Corgana

Corgana , 1 day ago

I have a very similar setup to you, and I use SyncThing without issue for the important files (which I keep in my Documents directory to make it easy to remember).

Corgana , 2 days ago

https://c.tenor.com/punj70NkFc0AAAAM/the-simpsons-why-didnt-i-think-of-that.gif

Corgana , 2 days ago

The devs did a Q&A that answer pretty much every question in this comment section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg

Corgana , 4 days ago

I don't disagree, but discoverability is important. On the flipside there are so many times in FOSS world where I've actively looked for a tool for months, only to give up and then months later have someone randomly mention it in a thread where I discover it has existed for years.

Corgana , 5 days ago

This is really cool, it would be nice to have some quick options like start minimized or minimize to tray.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Or Nativefier (which uses electron) but with a nice GUI.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Oh no I didn't realize it had ended! Maybe someone else will pick it back up.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Mint or Zorin for those with windows experience, Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh, are all great "just works" distros. Don't overthink it, OP!

Corgana , 8 days ago

dead project

alive

🤔

Corgana , 10 days ago

Uhh... why did you just paste the comments from the video without the answers?

Corgana , 12 days ago

I really like Zorin as a beginner's distro. It's based on Ubuntu so most everything is designed to work with it without learning a whole new command line tool, but it doesn't try to hide the Linuxey stuff and mimic windows. On top of that it's just very polished.

Corgana , 12 days ago

Sometimes FOSS communities are so very uptight, we should relax a bit.

Now THIS is funny

Corgana , 12 days ago

Hmm

Corgana , 12 days ago

Good point, perhaps "beginner's distro" is not the best term because not everyone wants to put a ton of attention into their operating system!

Corgana , 13 days ago

A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.

Corgana , 13 days ago

How much energy is used by our current financial system?

Orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin requires, which is the criticism.

Corgana , 15 days ago

Online accounts works seamlessly with Google Drive but yet not for OneDrive.

It also is not the same thing as "Drive Sync" on Windows that mirrors local files.

Corgana , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

2008 is not "damn old" in terms of filesystems.

Corgana , 17 days ago

Yes. Why bother sharing if you're not trying to help others?

Corgana , 17 days ago

I know this is a joke but "Enshittification" requires there to be a monopoly that abuses commercial customers along with users. Linux distros can't really have monopolies since the switching costs are so low.

Corgana , 17 days ago

Annoyed

Corgana , 19 days ago

How so?

Corgana , 19 days ago

They absolutely were, without question. That said, there's nothing this guy can do to make that happen on Mastodon instances he doesn't own.

Corgana , 19 days ago

It seems like we agree on the facts, and I certainly won't disagree that it's worse now, but I would characterize Twitter's (pre-Musk) response to extremism as "measured, lacking and lethargic", before I would use "imperfect", which still implies "pretty good" and from my perceptive it was not good enough to make me want to use it. I think maybe we just have a different tolerance for hate speech.

Corgana , 21 days ago

While TrueNAS is great I found it to be significantly more NAS-oriented than a general "home server". It's certainly capable just very into the weeds with permissions, users, groups, etc. It's not very noob friendly. If you aren't primarily dealing with a ton of data, you might want to look into something like CasaOS or Homarr which make sharing data on the network very "set it and forget it" and are more focused on apps.

Also recommendations include PiHole, Immich, Qbittorrent, Plex (or Jellyfin) obviously, SyncThing, Duplicati, Home Assistant (although you probably want to run that in a VM) and Tailscale and NGINX proxy manager for accessing outside the house.

Corgana , 26 days ago

This public issue on the nut.js repo, where I'm publicly accused of something that's entirely not true was the final nail in the coffin.

Damn FOSS geeks, they ruin FOSS!

Corgana , 28 days ago

it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again.

The biggest hurdle for widespread adoption of open platforms, imo.

Corgana , 1 month ago

They generate a LOT of noise. Not a dealbreaker for most but something to be aware of for sure.

