JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also look at the MKBHD 2024 smartphone camera comparison test with the FP5. I would suggest taking the test yourself if that is still possible.

  I would guess that the camera will be comparable.

  For me, daylight pics were after all of the pixels but before anything else. I like the more neutral not supremely over-saturated over-sharpened/smoothed pictures that many phones take nowadays.

  For me, it was middle of the pack for dimly lit photos.

  For the overall ELO with everyone, FP5 was on the mid-lower end (of a comparison of all flagships + pixel A series), but perfectly usable for people who aren’t doing social media as a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It changes everything:” Plunging costs of PV and batteries mean 24-hour solar a growing reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, even here in Belgium, we take the green option to get all of our electricity from wind and solar (of which there is a ton).

  Plus tons and tons of people, like a significant portion of the population, have solar panels and batteries with grid feedback.

  Electricity prices have only gone up, even when it gets cheaper for the company. Energy companies are universally corrupt and full of shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encrypting without full disk encryption question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is similar to what I do.

  I have a USB drive with the whole bootloader + decryption keyfiles on it. I remove it while it is running as everything is stored in RAM and already booted.

  Downside being it has to be plugged in to update the boot partition during an upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitwarden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a Voron 3D printer worth it??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the 2.4 have auto z calibration? That is what really makes a “set and forget” machine when you switch nozzle sizes and such and it with auto adjust.

  With my prusa MK3, I calibrate the z offset every time I switch filaments and recalibrate every time I switch nozzles which takes a lot of active time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted Trello with experience?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also leantime.io that I have been hosting for 5 years or so. It is a bit more than planka or tarallo as far as scope I think, but it has integrated kanban, gannt charts, and hour logging which is all I need for my personal projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The last note taking app you'll ever need⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your cloud example is exactly right and exactly what we want to NOT HAPPEN.

  They shoved the cloud so much down our throats so that they can force you into monthly income-sucking unneeded subscriptions. That is it. That is the single reason everyone did it.

  The result is now the average user has a much worse experience overall. One literally has to fight with Microsoft products to save things on their own computer. IoT and smart products literally won’t function without connections to their “cloud”. Phones come without SD card compatibility and with low flash memory to force you into cloud subscriptions. Now every damn piece of software is a way overpriced subscription that almost all originally started as “switching to cloud infrastructure” (fucking adobe creative cloud).

  The “cloud” has had so many data breaches and people data have been stolen, siphoned off, lost due to bugs, and sold to earn even more cash on the side.

  A huge portion of the general corporatization and bad enshittification of digital services and software in general can be attributed to “the cloud shoving down our throats” that you describe.

  AI is looking to do the same thing except castrate peoples’ digital skills, critical thinking skills, transcription skills, and writing skills in order to siphon more and more of your income off in the form of AI subscriptions while they double dip and sell everything you ever say to it and triple dip in mining everything you say to it as R&D that you pay to do

  Companies need to do the fucking R&D themselves with their revenue of a small country and stop forcing regular people to pay to be their alpha and beta testers and focus groups, and people gobble that boot up so hard because LLMs have a few small areas where they are slightly useful and can save 10 minutes per day, so people will literally sell their data, their already small income, and their soul to save 10 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The last note taking app you'll ever need⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obsidian ticks all of these boxes and syncthing to sync notes is a 5 minute setup.

  Plus it stores things in plaintext instead of a database format that vendor locks you in (despite the claim of “no vendor lock in”)

  Ooooo yay another half-baked AI shoved into everything whatever possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really self-hosted, but I set up obsidian with syncthing and am going to transfer all of my notes from book stack to it and let bookstack be more organized documentation and obsidian to be a big scattering of notes and tags and such. I tried it with bookstack, but the flow was too much of a barrier for me to use it consistantly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your favorite prints/models?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am going to plug my own project that I will complete in another revision when I can unpack my 3D printer when our 1st floor is completed in the renovation 😅

  DIY HOTAS

  github.com/JustEnoughDucks/LibreMiG-S

  A VESA to microscope adapter for mounting a lighter microscope (I use a digital one) to a monitor arm to save space compared to the normal boom: printables.com/…/803413-amscope-eakins-microscope…

  A shaker siphon to empty standing water: printables.com/…/833171-shaker-siphon-for-garden-…

