schizo

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't let anything that has to be cracked out of an isolated VM until it's VERY clear that nothing untoward is going on.

QEMU has proven perfectly lovely for a base to use for testing questionable software, and I've got quite a lot of VMs sitting around for various things that ah, have been acquired.

Humans can't do then benevolent part for very long.

You can fake it for a bit, but by and large we're just absolutely shit at not being assholes to each other once you get outside of your family tribe or maybe your local neighbors.

(Also having a complete mental breakdown doesn't help, and boy howdy.)

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 42 minutes ago (2 children)

If you share access with your media to anyone you'd consider even remotely non-technical, do not drop Jellyfin in their laps.

The clients aren't nearly as good as plex, they're not as universally supported as plex, and the whole thing just has the needs-another-year-or-two-of-polish vibes.

And before the pitchfork crowd shows up, I'm using Jellyfin exclusively, but I also don't have people using it who can't figure out why half the episodes in a tv season pick a different language, or why the subtitles are somtimes english, and sometimes german, or why some videos occasionally don't have proper audio (l and r are swapped) and how to take care of all of those things.

I'd also agree your thought that docker is the right approach to go: you don't need docker swarm, or kubernetes, or whatever other nonsense for your personal plex install, unless you want to learn those technologies.

Install a base debian via netinstall, install docker, install plex, done.

Mine? Mine? Mine? Mine mine mine mine.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 8 points 51 minutes ago (3 children)

I'm not saying it is or is not a false positive, so please read the rest of my comment with that in mind.

But, that said, this is not new: AV has triggered on cracks and cheat software and similar stuff since forever.

The very simplified explanation is that the same things you do to install a rootkit, you do to cheat in a game with or crack software DRM.

Bigger but, though: cracks and game cheats have also been a major source of malicious software for just as long, so like, it's also entirely likely that it's a good catch, too.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. Texas has been just-one-more-thing-happening from going blue for 25 years now.

So far, not a single damn one of those things, or even, somehow, the aggregate change of ALL of them has resulted in shit.

Cities are just as blue as they were, and the rest of the state is just as red, and the Republicans have remained in charge throughout it all.

And, before someone goes 'but gerrymandering!', the (R)s are maintaining control even in state-wide elections that are just a matter of getting more votes, too, so while you can argue that some of the stuff is probably gerrymandered, that's not the root cause of it either.

Another handful of people moving here isn't going to make one single bit of difference, and anyone thinking otherwise after literal decades of this kind of wishful thinking needs to take a deep breath and some introspection and figure out why they're still willing to buy that line.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 71 points 23 hours ago (10 children)

I'm a little horrified that a 15-20% hike is $3000.

That's uh, well, even before the price hike that makes me feel very Luigi....

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Timely post.

I was about to make one because iDrive has decided to double their prices, probably because they could.

$30/tb/year to $50/tb/year is a pretty big jump, but they were also way under the market price so capitalism gonna capital and they're "optimizing" or someshit.

I've love to be able to push my stuff to some other provider for closer to that $30, but uh, yeah, no freaking clue who since $60/tb/year seems to be the more average price.

Alternately, a storage option that's not S3-based would also probably be acceptable. Backups are ~300gb, give or take, and the stuff that does need S3-style storage I can stuff in Cloudflare's free tier.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's a much better name than something I was thinking.

I just made the assumption they'd do the standard open source thing and call it Libre-something.

I'd pay actual money to see the meltdown Matt would have if it was forked and called WP Core.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 90 points 23 hours ago (11 children)

I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.

I've never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn't 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.

The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it's a 50/50 split.

And let's be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won't move.

If the goal is to avoid "liberal bias", or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won't do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people "chose" not to move to where their job is.

So we're going to get a couple of jobs, but they're going to be filled by people already here.

Or maybe I don't buy enough?

I dunno, I've just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?

Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it's available on PC as sales permit, but we're talking a game or two a year at most.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

$5 says there's a hard fork led by all the commercial providers and anyone else who has a business that depends on Wordpress, and that it happens fairly soon.

It's GPLed, so while you can't call your fork Wordpress, you can just rename it and carry on with everything as it was, except you're no longer involved in dealing with crazy.

I'm not sure the average customer of any of those businesses knows or cares about the name of the software that their site runs, and won't give a single crap about it not being Wordpress but some other name while otherwise staying exactly the same - or, maybe, without an opinionated obstructionist sitting in front of the code approval path, perhaps even better.

 

Made this mostly because I've found putting RSS feeds into Lemmy useful since my doom-scrolling has reduced to just Lemmy and figured I'm probably not the only person that'd find this useful.

It's pulling 6 RSS feeds that provide free games for Steam, Gog, Epic, and Humble.

Nothing shockingly world-changing, but hey, free games.

!freegames@forum.uncomfortable.business

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Laptop for Linux use (forum.uncomfortable.business)
 

So I'm looking for a laptop, but before you downvote and move on, I've got a twist: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux support that's going to intentionally be console-only and rely on TUIs to make a lower-distraction device.

I was looking at older Thinkpads with 4:3 screens and the good keyboard before Lenovo went all chicklet with them, but I'm kinda concluding they're both way too expensive AND way too old to be a reasonable choice at this point.

A X220 or T40-whatever would be great and be the perfect aesthetic, but they're expensive, hard to find parts for, and using enough crusty old shit that this becomes yet another delve into retro computing and not one into practical, useful computing which is the goal here.

So, anyone have any recommendations of any devices in the last decade that have a reasonable keyboard, screen, use modern enough components that you can source new drives and RAM and batteries and such, and preferably aren't coated in a coating that's going to turn to sticky goo?

Thin(ner) and light(er) would be nice, but probably not a dealbreaker if the rest of the pieces align. This will be almost entirely used at a table for writing and such.

 

Basically, the court said that algorithmically selected content doesn't qualify for Section 230 protections, which could be a massive impact to every social media platform out there that has any sort of algorithm selecting content, which, well, is all of them.

Definitely something that's going to be interesting watching play out.

 

So I've got a home server that's having issues with services flapping and I'm trying to figure out what toolchain would be actually useful for telling me why it's happening, and not just when it happened.

Using UptimeKuma, and it's happy enough to tell me that it couldn't connect or a 503 happened or whatever, but that's kinda useless because the service is essentially immediately working by the time I get the notice.

What tooling would be a little more detailed in to the why, so I can determine the fault and fix it?

I'm not sure if it's the ISP, something in my networking configuration, something on the home server, a bad cable, or whatever because I see nothing in logs related to the application or the underlying host that would indicate anything even happened.

It's also not EVERY service on the server at once, but rather just one or two while the other pile doesn't alert.

In sort: it's annoying and I'm not really making headway for something that can do a better job at root-cause-ing what's going on.

 

Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn't free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.

I've moved off them a while ago, but figured I'd see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?

A good time to ditch them if you haven't, I suppose.

 

I'm wanting to add a bunch of energy monitoring stuff so I can both track costs, and maybe implement automation to turn stuff on and off based on power costs and timing.

I'm using some TPlink based plugs right now which are like, fine, but I'm wanting to add something like 6 to 10 more monitoring devices/relays.

Anyone have experience with a bunch of shelly devices and if there's any weird behavior I should be aware of?

Assume I have good enough wifi to handle adding another 10 devices to it, but beyond that any gotchas?

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