Brewchin

Brewchin , 2 days ago

An important question, usually conspicuous by their absence with confirmation bias-related posts. But in this case, the source is provided. You can check for yourself and let us know, if you have a Xitter account to see the replies.

Unless Elmo's added yet another layer of enshittification. It's hard to keep up.

Brewchin , 1 month ago

Saw that in the cinema and went into real (medical) physical shock at the kerb-stomping scene. I'd never thought of or seen that before. Holy crap, it shook me for hours after as I warmed up again, etc.

Brewchin , 2 months ago

Our fault for not being born into rich families, I guess? :\

Brewchin , 2 months ago

It's supposed to be pronounced as "cash" or "kaysh". Americans often pronounce it as cachet (ie. "ka-SHAY"), which is a different word with a different meaning. Needless homophone that introduces confusion.

I'm guessing that's been picked up by Australia in recent years, but not when I still lived there.

Brewchin , 2 months ago

Where I grew up, there were signs on highways and such saying "Police Aerial Surveillance", "Police Speed Traps" or whatever. I never found one that didn't have "Pigs In Space" scrawled on it.

If you don't get the reference: The Muppet Show.

Decades later, and halfway around the world, I'll look up at a police helicopter and think, "Oh look: piiiiigs in spaaaaace."

Brewchin , 3 months ago

Exactly. This kind of thing is just a tax they have to pay, unless they can convince a court otherwise. Unlike normal tax.

Brewchin , 3 months ago

None. And any that were damaged by it were pedo guys and it never happened.

Brewchin , 3 months ago

I think this really is the best solution to news sites.

I self-host FreshRSS, make good use of its filters, and I can chew through headlines and articles in no time using the web view on a PC or mobile web.

Brewchin , 3 months ago

I always refer to it as Xitter or Xchan. I'm yet to encounter someone who doesn't know which fallen brand I'm referring to.

Brewchin , 3 months ago

Doesn't Lemmy let users block instances? So no issue here.

The problem seems to be with Mastodon (and possibly others like Pixelfed, Bookwyrm, etc), which I think is controlled at instance level. Fortunately, the admin of the Mastodon instance I'm on has defederated Threads.

Brewchin , 3 months ago

Self-hosted communities (here, Reddit, etc), GitHub searches, alternativeto.net, LibriVox and archive.org, Twitch's "software development" category, and Mastodon hashtags are a few places I find mine.

Brewchin , 3 months ago

I agree with this. You can get a lot of hardware for not a lot, especially if you build your own.

If money's not that tight, another option is a modern NAS that can run services and Docker. Depends on what you want to do with it in the long term: file server vs All The Services.

A few years ago it was time to replace my ancient NAS and I was tossing up between building a dedicated server with something like TrueNAS and Nextcloud, or opting for a QNAP or Synology that could do it all for me. Opted for a Synology DS920+ and haven't looked back. It can't do anything processor-intensive, but it nails it for everything else. I have ~30 Docker stacks running on it, including Wireguard, and SWAG for SSL+MFA external services. Synology Drive (GDrive) and Photos (GPhotos/Picasa) on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS let me ditch the last of my cloud services. It's also running Plex Media Server, tying into an Nvidia ShieldTV as the client.