How can I restrict visiting a service through a domain to VPN-connected devices?
Say I have a public server with a service (email, web server, etc) that’s accessible through myservice.example.com, and I would like to restrict that service with a VPN. How do I do that?...
Are there any US banks that provide automated access to account data?
I wasn’t sure where to ask this, so please feel free to direct me to a different community if there’s a good one for this question....
is there a fun gamified step counter/running app?
Trying to get my child to go out and run a bit with me, worked ok so far but I know it might get boring at some point....
Why do I appear as "pending" forever in some communities and why can't I search for some instances I know to exist?
Since I joined joined Lemmy, I signed up for two instances (Lemmy.World and Lemmy.Zip) because I didn’t entirely understand the fediverse and also because it seemed useful to be on multiple instances, since Lemmy.World sometimes has outages....
"Quick Subscribe" missing in most Lemmy apps
Many of us came from Reddit and are still exploring Lemmy by browsing “Everything” or “All”....
Dedicated Lemmy Instance for movies and tv series
Is there a dedicated lemmy instance for movies and series where created communities are specific to a certain movie or series? Something like how programming.dev does for different programming languages
Download managers
I’ve been pirating my whole life in mobile and rarely in pc. What are some the best download managers to use in windows?
Now is the last chance to escape from AI driven captology
With the recent developments in AI technology, we are entering a new era of manipulation through captology. Mainstream websites/apps are well known to utilize captology to manipulate its users. But now captology is AI driven and will reach a new dimension of manipulation. In the very near future, every mainstream OS will be AI...
Minimum Wage workers not using common sense are the worst.
So I’ve been noticing most of the cashiers at big supermarket keep asking customers to use self checkout but little do they know that these numbers are being recorded and once executive of that big supermarket see customers have learnt to use self checkout then they will get rid of cashiers and replace with the self checkout....
We don't know what our boogers smell like - it's the default smell for us.
Title, basically. Enjoy trying to sniff your own snot!
The DualSense game controller just went on sale
Heads up for those who want a game controller that works well on Linux: Target.com has the DualSense for $50 USD right now....
Web Based Static Site Generator?
That may seem like an oxymoron, but I’m looking for some sort of server that I can self-host where I can edit blog posts and whatnot, but that then deploys to something like neocities (or any other pure static host)....
help: var folder on ubuntu won't stop filling up
I’ve had an Ubuntu 22.04 setup going for around a year, and over that year I’ve had to increase the size of the partition holding my /var folder multiple times. I’m now up to 20GB and again running into problems, mainly installing new apps, because that partition is again nearly full. I’ve used commands sudo apt clean...
Is there an open-source/not corporate-owned alternative for Google Docs?
I have been thinking about moving my writing projects somewhere else, but I don’t know any decent alternatives that would let me format the text properly and such.
how to listen to podcasts on computer?
My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now....
MMO mouse recommendations?
I’m looking for a new mouse with MMO side buttons, and was wondering what Lemmy thought about it....
How likely am I to brick the fairphone 4 if I buy one?
Thinking about buying the fairphone 4. Coming from oneplus 8, which is almost unbrickable, thanks to an EDL MSM tool....
PSA for Lemmy instance admins: in backend v0.18.3 there is a bug that causes your instance to stop federating properly and to stop sending out outgoing messages
This new version introduced a system so that your instance stops sending out content to other instances that are supposedly dead / offline....
Is there a community for talking about heavy topics?
There are a couple of heavy things running through my head I kinda want to get off my chest (nothing deeply personal though) and discuss with people. It’s more than just casual conversation, so I can’t post there....
Is there a name for when the narrator (in a literary text) talks to the reader directly?
I’m talking about mainly third person narrators in fiction, like for example, “if you have felt/heard/seen X then…”. What is it called?
Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x08 - "Under the Cloak of War"
• “Under the Cloak of War”. The flashbacks in this episode are set during the Federation-Klingon War seen during DIS season one, and a large part of that conflict was the new Klingon cloaking devices that T’Kuvma, and then Kol installed on their various ships. Get it? Yeah, you get it....
Why would my parents always enter the BIOS when booting when I was younger
Basically around the 2000s we had a WinXP computer and each time I wanted to use it, either my mom or my dad had to turn it on. However they had to strike the key to enter the BIOS. Everytime when booting the PC. Then they would exit the BIOS and so Windows XP would boot normally....
Funding the Fediverse - use an awards feature to fund instances
Saw this proposal originally posted on Github and thought it was worth posting here and expanding on...
Qbittorrent Guidance
My last foray into Torrenting was when TWC was taken over by Spectrum and I was using uTorrent like crazy. We had Spectrum ONE week and I got a DMCA letter. This is the type of thing I’m trying to avoid....