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LanyrdSkynrd
joined 2 years ago
I agree with this wholeheartedly. People are seriously jumping the gun demanding defederation before we even know what facebook's service will be.
This could be a major boon for the fediverse. One of the biggest problems with getting folks to leave these horrible centralized platforms is getting their friends to make the move. If Facebook is going to make it so their users can interact with fediverse users, it will be very easy to get those users to leave Facebook. If reddit was on the fediverse, nobody would have had to do a protest, everyone could have moved to a Lemmy instance and lost nothing.
The Plex server for my house has been running a Netflix like experience on a 3tb platter drive for years without issues. Once every few years it gets close to getting full and I have to figure out what people aren't watching and delete some stuff.
I don't have to have every show/movie already downloaded, my users can request media from Ombi and they automatically download. That way I'm not wasting storage on stuff that people aren't watching.
ETA: I don't use any private trackers, either. Just public trackers and a VPN for my torrent software.
I think I'd recommend either buying a larger prusa printer, or a cheaper starter printer. The mini has a small bed that you will probably want to upgrade at some point.
You can regularly find an Ender 3 for ~$100. It is one of the most used printers out there. Tons of information available online about them. You won't feel bad about wasting a bunch of money on a printer that sits unused.
I bought the Prusa Mk3s+ as my first printer, but I wish I had gone with something cheaper. I didn't know what I wanted because I hadn't had a 3d printer yet. Now I really want to build a Voron, but I can't justify retiring a perfectly good $800 printer to build a new one that's faster.
More expensive doesn't always mean quality, though. I've had $100 sneakers that fell apart quick.
I did a few meal kits subscriptions a while back when I got coupons that made them very cheap/free(can't remember). Did them in my name and then my wife's name, too. One was called Home Chef, I can't find where I got the coupon, though.
Privacy.com makes doing that so much easier. It allows you to create debit card numbers that have spending limits, and can be shut off. You can sign up for subscription plans and not have to worry about these companies making it insanely hard to cancel.
I got to play Zork in 4th grade on the single C64 in the classroom. Was obsessed with that computer. I beat Zork with a couple classmates and help from the hints book. The teacher gave me a physical Zorkmid coin that came with the boxed game, I still have it somewhere. Zork got me so hooked on computers that it was all I wanted to do.
I had a hard home life, my dad was an abusive addict. I lived in fear of his seemingly random behavior, one day he would be overjoyed and another miserable about everything. The computer was predictable, if it didn't work right, it was because I did something wrong. The teacher saw how much that computer meant to me. He taught me what he knew about BASIC programming, he gave me the manual. I'd sit in my room and read it cover to cover, trying to understand everything without having a machine to try it on.
One day near the end of the year, the teacher pulled me aside and told me that the school was getting rid of some computers, and that I could have one. I think they were getting Apple II's, so he put aside a VIC-20 for me. I had to get my mom to drive me to school on a weekend and the teacher met us there. In hindsight, I don't think he had permission or anything.
Sorry for kind of getting off the topic
I've been using PIA because their Toronto server has port forwarding and a fast connection to my area. Their 3.4 year plan is also a really good deal, but test it on a monthly plan before you commit because not all of their servers are great.
I used to torrent with no protection, I had no idea my provider was throttling my p2p connections. Going to a vpn sped up my downloads significantly.
I run everything in docker on Ubuntu 22.04 with the exception of Plex, which runs on bare metal on the same server. The server is a 16 core threadripper 1950, with 2 quadro gpu's, m2000 and a p400, 128gb ram, mirrored ssd for system, platter HDD for media, CoralTPU pcie.
I also run Home Assistant on a separate Lenovo MiniPC(forget which model), I did this so I can take down the server for various reasons without losing smart home stuff. Helps with the Partner Acceptance Factor.
In no particular order the server runs:
Calibre-web - Library management
Sonarr - TV series downloads
Radarr - Movie Downloads
Lidarr - Music Downloads
QbittorentVPN - Torrents over vpn, guarantees no leaks
Jackett - tracker management and proxying
Podgrab - downloads podcasts
Frigate - NVR, camera recording with object detection
DoubleTake - Facial recognition middleware, works between frigate/homeassistant and Compreface/Deepstack
Octoprint - 3d printer spooler
Tautulli - Plex statistics
Portainer - Docker Management
Ombi - Media request app, users can request shows/movies and they can be automatically added to sonarr/radarr
MeTube - Webui for youtube-dl/dlp, useful for downloading Youtube videos for offline and ad free use
Spot-dl - parses spotify playlists and downloads them from youtube
My favorite new album in years is Codefendants - This is Crime Wave : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_maX9ORPggXh_sTT7I7Lw2IUEpEzdfgJgo
It's a new project from Fat Mike of NOFX, Ceschi, and Sam King of Get Dead.
Billionaires buy media platforms to influence the public, not to make money. The audience Musk can influence is the same audience that watched Tucker. If he is the one paying Tucker, he gets to influence what Tucker says, just like when he was at Fox News.
It makes perfect sense.