Can you recommend a service or container for doing disk analysis and reporting failure conditions?
I recently stood up a new file server using ZFS on linux. I’d like to automate the disk checking in such a way that I can essentially ignore and have a service notify me when SMART or other indications are hitting failure or pre-fail levels....
Self-hosted private Lemmy instance and federation
I’m reading up on self-hosting Lemmy, and I was planning on creating my own private instance for individual use on some spare Azure ASP I use to host private FreshRSS (not rich to host a public service)....
ADB for Android?
Like many others, I find ADB to be an excellent utility when I intend to get rid of bloatwares / system-apps-that-I-don’t need from my Android phone....
how to post YouTube short video link?
youtube.com/shorts/-mFznrJRNBw?feature=share...
Fuck GPUs
Like… seriously, why every year is now the year of semiconductor deficiency, all thanks to the increase in GPU sales? First we had problems because of cryptomining boom, now everyone wants to train their own fucking AI. Fuck you Nvidia, fuck you AMD, I just want to buy the fucking computer!!...
Looking for resources to rebuild my music collection
In the pre-streaming days I used to have a large collection of ripped and downloaded music. However as my taste in music is extremely wide and it became easier and more fun to use hacked streaming services (i.e. Youtube Music Vanced) to play music especially on the go, I decided to let my music collection go years ago. Plus…...
Can somebody explain defederation in simple layman terms please?
I have seen that word tossed around lately and I am not completely confident that I know what it means. Thank you.
Users from China! What do you think about the CCP?
Wine gaming broken on Fedora 37 with Wine 8.12?
I just found out that sometime in the last month or so while doing regular updates Wine got bumped to 8.12… (likely from 8.0) and my games have gone haywire: Neverwinter Nights and Diablo2 would kind of start but then halt. Switching to desktop and back unblocks games for the next few seconds and then things repeat....
Does the US have zero employee protection laws??
Just following on from this: lemmy.nz/post/1134134...
Self-hosted captcha for matrix-synapse registrations?
I have a self-hosted matrix-synapse server up and running on a Debian linux server, but before I open it up I want to at least get a captcha service in place to reduce spamming. The only module I’ve seen to handle this function appears to require setting up a Google recaptcha though, however I would prefer to keep all of this...
Have you ever met someone who is able to deeply engage in conversation in a wholesome and detailed way?
Old Man And The Sea
I finally read “Old Man and the Sea”. I have tried to start it many times, but the beginning was just so slow. Has anyone here read it? What are your thoughts on this Ernest Hemingway classic?
Do the Paramount+ Star Trek episodes have missing scenes?
Paramount+ splits some episodes like Encounter at Farpoint, All Good Things and Caretaker into two 45 minute long episodes. Does anyone know if the split episodes are missing any scenes?...
Sites for game discovery?
What do you guys use? I personally like Glitchwave for it’s powerful chart building and the user reviews as a whole tend to align with my own....
Informal Lemmy U.N.?
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2491711...
Is it wrong to pirate movies I've purchased digitally and load onto my Plex server?
Just would like to have a discussion on the topic. I’ve purchased around 20ish movies/shows on Vudu, and my wife has grown to be unhappy with Vudu’s UI and especially how the watch progress works. I am curious what some others thoughts on this are. My initial thoughts are I recognize I’ve purchased a license to watch the...
Bean Recommendations?
Hey everyone, wanted to throw up another thread to talk bean and roaster recs. Wanted to try something new!...
Everyone who's went through a breakup and already got over it, what do you think now about the actual reason for the breakup?
When Prohecy Fails
I’m reading this book about social researchers who infiltrated into a cult and were observing their beliefs and struggles. At some point the group’s popularity spiked and various news papers all across the country flocked to the group....
Any way to plug a 3.5 HD as "internal" drive on a small Thinkpad mini?
I have a Thinkpad mini that needs to expand it’s disagree storage and have a couple of Red 4Tb with basically no use....
Streaming HD videos with XDCC
So this post is to explain how to stream from XDCC directly, no VPN or torrenting required. Downloading is also an option since this uses xdccJS. This method works on Android, Linux, and MacOS. It will probably work on Windows idk haven’t tried it. For extra help running commands refer to xdccJS --help....
Question about data available to network management
Hello this isn’t strictly ‘selfhosted’ material but there seems to be a lot of networking knowledge in this group....
Work profil and privacy
I don’t know if it the better place to ask my question and if it’s not I apologize…...