  All of Chris Borge’s stuff where he 3d prints useful simple machining tools and reinforces them with concrete (only a few on printables): printables.com/…/1237272-rock-solid-milling-machi…

  The steam controller bumper repair. The brittle ABS they used broke 3 times for me (2 I sent back to steam and got a replacement), and I printed this in PETG and got my bumper back since the SC got discontinued and it has held up because petg is much lore flexible: printables.com/…/133723-steam-controller-bumper-r…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro wargame?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an old fighter pilot game that I used to play on linux back in the day all the time in the early 2000s. I can’t remember the name but it was because my dad’s laptop was very cool to me and ran SUSE, so I played that, super tux, and a few free games because the alternative was a windows 95 machine with a 10 gig upgraded hard drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego is actually one of the very few companies that isn’t batshit crazy over video game IP. (Real life Lego clones are probably different though).

  They even gave a shout out to Manic Miners (a rock raiders fan remake) on the official podcast and haven’t done anything to take it down. I can’t remember if they officially said they won’t do anything also

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mealie is so underrated. They have meal planning, recipes, recipe parsing from the internet, grocery lists based on recipes and meal plans, like 4 different ways to organize recipes, and OIDC/SSO on top of it all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The shed as an of site backup is a good idea.

  We live in the shed (it is really its own entire stone building) during our full house renovation, so I have already run electrical and cat6a to the shed and have an old router in AP mode there.

  Hooking up one of those NAS boards or a 2nd hand old PC there would be a good backup option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you happen to know when the last time was that a rich company was prosecuted for this?

  It seems a lot like the perjury laws: there to scare poor people into telling the truth because of almost non-existant prosecution of it.

  And if it is a fine and not jail time (white collar crimes are almost never jail time) the fine would have to be much larger than the penalties they would not have to pay because of the crime, otherwise it is simply a net win for the company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recipes, Meal Planning, and Shopping List⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also mealie supports SSO with OIDC so authelia/authentik can cover it and there is no need for separate accounts.

  Also being a PWA on mobile instead of another electron app means that authentication in front of it doesn’t break anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh I hate excel. It can’t do the most basic search and replace things reliably in all cases. I have moved literally all data analysis besides the absolute basic “count” and “sum” operations to python in spyder. 200x faster, repeatable, and has never once failed a basic operation like a search and replace. Not to mention the localization issues and the fact that it will fuck things up completely if you install a new printer because Microsoft decided the printer has priority of your document and spreadsheet layouts over choosing a default.

  I had some evaluation board software that whenever the value dipped below -1, would place the comma completely randomly in the floating point number.

  Excel almost had a heart attack when I asked it to search and replace ”-1” with “-1,” and it found all of the cases just fine, but decides to ignore the replace and not place a comma at all. If I tried to convert them to a number, it freaked out and placed the decimal place also randomly, different than the input. And of course trying to do in-place operations on a column for export is just painful.

  Hell, in notepad++ I could just regex the digit range that was preceded by a ”-1” and get everything replaced using a few brackets.

  Not to mention how terrible the graphs work in comparison and how bad they look with the default options 😅. But hey, you can automatically put in a drop shadow or frame it in a useless way.

  There are some people who can work very efficiently and do some crazy things in excel (like the excel doom) but unless you have literally been using it daily for many years and actively looking for ways to speed up, then it is just as easy or easier to do things in an actual data processing program like matlab, octave, python, or R (And I am not a coder) and you can literally copy paste a file name for the next full dataset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes,

  www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/…/ECS07/ www.amazon.com/…/B0D8BCWHPT

  www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003335714128.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has to interface professionally with solidworks and everyone at my company on the mechanical side uses solidworks, it is also slow as fuck when the part or assembly gets a bit complicated. Just opening it takes a few minutes. If we have to open solidworks and an assembly from scratch during a meeting, that is 10 minutes gone.

