Brewchin

I’ve been using Wallabag for years, after leaving Pocket, then just sharing links between devices using browser bookmarks or sync, and trying another solution that was shiny but lacking (can’t recall the name).

Wallabag has extensions for most browsers, apps for iOS and Android (that hook into the “Share with…” functionality), and runs in a low-resource Docker container. The web UI isn’t pretty, but it’s functional.

I have SWAG+Authelia (another Docker stack) and Cloudflare sitting in front of it, so has all the SSL and MFA needed.

You can. But guessing all the variations of nicknames for Trump, for example, is a never-ending game.

God forbid anyone there use a ‘politics’ (or even ‘uspol’ in my example) hashtag…

I followed a science starter pack, thinking it’d be, well, wall-to-wall science with a bit of random everyday stuff mixed in. Right?

Nope. Turns out, thanks to American current affairs, almost all of its members post political content almost all of the time. Close to the last thing I want to see on social media. (I don’t blame them, as they’re being hit hard by it all.)

To make it worse, most Bluesky users don’t “do” hashtags or content warnings (unless it’s promoting something - remember to like and subscribe!), so it’s incredibly difficult to filter out the clickbait and rage-sharing. 😟

And would work as a Belgian gTLD domain, as with the shortener for youtu.be 😄

After too many wild rides with Watchtower auto-nuking services, thanks to breaking changes (migrations, DB updates, deployment changes, etc), I switched to What’s Up Docker and pin the version for all of my containers.

WUD lets me know when something has an update, so I periodically go through their release notes and do the update(s) manually. Usually as simple as read the notes, changes version in compose, down (or pull), then “up -d”. But this approach has saved my bacon multiple times.

I’ve seen there are other solutions - of varying degrees of promises vs delivery - but most of my stuff is long term and stable. My approach maintains all that.

The pinned post explaining it can be found at !fedinsfw@fedinsfw.app on most instances (eg. lemmy.world has it). It has “VPS” in the title.

Either way, as an earlier commenter said: the post says it should be resolved next week.

Edit: Corrected community.

I mean, this is exactly why example.com exists. But I bet ICANN didn’t expect this level of meta abstraction to the absurdity. 😅

My recommendation is Debian for a server (real or virtual), or Proxmox. The former is perfectly reasonable and excellent experience; the latter is more flexible and more complex.

Debian is the parent distro of numerous Linux flavours (including *buntu, which aren’t suitable as a server OS, IMHO), so administration and services are all common (apt, etc). No need to learn dnf, pacman/yay, etc.

It’s still my preferred server OS, despite other options and being experienced.

Though I do also have a NUC running Proxmox (for VMs and LXCs), and both a NAS and RasPi running Docker. 🤷‍♂️ My Debian server is a VM inside one of them.

While user consent (default on vs default off, or any choice at all) is a different-but-related topic, Mozilla bake it all in, enable it all by default, and make it difficult to disable. (Settings would be “super easy” and would show it was intended as a permanent choice.)

These aren’t actions and design decisions indicative of having the best interests of users in mind. Especially given how closed the mobile client already is.

It seems to be designed in a way that leaves Mozilla the option of removing the ability to disable it, presumably if it becomes profitable enough and/or they think they can get away with it.

But for now on this point they get a pass from me on the desktop version in a personal environment where the user has the most control.

Because the Argument of Excluded Middle (aka false dichotomy) logical fallacy is king now. With no middle ground for compromise, if you’re not 100% for a position then you have to be 100% against that position. It’s the rules.

So, with that batshittery in mind, anything that allows you to optionally use something that people (justifiably) detest is, of course, the literal devil.

I blame brain worms.

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The @FediTips@social.growyourown.services account created a site specifically to help people decide on a Mastodon server based on their needs and wants:

https://fedi.garden/

They’re also an account worth following.

It’s true that people on the internet can be dicks. Even more so technical people (and that’s not limited to online: those online dicks are usually IRL dicks when taking technical stuff). But that’s a hurdle, not a barrier.

