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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨again, I'm not even gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What has c*rn ever done to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there supposed to be other options?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen to the safety announcement and don’t have my phone out during take off and landing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You hit print and select the PDF output. It probably works everywhere you can select a printer.

  Windows also has that, but you have to navigate your way out of OneDrive folders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommended email providers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Migadu, it’s probably the closest you can come to fully managing email while not hosting your own server. All their plans are limited on inbound/outbound mails per day and storage used. Beyond that you add as many domains as you want (within reason on their cheapest plan) and create any number of separate mailboxes/users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm, any XCP-NG fans for self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just pull the latest container to update. Not sure if that’s what you’re referring to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm, any XCP-NG fans for self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it in my homelab to host stuff. Everything is fully open source, so you can compile Xen Orchestra manually and get all the enterprise features for free. Or if you’re lazy like me, use the installer script or container by ronivay. I’ve been using it for years and again, you get all the enterprise level features for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alas!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have copy pasted a previous email and it felt great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LanguageTool extension will now be paid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They have an Emacs client, heck yes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea what's going on.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Large hadron cornlider

  Someone please make this meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disclose the exact uses and let customers decide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Recycling sounds suspiciously like what “AAA” studios already do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • how do you use ansible? Is there a good source for roles or playbooks to set up services? I feel like ansible is 30% more headache right now during config.

  I write my own playbooks and roles, but often I can just copy paste an existing setup and use it for a new service. For example containers, you can probably write one role once, copy it and modify some variables to set up another container service.
  For stuff where there are well maintained community roles (e.g. community.zabbix) just use those and configure with variables.

  • how do you deal with motivation loss?

  I just don’t work on a part I don’t want to do atm. It’s supposed to mostly be a hobby and as long as my services I care about are running it’s fine.

  • how do you deal with the overwhelming amount of choices and information and disciplines (networking, storage, VMS, Linux…) that comes with selfhosting?

  I’m on my 2.5th setup now, just choose something and see if it works. If not, see how much it bothers you and what parts you want to migrate.
  I’m a big fan of VMs, so I’m using XCP-ng. IMO this makes testing and backups very easy, I just take a snapshot and figure stuff out, no big deal if it breaks.

  • how do you find the sweetspot between ease of use, ease of set up, security, redundancy? I feel like I am maybe too pranaoid to loose my data again (dropped a hard drive many years back, I lost all of my projects)

  You’re better than 95% of people just by thinking about this. For backups, identify which data you want to back up and do that. If you don’t want to deal with Ansible right now, just set something up manually and automate it later (paste your commands into a readme for reference)
  For me, I make sure to backup my Nextcloud data. That included personal photos, files and other hard to replace stuff. Other than that I have daily VM backups to a Hetzner storage box and my NAS. I don’t backup my media on Jellyfin, that’s just not as important.
  VMs also make it easy to replace your host. Just install the hypervisor on a new server and restore VMs to it.

  • maybe overall, how do you manage your perfectionism?

  I guess I’m not a perfectionist. It took me multiple months and monetary incentive (avoid renting two servers) to migrate from my Debian single host setup to VMs years ago.
  Some of my Ansible playbooks are “version 1”, where I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m on version 3 now. They still work, I even use some of them occasionally, just haven’t taken the time to migrate them yet.
  Maybe you can take a similar approach with some of your services that aren’t that essential and spread out the work more so you can enjoy it when you want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AMD is much more reliable and has improved for decades. Nvidia has their proprietary driver and new open source driver. Both work ok, but definitely less good than AMD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Memories schedules its scan with the normal cron job for Nextcloud

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use FolderSync to push my photos to Nextcloud. Much more reliable than their app

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only relevant sections are published, but I’m sure that’s plenty of material to draw a decent sample.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since final reports are usually public, someone with enough time could go check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moisturize me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good gallery apps allow you to include/exclude paths

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found the Ars Technica article I read:
  Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

  First link in there is the study

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read about a psychology study where they analysed how many people can link their own actions to effects. A large number of people made the same mistakes multiple times because they didn’t connect the cause. After being told what the cause is, most changed their behaviour, but a significant portion of people still didn’t “get” it and continued making the same bad inputs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know that every slur is made up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It all makes sense now...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GovernmentS
  SpyinGdrones
  ArE
  ReaL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Onedrive alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Onedrive alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny you should mention that, Nextcloud originally forked off OwnCloud due to drama.

  I think the server is working, it’s basically OwnCloud Infinite Scale but rebranded. Not sure about the client apps, those might be work in progress still. I haven’t really kept up with it either though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted Onedrive alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of the people who worked at OwnCloud Infinite Scale are now at OpenCloud due to disagreements between them and the company which purchased OwnCloud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To - Rik's Weblog⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what if your tiny site is offline for a bit. It’s not like you’re selling anything and the people will find an archive link

• Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blogblog.thunderbird.net ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effective immediately I will be stepping down as CEO of your mom.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  r mom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’d want something between normal and hard difficulty. Normal makes most fights trivial when you hit most QTEs, while hard kills you on single QTE fails almost.

  I haven’t really enjoyed JRPG combat, so this mix works really well for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a project that can install/configure/orchestrate 115+ applications on your homelab using Ansible!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use host_vars to set different variables per host. You’d still run the same playbook against both hosts, but each has different services activated.

  1. Make the folder host_vars in the repo root
  2. Make subfolders for every host with their hostname
  3. Enable services you want by writing the variables into a yaml file for your host (any file name as long as it ends with .yml
  4. Write an Ansible inventory for your hosts
  5. Run the playbook with your inventory

  Slightly fancier would be using group_vars instead, you can add a host to multiple groups. Then deploying the same services on a new hosts would simply be adding it to the group