Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 4 or more hours of daily screen time linked to more anxiety and depression in teens, data shows 3 weeks ago:
Just wait until everyone is forced to wear screens on their faces 24/7, because that’s the way tech companies want us to live. I’m not being sarcastic, either.
There’s a reason why so many people consciously choose to “disconnect” when they want a mental break. If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 4 weeks ago:
That might be the difference! None of the houses on our street have them, so groceries get unloaded from the driveway, straight into the front door.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 4 weeks ago:
You’ve never seen your neighbors carrying groceries inside.
I’m going to assume that you either don’t have windows, or you don’t go outside.
I see multiple neighbours, multiple times a month, bringing groceries into their house.
Quite a few times this happens while I’m also outside, in passing.
But now I’m super curious how you don’t see your neighbours doing the same! 😂
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 4 weeks ago:
I think one of the reasons why I stopped gaming as an adult, is because I realized that pretty much all the popular games are rigged to keep you going. The progression is artificial, and demotivates me to invest time in it.
Old games were basically: play them, and with the right skill you can complete the levels and finish. Simple, fun, and you didn’t have to return back to the game in 11h:23m:45sec in order to “unlock” anything, either. You turn it on when you want, then turn it off. You can return to it months or even years later and it makes no difference.
New games? Always moving the goal posts. You have to pay to level up quickly, but the next level just sets you up for another artificial grind. Spin a wheel or open a loot crate? Those are just programmed to give you exactly the items you need to keep going a little further. Seasons, timed events, social media integration… all the fun is sucked out.
Video games use quite a few of the same tactics that you’ll see in lotteries, casinos, and other “games of chance”.
Once you realize that, you can’t unsee it.
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 4 weeks ago:
It’s sad that the most unhealthy games are the ones ranked as most played on the google play store 😮💨
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 4 weeks ago:
I dont know if any specific model will be the right answer, but Qualcomm has their Snapdragon event going on right now, and many of the advancements they are touting are specifically for local AI processing.
So, computing power will improve significantly over the next few years, with AI being the largest benefactor.
- Comment on Companies are finding new ways to monetize personal data, too often without proper notice or consent. ICYMI, three current examples that you may want to act on to opt out: PayPal, LinkedIn and 23andMe 4 weeks ago:
To turn opt out of this (and you absolutely should), log into your PayPal account and then go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping.
I have personal and business PayPal accounts, and don’t even see those privacy options in either one.
Are these privacy concerns only seen in certain countries?
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 4 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s more linked to how many dependents you have, rather than money in the bank.
Someone with no kids, no wife, and no pets can be spontaneous without a second thought.
Someone who’s tied down, but wealthy, not so much.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Those are mostly operating costs, offset by revenue, but are they actually losing 1.5 billion dollars a year? I mean, I hope so, but are they really?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Source? Where is that money going?
- Comment on Rustdesk not connecting externally 2 months ago:
But key mismatch error when trying to actually connect between two internal systems.
Can you confirm that there are no spaces before or after the key on the client end? Sometimes, copy and pasting can add extra spaces that cause invalid passwords, etc.
I’m not having issues running my self-hosted Rustdesk (docker) externally, but I can’t offer much more than that :(
- Comment on GitHub - Owez/yark: YouTube archiving made simple. 2 months ago:
Yeah, the weird filenames bothers me, too. It does take a hit to data portability, for sure. I’m not using it for some kind of long-term, bomb-proof YouTube archiving, but more to have offline access to instructional videos I might need in the near future. For that, the UI and integration with Jellyfin works well for me.
If I was actually collecting youtube videos, I would go with something else that generates human-friendly folders and filenames! I’ll bookmark Tubesync :)
- Comment on GitHub - Owez/yark: YouTube archiving made simple. 2 months ago:
I’m using Tube Archivist. Works great, too.
