jevans ⁂ @ thejevans @lemmy.ml

Air quality scientist and data engineer

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Also, of course she's the kind of person to hide that she gave a TEDx talk and not a TED talk until the last possible moment on her website.

That is correct. The public ones get blacklisted by youtube.

to put the "youtube often breaks it" into perspective. In the last 6 months, I've lost access to youtube for a total of 8 days, with the longest continuous downtime being 3 days. selfhosting it works fine, for the most part.

I self-host an invidious instance and combine that with sponsorblock. I only ever see the videos from channels I am subscribed to unless I explicitly search for something.

yt-dlp is a good tool for downloading youtube, and there are several GUI frontends built around that

Do you have a repo with your NixOS config for your NAS? TrueNAS and Home Assistant are the last non-NixOS VMs I'm running haha

it looks like you already have a node 804 case and the ability to build a computer, so I would avoid it unless you are looking for used enterprise gear and are okay with the tradeoffs that come with it.

My experience with UGreen

years ago, I got a USB switching device from them to switch keyboard and mouse between two computers. That device was not built to USB spec and fried the PCB on my fancy mechanical keyboard.

last year, I bought their fancy 300W desktop USB-C charger to make a laptop charging station at home. Within 8 months, the device gave off an awful smell and 2 of the ports died. UGreen would not replace the charger. These are apparently a common problem with them:

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1577642-ugreen-nexode-300w-not-working-at-140w-and-refusing-replacement-under-warranty/#comment-16476501

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1581672-ugreen-defective-ugreen-nexode-power-bank-25000mah-200w-will-not-warranty/#comment-16511183

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1577968-ugreen-300w-port-c3-dead/#comment-16479321

My experience with Synology

Years ago, I had a Synology NAS, and used their recommended proprietary software RAID. The power supply eventually died and took the motherboard with it. Replacement parts were not available, and there was no warranty coverage. This was before I knew about good backup practices, so my options were to buy another overpriced, non-repairable Synology NAS appliance, or forfeit my data. I considered the data a loss, built a TrueNAS machine, and never looked back.

Your experience with a proprietary NAS appliance may not be exactly the same, and they may be better these days, but having proprietary software inherently means that you cannot be sure that the software choices they make are best practice and for your benefit, or if they are designed to lock you in or increase profits in some other way.

As others have said, OpenMediaVault is a decent software alternative to TrueNAS.

No matter what you decide to go with, make sure you are following proper 3-2-1 backup protocols for any data you care about. restic to backblaze b2 seems to be the best offsite backup system currently.

This is a cool new app that I use to supplement OSM with address metadata that Google has without installing Google Maps: https://sr.ht/~amolith/adresilo/

Be wary of any product that requires or even just advertises "the cloud" as a primary feature.

No set of features or improvements over other options is worth being vendor-locked to a shitty company that makes unrepairable hardware that needs to call home and scrape your data to function.

Shop has been purposefully making their app worse to use as a package tracker while filling it with ads and making it the slowest, most bloated app I have the misfortune of using. Nothing about it is "great".

I have a similar display in my kitchen. It's in portrait mode and has time (my timezone and others), weather (hourly and daily), and dynamic popups for weather alerts in the top 1/3. It has a spot for dynamic content below that that shows things like time remaining for my espresso machine to heat up and the temperature of my ember mug if I'm using it. The bottom half of the screen flips every 15 seconds between calenders for my partner and I, and local scheduled transit times and live train times with a map of current train positions.

I have scripts set up to switch between my desk setup and my home theater setup that swap monitor configurations with wlrandr and default audio devices in wireplumber. These scripts are triggered with the "Netflix" button on my Nvidia Shield remote via Home Assistant and SSH. Simultaneously on Home Assistant power to the peripherals on my desk is toggled, the TV input is toggled between the Nvidia Shield and the PC, my AV receiver settings are toggled, and if the PC was asleep, it's turned on with a WoL magic packet.

As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they're working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.

If you like ansible, MASH works pretty well.

They do that, too. They're on Mastodon as well. They're just doing POSSE. These social media platforms are basically just where they advertise their articles and sometimes get tips for new stories from readers. That's outside of how they use them for investigating stories about those platforms.

Currently someone has a an unofficial build. As far as I can tell, there are no plans to implement this or something similar upstream. https://github.com/supechicken/waydroid-androidtv-build

bc there are a lot of android tv apps that are fantastic that don't have ready alternatives on Linux for htpc usage. Clipious comes to mind, for instance. Having android tv apps available through Waydroid bridges the gap in functionality until native alternatives can replace them.

disgusting.

I'm so excited for this to officially release. As soon as plasma bigscreen is ready and waydroid has an android tv build, I'll probably replace my nvidia shield.

similar to ImageMagick, jpegtran is great for lossless jpeg transformations. You can even extend jpegs using the "crop" function, which can be very useful for batch-processing images, even though it's hardcoded to middle grey.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190717052618/https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-lossless-extend.html