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- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 4 days ago:
Yes. That’s basically the point. They call it a “drop in replacement”, but last I used it manually there were some extra steps for what I wanted to do. To be clear: not for every thing you want to setup, just one if the things I read don’t up required extra steps. But I also hear that those things have changed since then and it’s mostly seamless now.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 4 days ago:
Especially without any additional context is knowledge about their background, directed at someone closely only starting out, this is incredibly bad advice.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 4 days ago:
Proxmox and Docker don’t really do the same thing. They live in the same area, but the coverage is very different. You can always use docker when your host is running proxmox: either individually or in groups inside of an lxc, or all in w dedicated VM, or even natively on the same house if you prefer chaos. But you can’t do the opposite: Sometimes you just need a VM. Maybe you only need a couple of devices, and you know they run on or are even designed for docker, then that’s the better option. In all other cases, and when just getting started, proxmox is just the way more universal solution if you’re only planning on having a single host (for now).
The management tools in proxmox are great. The community scripts are a fantastic resource and only work with proxmox. I would suggest you set it up natively, not on top of Debian though, even if that’s already installed. Not the least of the reasons are to be able to use ZFS easily, including on on the boot partition (select that in the installer).
Finally, if you’re gonna stick with docker, like others said: consider podman. That really does the same thing docker does, but it’s fully open source. Arguably it’s better in some areas, but on the flip side might, in occasion, require fiddling with something intended specifically for docker and using advanced setups.
Also there really is no wrong answer, either. And you can always change whatever you choose.
- Comment on "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership 1 week ago:
Considering all that the article is saying it’s that there are “multiple hardspace” things coming, it sure uses a lot of words. Still, that’s all it’s saying.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
Weird, my desktop interface isn’t any of those things. Huh.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Look at what might happen: say you go on a date, you like each other. Maybe you end up together, maybe for just a while, maybe for a long time or you get married. Do you really care why or how you met then?
Even if the opposite happens, so you go on a date, you don’t really get along or aren’t each other’s type. What did you lose? An afternoon or an evening? And you (probably) still get some nice conversations out of it, or just “experience” in dating. Not really a big loss either.
It’s hard enough to find someone. Take any chance you can get, no matter how much of a long shot it may be. You said in some comment that he has a “wide social circle” or something like it. I would be glad he managed to use that for you in this way. If it doesn’t work out, nothing of value was lost (if anything it might be embarrassing for him in his social circle, I don’t know). If it does work out literally everyone just wins.
- Comment on Round Two: Can I manage to set up Jellyfin correctly this time? 1 week ago:
You don’t need to hard update your IP every 5 minutes. The typical DNS updaters (just use ddclient) can simply check if your IP is up to date and only update if it isn’t.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
It literally can’t be private, just from the way Lenny works. You can’t have it all. You could in theory make it less visible, but that would be a false sense of privacy as it would be possible to do get the information with some effort. Just having it be fully open is more honest and makes no claims it can’t keep.
It’s social media, even if federated. On Facebook, tiktok or whatever they are also not private btw: maybe users can or can’t see them (I have no idea), but the company behind the platform certainly can and will use it for advertising to you and for what else to show you, making you the product.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
Hard drives that aren’t used will get data errors over time. Usually for data storage this is counteracted with what’s called a “scrub” every so often (like few months). This just means the whole drive content is read, and the drive itself will figure out if any areas have a “weak signal”, and just rewrite that part.
Having only 1 drive without any mirror and without any way to detect potential errors (let alone a way to correct them) is a recipe for disaster.
- Comment on Apparent issues with ZFS on RPi 5 3 weeks ago:
ARC is the in-memory cache used by ZFS. If it’s completely off the effect can be dramatic. Under no circumstances should a larger cache cause anything to get slower, ever. Even the raspi didn’t have memory that is that slow that this is a reasonable outcome.
As a concrete example: I was recently working on a server where a maintenance task that should take like 12hrs or so at the worst somehow took 2 weeks (!) and still wasn’t finished. That was ARC being disabled.