- Comment on GitHub - Owez/yark: YouTube archiving made simple. 2 months ago:
“Made simple”, but it’s all command prompt with no UI 🙂
Not knocking it, as I’m sure it works great, but these things end up being a huge barrier to adoption and use by the regular people who might be “self-hosted curious”.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 3 months ago:
I will try, but on a whim I just created a new user in linkwarden and that seems to be generating my selected profiles. I’ll wait until I can try 2.7.x before I gather data for a report.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 3 months ago:
Looking forward to this new build. Since the last update, none of my links generate Preserved Formats, which makes the service useless. Hopefully, this is fixed.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Probably the same guy that greenlights unwanted UI changes in all their products.
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | July 2024 Update - New iOS App, Full Page Copy, User Administration and more... 🚀 4 months ago:
How does one actually enable Full Page Copy? I don’t see any specific options to enable it in the preserved formats, and I tested two captures, and none had captured the page in HTML.
Using it via docker, if that makes a difference. Confirmed that v2.6 is being used.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 4 months ago:
Are there any extensions that are causing issues?
Very doubtful, as I’ve tried this on vanilla installations of various browsers.
Anything in the browser console?
Now that I check, I do see some DOM exception errors in the console, which seems to happen when the UI freezes.
The errors come up after I’m able to interact with the UI (video remains playing throughout):
Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The fetching process for the media resource was aborted by the user agent at the user’s request.
This might be the first place I should look to find a solution.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 4 months ago:
Yeah, I think it really could have just been that. I had issues with titles looking OK, but the descriptions were gibberish. It made it impossible to really use. Then it suddenly worked, and it’s been fine ever since. LOL
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 4 months ago:
I wonder what heck is going on, then.
I’ve used multiple computers with FF, and it happens on all of them. Granted, this problem happens no matter what browser I use, so I know it’s not a FF problem.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 4 months ago:
Which browser?
And do you usually just set the video to play and leave it, or are you pausing a lot?
If I just play a video, I don’t notice the problem. But if I’m watching an instructional video and need to rewind, pause, etc., then it’s really apparent that it froze up.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 4 months ago:
but do you use tubearchivist-jf-plugin for getting metadata in to jellyfin? I cannot seem to get that plugin to function on my set up for some reason
Man, I went through several Jellyfin metadata plugins with issues. But that one did work “suddenly”, and I don’t recall any specific steps taken to get it working.
I posted about this months ago as I really wanted TA working with Jellyfin.
- Comment on To those using Tube Archivist, does it often freeze for you too? 4 months ago:
Synology DS920+ as a docker container.
The freezing doesn’t happen all the time, but often enough that I needed to ask! LOL
Just to reiterate, the video will continue to play, but the actual interface is frozen, so I can’t pause or change the volume. A page refresh fixes the problem, sometimes for the remainder of the video, or for less than a minute. It’s totally random.
- Submitted 4 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Have you ever caught a marketing or spam email sent using one of your email aliases? 4 months ago:
I have, and when it happens, the company responsible loses my business.
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 6 months ago:
Fair enough. I don’t know much about how money is added into Monero to say whether it can be traced or not. Cryptocurrency is pretty broad, so there may be exceptions to my original statement.
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 6 months ago:
No more complex than opening a bank account, and finding a way to get cash to put in it, whether that’s getting a job, prostitution, selling things, etc.
I don’t want to keep arguing, but I disagree. Even the most simple person in the world can open a bank account and put money in it. “Tap to pay” and e-transfers are as easy as they get, and cash withdrawal is something that anyone can do anywhere in the world.
Talking about “fiat money” and “XMR” and “coins”, isolates like 99% of the population.
Someone working at McDonalds can easily get paid and withdraw that money to use in a real store they can walk into. How does one even attempt any of that with Monero? Can you pay your mortgage or electrical bill with Monero? What about paying someone to fix drywall?
Monero may be a fine option for some, but it’s nowhere close to being a mainstream option for ordinary people.
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 6 months ago:
After you install a wallet, you need to get some Monero. There are multiple ways to acquire some coins to spend, like mining or working in exchange for Monero, but the easiest way is to use an exchange and convert your fiat money into XMR. Many exchanges, centralized and decentralized, list Monero (XMR).
This sounds crazy complex for most people.
Cash -> Prepaid credit card (all still real money) is best, with the caveat that it may not be accepted everywhere. But then again, Monero is hardly accepted anywhere.
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 6 months ago:
That’s crazy. Don’t they want money? LOL