Corgana , 1 month ago

They are very noisy. Lots of clicking and whirring. Enterprise drives are not the same as consumer drives. As others have said this is a great price but I would not recommend using them in a room you are trying to focus in.

Corgana , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter

...Not... kick them out? Discord doesn't kick out extremist groups. This seems comparatively mild. I think they had a reasonable expectation to be left alone. Nintendo got a court injunction but Discord didn't fight it.

Corgana , 1 month ago

Step 2 of enshittification:

First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.

Corgana , 1 month ago

Yeah, it's easy to see, but I don't have to respect it.

Corgana , 1 month ago

I’m curious, is there actually so many 42’s in the system?

Sort of, it's not actually picking a random number. It does not know what "random" means. It is analyzing the number of times the question "pick a random number" was asked and what the most common responses to that question looked like.

Corgana , 1 month ago

HOW DID THE TRUCK GET INTO SPACE??

Love that episode though.

Corgana , 1 month ago

Well said, private companies are incentivized to make their customers happy. Corporations are incentivized to make their shareholders happy. Sometimes those goals align, but they are not the same.

Corgana , 1 month ago

Libredirect is great, but it's usefulness is waning. The frontends for Twitter and Instagram no longer work which hurt the usefulness. The frontend for TikTok is great when it works, which is only about half the time.

Corgana , 1 month ago

They use "proxigram" which has also never worked for me.

Corgana , 1 month ago

I heard Neeva was amazing too, but it ultimately couldn't find enough people willing to pay for a search engine.

Corgana , 1 month ago

Apple is one of the best Hardware companies out there for not selling your data.

Don't believe their ads, they are actually one of the worst!

But the threat of Apple turning on its customers isn't limited to China. While the company has been unwilling to spy on its users on behalf of the US government, it's proven more than willing to compromise its worldwide users' privacy to pad its own profits. Remember when Apple let its users opt out of Facebook surveillance with one click? At the very same time, Apple was spinning up its own commercial surveillance program, spying on Ios customers, gathering the very same data as Facebook, and for the very same purpose: to target ads. When it came to its own surveillance, Apple completely ignored its customers' explicit refusal to consent to spying, spied on them anyway, and lied about it:

Corgana , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Can you provide any examples of ads someone (maybe you?) received directly due to Apple’s policies and behavior? Totally serious question.

If you use an iPhone and have app tracking transparency enabled then any targeted ads you're seeing are almost certainly coming from data that Apple has collected from you.

A few years back Apple made a big change to iOS that prevents user data from being sold to data brokers and ran a big ad campaign about how they are the good "privacy option". But the reason they made the change was not to protect user privacy, but because Apple wanted the money that Facebook was getting from iPhone users. The same data is still being collected and sold, just by Apple now instead of Facebook. That was the crux of Facebook's big lawsuit against Apple accusing them of anti-competitive practices.

Corgana , 1 month ago

No. Clicking "ask app not to track" prevents apps from collecting your data. It does not prevent Apple from collecting that same data, which they do.

https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/43239-83991-app-tracking-transparency-1-xl.jpg

Corgana , 1 month ago

Cory Doctorow is uniquely able to cut straight to the heart of the matter. He is the same person who coined the term "enshittification" last year.

Corgana , 1 month ago

https://c.tenor.com/tQsEuOLGy5YAAAAM/tim-gunn-eww-gross.gif

Corgana , 1 month ago

ya know seems odd that a phone by such a data hungry company, can be made into exactly the opposite.

It shouldn't feel odd, because we should have control over the hardware we buy, yet here we are.

Corgana , 1 month ago

I didn't know that, my google-fu turned up nothing do you have a link with more info?

Corgana , 1 month ago

Can you explain how defederating prevents Meta from extending open standards (ActivityPub) with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage Threads competitors?

Corgana , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

How would blocking yourself from the ability to follow Threads accounts stop them from... anything? It's not two-way if one of the two parties doesn't want it to be, and Meta can't be trusted.

Corgana , 1 month ago

Very cool!