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princessnorah , 5 days ago

With Invidious, it would have to block every single accessible instance for that to work. You can proxy the video through the instance to avoid censorship.

princessnorah , 8 days ago

Why do you have Plex and Jellyfin?

princessnorah , 8 days ago

The lifetime subscriber bit makes a lot of sense. I didn't have a Plex Pass and ditched them last year when the enshittifcation became worse than the effort to move everything over to Jellyfin. Basically swapped overnight once I was committed.

princessnorah , 8 days ago

That's super fair, I only have the people under my roof :)

princessnorah , 12 days ago

Anyone that uses the word triggering like that is kinda a dick ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

princessnorah , 12 days ago

I think it entirely depends on your use case and hardware. I have a rack server, I need the extra power relatively frequently, as well as the 16x 2.5" bays and the 4 NICs. A rack server is a fairly power efficient package to get all those features in. However, it means that I am limited to discrete graphics, as Xeons don't have Intel QSV. There's also no monitor connected, and no 3D rendering happening, so the card is gonna idle at >5W and probably only use 20-30W while transcoding. Compared to a system that's idling at ~250W that's nothing.

princessnorah , 15 days ago

You really should not install those from the distro repositories. They are far less up-to-date. This is the official documentation for adding the Docker repository to a Debian system, there's one for Ubuntu as well. You can just copy and paste the entire code block from step 1. Afterwards you can just use apt to install it, but you want to use this command to make sure you get everything you need:

sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Installing it this way will mean you need to use the docker compose command, not docker-compose which is deprecated.

princessnorah , 21 days ago

Wifi smart devices can have that sort of completely local control, not just zigbee. LIFX devices use local control if you don't connect them to the cloud. However, you're then limited in lots of ways, such as you can't then use a smart switch from a different manufacturer to control the lights. Home Assistant takes over the job of Google/Apple Home, which allows different manufacturer's devices to all work together harmoniously. Those services also provide things like automations, turning the lights on when your smartphone arrives within a geofence for example. HA can do even better because those automations will work across Android as well as iOS. It also maintains the advantage of just one app to control your entire home.

As well, as far hardware, I think you're misunderstanding a bit. Nabu Casa, the org that controls the open-source HA project, sells a couple of pre-built devices that run home assistant already. They're designed as turn-key solutions for people with less technical know-how, and provide a bunch of expansibility so people don't waste money needing to upgrade. The proceeds from those go back into supporting the projects costs. But you can go out and buy a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (512mb RAM) for $15 and it'll happily run the kind of basic setup you're after. But you will almost immediately run into it's limitations if you try to do anything more complicated.

My HA server is running on an x86 VM with 2c/4t and 8gb of RAM to itself. Have a full music server running on it serving ~6 devices around the house though. Edit: 6 fixed devices. It can also be cast to a bunch of places from mobile devices. My music collection is in FLAC so it's transcoding to lossy on the fly where needed.

princessnorah , 21 days ago

If you go to the Meshtastic website, the Beta of the software is listed as Stable, with the Alpha branch considered the testing version: https://meshtastic.org/downloads/

princessnorah , 20 days ago

It entirely depends, but I don't think "Stable" is necessarily synonymous with "Release" versions. You can have a "stable" version where it functions correctly and there's no critical bugs that crash the program.

princessnorah , 24 days ago

ReactOS is a Windows clone though, not an MS-DOS one...

princessnorah , 24 days ago

Both of these comments are probably true.

princessnorah , 24 days ago

I clicked it now and it's fine. I think sometimes LE certs haven't renewed yet in their time zone of origin, even tho in the viewers time zone it is expired. As far as I can tell, ssl certs don't have time zone fields for their dates, which seems kinds weird.

princessnorah , 24 days ago

What part of the Linux kernel is proprietary? genuinely curious.

princessnorah , 24 days ago

The "cloud" was never supposed to be a service for businesses. It was what was offered to consumers, so they could access the kinds of things businesses have, like internet-hosted storage. But the marketing worked too well on middle managers.

