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I need a self-hosted image gallery that can randomize photo order and display the photos in a slideshow. Help me please!

So here’s my situation. I’ve been looking for a long time for a self-hosted photo library. I have pretty low requirements: I just want it to be able to show the videos and images I have stored on my NAS in a random order, and to support a slideshow of those files, also in a random order....

People who fix computers/laptops, what's the worst thing you found on someone's computer?

Is there a A/MX records tutorial?

Hi...

Recommend Me Some Short RPGs Played on PS2, PSX, NDS, or PSP

Recommend Me Some Short Games Played on PS2, PSX, NDS, or PSP...

Android to iPhone, whats it like? (Update)

I’m here to give an update to my journey from an Android to an iPhone after much debate in a previous post (from a different account). TLDR at the bottom....

Lemmy Instance: /run/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file or directory)

I am trying to host my own Lemmy instance. It was running great for awhile. I built the server using the ansible method. When I tried to rebuild the docker containers with ansible last night, I ran into this error....

c/YouShouldKnow should’ve been called c/LemmyTellUSomething

What does everyone do with their old electronics?

I’ve been accumulating old electronics for about a decade now and I really need to safely dispose of them at this point. I know some cities have drop off spots for recycling, but the one near me charges a fee and appears to cater to business clients. Obviously I’m against tossing them in the bin. It’s small things, like an...

Does anyone still burn their movies to DVD?

Okay I’m fully aware of how ridiculous this sounds in 2023, but bare with me....

Low-skill players "rope" (slow play) in online games so that they will lose fewer games per hour played. A player with a higher win rate can still lose more games per hour than a roper.

Any way to make Ubuntu ignore failed drive mount?

I had a hard drive die today. I shut it down and pulled the drive from the computer, but it didn’t boot and I still couldn’t SSH into it to figure out what was wrong. Finally had to setup a monitor and keyboard to figure out Ubuntu was in emergency mode because the mount failed....

Does torrenting slow down your computer?

I’m curious to know if anybody else finds their computer behaving sluggishly or erratically when downloading torrents....

Now that AI generated text is mostly indistinguishable from human text, AI may start influencing the evolution of our language.

Given that language is an important lens through which we see the world, AI could subtly alter our perceptions and beliefs over the coming years, decades, and centuries.

One hundred trillion Zimbabwean dollars.

Screenshot is from a video by Global Things on YouTube. I kinda have to say this, because f*** plagiarism....

are there any apps I can use for firefish?

Preferably on fdroid

How important is the CPU for ZFS?

I want to build a truenas server with the cheapest CPU I can find that can support ECC RAM: Celeron G4900T + 64gb ECC RAM + 4x18 TB SAS drives....

If we measured value by utility, what would be the most valuable thing in the world?

Obviously, water/food can’t be considered because they’re essential for everyone.

What would happen if we mixed nuclear waste into gasoline

I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the scale of the problem of nuclear waste. If we took all the nuclear waste produced in a year and evenly blended it into all gasoline burned in a year would the radiation be deadly? Dangerous? Detectable?...

What's the deal with winning toasters at arcades?

So I was at a seaside arcade over the past week. Spent some time spamming the 2p slots machines and tickets are firing out of this thing. Go to exchange these at the kiosk and notice that you can get quite a few domestic appliances on the back shelf (13,000 tickets for a toaster, £5 of 2p slots got me 80 tickets)....