There’s little anyone here can do to help OP, as they (if I understand it correctly) have already irreparably nuked their hardware. The current problem is significantly different and harder than the original problem. Asking randos on this community is unlikely to yield results. Hence the focus on variations of “Now… what did we learn? 🤨”

I’m not trying to help, as I’m not familiar enough with SAS nor the current problem. The same is likely true of others here.

Can you really blame anyone who turns to AI, because that garbage at least sounds like it tries to help you?

A comfortable lie is still a lie. Everything that comes out of an LLM is a lie until proven otherwise. (“Lie” is a bit misleading, though, as they don’t have agency or intent: they’re a variation of your phone keyboard’s next-word text prediction algorithm. With added flattery and confidence.)

There’s a reason experienced people stress hard to others about not using them as shortcuts to your own knowledge. This is the outcome.

Another way to look at it is “trust, but verify”. If you’re intent on relying on probabilistic text as an answer, instead of bothering to learn, then take what it’s given you and verify what that does before doing it. You could learn to be an effective sloperator with just that common sense.

But if you’re going to give an LLM root/admin access to a production environment, then expect to be laughed at, because you had plenty of opportunities to not destroy something and actively chose not to use them.

You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming

I used to use Plex and when I discovered there was paid remote streaming function - that goes through their servers - my reactions were “Haha, no”* and checking whether my existing WireGuard setup would do it instead.

Whaddya know, remote streaming using Plex and PlexAmp at no cost.

*Not because I begrudge them recouping costs, but because it’s designed that way to justify charging for it, gives them whatever information they want from my viewing, and it’s not self-hosting if there’s any third party cloud/account component to it.

I agree, and do regret the harshness of my initial response.

I thought about editing or removing the response, but we did have some follow up in the thread (where I qualified some of my reasons), so I thought it better to leave me being a dick to a stranger untouched in that whole context. It opens up further discussion from others and serves to remind me to take a breath to consider why others post idealistic, well meaning content.

Not everyone’s had their idealism battered out of them by greedy companies and stupid managers yet. 😅

I mean, sure? Fill yer boots.

That’s what the public forum is: a collection of different opinions and perspectives.

I think the state forcing someone to both learn to code and then force them to contribute to a state-approved FOSS project (as that’s how it will be selected) is, IMHO, the opposite of everything right in the world. But I also get that some people find comfort in things or circumstances that horrify me.

To each their own and, again, fill yer boots. 🤷‍♂️

Imagine voluntarily sharing such an objectively stupid idea.

Some people really seem to think the entire world needs to watch their brains fall out.

10W? That’s incredibly low - under 100mA wherever in the world you live. About the same as an LED bulb, or a tenth of an average incandescent lightbulb.

For comparison: my NAS and NUC (mix of HDD and M.2 drives; both hosting services) draw 75W combined at idle, measured via Home Assistant and a smart plug, and that’s generally considered low-power self-hosting.

I’d be pleasantly amazed if you could get a laptop to use less, so I look forward to other replies.

I still use all 3, though I’m slowly moving CPU intensive containers to the NUC. The Pi is untouched so far, partly because having edge services there will make it easier of I decide to implement a DMZ.

The NUC+Proxmox is a great combination. Bit of a learning curve (eg. as with Docker, you need to pass devices in Proxmox and then to the container; same with CIFS shares), but there are lots of resources out there. I have no regrets going this route, and it had low power consumption.

On Windows thing, I was specifically referring to the server OS as the NUC came with Win11. Do whatever works for your desktop/gaming setup.

Though I also switched that to Linux (EndeavourOS, though there are other game-friendly options) a couple of years ago, and its worked out great. Guild Wars 2 was my most modded Windows game, and I can run all except one of the Windows-based addons I want for it. Setting it all up the first time is a ball ache (as it was with Windows, but that was done over time 🤷‍♂️). 😊