RootBeerGuy

RootBeerGuy , 5 days ago

There's always a cabbage. Most times it is cursed.

RootBeerGuy , 5 days ago

The CDC says you can have a little cursed cabbage, as a treat.

RootBeerGuy , 5 days ago

Oh you know what the hell it is ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

RootBeerGuy , 6 days ago

"piracy"

... Wait, no. Piracy is the answer!

RootBeerGuy , 6 days ago

She later said Telstra had contacted her and offered a free Fetch box, which she acknowledged was a “reasonable resolution”.

And we have learned exactly nothing here. See you in 2 years when Fetch closes down and you are not getting anything back because you actually did not "buy" those movies on Fetch but on the previous platform.

RootBeerGuy , 8 days ago

I am always amazed how these github pages often have 0 information what the software is actually doing.

For this one too you need to follow a link on the mainpage to get to a different site that tells you its for backups. I might have missed the word backup on the github page though... Ah no, it is mentioned a few times but the context makes it hard to get that's the purpose of the software.

RootBeerGuy , 8 days ago

Awesome! Also great its just one breaking change. I think I don't use that variable, don't recall it at all.

RootBeerGuy , 9 days ago

Fully agree. I see this sentiment so often, "we gotta tell people from reddit how great it is here!"
This might work with something like a meme community, but once it becomes a bit less mainstream you need people to make that decision themselves. It will look needy and annoying to try and "educate" them about how supposedly great it is here.

RootBeerGuy , 10 days ago

Flat fee is good. If its subscription I am hoping for forks.

Edit: also, I don't care what they say they plan to do. In the end actions matter. They can say now its just a small flat fee but 6 months in they can change their mind and make the crappiest micro transaction model they can think of.

RootBeerGuy , 10 days ago

Well, if those were "legitimate" ads the OS would have ways of shutting those down.

That aside, anyone thinking that's the last time they'll try that shit is oblivous. It will come back, because why not. Only solution is to finally stop using Windows if you can, or at least dual boot.

RootBeerGuy , 12 days ago

https://media1.tenor.com/m/NaOcY1lQQEUAAAAC/how-would-you-like-to-die-today-silicon-valley.gif

RootBeerGuy , 12 days ago

This is it. Also given the low quality of the movies production wise you can even rip them at suboptimal settings. I am sure Mom won't care if she watches her Christian propaganda at 4k or 720p with some visual artifacts.

RootBeerGuy , 9 days ago

Honestly, 88 1TB drives would make me envious too.

RootBeerGuy , 13 days ago

Super Nintendo Chalmers

RootBeerGuy , 15 days ago

Add to that its not even the current android version on it. This company does not sound like they will give you updates so a bad availability of custom ROMs is really limiting.

RootBeerGuy , 15 days ago

Is that a snake in your pants or are you exc... It's a snake.

RootBeerGuy , 17 days ago

https://github.com/bfabiszewski/ulogger-android

You can use it as standalone app to track location at set intervals. But it also has a server app to synchronise to as well. Haven't used it as such, I only record to a file, but maybe this works for your purpose.

RootBeerGuy , 18 days ago

Don’t Abuse the People
We expect FUTO companies to have an honest relationship with their customers. Ideally revenue comes from customers paying directly for the services provided by company.

https://futo.org/what-does-futo-believe/

Good for the Immich guys, but I fear incoming enshittification or a subscription model.

RootBeerGuy , 18 days ago

I don't mind if they are going to charge for it. But since it is selfhosted I hope a fixed price option with maybe still getting some important updates is on the table. If this goes subscription I am out.

RootBeerGuy , 18 days ago

I am not sure I understand the issue, are you or are you not wanting to backup those memes? Because in the immich app you can select the folder to backup from, e.g. camera, and in the timeline on my phone in the immich app I only see my camera timeline plus backed up images, but not other folders on my phone.

If you mean they all get backed up from different folders into the same timeline, then yes, that's a bit stupid. I have a situation like that and what I did was to make a separate account on my immich server just for art I find online I am collecting. Then I don't upload through the app, although with switching account you maybe could, but instead move those images into that accounts external library. Then share the whole library of that account with my actual account. Then it appears in the shared tab. But I understand that might get too cumbersome.

RootBeerGuy , 18 days ago

Yeah, but I am not paying for their food, I am paying for the software that I selfhost on my system. With that analogy you can justify subscription for everything in life, since in the end, people gotta eat.

RootBeerGuy , 19 days ago

Wouldn't this be a usecase for a immutable distro? Cannot really break it? But haven't used one myself yet so not sure how that holds up.