princessnorah , 23 days ago

Hahaha yeah tell that to every other country that has Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and every other American social media company serving it's citizens emotionally charged content. Facebook was even implicated in inciting a genocide. The US isn't any better than the CCP here. Though it very much falls into capitalist rather than state control, the end result isn't much different.

princessnorah , 25 days ago

Who the hell would want to watch vertical videos on a smart tv??

princessnorah , 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

Hey, did you know that Facebook is partially* responsible for a more recent genocide? So, considering TikTok's ties to the Chinese government, which is also known to commit genocides, I'm gonna go ahead and say this is probably a good thing.

Edit: changed because Facebook just incited it, people are responsible for their own actions.

princessnorah , 24 days ago

Have you like, talked, to a teenager or early 20 year old at all during the last three years? Either you don't understand the huge cultural impact tiktok has had for that age group, or you think every single person that age is a "vertical video crazy".

princessnorah , 29 days ago

There are some pseudo-standards for it. Github-flavoured markdown is probably the biggest of them. Then you get things like Obsidian-flavoured markdown that is based off of Github’s.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Five quick presses of the lock button does this too, but beware as I think the default behaviour also starts a 3 second countdown to calling emergency services.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Yeah I just tested it and you’re right it’s a way faster way to get to power off. Personally prefer the five lock presses as it requires way less dexterity in your pocket. I’ve just disabled the auto-call feature.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

There’s a setting to disable the call, I just did it that long back I wasn’t sure if that’s still the default.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Give me the Debian TUI anyday. Clean, simple, to the point. Has become just muscle memory thanks to all the server VMs I’ve installed it in.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

I mean yes, generally the standard settings are fine for my deployments so that’s what I’m talking about. I agree the partitioner leaves something to be desired though.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Why? I don’t need to do it that often, and I kind of enjoy the flow. It’s not exactly long or complex either. Not everything needs to be automated, I think all the detritus clogging up the web these days is evidence enough of that. I already use a custom iso with a bunch of preferred packages and things like the docker repo added.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover/

princessnorah , 1 month ago

“This customer has a 69% chance of upgrading to a new phone” except those numbers are as inflated as Putin’s election results.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Swap the “www” in the url for “old”. Desktop site but it doesn’t stop you viewing NSFW content.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Yeah, no way to lose my trust faster than abusing your notification privileges to send me spam.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, the Discord Nitro subscription has been around for a long while. From what I’ve seen using the platform it seems relatively popular. I’d guess adding ads to the free tier is as much about enticing people onto the subscription (which presumably won’t have ads).

princessnorah , 1 month ago

I doubt it. Video ads are worth a lot more. Unless they ad them to live streams Twitch style.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

I don’t think getting an APU ‘just in case’ is a good idea. It limits your turbo frequency and halves your L3 cache compared to the equivalent CPU variants. It also limits you to PCIe 3.0 only. Some AM4 boards have a single 4.0 x16 slot for graphics cards, so getting an APU could directly affect the graphics performance from a discrete GPU. OP should get the chip that is more suited to their typical use case.

princessnorah , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Yeah this seems like a really reasonable way to make this change. You also don’t lose access to Starter or Unleashed if you don’t pay that version upgrade fee, they will let you keep downloading the version you’d paid up until. Having it be a unified upgrade fee for both is nice too. I think it makes clear that it’s to cover ongoing development and support in a way that’s more transparent than a lot of software subscriptions.

They also still allow you to buy a lifetime license, even if it’s more expensive. Considering Broadcom’s VMware just removed all of their perpetual options, it’s nice to see a different company going against that trend.

I would like to see them offering lifetime upgrades at the end of your first year with Unleashed though. Paying $140 to upgrade to that rather than $36 for a year makes a lot of sense at that point. If it’s a new customer they might not want to commit upfront.

Edit:

You can upgrade from Starter to Lifetime for $209 and Unleashed to Lifetime for $149. Prices are subject to change at any time.

