Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Release FreshRSS 1.26.3 - Sorting improvements, loading spinner, and bug fixes 3 hours ago:
Yes!! That would be really helpful, too.
- Comment on Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music? 10 hours ago:
According to the dev, Play Services is only needed for casting:
“…you only need play services for Chromecast.” SOURCE, replying to a GrapheneOS user
He even offers an option to install without the play store (via Aurora) and to contact him for the license. SOURCE
- Comment on Release FreshRSS 1.26.3 - Sorting improvements, loading spinner, and bug fixes 10 hours ago:
The only feature I want (because it really does feel all my other needs perfectly) is the ability to DELETE articles.
Some of the stuff that gets by RSS before it’s moderated out from the source, can be awful. Since I keep an archive of my feeds, this becomes problematic.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 day ago:
I use a case. And every phone I’ve owned over the last 15+ years has looked like new years after buying them.
Not only do they keep their value (if sold), but if given as a hand-me-down, they are “like new”.
Worth it, IMO.
- Comment on Best Free Mobile App for Streaming Self-Hosted Music? 1 day ago:
Symfonium
What didn’t you like about it?
That’s what I’m using after looking at a bunch of other options based on my requirements, and while I didn’t want to go with a closed source, paid app, it does everything.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 2 days ago:
AI LLMs have been pretty shit, but the advancement in voice, image generation, and video generation in the last two years has been unbelievable.
We went from the infamous Will Smith eating spaghetti to videos that are convincing enough to fool most people… and it only took 2-3 years to get there.
But LLMs will have a long way to go because of how they create content. It’s very easy to poison LLM datasets, and they get worse learning from other generated content.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 6 days ago:
Given Teslas only use cameras
This still blows my mind. My fucking robot vacuum uses LiDAR, and multi-ton vehicles on public roads use cameras? Jesus Christ.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 6 days ago:
I guess there’s going to be a lot of heroes popping Robo-Taxi tires. To protect their community and all that.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 1 week ago:
Is this how CEOs will escape giving away “tells” when they lie during these meetings?
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 1 week ago:
I miss the 90s. 😞
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
My wife is the Kobo user, so I don’t know what tools are available.
But seeing how there’s already a self-hosted sync service available, I’m sure it’s not impossible for Pocket (or something like it) to be developed in the open-source community.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
You mean, perfect for self-hosting? 😀
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
While the CD checks are absolutely annoying, nothing, and I mean nothing, was more inconvenient than having to go to a certain page and a certain line and a certain word in the manual to unlock a program you paid for. Fucking infuriating.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
I’ve downloaded software that I had paid for, simply because of the bullshit involved with DRM, licence unlocking, etc.
If the user experience of a paid software or service is inferior to a pirated version, then the developers are doing something wrong.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
We use AI models processed on-device
If it’s opt-in, and the processing is done on-device, then I have no reason to be outraged.
But the skeptic in me asks “what’s in it for google?”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
JuryNow doesn’t store any personal data or persistent user identifiers. The questions and votes are not linked to individuals in a way that would allow tracking behavior over time.
Great to hear!
There is a User Agreement, Liability, Disclaimer etc…
Are these currently in place? I don’t see links to them on the homepage, or during the sign-up screen.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I like the idea, but it needs a privacy policy. If someone answered 100 of those questions, the insight into their behaviour would be incredibly valuable to bad actors.
Guaranteeing anonymity would make this much better.
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
“Netflix members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, according to the publication.
This is so hilarious when you think about it.
Are their movies and shows so bad that people are watching ads with as much attention?
Or do they mean “pay as much attention” by ignoring the content altogether as they only run Netflix as background noise while they do something else?
😂
- Comment on What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi? 3 weeks ago:
Is it easy to set up SSL on a PiHole? I wanted to get Adguard home setup (similar to Pihole) but the complexity of setting up secure connections and me like, “yeah, nobody in my family is going to be able to fix this if someone happens when I’m not around”. 😂
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 3 weeks ago:
Longer range so it can get stuck further from home? 🤭😀👍
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Immich, I believe, is linked to Futo. And Futo has a license model that’s basically “if you like this app, and want to support the development, consider buying a license.”
Sounds like it might be similar with Immich.
Better than “donate to this project”, since a license seems more like the user is getting something out of it, even if it’s basically a glorified donation 😂
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 month ago:
Yes, but is this them being assholes, or them wanting to make sure that users aren’t making their system unreliable? I think there would be a huge distinction there.
For example, say a user wanted to create a cache drive using an SSD. But because the user doesn’t know better, they buy the cheapest crap they can find, install it, and set up caching. But because they’re using cheap shit, the drive is slow and the user reports poor performance, system hangups, and other instability.
