Morons are everywhere, be prepared. Occasionally I'm one of them.

Think I'm still on keepassxc but looking to change. Bitwarden is looking good.

Do you selfhost?

Linux & BSD can make them useful as servers, media centres, retro emulators or even a desktop pc if you are patient.

They will chew more power than a raspberry pi but they are easier to come by.

An old desktop and an old laptop is enough to get a solid selfhosted homelab and media centre up and running.

Current favorite suggestion is install linux, navidrome & tailscale on an old machine with your music library. Then connect with Symfonium, web client or other app and enjoy.

It's looking promising between Lemmy & Mastodon, things seem smoother than when I last checked them back when Elon started snapping Twitter.

It still doesn't seem to be anywhere near mainstream, it's mainly tech people and bots by the looks of things and I'm not sure how this is fixed without advertising and maybe not having to copy and paste links between servers.

Reddit had variety. Some of the neckbeards there didn't even use linux which, whilst being wrong, added a little color.

Reddit was moaning about the cost of maintaining a public API that is being heavily farmed by AI learning, could this be an issue for the hosting of Lemmy?

On the plus side, copy & paste in a browser works here!

Decent breakdown from The Register:

https://www.theregister.com/...

Seems they have been quite focused on the embrace, extend, extinguish plan for a decade or so.

Things are working, no rush for new things or major change. Prioritize ease of administration over immediate need for new toys.

Check out the 'selfhosting' communities.

Retro gaming is an another option, Arcade Punks have a lot for resources for this. I don't retro game that often and storage speed is not an issue when I do so I have a few old drives with gaming systems on them I can just connect via usb & boot into when I'm in the mood.

On YouTube Network Chuck, Jeff Geerling and Explaining Computers have a lot of easy to access tutorials on setting up server stuff but most of it you can just copy & paste from tutorial sites or github.

Connect a few TB's of storage via usb, hdd dock is great but use whatever you can get. You could even run the OS from a USB stick and use the internal drive just for media storage, I done this for years with a 2008 pc server running Alpine Linux......as you have loads of ram you could even run the entire OS in ram from usb for an even faster system than ssd will provide with Alpine's diskless or disk data options.

Tailscale was a big one for me. Makes it simple to install on my server, laptop, desktop & phone so they can all talk to each other when out and about instead of worrying too much about firewalls and open ports at home....I am looking into this for hosting my own Lemmy instance at the moment.

If you have a personal music collection Navidrome + Symfonium, or other client, is amazing imo. Spotify killer. I also have slskd docker daemon running for soulseek so I can download flac music to my server when out and about and instantly stream it as mp3/ogg to my android device or laptop. Jellyfin and a torrent deamon does a similar job for video. As other have mentioned Pihole is cool and stuff like NextCloud too.

I'm not new to linux but the GPL seems quite complicated and I couldn't even tell you which GPL Redhat subscribe to without going to check.

RHEL may not be going 'closed source' but they are closing down the channels to access the code and will prosecute any customers who distribute the code.

The first 3 books of A Song of Ice & Fire.

By the time he gets to book 4/5 it's all starting to get a little out of hand for poor George.

Best bet at the moment is to look for a sub about dogs, or even just animals, as opposed to hoping for a vibrant labradoodle community. Or cars, instead of The Honda Civic Users Club.

The entirety of Lemmy & Kbin is around that of a medium sized subreddit at the moment.

I've decided to ditched the subscription option, it feels largely pointless for me aside from expressing support at the moment. The whole thing can be managed as one would a subreddit using the local/all/hot/new/timescale/active options, the text search and alerts system.

Happy Birthday

Fediverse is diverse. Curious to see how it plays out.

Working between servers.

Just simple stuff like searching, adding, customizing feeds. Clicking an alert to take me to the content will take me to a server I'm not logged into and I need to go back and find the same post via my own server to comment. Not the end of the world for me but likely a big issue for many potential users if the are use to mainstream social media that 'just works'.

I'm still clinging on to my samsung s10e and hope to get another year or so out of it....after that I think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and get a dongle dac.

Rocky's reaction seems the same as Alma, current long-term solution is they don't know. A more businessly optimism in the post doesn't really make up for a clear technical plan going forward.

The RHEL approach seems to involve only supplying source code to customers already consuming binaries who will already be under other restrictions as they have agreeded to other T&C's.

RHEL has been moving towards this for a decade, it seems unlikely they have forgotten about the GPL.

https://www.theregister.com/...

The Register seems to think they are acting perfectly in line with the GPL.

sudo is complex with a lot of code and options.

doas is small, simple & secure from OpenBSD.

If all you want is root priv without remembering two passwords on your box, doas is fine. If you want a complex system of admins and users with fine grained permission control sudo may be a better option.

I use ' su -' much of the time and just use a root shell.

Actively replacing sudo with doas on an OS that includes sudo in the base system seems pointless imo.

https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/64843

No.

But Arch supports around 14,000 packages and any branch of Nix has around 100,000 stable and 100,000 unstable packages.

I have no idea but am interested in answers.

I've only exposed ports briefly for testing and got scared.

I feel a little calmer using tailscale the past few months but still feels like putting a lot of faith in someone I don't really know I can trust.