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- Comment on Server Hardware? 1 year ago:
I used to host Plex on a Synology. It’s okay, but it struggles when skipping around. And downloads for offline viewing would fail almost always. I have had a much better experience since switching to my old gaming PC with a GPU.
- Comment on Server Hardware? 1 year ago:
I just use my old gaming PC, GPU and all. I self host quite a few services on it and I have yet to find something that puts it into high usage.
- Comment on NVIDIA GPU on a docker headless system 1 year ago:
I recently did this and found those instructions to be beyond useless. The repository URIs were all old and dead. Not sure if they updated this doc since then, but they combined all the deb-based distros into one repo and and all the rpm-based distros into another repo.
- Comment on I'm using compose wrong and I know it. 1 year ago:
But how do I convert the docker-compose file to a pod definition? If I have to do it manually, that’s a pass because I don’t want to do it again if lemmy updates and significantly changes it’s docker-compose file, which it did when 0.18.0 came out.
- Comment on I'm using compose wrong and I know it. 1 year ago:
This is what I use whenever I make my own services or am using a simple service with only one container. But I have yet to figure out how to convert a more complicated service like lemmy that already uses docker-compose, so I just use podman-docker and emulate docker-compose with podman. But that doesn’t get me any of the benefits of systemd and now my podman has a daemon, which defeats one of the main purposes of podman.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
Since it has been confirmed that all the characters in Smash are toys, and the human playing with them are the hands, does that make a hand?
- Comment on the Dragonball-Z powerup scream is just the "boy" version of the magical girl transformation sequence 1 year ago:
They even had a magical girl transformation sequence in Dragon Ball Super’s tournament of power arc.
- Comment on Welcoming the Legendary Teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox 1 year ago:
Maybe if Diablo 2 comes to Steam I’ll finally play it.
- Comment on AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.) 1 year ago:
Of course. That makes sense. I just meant to say that I think you being able to point to those things as contributor to why you are hesitant to ask for help is a good thing. 🙂
- Comment on AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.) 1 year ago:
I guess they are sort of the same thing. But I’m a firm believer that being able to identify why you might not want to ask for help (or feel any feeling, really) is an important step to take, because that can give you insight into what solution you want to pursue.
When I saw therapy, this is what was most helpful for me. Being able to identify the underlying reasons for my feelings was a game changer for me.
- Comment on AITA for doing a GoFundMe? (Details within.) 1 year ago:
You are absolutely not an asshole for needing help and asking for it.
Too often people need help but refuse to ask because of pride, embarrassment, or some other reason. To need help and ask for it is brave, not shameful.
- Comment on New Spy X Family Switch Game Gets Its First Official Trailer 1 year ago:
“2024”
- Comment on Why was the post about that weird lemmy contributor removed? 1 year ago:
Woah, that’s pretty unexpected. I wonder if there is something else going on that we don’t know about.
- Comment on Why was the post about that weird lemmy contributor removed? 1 year ago:
I still see it.
- Comment on Home server setup recommendation 1 year ago:
From a user point of view, podman is mostly identical to docker. Like 98% of the time you can just replace ‘docker’ with ‘podman’ and it works. How they work under the hood is very different, though. Podman is designed around running rootless and daemonless. But if you don’t care about those things, use docker. Docker supports rootless as well now anyway, but you need to set it up manually. The biggest difference I have found is that podman doesn’t support docker-compose, which is extremely popular. Lemmy uses it, for example. There’s an additional couple of packages you can install that add support for docker-compose, but then podman uses a daemon, which defeats one of the purposes of using podman in the first place.
My workaround that I use for btrfs and systemd files is to have a folder in /etc with all my service files, then I soft link them to my service’s directory. This is just for organization purposes, as a backup wouldn’t include the data of the systemd file, just the link to it.
- Comment on Could we get #rememberthebird trending on TwitterX until 27. October to remind people of the shortcomings of Billionaires? 1 year ago:
Nah, I’m okay.
- Comment on Home server setup recommendation 1 year ago:
I firmly am of the mindset of containerizing everything. It may be harder to set up for services that you write yourself or ones that don’t already have containers, but as you said, it’s so much easier to migrate in the future.
I actually use podman for my services and systemd to manage their lifecycle. For each service, I have a folder that contains the systemd service file (doesn’t really work in btrfs systems. You need the service files in the same subvolume as etc or else they won’t start at boot) any config files or anything else that needs to be mounted as a volume into my container. I back up the folder that contains all those folder with my nightly backup. If my server craps out, I can restore that directory from my backup, systemctl link and enable all of my service files, and I’m back up to 100%.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
My mom grew up saying “tonic”…
She also says “quarter of 8” when it is 7:45, which never made sense to me either. I usually hear quarter til 8 or quarter after 8 (for 8:15). Never quarter of. And wherever I point out that the phrase doesn’t really make much sense, she does this whole hand motion to explain it, which just confuses me even more.
It’s those Bostonians, man. Gotta watch out for them. They say weird stuff.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
I haven’t heard that exact phrasing before, and as a native English speaker born and raised in California, that wording sounds a little awkward to me. It does kind of sound like something my mom, who is from the east coast, would say. 😆
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
I have heard it with that exact wording many times. Or maybe, “can’t see the forest through all the trees”
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 1 year ago:
Another work day that I don’t get off.
- Comment on Why are wrong numbers so common in the US? 1 year ago:
Not everything you see on the internet that doesn’t apply to you is a US thing. This is purely just a meme and doesn’t actually happen everywhere.
- Comment on Creators of 'Loading Artist' and 'Extra Ordinary' comics have made communities on Lemmy! 1 year ago:
I’m very excited to have more OC creators on lemmy!
- Comment on Older games with female protagonists? 1 year ago:
Portal!
Calling this game “older” is hurting my soul, though.
- Comment on Do you use a self hosting solution? 1 year ago:
I didn’t even know this type of this existed until somewhere recently. I usually write my own systemd files to host containers with podman and manage them with systemd.
- Comment on If your door was a pillow it would probly be better to slap it than knock on it 1 year ago:
I… uh… yes, I guess?
- Comment on How do you backup your data? 1 year ago:
So your backed up data can be as old as a couple of months and requires manual interaction? I guess that’s better than nothing, but I’m looking for something more automated. I’m not sure what my options are for cloud storage or if they are safe from deletion. Or if having it in a closet in a friends house is really the best option.
- Comment on How do you backup your data? 1 year ago:
Where do you keep your off-site one? Like a friend or family member’s house?
- Comment on If you're on a car ferry and get nauseous, are you carsick or seasick? 1 year ago:
This makes sense to me. I rarely spend time on boats, but when I’m not the driver in a car, I get sick almost instantly. I do my best to keep my eyes on the road to minimize it, but I just can’t stay focused as much when I’m not the driver, and my eyes tend to wander around to other things.
- Comment on If Jesus is the son of God and Satan is the oposite of God, a literal antichrist would be Satan's father, which would God since God gave life to Satan 1 year ago:
Yes, you are absolutely right. I totally had a brain fart on that.