faultypidgeon

joined 3 months ago

I think this somewhat depends on how tech savvy the people you want to give editing access are. If they know how to handle git and write markdown, I'd go with a git repository with (for example) mkdocs and setup CI/CD to automatically deploy to Github Pages. This would be free. If they are more like the typical MS Word andy, I'd go with a self hosted instance of bookstack. You could host it for example on fly. Unfortunately bookstack does not (yet) support sqlite so you'll also need mariadb, which will make hosting it on fly slightly more expensive (but probably still far below $10), because you'll need 2 machines in total. One of which you can't scale to zero. There are probably other cloud providers where its going to be cheaper though.

My setup is simple:

  • Pictures: I don't take many and rarely look at them tbh. So they just sit on my laptops NVMe
  • Music: I only ever use cmus for listening to music => Therefore music is also only locally on my laptop, managed with beets
  • Movies/Tv Shows: I have jellyfin running on a raspberry Pi 4. For single user use this works fine (even transcoding DVD quality works). For multi user or higher resolution transcoding this probably won't work.
  • Backups: One off-site backup at a cloud storage provider using restic and one backup on a USB hdd I simply plug in every other week.

My recommendation is: Keep it as simple as possible. In the past I created the craziest setups, but it turns out that in every day life I have neither the time nor motivation to maintain that shit.

[...] script something that does this.

Theoretically this pandoc one liner already does it, but depending on the website the layouting is going to be trash.

pandoc -i 'https://the-website-your-rss-items.link.to/' -f html -t epub -o out.epub
[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Might not be for you if you are not a TUI person, but I like newsboat. I also use it to watch youtube and listen to podcasts. For pdf/epub export you can probably script something that does this.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yaos. I was expecting a nice fantasy story with dragons and shit. But the romance part of it was just so annoying. "Oh look that dude is so hot..." at every. single. occasion. I could've known beforehand that this book is more targeted towards female readers, but sometimes I just like to go to the book store and buy a book based on the blurb. Since then I made the new rule to keep my distance to books that mention TikTok or #BookTok on the cover.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surprised to see jellyfin here tbh. The docker image needed literally zero configuration to work perfectly for me.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I know this is suppossed to be a good vibes post, but "nobody" is probably a slight underestimation.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This dude probably just made a joke. No need to call him stupid smh.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even with an ad blocker it's insufferable though. Every time a page ask me to sign up for their stupid newsletter I want to punch a hole in my screen.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I should print this out. I really think this may be a big part of the problem.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Well, yeah it sometimes does happen even if I'm not googling, but it's nowhere near as exhausting. But I feel like forcing myself to stick to methodically approaches still great advice.

[–] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Sub-brain will obey forebrain, I am not offering any choices or debate on the issue. We are standing up now and the feet are walking, the decision is final, now stfu.

I like that. Never really thought of it as a willpower thing. But yeah I think you are right.

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