There you go, you absolutely can, and they only charge $9 for the privilege of doing it later on. That seems good to me.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

You also, no matter the tier, still get a perpetual license. If you don’t pay the upgrade, you keep your current version and can download and install it forever. This is just a more streamlined version of the same business model software has been using forever.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Go read the link, I’m not a TL;DR bot mate.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

Yeah, the downloads are coming from Microsoft, and they would be required by the game no matter how you install it.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

FitGirl only repacks; he doesn't defeat Denuvo.

My guy, I can’t believe I have to point this out, but FitGirl is a woman.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

I thought most of those grain exports go to Africa and the Middle East though? Like didn’t the war and initial export blockade cause the famine in Yemen to get worse?

princessnorah , 1 month ago

And if you’re transferring it to a PC without internet access, the repack pages have the info of what other packages are needed and where to download them.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

This is a really stupid take. Obviously the image is fake. But what about them would lead you to believe it is a man? They say they are a girl in the name they use, that’s good enough for me.

princessnorah , 1 month ago

🙄

princessnorah , 2 months ago

If you want to keep it persistent between boots, here’s the method (don’t know if you already know, but this might help someone else who finds this post too):

1. In the /etc/default/grub file you need to add nomodeset to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX parameter and then save the file.
2. Run sudo update-grub and that will generate the new config and place the files in the right locations.

Also, I had this problem just recently with a 2009 iMac. I recall having a 2009 and a 2012 MacBook Pro around that time with the same issue. I just assumed since it’s still around all these years later that there isn’t an easy fix. But maybe no one’s had the motivation?

My theory on why it happens is that when you’re booting Mac OS, the screen stays on that whitish-grey colour right through startup. Most computers have a momentary black screen during boot-up. I think whatever they’re doing to allow that is what breaks the usual handover between GRUB and Linux.

princessnorah , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

So I can install whatever distro I need on the server for whatever purpose and not have to worry that it won't run my Docker services.

The one caveat to that is switching between something ARM-based like a Pi and an x86 server. Many popular services have ARM versions but not all do.

Edit: In saying that, building your own image from source isn’t too complicated most of the time.

princessnorah , 2 months ago

+1 for Porkbun. They are exceptionally unexceptional.

princessnorah , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Oh hey! I think I know the solution to this issue because I just went through it last week with an old 2009 iMac I’ve got laying around. I don’t think it’s really a proprietary video issue. It’s a problem with the bootloader handing over the GPU to the OS. As far as I was aware, the AMD graphics card in my iMac has an open source driver.

Edit: I tried to type out how to do it but my client crashed and I’m not up for doing it again, here’s a link that will help: https://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-do-i-set-nomodeset-after-ive-already-installed-ubuntu

princessnorah , 2 months ago

Yeah, okay, but what has that got to do with the price of fish? I think you’re misunderstanding the post entirely:

When OP mentions going into the “BIOS” they’re using the term as the common name for the device settings menu that you can enter on boot. It is however a UEFI-based device. What OP had to change was the “Boot Mode” from UEFI Mode to Legacy (or BIOS) mode. This affects how the UEFI looks for Operating Systems to boot, forcing it to search for Master Boot Records rather than EFI partitions, and booting those in a compatibility mode. This seems to be a bug with Lenovo’s implementation of UEFI, as it did not detect the Linux Mint Live USB’s UEFI partition. Most Live USB’s are still set up with a backup BIOS bootloader. OP then had to go back into their “BIOS” (UEFI) and re-enable UEFI boot mode to be able to boot into their newly installed Linux Mint partition.

What I’m struggling to understand is why you gave the advice “you should use UEFI” when OP was already using a UEFI-based system…

princessnorah , 2 months ago

Yeah, you really should worry about Five Eyes. There’s a huge CIA installation in the Aussie outback called Pine Gap.

…But I don’t think they’ll abduct you to a black site over a fake library card.