RootBeerGuy , 19 days ago

Thanks for bringing up that aspect that is often overlooked in these discussions.

RootBeerGuy , 19 days ago

Can that be an issue if a video from Streamtape is embedded in some other site?

RootBeerGuy , 21 days ago

I think the ones you are missing are just not pirated somehow, no idea why. I have those same episodes missing and I don't even get them in English. At least the ones from Season 09 I remember, not sure I got similar missing ones in Season 10. Always thought its because they are not out yet in our language but sounds like they are just not available.

RootBeerGuy , 24 days ago

I don't know what Mattermost is and clicking on the link that OP provided I only see a sign-up page. I don't know before signing up what kind of content to expect. Not quite enticing to sign up in that case on what looks like some random page.

Good idea but I am not sure this can take off. But maybe I am not the target population here.

RootBeerGuy , 25 days ago

Very cool but what it is missing is showing when projects were updated last. I got excited seeing there was an Android app for Portainer but going to Github I can see last update was done 2 years ago. I don't use Portainer anymore so it is not worth trying for me if it still works as intended.

RootBeerGuy , 26 days ago

Why on earth would you want YouTube comments. That's the best thing about this, switching them off.

Jokes aside, happy for you that something you are using is working again.

RootBeerGuy , 28 days ago

That could be a Dungeon Meshi meme

RootBeerGuy , 28 days ago

That annoying thing is more on Protonmail though and I don't mean that as a negative, just more difficult to connect when the provider wants to keep things secure.

RootBeerGuy , 29 days ago

Yes, but people were claiming they had a good reason not to be FOSS. They could have easily just not mentioned it at all but instead they name a reason that isn't an issue for many others.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

In a corporate setting it isn't your computer though.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

So they will tell you after latest 2 years that your phone is going to die soon*

*soon defined as anytime between now and the next 10 centuries

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

I don't believe it. Its gotta be more than that.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Uh, did you check what is being posted on writefreely instances? It is no link aggregator, there is no competition with Lemmy at all.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

I switched them off by default.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

As soon as 3rd party clients don't work as they do anymore, I am stopping going to YouTube. Simple as, I know it doesn't matter as a singular thing, I am just one user. Was the same with reddit, now I am here but reddit is still going (how well we don't need to debate now).

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

You deserve better, Steve.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

XD

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

If you still want to use a VPN style adblocker, I moved from Blokada some time ago to Adaway. Works the same.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Aw, I was wondering about that.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Even if we simplify this to "both of them are dicks" it still leaves the sentiment that one of them is a CEO representing a company. Doesn't reflect well on the company, I don't care about the blogger.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/e8b89407-b9c3-4a41-9678-4a1d9f241d54.webm

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Alright, I got to ask. Having one app for all these services sounds great. I remember some drama around it though, don't recall the details. So what am I missing, is this actually good news?

Its not open source but neither are most of the apps it connects to.

Edit:
Found a comment in another thread that sums up valid concerns
https://feddit.nl/comment/8763492

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Yeah, good luck with that. There's the famous case of Munich (I think it was Munich?) moving their governmental workers from Windows to Linux. After a few years they went back. Unfortunately the average working enduser is still not ready to just use Linux. Especially not if its a Word/Excel/PowerPoint type of job.

Edit: ah, example is in the article.

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Two questions, and please don't take it as criticism, I am just curious about rsync but also one point you make.

"They go unmaintained" seeing as Borg is in use for quite some time, how does this look safer for rsync? For me it looks like the risk for that is similar, but I might not know background of development for these.

Second question more something I am asking myself, a lot of people seem to use rsync for backing up, but it is not incremental backup, or is it? I saw some mention of a "time machine" like implementation of rsync, but then we are again at your argument it might go unmaintained as its a separate niche implementation, or does that main rsync support incremental backup? If not, are you not missing that, how do you deal with it when just a file changes? New copy of it being transferred or somehow else?

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Thanks for elaborating, the part about the pictures and movies not changing makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks for sharing!

RootBeerGuy , 1 month ago

Are you me? Same progression.

I didn't have issues when I still used them, well, using the 7 to type this. But I gave them to my girlfriend when I switched to a new one and she didn't have much luck.

The Pixel 2 after a year started to have issues in cold weather, it would just shut down, no matter how much battery was left.

The Pixel 5 she is using now has a power button issue. It gets stuck from time to time and can lead to something that looks like a bootloop. Then you need to get it unstuck and its fine again.