UmbraTemporis

@UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com

He/Him

Distro?I always go crawling back to Arch…

In the real world, I love music 🗣️:


<span style="color:#323232;">- Industrial Metal 🔩
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Aggrotech 😡 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Deathcore 💀
</span>

Also…

  • Long walks or hikes 🚕
  • Custom keyboards 🫦
  • Writing 🥶

Student, studying mechatronics.

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UmbraTemporis ,

I love this, adorable!

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Piped?

UmbraTemporis ,

Every OS requires setup.

UmbraTemporis ,

I'm a Proton slave, all my eggs are in their basket so I'll go ahead and provide some free marketing for them. ProtonVPN is pretty good since it's ran by a good company that cares about you, getting Port Forwarding setup on Linux is a bit of a chore but I believe they're working on automating it, the Windows app does have it automated already by the way.

I do worry about the long-term practicality of ProtonVPN because of this manual process, since as far as I can tell there's no way to automatically hand your assigned port to the torrent client...

UmbraTemporis ,

From the one time I tried MacOS in a VM, setup is similar to Windows with somehow even fewer options and stronger 1984 vibes.

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At least you can use Windows without an account, on MacOS you can't even install an app without one I don't think.

Just to be clear, I hate both of them, I'm a Linux user.

UmbraTemporis ,

Well at least a Local account doesn't require internet access.

UmbraTemporis ,

Oh you're gonna make me act up 💳

UmbraTemporis ,

You'd better hope that be pretty close to zero before attempting repairs.

UmbraTemporis ,

I use Hetzner exclusively and have just one complaint. You don't get much choice as to where your VPS is hosted country-wise nor the OS it runs. You do get the standard list of options, as you would with any other provider, except that list is quite small on Hetzner. It's good enough, I use Fedora everywhere and they support that so I'm good. Anyway, it's obviously free to create an account so there's no risk in case your setup isn't supported.

Apart from that, they're brilliant. The web console is nice, clean and well-designed, great value (1TB of storage clocks in at a few euros/month), room to scale and a decent company. Can't comment on customer support since I've never needed it.

For the services you've specified, that'll run you maybe 3 - 4 euros a month (that's with automatic backups of your entire server + tax) since you can run all of that under one server.

UmbraTemporis ,

Oh wow, that's pretty awesome.

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Printing flip-books for the videos and keeping that in essentially a time-capsule. With a vacuum if you can afford it. Not perfect but will definitely last for hundreds of years. Look at the Magna Carta for inspiration.

For the audio, vinyl and kept in an even stronger container, instruct everyone to use gloves before touching it.

UmbraTemporis ,

How do I link a markdown format that well into a sentence?

Are there any working tools to rip an entire Instagram account?

I don't have an account myself, and the photos and videos I'm trying to download en masse belong to a famous person's public account. Is there anything I can use to do it (as long as it's not creating an account lol), preferably proxied tools as apparently I get blocked while behind a VPN?...

UmbraTemporis ,

I have experience with this, from a friend...

You can download without an account, but if I remember correctly it's only certain types of media with a quality restriction.

UmbraTemporis ,

I've used it for VR, which is the only thing I keep Windows for. It's pretty good however I'd say having experience with Linux is a good idea, I definitely wouldn't treat it as a drop-in silver bullet for Windows minimalism (if such a thing exists).

By the sounds of it you're inexperienced with OS-hopping, so if you're going to start looking for things like this just do it properly and give Linux a go. You'll learn so much more and get a much nicer experience at the end, then if you decide you still need Windows then go and use someone else's computer to make a USB. I wouldn't bother trying to make one on Linux, it hardly ever works in my experience.

For clarity, I now just debloat vanilla Windows 11 with Chris Titus' tool. Still only used for VR and Game Dev.

If you go with Atlas, just know you're putting your whole system into the hands of a team smaller than most Linux distros that's doing more work than all of them, so I doubt Atlas is going to be around for much longer. Whereas something like Debian, Mint or Pop! is here to stay.

There's also far less chance of your system breaking if you go with Linux. Really in this situation there is absolutely zero reason to not go the extra mile and hop to desktop freedom.

UmbraTemporis ,

Chris Titus has excellent tutorials/tips on how to keep Windows from being Windows, check out his Youtube (Piped).

UmbraTemporis ,

So does this mean paying Proton Unlimited users will get access to StandardNotes too? I'd rather not have to dish out another subscription.

UmbraTemporis ,

I think Gravitricity (obligatoy, stupid name) is trying to make it more space efficient and consolidated, rather than occupying massive amounts of land.

Water also isn't the safest thing when in massive reservoirs, nor is it all too easy to get it there in the first place.

So while you're correct in the sense that we have GPE batteries, they aren't super easy to build nor maintain. I think this is where [stupid name here] is trying to place themselves.

UmbraTemporis ,

Timberborn!

UmbraTemporis ,

Putting the blocks onto some internal rail is probably the easiest way, with wheels in constant contact, similar to an elevator.

UmbraTemporis OP ,

See, torrent availability is more or less directly correlated to the size of the artist / band in question. So when you get someone who's into some rather niche stuff and has quite a few small bands in their streaming library, torrenting is just not an option.

UmbraTemporis OP ,

That was looking really good, however it doesn't seem to download into separate sub-directories which is rather annoying. I'll keep my eye on that though, thanks :D

UmbraTemporis OP ,

Yeah, of course I shoot some support over their way. It's just if I do that it also comes down to the whole ownership thing too, hence the downloading.

