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perishthethought ,

Lemmy. Just use Lemmy.

Why is this so hard, rest of the world?

Oh yeah, because there are no millions to be made here. /bangs head with hand

RSS and OPML ( libranet.de )

Can somebody explain me how OPML works for RSS? Are these files usually imported into the RSS reader apps or are they used where they are? If I import multiple OPML files with multiple feeds, will the feeds from the first OPML be overwritten by those in the second one or will they add up? Will article read/unread status be...

perishthethought ,

As n OPML file just contains the definition of which feeds you want to follow, not the actual RSS data. They're handy when you want to switch from one RSS reader to another. You can usually export the settings from your old service and import them into the new.

Check with your RSS service but importing an OPML file should always add new services to the list, not overwrite.

I don't think an OPML file tracks what you've read or not but I could be wrong about that.

perishthethought ,

Yes. Here's an example file so you can see there's not much in there for each entry.

http://hosting.opml.org/dave/spec/subscriptionList.opml

perishthethought ,

I taught myself some 2D game design and coding with Phaser. My idea was to recreate 80s arcade games like frogger and asteroids. It's great for that and my games run in the browser, pure Javascript.

https://phaser.io/

Just remember that making a game includes making artwork and sound and intro screens and more. It's a lot of work.

perishthethought ,

Yah, I have somebody's 2048 game in my terminal here and play that when I need to stop thinking thoughts for a second.

OK, but pretend for a second that some of us are mere mortals. Is there a TUI game dev engine (?) we could learn to dev in fairly quickly? One that protects us from the pitfalls of the C language?

Asking for myself...

perishthethought ,

I was lost the whole time but it was still fun to watch, somehow.

perishthethought ,

2 ... Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications, where they’re installed from, with an easy remove button? Akin to what windows offers?

For a GUI option, with KDE, I can go into the Discover app store, and then click the "Installed" link in the lower-right.

Example...

For a CLI way to list all apps, I found this page which gives this command:

for app in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop; do app="${app##/*/}"; echo "${app::-8}"; done | sort

Have fun finding the best option for your system.

perishthethought OP ,

I believe it's helps expose apps running on a home server to the public internet, securely. It allows self hosters to tie internal apps to a domain name. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

perishthethought ,

The challenge with this question is that not everyone has played in every console, so like, for me, I can only comment on the Atari 2600, the Wii and the XBOX 360.

From that small sample, the wii wins hands down. I loved the motion controllers a lot.

perishthethought ,

I think because it was so different from what came right before it: Gamecube, PS3, Xbox.

Waving that Wiimote around was a blast for everyone, gamers and non-gamers alike. Tons of hours of play in this Sports Resort, for instance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWo6zYZx2rM

I get what @berttheduck said about long games / serious gamers but can you imagine your grandma trying to play most Switch or PS5 or other new console games now?

perishthethought ,

Someone help me out please. Who was the 90s sci-fi author who predicted actors would go away and all movies would be made using cgi /ai? She had characters in the book, watching movies starring Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne, as detectives solving crimes (and so on). She also predicted "ractors", people who act in front of a camera, so a computer can use their motion and expressions to animate a character on screen in real time.

My feeble brain, I swear... In any case, thanks to her, knew this day was coming. Gonna be a wild ride though.

perishthethought ,

Oh snap, thanks - I was mixing up The Diamond Age with another book, yes. Ractors are from Stephenson, but I also had another author's books in my head. See? Feeble mind. There's still another woman author I need to track down and re-read here.

perishthethought ,

Aha! I found it --

Remake by Connie Willis

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=86

Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.

Great book, well worth reading still.

perishthethought ,

Great book, eh. So many interesting ideas presented in there.

perishthethought ,

<cough> William Gibson <cough>

perishthethought ,

WebSurfX:

🚀 An open source alternative to searx which provides a modern-looking ✨, lightning-fast ⚡, privacy respecting 🥸, secure 🔒 meta search engine

perishthethought ,

I know what you mean but I copied the github project's description verbatim.

perishthethought ,

https://www.newegg.com/intel-nuc10i5fnhn-frost-canyon/p/2SW-000B-005P1

Intel NUC 10 Mini PC,Frost Canyon NUC10i5FNHN,Win10 Pro Intel Core i5-10210U,Up to 4.2GHz Turbo,4 Cores,25W Intel UHD Graphics,WiFi6,Thunderbolt 3(64GB RAM+1TB SSD)

$570 USD

This is basically what I run my home server apps with, all 10 or so in Docker. It's way more $$$ than you're hoping for but it kicks ass.

