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  • No love for Nextcloud

    Pretty much in general for me now. I gave it an honest go for six years but there were at least four instances where a server upgrade required nontrivial intervention to bring it back.

    Syncthing + Keepass[DX] has been solid for me.

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    Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials
  • It's baffling to me why this blood ratio is circulating so much in the news. Did the Las Vegas shooter kill the American equivalent of 1.8 Israelis?

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    Low power media server with RPi 3 Model B?
  • What I love about your comment is that you are using more or less the same methods that were around when the RPi3 came out.

    I didn't consider weighing the storage penalty vs the cost of processor upgrades when keeping an SD or 720p version of files around. I know some people run two instances of radarr/sonarr/jellyfin for this reason. Like many, my connection is asymmetric, meaning the best I can probably serve is 1080p over WAN at maximum luck, or a few simultaneous streams mixed between 720p and 480p.

    Example: Asteroid City is 18.5 GiB in 4k and 3.5 GiB in Web 720p, a roughly 5x's file size difference. If we estimate SSD cost is ~$50/TB, 5TB of 4k content costs an extra $50 to keep 720p around for WAN streaming.

    That to me justifies not upgrading processing, using instead an RPi3 for low power storage maxxing, and eating the cost in file duplication. I simply won't be able to get on-the-fly hardware transcoding capability anywhere close to this price point.

    Ngl, I was pretty bummed about the realities the previous commenters enlightened me to in this post I'm very grateful to their wisdom. But, you have given me so much new hope!

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    Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse
  • Thanks for the clarification. That claim seemed really off.

    I've assumed that what you see publicly is basically what's synced. Obv. your instance can have a few more meta details on you, like IP, device info, possibly all the exif they've stripped from uploaded photos, but these things aren't in the ActivityPub outbox

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    How do you handle being upset about something online?
  • It's a good idea. You get to rehearse your response to something touchy that somebody might mention IRL at a dinner or campfire or whatever. It helps you evaluate your own understanding before saying something ignorant or too extreme that winds up negatively affecting a good friendship.

    When I first started participating online I made the mistake of regurgitating IRL a lot of opinions and garbage I read in spaces I thought I agreed with, at least adjacently. When I noticed other people doing this in my cohort I got a serious case of the cringe and made an effort to be a little more real to myself.

    Now various channels are other worlds to practice my thoughts before expressing them materially, before possibly causing discomfort to people I like. I'm thankful for online spaces taking the burrs off or otherwise letting the dough proof

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    Why is firefox losing market share? Why don't more people use Firefox?
  • You've hit the major notes that made the biggest difference to switching in the early days. Worth mentioning too that in order to sow that field, chromium, then billed as an open source project, lifted much of those never IE power users out of Firefox specifically as well.

    Similarly, if you want patrons to tell others what's great about your new restaurant, give them at least three good things to evangelize for you.

    Fast. Freebies. Friendly.

    Back then, Chrome crushed it. Today, it's equivalent to a joint being oversaturated with lazy managers taking advantage of gullible, unskilled teenagers and wondering why the whole place's gone to shit.

    Firefox outperforms in all the key areas IMO. It's honestly a pretty cool space.

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    What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have?
  • I can't stand Google maps now. You have to fight it to show the actual map. The map, too, is now swarmed in Wall-E levels of marketing trash: bubbles, home businesses, auto play review videos, promoted fast food and coffee 8 miles away when I'm in a dense walkable area. The user reviews and navigation are still valuable, but literally every other aspect has went to shit.

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    What is wrong with some of you?
  • It's worth noting that the Times released this tool a decade ago. IIRC, around 2015 there was also a push for better colorblind friendly color palettes, especially on the heat map space (I remember watching a matplotlib demo, maybe, with viridis support). While there's many visualization practices we do better at now, and while this could be due for a redux, I still think it"s one of the best interactives to date. It's an OG for sure.

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    Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
  • Props to Oleg/hoverzoom for maintaining and updating this list for all to read. It's my first time seeing any document of this kind really. Quiet chilling

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    Low power media server with RPi 3 Model B?
  • I see. And if the Ethernet competes with USB for bandwidth this is probably doubly not great, even if I'm just serving files straight up over samba. Indeed, this same Pi was used as a front end (kodi) to my current server before I got a smart tv and it worked great for that. I have a smart tv now so this pi needs new use, and I want a server more compact.

    I know now that my question diverges from the Pi community, but do you have any good sites that have different NAS builds using boards similar to what you posted, or communities of this kind? I think I'd like to geek out a bit creating different builds. As mentioned, it's been some time since my last build

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  • With the cost of SSD'S dropping I'm looking to retire my bulky, moving-parts server, which is in a mid sized computer tower with several multi terabyte HDD's.

    It has been a little over 10 years since I did that build and it has served me well. It's on 24/7 and two of the drives precede the Thailand floods. All three drives lived in /storage and I used LVM to make them look like one giant disk to the rest of the OS/software (on Debian). >!Don't need redundancy and backup is isolated elsewhere, so I'd love to preserve the same storage structure so my configs can transfer over with fewer migration issues.!<

    • What are the limitations of using my spare RPi3B, at least in terms of storage capacity and number of drives?
    • Should I/can I use internal ssd's with USB adapters, in case I want to upgrade the board later and preserve the storage?
    • Will I be able to transcode on the fly via Plex/Jellyfin to stream videos away from home i.e. can the CPU handle that?

    Keep in mind that this Pi would be headless, as is my current big box setup. Curious what the community's thoughts might be and if anyone uses their pi's in a similar setup!

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    Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release
  • Yeah it's been nice but it has come with a bit of a learning curve. The process now is much more straightforward. Maybe devs will be more inclined to build since the userbase has future.

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