MangoPenguin

@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple has had great trackpads for years and years.

  Yet somehow every other laptop has at best something just kind of decent. You’d think they could catch up by now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but you can use Ironfox or another Android Firefox fork and have working sync.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify vs. Anna's Archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I remember no one could tell a different in some testing done vs FLAC and 320kbps Vorbis, so I think its plenty for an archive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify vs. Anna's Archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotify uses I think 192 or 320kbps Vorbis which is quite good and still has small sizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The performance issues are a major one for me, nothing worse than firing up a new game and getting 40fps with tons of stuttering along the way.

  I feel like most newer games also have trouble with low/medium settings not really being that much better for performance, so there’s no fix for it.

  I remember older games where low was like staring at a character made from 12 polygons and everything looked awful, but it would run on just about anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zen is what I use, there’s also Waterfox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it’s somehow fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lightweight and flexible: Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available | Bitwarden⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably worth storing the key in another place as well, like keepass on your phone or just print it out on paper and store it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much you can do, if it’s on the internet it is public.

  You can block some scrapers with PoW and that sort of thing, but you’ll never block all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that was horrifying, a bit much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be exposing any management consoles to the internet either way, too much risk with something that has docker socket access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Komodo is the best portainer alt I’ve found, I read through the Arcane info but it doesnt seem as good. Komodos editor also works great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly #149: A Few of My Favorite Things⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite is ‘fast and lightweight’ followed by ‘RAM required >500MB’ for a some kind of basic server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want automatic updates over major versions most containers will use the :latest tag for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker security⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesnt actually bypass the firewall.

  When you tell docker to expose a port on 0.0.0.0 its just doing what you ask of it.

  If you don’t want ports exposed outside the machine then don’t add the config to do so!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine we currently produce enough electricity for every car to be electric.

  Plus all the production processes for the cars themselves, and the energy to power them puts off waste heat. Even solar panels benefit from running cooler by having heat removed from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you use it with an account and have watch history its really quite good at recommending relevant stuff.

  I think it also depends on what you’re searching for though, like if I search for a guide on changing fork seals on my motorcycle the results are pretty much fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats how I describe Jellyfin, it works fine, its just inconvenient to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most frustrating part of running Linux for me is the experience can vary so much for each person, slight hardware differences can cause odd bugs that other people don’t have, and solving them can be really time consuming because a fix that works for one distro or DE may not work on another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That plus so many games that are genuinely good and I have lots of hours into are in the $5-20 range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a docker compose deployment so should just work on any system with docker installed. Copy the docker compose file and env file if it has one, and run ‘docker compose up -d’ in that directory.

  It can collect analytics from multiple places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does but will be really out of date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sigh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have it set to filter out ones with low seeder count?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does this diagram on how CMOS switching show the ground voltage rising?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of voltage drop, if you have a length of wire and run current through it, there is a drop in voltage, so the voltage is higher on one side and lower on the other.

  So your voltage on the gnd pin of the IC relative to the other end where its connected to your supply will have a voltage difference that increases with current.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just saying it absolutely will do most tasks without issue, since my 3700x doesnt struggle at all with any normal every day task.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up the CPU and its faster than the R7 3700x I game and edit videos on in my desktop…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups of Backups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do local backups to another drive, and online encrypted backups to cloud storage (I use backblaze B2)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah gotta make sure you never use the same password in multiple places, use a password manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cheapest way to connect several SATA HDs via USB?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The cheapest way I can think of is a used PCIe HBA card and some SATA power extension cables. Probably $50 or so to connect 8 drives this way.

  If you’re set on USB you can often get 4 bay enclosures for around $100 or so, that would the way I’d do it. The downside of single USB adapters is the sheer amount of wires and power supplies you’ll have.