Atemu

Atemu , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin

NixOS packages only work with NixOS system. They’re harder to setup than just copying a docker-compose file over and they do use container technology.

It’s interesting how none of that is true.

Nixpkgs work on practically any Linux kernel.

Whether NixOS modules are easier to set up and maintain than unsustainably copying docker-compose files is subjective.

Neither Nixpkgs nor NixOS use container technology for their core functionality.
NixOS has the nixos-container framework to optionally run NixOS inside of containerised environments (systemd-nspawn) but that’s rather niche actually. Nixpkgs does make use of bubblewrap for a small set of stubborn packages but it’s also not at all core to how it works.

Totally beside the point though; even if you don’t think NixOS is simpler, that still doesn’t mean containers are the only possible mean by which you could possibly achieve “easy” deployments.

Also without containers you don’t solve the biggest problems such as incompatible database versions between multiple services.

Ah, so you have indeed not even done the bare minimum of research into what Nix/NixOS are before you dismissed it. Nice going there.

as robust in terms of configurations

Docker compose is about the opposite of a robust configuration system.

Atemu , 5 months ago to asklemmy in Audiophiles of Fedi, how do you like to listen to your music?

Spotify -> MOTU M2 -> HiFiMan Ananda non-stealth

“High resolution” audio is completely useless for listening (16 bit 44.1 kHz is the best it gets) and there is little value in lossless encodes for listening purposes too, so I don’t get the point of all those “Hifi” streaming services.
If you own lossless encodes, I guess it doesn’t hurt to use them even for listening as storage is cheap these days.

Speaking of which, I’d like to switch to purchasing my music though because Spotify will certainly continue on its path towards full enshittification. I want to be in a position where I own all my favourite music before Spotify will be infected with ads on premium plans. Oh and artists are somewhat more likely to be paid a little for their work that way (I hope…)
I plan to use the free YT music for discovery at that point.

Atemu , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin

This is a false dichotomy. Just because containers make it easy to ship software, doesn’t mean other means can’t be equally easy.

NixOS achieves a greater ease of deployment than docker-compose and the like without any containers involved for instance.

Atemu , 5 months ago to selfhosted in [Question] Rate my upgrade!

I would not buy a CPU without seeing a real-world measurement of idle total system power consumption if you’re concerned about energy (and therefore cost) efficiency in any way. Especially on desktop platforms where manufacturers historically do not care one bit about efficiency. You could easily spend many hundred € every year if it’s bad. I was not able to find any measurements for that specific CPU.

Be faster at transcoding video. This is primarily so I can use PhotoPrism for video clips. Real-time transcoding 4K 80mbps video down to something streamabke would be nice. Despite getting QuickSync to work on the Celeron, I can’t pull more than 20fps unless I drop the output to like 640x480.

That shouldn’t be the case. I’d look into getting this fixed properly before spending a ton of money for new hardware that you may not actually need. It smells like to me that encode or decode part aren’t actually being done in hardware here.

What codec and pixel format are the source files?
How quickly can you decode them? Try running ffmpeg manually with VAAPI decode, -c copy, and a null sink on the files in question.

What codec are you trying to transcode to? Apollo lake can’t encode HEVC 10 bit. Try encoding a testsrc (testsrc=duration=10:size=3840x2160:rate=30) to AVC 10 bit or HEVC 8 bit.

Atemu , 5 months ago to linux in First real Arch user moment [Mission Failed]

That doesn’t matter. Snapshots only concern the state of any one filesystem; they do not address separate filesystems in any way.

Atemu , 5 months ago to linux in First real Arch user moment [Mission Failed]

That fully depends on where your kernels are stored. If they’re in a separate partition, then no; it won’t roll back with the rest of your system.

Atemu , 5 months ago to linux in First real Arch user moment [Mission Failed]

So you rolled back your root filesystem’s system state to a snapshot but did you roll back the kernel you’re booting into aswell?

If you didn’t, that’d explain the symptoms seen here; you might be booting into a newer kernel than the system state has modules for. Without the appropriate kernel modules, Linux cannot mount filesystems or accept keyboard input. (This depends on which modules are required by the HW and whether they’re built into the kernel or copied to the initrd though.)

For debugging, simply boot a live ISO and chroot into the system. The Arch Wiki has a page for that. You should be able to look at the journal inside the chroot and it’ll tell you exactly what’s wrong.

Atemu , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Is there a way to preserve my comments before closing my instance?

Have you considered using Oracle’s free VPS tier? Should be more than powerful enough to host a read-only Lemmy instance.

It’s not ideal but if you’re short on money, it’s better than having your online data rot.

Atemu , 5 months ago to selfhost in [Question] Shared folder across devices

It really depends on what it is you’re trying to share between machines.

I don’t use syncthing but something that fulfils a similar function (git-annex). My Documents repo is set up in such a way that all instances of the repo try to have a copy of everything because documents are very important data and don’t take much space. Other (larger) repos only try to have two or three independant copies; depending on how large and important their data is.

Atemu , 5 months ago to selfhost in [Question] Shared folder across devices

I would not “share” it synchronously as @gratux recommended because in that case the data is only stored on one device and almost always accessed remotely. If the internet connection is gone, you’d no longer have access to the data and if the VPS dies, your data would be gone on all other machines too.

If you want to use Nextcloud anyways, that would be an option.

If all you want to do is have a shared synchronised state between multiple machines though, Syncthing would be a much lighter weight purpose-built alternative.

Atemu , 5 months ago to android in I'm this close to visiting my "local" branch for all my banking.

Since when does MS access run on IBM mainframes?

Atemu , 5 months ago to linux in KDE 6 FOR ARCH LINUX IS HEREEEEEEE

Thank @K900 ;)

Atemu , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Does there exist a YouTube proxy server?

Depends on how many other users are using the same proxy. If you host piped for yourself using your home internet connection, Google will absolutely know who is watching the video.

Atemu , 5 months ago to android in I'm this close to visiting my "local" branch for all my banking.

At least they now allow passwords over 8 characters (yes, serious).

Are you 100% certain they don’t just truncate your password to 8 characters?

Atemu , 5 months ago to android in Great, the worst of both worlds.

If you’ve done an OEM unlock, you effectively already have root access to the device. You could boot a custom recovery right now and modify any system file.

“Rooting” just means using this privilege you already have in order to install a tool into the OS such that you can make use of this privilege while the regular OS is booted.

Go install Magisk and do the safetynet dance. It’s a whole thing but should give you a “clean” device from the perspective of unprivileged apps. It’s stupid that you have to do this but here we are.