UmbraTemporis OP ,

Yeah I'm aware of Spotify's 320k MP3 cap, but for the equipment I've got that's fine. Thanks :)

UmbraTemporis OP ,

Seems like most of the tools I'm finding are CLIs, so iPhones or just phones in general are definitely a no-go I'm afraid.

If you listen to popular artists, you could try Soulseek. Not sure on how easy it is to access it on an iPhone though, I've never owned any Apple devices since I went off them at a young age so I'm really firing off into the dark.

UmbraTemporis OP ,

Thank you! Seems like Opus doesn't work though which is a shame. I made an issue on the Github page. I'll make a script to do that after and preserve the cover art.

I've now got it going with real-time downloads, this is going to take days 😭. However this tool is the best out of a set of compromises so I'll make the most of it.

UmbraTemporis OP ,

I've got it downloading non-real time right now cause I was able to fix the Opus issue (PR is open on Github "Effective libopus support"), so I want to stress-test my changes a bit.

I'll switch it back to real-time soon, and I'll turn on the archive :P.

Is rsync.net a good service for backups?

I've been playing around with the self hosted apps for quite a while and I got to the point where I'm happy about my local setup. Next step is to setup reliable offsite backup. I'm using borgbackup as a tool to manage my backups (so far only local backups). I've been looking for an affordable yet reliable service to store my...

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If you ask me, I say Hetzner is a seriously underrated provider. I love using their services. Cheap as chips too.

UmbraTemporis ,
  • Easier to setup
  • More control
  • Easier to maintain
  • Dirt cheap
  • Low power
  • Space efficient
  • Zero downtme

Need I go on? This is clearly the future. Friendship ENDED with Network Hardware now PEG is my best friend.

UmbraTemporis ,

But the server is still operational, it's just moved.

  • Resilient
  • Durable
  • Secure
UmbraTemporis ,

For now, the integration is a minor gesture, as it’s only a one-way connection from Threads to the Fediverse.

Could someone explain what this means? It it like he can see us but we can't see him? I didn't know the Fediverse / ActivityPub could work like that.

UmbraTemporis ,

Ah right, thanks :)

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No.

A notification, in the tray and elsewhere across the OS, with a short description like "Updates are crucial to the security of you and your device, they also provide the freshest experience." would get the point across. What would be even better is if there was a one-click NQA button to initiate the update, perhaps even included on the notification.

UmbraTemporis ,

In Windows' case, this is the truth. But certified corporation momentos are not a required side-effect of this approach to updates.

UmbraTemporis ,

This screenshot is from the Flathub website. The only good GUI for Flatpaks...

UmbraTemporis ,

Supernatural spirit from an alternate reality hell-bent on destroying video game monopolies.

UmbraTemporis , (edited )

Packing games for fellow shipmates.

UmbraTemporis ,

I'm gonna guess ByteDance also wants to enter the AI "art" field.

UmbraTemporis ,

Like how they decided they'd hold it by gripping the top of the pyramid, not the base plate like a usual sane person.

I bet if you asked them to hand you a drink, they'd hold it from the top with two fingers dipped into the fluid. Then proceed to be confused as to why you don't want to drink it anymore.

UmbraTemporis ,

Fair enough, but to hold it in a position good for displaying... The base plate makes a lot more sense.

UmbraTemporis ,

I pay for Proton Unlimited so I use Proton VPN. Getting port forwarding to work on Linux is a bit of a hassle but they have steps on their website. It's hardly any slower than my internet connection, but that's because I'm on the paid servers. The free servers are rather slow. They have a graphical client for Windows and Linux.

Proton Unlimited is €12.99/month. The VPN has a good number of features and you get the whole Proton suite with it and 500GB of storage. You can pay for just the VPN which is cheaper if you don't want the rest of Proton.

UmbraTemporis ,

Warp lost me at the account requirement. You're telling me I need to sign in to a terminal? Seriously? Like with an internet connection? Nope. What if I'm opening my terminal to configure my network? Warp seems to be fixing a problem that doesn't exist. I don't think anyone has looked at a terminal emulator and gone "Yeah, this could use AI and a cloud account".

My experience using Fedora Atomic (Budgie) for a month or two. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )

I would just like to preface this. This is the first blog post I've ever written, so please please please give me feedback if you can. I also didn't intend on it being here on Lemmy, but Hugo is quite a complex tool that'll take some time for me to understand. Webdev is not my cup of tea....

UmbraTemporis ,

That's pretty safe to assume, it's OPs first post on this community and I'm unaware of any AI image models that don't hammer a GPU.

UmbraTemporis ,

Well they use a lot of power compared to other components. Not saying the concept of GPUs is unethical.

UmbraTemporis ,

Sure you can apply the argument of it's just one person, or one GPU or one car. But that's not reality.

Millions of GPUs crunch numbers in datacenters to feed the AI consoomers. I see solarpunk as valuing principle over practicalties and a strong emphasis on taking responsibility. Therefore if this image was generated using a GPU demanding model, it contributes to that AI footprint. Therefore, it is not solarpunk.

UmbraTemporis ,

Anarchist News does a roundup podcast of recent stories often, I think it's either weekly or bi-weekly. Clearly news related.

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