Storage solutions
For someone who wants to maintain a library of movies, I see the first two links in movies megathread total to 34TB worth of content....
Hosting private UHD video
I have a decent amount of video footage that I’d like to share with friends and family. My first thought was Youtube, but this is all home videos that I really don’t want to share publicly....
VMWare FUD. Anyone moving away from it professionally?
I’ve been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about VMware. The cutting of services and licensing changes of the cost of core offerings are huge issues. Is anyone planning or budgeting to change to another hypervisor? If so what?
A 3d printer is basically just a really fancy hot glue gun
Specifically the type of printer that prints using spools of plastic filament, but that seems like the most common type anyway
Anyone using Lidarr?
I use Radarr and Sonarr for my movies/shows, and Spotify for music, but I do know there’s another *arr app for that. The question is, is it worth setting up and how easy is it to discover new/similar music as opposed to Spotify, given that Spotify isn’t expensive at all. And how do you fellow crewmen go about it?
Can I filter X-Day old accounts as they're likely bots or trolls?
Pretty much the title: I see multiple posts on 3-day old accounts, all promoting disinfo for the RUS, ISR, CHI or some weirdo faction thereof. CanI set a filter on my account to ignore these prolific bastards until they have attained certain age or number of responses that exceed the AI 's smarmy word count?
VR Porn
Can anyone recommend me a free VR porn website? (Download or streaming) I recently bought a quest 3 and I wanna try how that feels.
How often do you back up?
I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales...
How do you use your tiling window manager?
Tiling window manager users: how exactly do you use yours?...
What can I do with an old laptop?
I have an old laptop lying around and I have been meaning to self host some stuff on it but never got around to it....
Do people who are in late stage dementia still aware of the concept of death?
Seeing famous actors e.g. Robin Williams, and Bruce Willis suffering from dementia made me wonder in later stages do the people still aware of death? We all know death because we know the process we learn from or it’s just that we instinctively aware of it?
What's the biggest favor a friend or family member has asked you? And did you do it?
How did you de-Google's your Android device?
Previously on Lemmy: Tablets...
Anyone want to join me and my wife in Destiny 2?
Hey everybody! My wife and I have recently been playing Destiny 2. It’s excellent imo and both of us are having tons of fun, except for one little detail…...
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 17th
What have you all been playing!...
Piracy even when I can get it legally
This is my small rant against the ‘features’ that big streaming services provided vis a vis the convenience of pirating the same thing....
Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon?
My GTX-1080 is getting a little long in the tooth, I’m thinking of going all AMD on my Linux Mint gaming rig here, but…is there anything I need to do or install or uninstall to switch to an AMD card from an Nvidia one?...
How can I reduce the amount of storage used by my Lemmy instance?
I’ve had a Lemmy instance running on a VPS with 100 GB of storage for a few months and it has filled up. I’ve been searching for ways to reduce the amount of storage used but so far I am coming up empty. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt?
This question always comes to mind whenever I see people jogging along sidewalks, and wonder. Sidewalks are generally concrete or cement or something, which is definitely harder than dirt, so…
domain name with your own name?
So I got hold of a domain that shows my exact full name. I thought it would be useful for showing up as “professional” when working in IT and sending resumes....
What are some legitimate deals for Black Friday so far?
There are a lot of fake and misleading deals out there, so what are some of the legitimate deals that are worth getting?...
An idea for more content on Lemmy (and the fediverse): Relly (Relay+Lemmy)
So, Lemmy is sometime missing content. I don’t regret switching from Reddit to Lemmy but, expecially for niche communities, the content isn’t always here....
I hate how much culture is controled by shitty people
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Did youtube give in already?
I use youtube across different devices with the same account. sometimes, i even use it in multiple browser profiles or apps on the same device (with the account logged in)....