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  • Simplest possible solution, Occam's Inventory 😄

    I use markdown extensively, but I'm honestly not fond of its tables function (which I assume you use for this purpose?). It works, but it's a bit static in my experience. Do you run up against the same, or is it actually an advantage in your use case?

  • Agreed, Nextcloud has gone from a lean little personal cloud to a hulking enterprise hub.

    If you're after something that'll just sync your files between devices, try Syncthing. If you need files available online, maybe something like filestash or, like somebody else suggested, SFTPgo.

    There are also tiny, lean calendar and contact server apps out there if you decide you need those. After self hosting NC for years I'm really happy spreading out the tasks over dedicated services rather than having all my eggs in one basket.

  • TBF, I'd be happy to join the Satan Monthly Digest 🤘👹 But give it some f—ng contrast instead of all those wishy-washy pastels.

  • I know! Don't get me started on the "adaptable" colour schemes that make any colour look beige... I was fine with the previous material design, TBH.

  • SMH, the screenshots shown in the blog post look exactly as my F-droid install (only light mode).

  • Not really. They give some lip service to communist dogma, but they really only have a big hard on for totalitarianism.

    It's pretty absurd in 2025 to get high on late 1980s Comintern propaganda, but here they are 🤷

  • Yeah, why do considerate mods like OP have to wade in and tell others they can just block you? Wotta revoltin' development. /s

  • I'd add "report" to that advice. If somebody is outright being jerks, that is probably against your instance's rules — and if it isn't, there are plenty others to choose from.

    Blocking helps you, but reporting people (or instances) that are just here to troll will help others.

  • I'd completely forgotten about those. Can we bring back "the right to air gap"?

  • +1 re WiFi. As I recall, with older laptops you may have to dig around to find some WiFi drivers for Debian — but they're most likely there, just not in the default repo.

  • Something speciesist Flipper jokes something.

  • On a good day he'll just redirect it to X. If he's off his rocker on ketamine he might have it display a deepfake porn video of himself performing oral sex.

    Because "Musk sucks". That guy loves a dumb pun à la "let that sink in".

  • FFS, our first verbal contact with nonhuman persons is going to cause a diplomatic crisis 🤦

  • Well, you can use/link a mastodon account if you already have one.

    Yeah, that's what I did. I meant the feature set gave me more possibilities than I could handle 😄

    According to their documentation:

    login with other Fediverse identity and import social graph

    • supported servers: Mastodon/Pleroma/Firefish/GoToSocial/Pixelfed/friendica/TakahÄ“
  • It's pretty cool in that it allows cataloguing more media types than just books, so that's a leg up over Bookwyrm. IIRC it also pulls item information from relevant (open API) databases, so you get the synopsis etc filled in?

    For me starting a new account that also made it kind of overwhelming. I've never catalogued my books anywhere, so the possibility of doing that, and input watched film, TV shows, etc — suddenly my media habits turned into a bit of a chore 🙂

  • Oh, never actually tried Bookwyrm, but I'd expected it would have a social aspect as well? That seems like a lost opportunity.

    [Edited to add:] Have you had a look at NeoDb? Also a tracker, but apparently with more social aspects —

    users can share their collections, publish microblogs, and engage with others in the Fediverse

    I only had superficial experience with NeoDb, so can't say with certainty if a Lemmy community and threads for individual books may be better for you.

  • Yeah, I don't know anything about the state of open Reddit endpoints. Seems they're intent on closing down non-Google/Gemini access to some of them? 🤷

    But if the /.rss "hack" helps setting up a Lemmy bot or at least track the communities with a feed reader, that's a small victory I guess?

  • You'd probably have to jump through several hoops to make that happen. Libreddit doesn't offer any ActivityPub API to follow directly, or even RSS feeds that might be used by a bot to post updates to Lemmy.

  • What I take away from these testimonies is that, again, the people in charge show that they have little understanding of and zero respect for the skills and craft of creatives — and in this case also programmers. We always knew that, but it is next level offensiveness to demand that skilled professionals use a subpar technology to "generate" ideas, designs and code.

    The art director who forgets all his learned process of idea development and instead just prompts Midjourney until he sees something he likes (but which his staff will have to backward engineer to make sense of) is a terrifying image of things to come. Fortunately I'm long out of the corporate creative treadmill.

    [Edited to spell "Midjourney" as one word. This is my organic human accreditation 😄]