
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 1 month ago:
Well the containers are grouped into services. I would easily have 15 services running, some run a separate postgres or redis while others do an internal sqlite so hard to say.
If we’re counting containers then between Nextcloud and Home Assistant I’m probably over 20 already lol.
- Comment on I would also be confused 1 month ago:
But how do I read these subtle hints, can’t she just tell me how she’s feeling?