  Definitely has 10x as many QoL and productvity features and much better TNP solutions and heuristics built over decades, plus very useful plugins, but speed and stability are not its strong points 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Syncthing also even has basic version control, just no “web file browsing” interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to see the stats on that. A lot of times people who are in the industry or know someone in it see their wages and others’ wages going up and say “wages went up with inflation” where the starting wage or the wage normalized to seniority level actually hasn’t changed much at all. For example, in engineering like electriical (outside of silicon valley in the US which has its own economical wage ecosystem) has had entry level positions that have gone up around 20% since the 2008 while inflation has gone up almost 50% since 2008 and productivity has skyrocketed with CAD advancements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the difference is that wages have not significantly gone up since then apart from minimum wage in a few states. That is the difference. People are literally poorer because of the massively increased wealth inequality coming from employers shoving down wages while making yearly record profits…

  If peoples’ purchasing power is more or less the same, factoring in inflation to game prices would result in a ton of people simply not being able to buy “luxury goods” like video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What steps do you take to secure your server and your selfhosted services?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dropping instead of blocking might technically be better because it wastes a bit more bot time and they see it as “it doesn’t exist” rather than an obsticle to try exploits on. Not sure if that is true though.

  For me:

  • ssh server only with keys

  • absolutely no ssh forwarding, only available to local network via firewall rules

  • docker socket proxy for everything that needs socket access

  • drop non-used ports, limit IPs for local-only services (e.g. paperless)

  • crowdsec on traefik for the rest (sadly it blocks my VPN IPs also)

  • Authelia over everything that doesn’t break the native apps (jellyfin and home assistant are the two that it breaks so far, and HA was very intermittent so I made a separate authelia rule and mobile DNS entry for slightly reduced rules)

  • proper umask rules on all docker directories (or as much as possible)

  • main drive FDE with a separate boot drive with FDE keyfile on a dongle that is removed except for updates and booting to make snatch-and-grabs useless and compromising bootloader impractical

  • full disk encryption with passworded data drives, so even if a smash and grab happens when I leave the dongle in, the sensitive data is still encrypted and the keys aren’t in memory (makes a startup script with a password needed, so no automated startups for me)

  For more info, I followed a lot of stuff on: github.com/…/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity from renewable sources reaches 47% [in EU] in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is regulation’s fault. Companies will increase prices even when costs go down because they can only see green.

  Sadly, a ton of countries in the EU have very bad regulations on energy companies.

  Hell, here in Belgium you pretty much have to get a 3rd party smart meter because energy companies literally try to scam you.

  During the start of the Russian war with the gas crisis there. Our old energy company, Mega, tried to charge us >3000€ extra because “increased costs that weren’t factored into our monthly bill”.

  They lied and said that we used 99.9% of our total energy from November to December (oh just happens to be the most expensive period) that year. They literally said we used not even enough gas for a single hot shower the entire rest of the year.

  When we proved to them with our smart meter records that they were straight up lying to us, they said “ooopsie poopsie, we have no way of knowing how much you use per month, it’s not our fault” and still made us pay 1000€ for the increased costs from October to december even though we just caught them red handed in an illegal scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HealthyPi will be a too option too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the question is: what is being smart or dumb? If acting dumb in 90% of life while having the capability of being smart isn’t “being dumb” then what is?

  If someone who has the capability of being 50/100 intelligent and is always acting 50/100, I would argue they are smarter than someone capable of 80/100 intelligence but acts 20/100 intelligence for 90% of their life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s done for smaller parts with peltiers nowadays. Not that efficient, but there are few options. If you sink it to a large enough surface, it will radiate away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CryptPad.org, the end to end encrypted collaboration suite⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair though. The experience of google and Microsoft online word/spreadsheets/etc… also sucks ass on a smartphone. Much better, sure, but doing spreadsheets or writing a paper on a phone is a bad experience in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to branch out from PLA. Should I try ABS or TPU?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is better in every way except easy printability and water absorption.

  Stronger, UV resistant, more watertight, much more heat resistant, more resistant to creep at room temp, less brittle, can print clear, and doesn’t have a bad warping problem or need and enclosure like printing ABS.

  It is essentially just PLA but better and a bit harder to print. I completely switched over to PLA because I found good settings for FormFutura recycled PET (more stringy than petg)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL: photon is an awesome opinionated web client for Lemmy to help users discover the fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what feddit.nl uses as an alternative UI. It seems to me pretty much the UI of new reddit vs the default which is more the old UI of reddit. Also images don’t load well on photon. If you click into them, they are often the thumbnail just blown up instead of the full res version.