Toribor @ Toribor @corndog.uk

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Why does everyone think we are collectively too stupid to figure out how to use the internet? Like holy crap.

Normies are not very tech savvy and they are completely unwilling to deal with even the most minor inconveniences. Most people just want to open their mouth and have someone dump some internet in there. "Having to curate an experience" is not something many people are willing to do.

Obviously you should only input account credentials into an app you trust, but shouldn't a properly designed Lemmy app not store the credentials in plain text at all? (And definitely never send them somewhere else) Authorize the user through the API and then it's just an authenticated session, no need to store the username/password at all until you sign out.

I suppose if you have fast user switching it might need to store it. Hmmmm.

Pretty funny but if you enter you actual password it will hide it. My pass is ************, which should show up as asterisks for you.

Try it out. Pretty cool security feature honestly.

It's infuriating there is no real way to back up switch saves at all without a subscription. It's a portable console which is even more likely to have issues than a traditional one, I already had mine stolen once and lost everything. Now I just play on Yuzu and I can backup whatever I want.

Ehhh, looking into this a bit it seems like "Astral Projection" and "Near Death Experiences" are paranormal explanations for a category of 'Out of Body Experiences' that aren't very well understood. I guess it's fine to say that those experiences are real, but those specific terms seem rooted in esotericism rather than science.

Very nice! This is basically exactly what I'm doing except I'm doing it in ansible and using the linuxserver/wireguard container.

I run wireguard in one container (as a client connected to Mullvad), and then qBittorent in another container but using the network of the wireguard container.

Then I just set up routing rules in wireguard to allow my local network to be exempted from the tunnel so I can reach the web interface of qBittorent.

All my torrent traffic goes over the VPN, I can still reach the webui and none of my other containers are affected. Super simple and very reliable.

I've been wanting to do this as an experiment. I exported my Reddit history (15,474 comments over the last 12 years) and I wanted to test out making a LLM bot of myself on my own instance.

I'll probably hate it, but it seems like a good learning experience.

This is the first I'm hearing of Neato shutting down. They made great products so this is a bummer.

I've heard good things about Valetudo, a custom firmware for vacuums, specifically when paired with Roborock vacuums. The more recent models seem much more of a pain to root though so I decided against replacing my last Neato that broke and was going to see how the market shaped up.

Unfortunately with Neato exiting it seems like things are only going to consolidate more around expensive cloud-heavy models.

Well prepare for disappointment, and make it double.

He just wants popular and already famous people on his platform. He doesn't understand that a well designed platform will surface that content for the people that want it. Instead he wants to jump straight to things that are already popular and then force everyone to see those things. It's completely backwards.

Elon just wants everyone to think he's funny and smart.

Unfortunately he's so determined to be constantly visibly online it's completely shattered that illusion.

Yeah we've had the technology to do this better than humans for decades. Machine learning would be an unnecessarily complicated solution.

Tom is the real hero. Dude knows how to shut the fuck up.

30fps is not a stylistic choice, it's due to hardware limitations. A higher framerate with no motion blur is preferable in nearly all circumstances.

Sure you 'get used to it', but I could say the same thing for playing games while in a room with a strobe light flashing in my eyes. Yeah my gaming experience isn't materially different, but I'd be a lot more comfortable in better circumstances.

Once you're used to higher framerates, 30fps is a big downgrade, with motion blur smearing things around to keep it from looking like a slideshow.

I should have learned Ansible earlier.

Docker compose helped me get started with containers but I kept having to push out new config files and manually cycle services. Now I have Ansible roles that can configure and deploy apps from scratch without me even needing to back up config files at all.

Most of my documentation has gone away entirely, I don't need to remember things when they are defined in code.

Converting my environment to be mostly containerized was a bit of a slow process that taught me a lot, but now I can try out new applications and configurations at such an accelerated rate it's crazy. Once I got the hang of Docker (and Ansible) it became so easy to try new things, tear them down and try again. Moving services around, backing up or restoring data is way easier.

I can't overstate how impactful containerization has been to my self hosting workflow.

Biden was my last choice out of the field of Democrats heading into 2020, and yet I don't know what any other candidate would have done differently to achieve better results.

I'm voting for the record and the strategy more than the man himself. I wish things were different but it's hard to argue with the results considering the state of Congress and the courts.

Honestly I feel like I should donate to Lemmy apps I don't even use. Sync will likely become my primary vehicle to the fediverse but the fact that I have a choice is the most important aspect. A healthy competitive app ecosystem is essential.

I've gone through the whole cycle of grief with the enshitification of Reddit and finally come out really optimistic about the future of the web.

Sync for Lemmy is definitely a huge part of that. I'm overwhelmed with how much energy there is behind this.