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4·8 days agoYeah individually your data is approximately worth 200$/year (that’s a real estimation I read somewhere, not something I spit out of my ass).
So yeah not much worth you’re right. But if you stop being selfish for a moment and think as a community and take that portion for 1 billion people on earth, how much is that worth? Yeah you guessed it… It’s a huge amount of money ^^ !
So stop thinking only for your self and start to think how we are all involved in this shit and should fight back as much as possible…
Ohhhh ! Docker container are awesome. If you have an old spare laptop lying around (or you know someone who has) give it a try it’s fantastic ! It similar to a virtual machine but different ! It solves the big issue virtual machine have: fast, portability, lightweight, memory efficient… It shares the underling OS !
I have a 10 years old laptop which is going strong with over 21 docker containers which couldn’t be possible with VMs ! You can host any imaginable service (if available as docker image) in seconds, behind a reverse proxy and access it through your LAN (or externally over a Wireguard connection).
Let’s take a media workflow example, if you want to get rid of something like YouTube music, spotify, deezer… and maintain your music library and own your music:
You can self-host:
Install NewPipe (Hope you’re on Android :s) and HTTP-shortcuts to glue everything together ! HTTP-shortcuts allow to communicate with your self-hosted MeTube service via POST/GET requests and send directly your files to your MeTube instance via NewPiped. You can than have a background script on your server which: Removes and changes the pesky YouTube metadata, send your files to your Navidrome service !
This is a rather “complex” workflow but just to say it’s possible. Sure depending your skills with your OS it will take some time to get accustomed to docker containers and the like ! It took me approximately 1 year to really get accustomed to all this new workflow (and get the hang of linux), but now it’s only a matter of minutes !
Another use case for your phone: encrypted backup for docker containers ! Nowadays they come with a lot of spare space (over 120 GB). Encrypted, scrambles file/directory names and archived !
I wouldn’t backup any critical data this way though ! It’s more an “in case” emergency backup for docker database and config volumes !
Same thought here ! Wireguard being based on private/public key, even if the port is open every request that doesn’t have a valid private/public key gets dropped !
From a bot’s perspective this means the port is closed !
I’m not an export in the field but there’s also a way to only use key-based connection with SSH, but I’m not sure how good/secure it is compared to wireguard.
As you said, I’m also too scared to let a open SSH server running on my small home lab 😅 !
Haha, some kind of dead DE pixel ? 😅
1·9 days agoThere are some functions that do not work in the Office365 web Excel ! So that’s also not a solution if they need it for work ://.
That’s similar as the saying:
Give them fish, and they will have something to eat for days. Teach them how to fish and they will have something to eat for a lifetime.
Something along the line 😅
I mean… My Mac M1 doesn’t allow right-click create a new file. 😮💨 ! Also, if I recall correctly, there is a similar thing that made me go crazy on Gnome DE.
Nowadays, people hate to get everything neatly separated in a nice and well ordered directory structure. They throw everything in the same directory and use the find/search function, for what it’s worth.
That’s some crazy stuff ! Being able to completely change/repair every part is something every smartphone should be capable off…
We are in a buy/throw away generation amidst a big climate change issue/rare ore depletion… That’s depressing.
I’m not expert in sed or awk. I always have to Google. For me though, it’s generally that you can do a great deal in just one line of awk or sed.
Same here ! I recently used a one liner awk piped into sed, piped into another command to find duplicated lines and merge both files.
Writing a python script would have taken an unknown amount of time !
Don’t know either, other than they can’t stand the thruth for a good reason? :/ We have been using iptables for years and now we have to relearn everything?
Debian as a server is fine and probably the best ! However as a daily drive OS I don’t think it’s the best choice.
I have always seen Debian as server distro and that’s probably what they meant ?
I have debian as my server distro since the beginning of my Linux journey (NEVER failed me !) However I can’t see how Debian as daily drive is a good idea. Sure they try to catch up with testing repo for those who wan’t a more up to date distro, but it’s seems harder to keep up when something breaks along the way.
That’s where Arch and derivatives shine, if something goes wrong it’s fixed in a few days.
I think what happens to me is that I completely lack discipline about structure and will often decide to re-organize things.
Haha ! Same boat here !
One slightly more stable system I’ve had for my own code is to use the Issues tracker as a sort of documentation storage system.
That’s a very nice tip, thank you ! That’s something I will explore.
Thanks for sharing. :) I hope you don’t mind me saying this but it’s nice to see commits like “Just a commit test”. I also have these as part of learning git.
Yeah that’s a bit embarrassing 🫠 ! Was playing around with some script to convert Obsidian markdown links to GitHub flavored markdown. Because a comment is necessary to push the commit I have always no idea what to put in there xDD.
Sorry I couldn’t help you out more and hope you will find a workflow that works for you ! 👍
This is exactly why proprietary stuff sucks !
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But I’m glad you’re holding to that old iPod without throwing it away ! 👍
Is there any specific reason to keep the docs in the wiki section? Vs markdown documents right in the wiki itself?
I don’t know sorry :/ I do use a document but only because I want more control over the TOC (Table of content), which is a bit strange in the wiki itself, but that’s just personal taste !
I’m not a Dev so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but what I would do is add a comment in the code to specify the change and link to your documentation file for more details (if needed). That’s probably one of the advantage of having your documentation not in the wiki page.
This would keep your code page clean while having proper documtation in the same repo ! However, I have never seen any project doing it like that (for a good reason probably?).
Here is my codeberg documentation repo about anime encoding in av1. It’s probably not what you’re looking for but maybe this can give you any idea or see if this could fit your workflow?
I will have forgotten a lot; it might be a different system environment. I need to be able to re-learn everything at a later time. Simple solutions that are widely-compatible, and do not rely on my memory are preferred.
I don’t know if you have already considered it, but you can use a git repository as documentation tool ! It’s a GitHub flavored markdown syntax though.
Fork the project, upload it to your own git repo (self-hosted codeberg, codeberg, github… Pick your poison :p) and add your own wiki documentation about your changes in the code.
The only thing you should keep an eye on is probably the license? But I’m not the right person to discuss about licensing :/
While I do agree with the general sentiment to rewire your expectation when switching from Windows -> Linux, I do not agree with the following statement:
Linux is NOT for you, your personality precludes you from using it.
Linux is for everyone… Though I do also agree if you’re doing something wrong (and you will…) Don’t cry or reflect your frustration on your OS. If there are 1000 ways to break Windows, there are a million times more ways to break your GNU/Linux OS. But most of the time, you’re a doing something wrong. However, sometimes an upstream update can Bork your system… (Yeah this happens 🤷♂️).
Even better, self-host Vaultwarden !
A lot more to it :)