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- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 1 day ago:
Permissive license means MIT or Apache2. The GPL or AGPL are also open source but copyleft licenses.
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- Comment on MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought 6 days ago:
Glad it helped. I thought this would need some explaining why I posted it in this community.
- Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 week ago:
My provider (Wingo, Switzerland) wants 40 CHF (~50 USD, I remembered wrong) for a replacement SIM. Not sure about new signups
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The bastion of misogyny is a quantum state of female bush that assumes whatever form the male desires upon demand.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 week ago:
The worst thing is how a normal SIM now costs 60$ with most providers here
- Comment on why we need billionaires 2 weeks ago:
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with ~a gun~ billions is a good guy with ~a gun~ billions
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 weeks ago:
Probably not worth it to store the AI tracks
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 weeks ago:
Oo, I’ll have to check those when they release. I follow some artists that only upload to YouTube and Spotify, neither of which is ideal.
- Comment on again, I'm not even gay 3 weeks ago:
What has c*rn ever done to you?
- Comment on Are there supposed to be other options? 3 weeks ago:
Listen to the safety announcement and don’t have my phone out during take off and landing
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks ago:
I have copy pasted a previous email and it felt great
- Comment on The LanguageTool extension will now be paid 4 weeks ago:
They have an Emacs client, heck yes!
- Comment on I have no idea what's going on. 4 weeks 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" 5 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" 5 weeks ago:
Recycling sounds suspiciously like what “AAA” studios already do
- Comment on How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out? 5 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? 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
I use FolderSync to push my photos to Nextcloud. Much more reliable than their app
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Since final reports are usually public, someone with enough time could go check.
- Comment on Moisturize me 1 month ago:
Good gallery apps allow you to include/exclude paths
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I found the Ars Technica article I read:
Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotagingFirst link in there is the study
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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.