- Comment on Apparent issues with ZFS on RPi 5 3 weeks ago:
What size is the ARC set to? I’ve seen cases where it was fully disabled, which seemed to murder performance and is probably even worse when in such a CPU limited platform.
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 3 weeks ago:
Yea, sorry. Turns out it was a different person posting this, and I had somehow assumed it was the same person replying, my bad.
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 3 weeks ago:
So it clearly has nothing to do with the spiciness, and just with whatever your digestive system doesn’t like about jalapeños (or them being pickled). Why would you agree that spicy food is relevant here when it clearly isn’t?
- Comment on I tried living entirely on IPv6 for a day, and here's what happened 3 weeks ago:
I really wish I could run ipv6 only at home, but due to a variety of factors, I just can’t. Lacking support for it is actually the least of my problems.
- Comment on Rough draft NAS is complete! 5 weeks ago:
ZFS, specifically RaidZx, can be expanded like and raid 5/6 these days, assuming support from the distro (works with TrueNAS for example). The patches for this have been merged years ago now. Expanding any other array (like a striped mirror) is even simpler and is done by adding VDevs.
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 1 month ago:
Let’s just say I also don’t play platformers, basically ever. It was fine.
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 1 month ago:
I haven’t played inside, but limbo is absolutely fantastic.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 month ago:
As far as analogies go, is pet far off. It doesn’t hold even for basic behaviors of the two cases, let alone complex ones. A better analogy would be that you buy a (small) car that always happens to come with an included, free trailer for more cargo capacity. You can of course take it off and have a small car. And it’s also as magic trailer that doesn’t take up any space at all when not in use.
I’m actually not a fan, an am also using it somewhat reluctantly personally, though self hosted. I’ve had my issues with it, but an still using it because it solves some issues that are much harder to solve without it. I’m not using the contacts/calendar functionality.
But your original statement was that you couldn’t understand who would need calendar and contacts (in their file sharing app). There’s enough I object to in this statement that I wrote my comment. First of, in this context, specifically in their article/blog/whatever, it’s about nextcloud as a whole, not the fact that it can do file sharing. That’s what it evolved from, but not all it is any more, more better or worse. Secondly, it’s about an advertised alternative to O365, which includes the very common and almost universal requirement for teams (be it a company, family, …) to have events (=calendar) like schedule meetings with people (=contacts). Even if you work with just like 5 people you are probably gonna need that. There you probably want to share files, but probably more so it’s about the office functionality and collaborative, simultaneous editing of files. Obviously replacing Word, PowerPoint, Excel. And yes, Outlook (calendar,& contacts, also email).
This isn’t meant for individuals who need a few GB to store some files. It’s for teams of some description that need office like, cloud based tools.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 month ago:
Your analogy doesn’t make any sense, so I assume you really don’t know. So let me explain:
If you buy a 4wd, it’s always a 4wd, usually that means s relatively large vehicle. You might be able to turn it to 2wd, but it doesn’t make the car smaller. If you just needed a tiny car in all (or most cases), you can’t push a button to make it smaller. You always drive around the extra equipment to possibly make it 4wd.
Nextcloud is plugin based. Assuming this isn’t locked away on an instance like this, you can literally push a button and make that whole functionality go away everywhere. You can fully remove that ‘clutter’, if that’s of no use to you. They are offering it always, as it adds no additional effort on the hosters side: they don’t need to add gear boxes or whatever to make it have calendar & contacts. If you don’t want/need it, turn it off and it’s gone.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 month ago:
Who ever wanted a file sync platform that also does calendaring and contacts?
Most O365 & exchange users? If you just want file sync, this isn’t for you. If you want a collaborative (online) office suite that can also sync files, it is. It’s meant to be able to replace the whole O365 stack, which includes Outlook.
You can also just not use that part, or any part you don’t need. This is basic NC functionality that has been there for a very long time, so why shouldn’t it be part of the package?
