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vividspecter

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  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?

    Try KOReader. It's mainly for e-ink devices (initially, Kobo devices) but it handles PDFs better than most applications and gives you various options to address them.

    It's still not going to do miracles on smaller screens like phones, but I use a Kobo tablet/ereader and it works very well there.

  • Recommendations for my setup?

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  • Eh, there's something to be said for experimental periods in my view. Sometimes you try out new programs that you wouldn't think would be useful but end up becoming essential. And then culling mercilessly anything that turns out to be not useful, or overly complex to maintain, reducing your maintenance burden.

  • Self-Hosting Gotify with Docker

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  • I use it with apprise and mailrise (email interface over apprise) typically. Apprise is basically a generic notification sender that can send push notifications to a bunch of different clients, including gotify.

    So, things like Proxmox errors get set to a fake mailrise address -> apprise -> gotify. And a lot of Linux apps in general (especially older ones) only support email notifications, so this is quite useful. You can also use apprise directly, even as a commandline interface. So you can make scripts to notify you of problems in cases where there isn't already proper logging and notification support.

    And I've setup diun to give me notifications for docker version updates. In this case, diun sends notifications to gotify directly.

  • Replacing router with OpenWRT on Proxmox

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  • Compared to other embedded devices, ease of installation, less chance of driver quirks and much higher performance (especially relevant if you're running a VPN on the same device).

    Compared to other x86 software based routers, a UI that is familiar, and the Linux kernel which generally means it gets new features quicker than its BSD based counterparts.

  • Just learned how to do a reverse proxy

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  • The only thing I don't like about caddy is that using DNS challenge requires recompiling the program itself, and the plugins themselves can be a bit quirky. Mind you, you can easily handle this with a separate program like lego or certbot so not a huge deal.

  • Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.

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  • Voter suppression includes manipulating people into not voting, such as "both sides are the same" and "your one vote doesn't matter". I'd probably include pushing people to vote for non-serious third parties, although it may not technically be "voter suppression".

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    I don't understand the purpose of some selfhosting

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  • I personally backup my phone to my own USB stick every few days or so

    Is that automated? It sounds kind of tedious, and it would be easy to lose data if something goes wrong in between those few days.

    Some of the motivation behind self hosting is that there is one source of truth that is easy to manage and make backups for (a server or servers). Android backups in particular are kind of notoriously fragile (especially if you're avoiding Google services) so it's simpler to have the data stored on a server. Then I can wipe or lose my phone with impunity without really worrying about losing data, because it's handled elsewhere.

    Nevertheless, you might like the idea of local-first software which is kind of a hybrid between local only software, and self-hosting (or cloud hosting).

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • The various wireguard mesh VPNs (along with Wireguard itself) such as tailscale/headscale, netbird, etc

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.

  • Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House

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  • Bring back Grover Cleveland!

  • I'm not asking for much! Android Music app (requirements below)

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  • think most people do unless you run a DNS server.

    Or you access Navidrome from inside a VPN.

  • Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon policies

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  • Temu are pretty scummy in their own right, especially if you use their mobile app. I'd argue that aliexpress is slightly less shitty then both, but not great either.

    Eh, there's always ebay, I just wish they'd do the fulfillment centre thing so packages aren't coming from 10 different locations.

  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

    Nothing hugely advanced. I added the NixOS wiki to !software_wikis and I also redirect the old wiki to the new wiki (since the former blocks VPNs). I also use the redirect functionality to redirect twitter/reddit etc links to FOSS frontends.

    I've also added a bunch of stackexchange sites with their own keywords.

    I'll add you can also use duckduckgo bangs by using !! e.g. !!protondb.

  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • Duckduckgo also has bangs, which I consider an essential feature.

    Although I use SearXNG instead, since their equivalent is a lot more customisable (although less bangs out of the box).

  • AMDGPU VirtIO Native Context Merged: Native AMD Driver Support Within Guest VMs

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  • AMDGPU VirtIO Native Context Merged: Native AMD Driver Support Within Guest VMs

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  • Does this work with Windows VMs?

    No, it's challenging to implement that because it's basically using the same GPU drivers in the guest as in the host. To be clearer, the AMD kernel drivers on the host and Mesa userspace drivers in the guest.

    I'm far from an expert but from my understanding either the official Windows drivers would need to implement some sort of compatibility layer, or Mesa would need to be ported to Windows. There's some progress on the latter but probably a long way off.

    Venus, which only translates Vulkan, might be a bit simpler to port to Windows (and should support Nvidia and Intel too) but it's a bit slower most likely and you wouldn't get compute and video decoding/encoding etc.

  • VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

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  • Of course, I mean the training of the original models that the function is dependent on. It's not caused by VLC itself of course.

  • Breakfast Buffet

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  • Which is the better media player: Media Player Classic or VLC?

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