Good luck,

perishthethought ,

You can bring the price down some by reducing the ram (since I think 16gb is plenty for this purpose) and the storage (like if you already have a NAS).

perishthethought ,

I use FreshRss, which I know doesn't help OP, but I still love it. I get images worth most posts on my feed, assuming the article has one. Just saying...

perishthethought ,

Should have been open sourced from day one.

perishthethought ,

The reason I have a "ls.bat" batch file on my Windows PC and a "d.sh" script in linux. Both added to my path, of course

perishthethought ,

Made me smile. It's good with me.

perishthethought ,

Mine are:

  • FreshRss (news)

  • Jellyfin (media)

  • Immich (photo backup)

  • Paperless (document backup)

  • Forgejo (code forge)

  • Syncthing (file move arounder)

  • Filebroswer (file backup)

  • Planka (lists, to-dos)

  • Navidrome (music)

  • PiHole (ad block, dns)

Have fun!

perishthethought ,

I have no experience with NC, but the sense i get is yes, once you go that direction, you can do a lot with it.

perishthethought ,

Yes, please. And thank you to everyone who does the heavy lifting for me.

perishthethought ,

You always have that option, of course, but thanks to this list, I just learned about Plappa (a custom front end for jellyfin and audiobookshelf, etc...) . I wouldn't have found that on my own, most likely, and I like the idea of having one client for all of that media so I'll check it out.

perishthethought ,

The company lists possible applications of the new robot as "wildfire control and prevention," "agricultural management," "ecological conservation," "snow and ice removal," and "entertainment and SFX."

Or another use I just thought of:

Accelerating the updating of laws in 48 states.

perishthethought ,

First thing that popped into my head. Lol...

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/9ec25250-099a-492d-b288-6a7cb3bb48ef.webp

Recommendations please: Self-hosted web site analytics

Hello y'all! I have my personal (static) website / blog running on netlify out on the public internet. Netlify, in case you're not familiar, is not a traditional web host, so I can't add databases or anything else like that on the server itself. Right now, that site has zero analytics / visitor tracking and I've decided I want...

perishthethought OP ,

Gotcha - thanks! Yeah, I saw Motomo listed on the selfh.st apps list but right, it seems more than I need.

https://selfh.st/apps/

perishthethought OP ,

Hey thanks, but I don't have anything to ship to graylog. I was thinking I would get a solution which records those logs for me.

perishthethought OP ,

Yes, thanks. That's why I added my #2 above. I don't know what I'm doing, haha.

perishthethought OP ,

My web provider doesn't offer anything like that or what they do offer, they charge quite a lot for.

perishthethought OP ,

Sure but I can't have a HTML or JS file write to any file on my web server directly, so I can't store a number anywhere in Netlify to increment a counter.

perishthethought OP ,

Thanks for this idea - the counting would be easy, but I don't have anywhere to store the numbers. With my free Netlify account and my static web site, I don't have a DB and and can't write to a file when someone visits, at least not that I know of.

perishthethought OP , (edited )

Thank you for this. I will definitely check out Railway.

ETA: I checked out Railway and their $5 a month plan is still more than I can spend rn. But I will keep them in mind for future uses.

perishthethought OP ,

I'm checking out goatcounter now and so far, it looks great. Thanks for this suggestion!

perishthethought ,

... is an intrusion prevention software framework. Written in the Python programming language, it is designed to prevent brute-force attacks. It is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally, such as iptables or TCP Wrapper.

perishthethought ,

Maybe check out planka?

https://planka.app/

I love it for my personal to do / to watch /etc... lists. It's like a simple trello alternative. Totally free, OSS.

Composerize - online tool converts docker commands to compose yml ( www.composerize.com )

I had an issue recently with getting FileBrowser to run and while researching that, I found this tool which creates a docker-compose.yml file from a docker run command. It worked well for me, so I am passing it along to you all. I hope someone else finds this helpful....

perishthethought ,

I run my stuff on a NUC 10 and yeah, it's kind of a bummer they have 1 slot inside for storage, right?

I have two external USB drives plugged into mine, one for media and the other for backups. That's plenty fast enough for my uses, including Jellyfin (movies and tv shows, a little transcoding) and about 10 other low-usage docker containers. YMMV.

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