Wouldn’t it be in Synology’s best interest to say “here’s a list of drives we know will give you the best experience.”?
Now, Synology has already done that, but users are ignoring it and continue to use poor storage drives expecting to use pretty sophisticated features. What now? Well, Synology disables those features.
For example:
De-duplication, lifespan analysis, and automatic HDD firmware updates could also disappear on non-approved drives
Um, yeah. That makes sense. If a shitty hard drive can’t reliably get firmware updates through the NAS, why on earth would they want to keep that option enabled? Same with lifespan analysis. If a crappy drive isn’t using modern standards and protocols for measuring and logging errors and performance data, Synology really can’t “enable” this to work, can they?
That’s what I think is happening. Although, this could be just greed, too. I don’t think there’s any real problem for most users, unless they say that we can’t use fairly common, high-quality NAS drives from Seagate or WD and must use their own branded drives. I’d have a huge problem with that.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 month ago:
Are we overreacting? Hasn’t Synology always had a list of “certified” drives for their NAS’, which end up being the same HDDs we would tend to use anyway?
I can understand that they don’t want people using any garbage storage drives, which could increase failure and make Synology NAS’ look unreliable.
Unless something has changed, this is how they’ve always done it, just like how every laptop manufacturer will say which RAM and storage works best (for reliability and performance) on their machines.
- Comment on Is it normal to not have any malicious login attempts? 1 month ago:
On my Synology NAS, I have it set to auto-block IPs after a few failed attempts. Some days, I’ll have like 50 of those come through at a time (all random addresses from random countries). Other weeks or months can go by without a single one.
So, I think it’s one of those “matter of time” deals, so as long as you are properly locked down, it should be viewed as normal.
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 1 month ago:
I don’t know if it works in iOS, but I found that Moneymanager EX was by far the easiest to set up.
Basically, you keep the database on your NAS and run the software client on Windows, Android, etc. and just open the file from there.
But I’m considering Firefly III just for the web interface (no software client needed).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Ok, a quick update.
After posting, and a little soul-searching, I decided to install Ubunu and give things another try.
Installation failed the first time, seemingly right at the end! Tried again, and it went through.
Set things up, and things seem to be OK. I’m only running a browser, and needed to try a paid windows program through Wine, which installed and loaded up without any real issues.
I go for a walk during lunch. Come back to the Linux login screen (expected, as I’d assume it locks like Windows). Log in… blank slate. All my work was closed, and it was like a fresh reboot. What the hell??? No error messages or anything. I literally have the browser and like a few other programs installed, so it’s not like the system is a mess from years of bad software installations.
Sigh…
Then I try another paid Windows program used to convert video files. It seems to work, but it’s not detecting my Intel graphics card. As I look for help on how to do this (officially, from my Laptop vendor), I get pages and pages of things to try… all through the terminal.
I mean, this is stuff that just works on Windows. No messing with stuff.
I really want Linux to be my daily driver, and even I type this from Ubuntu, I can’t help but feel like something is going to catastrophically self-destruct at any moment, and that kind of anxiety is never felt while using Windows.
I couldn’t imagine setting linux up for my wife, if this is the experience I’m having.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
From Window’s perspective, there’s no need to dual boot. But I get what you’re saying. I’m not trying to defend Microsoft, and think that they’ve been enshittifying windows for years now.
But everything works without jumping through hoops. And if it doesn’t, the fix is usually very easy and done through a GUI 99% of the time.
But you are right. There are many flavours of Linux to try. Aesthetics aren’t my priority, though. I do need things to work without spending hours trying to figure it out.
I’m at an age where messing around on my computer for days on end is long gone. 😵
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Yeah with Linux if it doesn’t work you’re often just screwed.
This has been my experience for decades. Even if it works, something will suddenly stop working and I’ll have no way to fix it without hours of research and messing around.
With windows, I can fix anything quickly through the GUI. But haven’t had to in a very, very long time.
I’m going to look at other options. I want to stick with a distro that is fully supported by my laptop to avoid even more issues. But the options are limited.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
I appreciate the reply.
Fedora and Ubuntu are officially fully supported by laptop, so it’s Mint and a few others to a lesser extent.
I won’t use Fedora due to it being American, but the Fedora experience was quite nice the last time I tried.
I may explore other options through the Framework (laptop) community to see what else I can try.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Fedora is fully supported on my Framework laptop (as is Ubuntu and Mint), and I did have it working off an external SSD to try.
But… Sigh…
It’s American, so I won’t use it. American is one big reason why I want to quit Windows. Maybe I’ll just keep trying. 😮💨