- Comment on Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux 1 month ago:
This is like the 3rd or 4th time this (mis)information is posted, and has to be corrected in comments. There’s a very large discrepancy between “all of Denmark” and "this one tiny ministry in Denmark. Journalism really has just become “how to out-clickbait others, no matter if objectively false”.
- Comment on Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk' 2 months ago:
I live in the EU. The violations of Google and Amazon I mentioned also happened in the EU. Feel free to look up the repercussions on those. Having rules is irrelevant if there is no way to actually enforce them, or at least verify them. It would be doable (maybe not quite “easy”) to have that verifiable, but there is no system or law in place for it as it stands right now.
You can trust them companies that would put surveillance equipment like that in their stuff to not abuse it, that’s your call. I just won’t use it. In quite a few EU countries this wouldn’t be allowed anyway, btw. At least not with current laws in regards to video recording in and around traffic. For example dash cams are still not fully legal in Germany, and only very limited recording (and storing) of footage is permitted.
- Comment on Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk' 2 months ago:
Yes totally. I would trust any company to always do this the right way. And there would never be an incident where some footage gets leaked, or passed around the office. “Oops there must have been a malfunction”.
Yes like Amazon AND Google haven’t been caught saving private conversations that their voice assistants recorded totally unintentionally even though they weren’t triggered. They did totally say “sorry” and won’t do it again, ever. Right? Right?
- Comment on Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk' 2 months ago:
Sounds nice until you think about the implications for everyone that doesn’t vandalize or destroy these bikes. I’m most certainly not going to rent one if it has 360° surveillance capabilities.
- Comment on GOG summer sale is live 2 months ago:
… and Amazon games. People who have or had prime accounts often have large amounts of free games on there from claiming them in the past (often via twitch).
- Comment on Voting in the threadiverse 2 months ago:
That also means you can’t downvote just wrong information anymore. Look at YouTube, which disabled down votes and nothing got better. And their votes weren’t even public.
I think that’s a terrible idea.
- Comment on Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users 2 months ago:
They took very large sums of money from venture capital firms. As in many millions. Those now require constant and perpetual number-go-up. This won’t stop getting worse, let alone get better. There are other services. If you’re a creator, use them.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 2 months ago:
WotC did some shady shit before, too. Certainly right improve since the acquisition though.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 2 months ago:
While I agree with the most valuable users statement, I can’t imagine that is how they see it. Or that they even should realistically care from a purely financial standpoint. Most users buy their printers and just use them with whatever software came with them. And most of those didn’t even watch or read reviews. Or worse: they did, and possibly heard about the firmware and online thing and just didn’t care.
I disagree with your second part though. Voron is only relevant for the complete opposite end of the spectrum. People who are multi-discipline tinkerers (electronics, hardware, …) and capable and interested in building their own printer. Actual overlap with all Bambu customers is probably sub-1%. The commercial printers that are Voron-adjacent (inspired by or based on the design in some way) still have a different demographic and severely lack in software polish and especially out of the box experience. It isn’t remotely close. Even if they innovated over night and made it even with Bambu, there is nothing that would cause that to be actually relevant in the market without millions in marketing. They might be able to gain momentum, but only slowly and I highly doubt they can catch up to Bambu momentum even in years.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 2 months ago:
It’s also the only way they have to act against the change, which might cause enough users to protest, which might (temporarily) get Bambu to back out. Or delay at least. Probably not, but again it’s their only option.
If they go along with it, the users that could or would proper will just use Orca until inevitably Bambu also removes that possibility, then everyone is fucked anyway.
What percentage of Bambu users are using Orca? Single digit percentage? Maybe barely double digit? It’s probably not gonna change anything in the end. Clearly this has always been their plan.
I always thought their entire product strategy was clearly designed to be an eventually rug pull just like this, which is why I never got one. Other people that care about fully owning and controlling their devices probably didn’t either, or that number might be higher.