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  • I installed Grafana, simply because it was the only one I had heard of, and I figured that becoming familiar with it was probably useful from a professional development standpoint.

    It's definitely massive overkill for my use case, though, and I'm looking to replace it with something else.

  • Android itself does plenty of data collection on its own; I'm not sure if the brand really makes much of a difference here, unfortunately.

    I installed Sailfish OS on a Sony Xperia phone a few years ago, and that worked well enough. I had a couple of Android apps that I needed to use for work, and Sailfish has some kind of Android environment built in that lets you run Android apps. I worked for me, but I didn't try any payment apps or others that tend to be picky about what type of phone you're using.

  • Calling this a Marathon game makes no sense, and I don't just mean aesthetically. The business case can't possibly be there, either.

    Anyone who has a nostalgic attachment to Marathon (👋) won't be interested in this new game, and anyone interested in this new game probably doesn't care about the name "Marathon."

    On top of that, there's the fact that Marathon kind of looked like Halo. When Bungie made Halo, they were clearly taking after their own art style from their previous games. Which means Bungie could have announced that they're making a singleplayer first person shooter that kind of looks like Halo. Everyone would have lost their minds. Instead, they announced yet another live service game, and no one is interested.

  • That looks incredible. What is the thing below Page Down?

  • In case anyone misread the headline the way I did: The PS5 is selling about the same as the PS4 did at this point in its lifespan. The headline kind of makes it sound like the PS4 is still selling as many consoles as the PS5 today.

    Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that it's selling that well at all, considering how much of this generation has just been remasters of PS4 games.

  • With Forza coming out on PS5 a few days ago, and now this, it definitely seems like Playstation owners will be playing Halo soon.

  • A few months ago I couldn't sleep, so I turned on the TV and flipped through the regular old channels for the first time in probably about 15 years. There was a sumo tournament on NHK (Japanese public broadcaster) and I was immediately hooked. I've been following each tournament since then. For anyone who's curious about it, matches are very easy to understand if you just want to watch the sport, but if you decide to starting looking up more information about the history behind these events, there is so much to read.

  • Looks good! Is that both lentils and kidney beans? Sounds like a great combo.

  • That's a very slick setup, nice.

  • I'm guessing that most iPhone users just use Apple Podcasts, and Apple themselves probably want it that way. (E.g. less promotion of third-party podcast apps on the app store.)

  • That minimalist UI looks very nice.

  • Pinepods looks so cool! I just created an account on the demo instance. The "smart playlists" feature just absolutely sold me.

  • Oh cool, I wasn't aware of gpodder.net. I actually thought you were talking about the desktop gpodder application, which I had used before. Didn't realize there was a server-side component to it as well. Thanks!

  • Gorgeous! What all is in it?

  • Thanks! Haven't heard of Audiobookshelf before, and that's the kind of thing I was looking for.

  • This is an amazing ode to the game, thank you! Makes me want to play it. It's 50% off ($5) on GOG right now, too.

  • I use wallabag.it for this. I don't actually self host it, I've been a paying subscriber to the maintainer's hosted service for a few years now and I've had no complaints. It hasn't had many new features lately, but it does do what I want it to.

    It doesn't capture comments in fediverse threads (see here: https://app.wallabag.it/share/6813d1f1616096.02317152 ), and there are some websites where it doesn't detect the contents of the article, but it does work the vast majority of the time.

    I'm not sure what you could do about a Nextcloud integration. You can export articles as epubs and pdfs; I've done that a few times and put the exported files on my Nextcloud server. But there are also a bunch of wallabag apps for your different devices, which is what I use to read articles on those devices.

    edit: Oh, I forgot to add that you can generate an RSS feed of your unread articles. So that could be added to Nextcloud's RSS reader.

  • I'm an advocate of running all of your self-hosted services in a Docker container and even I can admit that this is completely accurate.

  • You can think of Docker as something that lets you run all of your self-hosted services inside of their own virtual machine. To each service, it looks like that service is running on its own separate computer. (A Docker container is not actually a virtual machine, it's something much faster than that, but I like to think about it the same way. It has similar advantages.)

    This has a few advantages. For example, if there is a security vulnerability in one of your services, it's less likely to affect your whole server if that vulnerable service is inside of a Docker container. Even if the vulnerability lets an attacker see files on your system, the only "system" they can see is the one inside of the Docker container. They can't look at anything else on the rest of your actual computer, they can only see the Docker "virtual machine" that you created for that one service.

  • I love the way this looks! Is that some kind of UI library, or did you design it that way?

    I have my music collection in Funkwhale now, which relies on metadata for organizing the library. But I want to check this out anyway -- maybe I'll create a few folders for specific listening cases.