Illecors

@Illecors@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really the case. Have a look at AUR or GURU repo - most proprietary software is installed by simply applying the same steps an apt, dnf, whathaveyou package manager would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Network? That’s a small bit. DB is struggling with IO at times, but network usage is fairly low, at least on my end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was meant as a tongue in cheek, not a dig at you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naturally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Much appreciated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naturally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any explanation for the mathematically challenged?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you missing just a few zeroes there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually think you do not, in fact, know enough. VPN does not care about layer 7. Having some proxy forcefully rewrite random domain names will immediately lead to redirect loops and will be disabled that same day because everyone will be screaming “internet no worky”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it works the way you think it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨plump pumkins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone has to do the maths on the best possible nutrient, water and solar energy ratios required by pumpkins. Maybe pumpkins win!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me irl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I look like*.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gentoo/Arch guy checking in. It’s more about having fewer codepaths to go wrong after some update. At least in my case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, I should definitely write something down so bollocks like this does not proliferate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly - it’s not impossible. Not as simple as spinning up a webserver, but definitely doable. I should probably write something up at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Resist! Host your own email!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do we say in tough situations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. I was going for *The Wire".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do we say in tough situations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this from The Greatest TV Show Of All Time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no dev, but would you consider writing up in detail the features/behaviour you’re missing on libreoffice issue tracker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple things - every jump like that in resolution is about a 10% increase in size at the source level. So 2K is ~250GB, 4K is ~275GB. Haven’t had to deal with 8K myself, yet, but it would be at ~300GB. And then you compress all that for placea like netflix and the size goes down drastically. Add to that codec improvements over time (like x264 -> x265) and you might actually end up with an identical size compressed while carrying 4x more pixels.

  HDMI is digital. It doesn’t start failing because of increased bandwidth; there’s nothing consumable. It either works or it doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Effective way to search the Threadiverse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy UI shows you all the other posts it’s aware of once you paste the title; or apply a suggested title after pasting the link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The crawler probably went down and did not record anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Small tech social media is just as bad at sucking all that time up. Ask me how I know :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding link saturation - have you tried tc/wondershaper? unix.stackexchange.com/…/how-to-limit-network-ban…

  Iptables commands - that was needed at the very launch of wg, I’ve not had to deal with it for some time now.

  Personal/commercial use - I’m on a completely opposite side. It’s perfect for personal use, but its lack of dhcp support makes me question its capability in a commercial setting. Many providers offer it, so clearly that’s not an insurmountable task, but I’m still curious how they sort out their backend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can recommend ffshare on android. Works like a pipe in unixland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible? Yes. Probable? No. LTE would work wonderfully for such usecase, but the firmware to it is never shared. Wifi would work theoretically, but the distance would get in a way. Bandwidth would go down all the way to a rounding error.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh TIL. Thought it was cock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UK is a paper tiger on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the fediverse stats here?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inatances self report these stats. All you have to do is a single db query and all of a sudden you have 100 million MAU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no AI.

  What’s sold as an expert is actually a delusional graduate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Filled in the survey. A few notes:

  • Some of my answers make no sense on the surface - like the “experiment with new technology” block (4 questions). I’ve answered “Agree” to all of them, because I have taken time into account, which is not represented on the questions. Long story short - I do love experimenting with new tech, I’m almost always the first one to try something among my peers, but at the same I never blindly jump in (I’m hesitant) as most of the “new technology” is just
    • Someone repackaging foss and relabeling it
    • Some LLM bullshit
    • An inferior product to what already exists

  There are also scenarios where I have already found something that’s the best solution for my case, so I won’t even bother looking at something new, even if it might be the best thing since sliced bread for someone else.

  • TIme and effort setting up/maintaining (4 questions). It doesn’t take much time nor effort to set anything up now, but it did when I was starting out initially. I knew very little and a bunch of concepts hadn’t clicked, yet, so it took me days to set up Nextcloud and about half a year (on and off. Probably a week or so if it were all squeezed together) for email.

  • The performance and intent to use in the future questions are weird - they feel like the same question, just leveling off in intensity. I’ve selected the same answer for all of them. They probably should’ve been a single question with agree/disagree options swapped for intensity levels.

  Good luck with your PhD!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll give Magic Earth a go, but osmand is just missing a bunch of stuff I got used to having I guess. The actual map part is fine.

  I use DAVx⁵ myself. It’s not ideal aesthetically, but honestly not a thing I worry about.