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oldfart ,

Kolanki, that dude is everywhere!

oldfart ,

XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.

I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.

Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.

Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.

oldfart ,

Any particular problems you're having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?

Never buy .xyz

I just wanted to post this here because I want to help you all and hurt gen.xyz as much as possible. I had a .xyz domain through njal.la which I used to host jellyfin, homeassistant, and other basic things for friends and family. My domain recently became inaccessible without any notice. After a while of troubleshooting, I found...

oldfart ,

This whole thread is depressing to read, full of corporate bootlickers putting blame on you.

oldfart ,

No no, I can taste that too, there's no blood or biting involved. Happens when i hit my head really hard, eyes go dark for a fraction of a second, and the taste appears.

oldfart ,

I'm tall, the world is not built for my needs

oldfart ,

Exactly, one of the last products not sold in single use plastic packaging yet gets shat on

oldfart ,

This is not a problem in my country, I understand how this can be annoying.

oldfart ,

Sounds like phpmyadmin lol

oldfart ,

Go to another doctor. I'm about the same level of prostate problems and I'm on pills and urologist checkups every 4 months.

oldfart ,

They fucking what? I need to get off the couch and cancel my support too

oldfart ,

Unnecessary romance plot is pushed into most movies. If i have to sit through the boring romance scenes, i would rather see some boobs as a reward.

Get rid of the unnecessary romance or let the sex scenes be.

oldfart ,

Eventually apps people care about stop supporting the old OS. I liked Android 4 so much and held to it for very long, but fewer and fewer apps were working with it

oldfart ,

Maybe a pinky.

But still, these are normally used for metal lathes and other big workshop machines like this.

oldfart OP ,

Family story. Maybe a fake one, I don't know, there's nobody alive to ask any more.

oldfart OP ,

You slide down notification bar and if there's not even one ad, please stand in front of that wall.

oldfart OP ,

That you can afford premium versions or self-host

oldfart OP ,

Is it really so ridiculous that armed people blinded by a belief system could do that?

oldfart ,

Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it's agentless - works over SSH.

The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called "file" and in another it's "dest", they pull shit like this and don't provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.

But updating is rather optional.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

oldfart ,

It's crazy, given that all these devices have something powerful like an esp32, isn't it?

I've done some of my home stuff this way, but I had to program it myself. Tasmota has some features which can be used without a server, but that's just for simple stuff like switches. For whatever reason (simplicity for non tech people?), out of the box products don't work this way.

If you don't have days of spare time, you buy ready made products and set them up in minutes in Home Assistant

Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

oldfart ,

Thos, exactly this. Whenever I ask the question OP asked, it's always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again. And then Matrix came to existence with their marketing and they happily started using it, even though it didn't have any better features

oldfart ,

Additionally, libraries for XMPP exist in most languages, there is a varying degree of completeness, but they all do a good job of hiding XML from the programmer

oldfart ,

What is the link? It doesn't appear on main ddg page for me

oldfart ,

Thank you! I've used anonchatgpt before but this is better, no captcha and two models to choose from

oldfart ,

Thanks for the reviews, Adios Muchachos looks interesting but I can't find any information on whether an English translation exists. Any ideas? (Or maybe someone has it for sale?)

oldfart ,

I sometimes forget that we live in the future and that text on images can be translated. Thank you!

Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android, with Android Auto support and synchronized lyrics and it's available on F-Droid ( github.com )

Hello community, today I want to present to you the work done on Tempo in recent months. This new version brings improvements to Android Auto, a first use of the OpenSubsonic API, synchronized song lyrics and the ability to customize the home screen....

oldfart ,

This prompted me to open Tempo I have installed from F-Droid but haven't used in a while, and the app crashed on startup. Logcat had the most unusual message:

03-27 18:40:31.304 W/GooglePlayServicesUtil(6188): com.cappielloantonio.tempo requires the Google Play Store, but it is missing.
oldfart ,

I wonder how my old 5.25" floppies are doing, my project to back them up goes for 20 years now and I backed up none because I'm too lazy

oldfart ,

I have emails going back to YAM on Amiga in 2002, some games I wrote for GBA and mobile platforms that don't exist any more. I have some old IM logs but reading that was so cringe I should delete it, with wipe not rm. Some of the obscure old music I have isn't available even on Soulseek (except when I'm sharing it). Source code of old programs I and my friends wrote. And photos, of course.

oldfart ,

I had most of these things before having a kid :( life was good back then

oldfart ,

Two pitfalls I had that you can avoid:

  • look at efficiency. It's not always neglible, was like 40% of my energy usage because I oversized the UPS. The efficiency is calculated from top power the UPS can supply. 96% efficient 3kW UPS eats 4% of 3kW, 120 watts, even if the load you connected is much smaller than 3kW
  • look at noise level. Mine was loud almost like a rack server, because of all the fans.

I replaced that noisy, power hungry beast with a small quiet 900W APC and I couldn't be happier

oldfart ,

I second the complaint about subpaths. I have all my services on a single domain, except for HA. It's for security by obscurity, when you issue a certificate for a subdomain you start getting malicious traffic probing for vulnerabilities almost immediately. I don't have this problems for services with non-obvious subpaths.

I can't understand the stubbornness of developers to accept patches for fixing this problem.

oldfart ,

No no, that's how i'm working around the problem now, but i'm sure sni sniffing will sooner or later make my domain well known

How to solve getting fat for no reason

I don’t binge eat, I exercise 3 times a week, or as much as my schedule permits having a 2yold, work, partner and social commitments. I don’t drink. Still I get belly fat now that I am 35+. Wtf? Haas anyone solved this? Did you change diet? Sleep more? Exercise differently? Lower carbs? By how much? Please help me lemmee

oldfart ,

Time to say goodbye to being young, there's no point in denying you're an old person now. Your body started failing you and it's going to get much worse. No energy, pain in random parts of your body. That's what being 35+ is.

ciferecaNinjo , to Home Improvement

It would be nice to have curtains that absorb street noise.

Some custom curtain tailors offer a fabric that claims to be soundproof. It’s a little pricey. Not absurdly pricey, but it’s also a bit hard to be confident that such thin fabrics can absorb much sound (they claim 20%).

I would prefer to try hacks. I’ve heard that thick furniture moving pads absorb sound well. I’ve also heard that fiberous fabrics can be effective. For the moment, I probably want to pass on edgy ideas like egg cartons. Maybe later on those. What fabrics are decent for reducing sound? Specifically, I’m wondering about carpets or painter’s drop cloths. Not the simple white canvas drop cloths, but the thicker drop cloths may out of recycled fabrics.

oldfart ,

Any idea what search terms I can use to find these? Any anchor to kick off my search would be great, image, product page, whatever. I did some searches based on what you wrote and cant find it.

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