What app+hardware package is most comparable to iCloud Photos in regard to speed and features?
Is anyone self-hosting a genuinely snappy and robust media hosting service for themselves? What’s your setup look like?...
[Solved] New Ubuntu update just wiped out my enitre drive
I don’t usually update, but today I opened Xubuntu and the update manager popped up, so I clicked to install - it was just a 13 MB update. After updating, I opened Floorp and started seeing that all my icons at the taskbar, everything, started disappearing. It’s like I did “sudo rm -rf”! I’m not even mad. I always...
I uninstalled RDR2 out of frustation after 100+ hours
This was a replay, the first time I played I loved the story....
Upgrading cheap/old computer
I am thinking about buying a home server for a wide range of things. I found some cheap old computers on amazon for around 80-90€. Is it worth it to upgrade them with another stick of ram or a larger SSD? 2 8gb RAM sticks are only around 15€, so that would be 100 in total. But my question is, is it worth it, or is the CPU...
Recommendations on a quality clip on NC microphone?
I have to work in very noisy environments such as near construction sites, near very loud music or highways, and due to the nature of my job I need to be in a lot of online meetings....
anons have no empathy
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Can someone please explain the nuance of federation that allows this?
So here I am sitting on lemmy.ml which is defederated from threads (and which I chose primarily for that reason) and I see a comment from the user above....
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Using messaging protocols (XMPP, Matrix, etc) for federated social media vs. ActivityPub?
From a practical sense, ActivityPub may be the obvious choice as it gives easier interop with the largest federated platforms....
Email wowsers continue
Well I set up my email server thru cloudflare and managed to receive emails directly to my basement server. I could live with this and the various security threats incoming thru my unifi. But one thing is for sure, my wife won’t have any of it. She’s a total backwards thinking give me windows or I’ll jump kind of Gal. So I...
Manual hobbies - active communities promotion thread
Active = one post in the last 7 days
Looking to Adopt - Advice Pls :)
My partner and I are recent graduates, and are looking to adopt. I’ve only lived with a dog briefly and them a cat, so I don’t have insight but I’m not opposed. Casting a wide net as I’m the one lacking confidence here, their gung-ho ;~;...
Easy WM based desktops to use
As a beginner I mainly focused on Cinnamon, XFCE and GNOME but want to try out a windowing DE on a VM to get a feel for things....
(Solved) How to save URL to homescreen? It doesn't keep the link! Grrr
Hi all, so as per title, when I use browser app to make a pwa or ‘add to homescreen’ it works, but then opens the home page not the actual link I had created. From memory there was a hack where you would put your phone offline, airplane mode I think’ and then it would save the link. But doesn’t work anymore. Any1 have...
I did my best
Childhood trauma 😔
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Are there any good critical thinking courses online?
I’m interested in helping friends tell the difference between fact and fiction, truth and hearsay and general stuff like that that gives peace of mind that they can defend themselves from gaslighting, makes life easier to live, and harder to be taken advantage of by propaganda. Just a few examples....
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 25th
What have you all been playing?...
Are selfhosted Piped instances still working?
All the public Piped instances are getting blocked by YouTube but do small selfhosted instances, that are only used by a handful of users or just yourself, still working? Thinking of just selfhosting it....
Should yt-dlp be used behind a VPN?
Only recently discovered yt-dlp, despite its popularity. However I was wondering if I were to use this, should it be used behind a VPN when downloading videos off public websites?...
Mouth feel
The propaganda is falling on us like a hurricane right now. (USA). Should we discuss that here? Should such discussion be forbidden?
Is Callisto Protocol a hidden Dead Space remake?
Right now, Callisto Protocol is available for free on the epic games store....
Issue with local DNS and Android
I have a home network with an internal DNS resolver. I have some subdomains (public) that maps to a real world IP address, and maps to the home server private address when inside home....