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TORFdot0 , to technology in Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown

I mean that’s the point of voting. Sensibility got outvoted unfortunately

TORFdot0 , to fediverse in The Fediverse is Not The Future of The Internet.

I really think the typical Lemmy user falls into a lot of the same trappings as the typical Reddit user. It’s especially obvious on political or otherwise emotionally charged topics. In the end it doesn’t really matter if you are downvoted or not, it’s just an imaginary number.

But it’s definitely organic, not trolls or bots; just an inevitability of online spaces

TORFdot0 , to selfhosted in Hey selfhosters, what are you selfhosting?

Yeah google sites is not a great platform for a blog. I chose it for aesthetic reasons and not functionality for sure

TORFdot0 , to selfhosted in Hey selfhosters, what are you selfhosting?

I used to self host everything but nowadays I value my time too much so I have moved my data to google drive and back it up to a local hard disk periodically. Photos go to iCloud and google photos. iCloud is running my email domain (previously was google domains/gmail)

I still do run a Plex server with my shield tv pro but that’s mostly to access my TV tuner as I stream my media from google drive directly instead.

I just got tired of taking time away from my family to troubleshoot my services or just live with downtime. I did run a $5 linode to host things for awhile but eventually it just became more cost effective to just refactor things to run natively on various cloud services. I even just redesigned my personal website/blog to run on google sites

I still love to follow the self hosted community, someday I will take my data back just not right now.

TORFdot0 , to technology in [META] So... about the bots

I think the posting bot is still useful at this point. We are big enough to probably be able to sustain the community on our own but posts would be a lot fewer. Now we have a lot of repeats as the bot just grabs everything but if we relied on someone else in the community to post it for us then we would miss a lot as well. I’m fine either way, just my 2¢

TORFdot0 , to selfhosted in Is NextCloud worth it for a company?

I got really long winded on this one sorry. TL;DR yes it would be easier for a big company’s IT department to handle rolling their own nextcloud but larger companies also have more obligations that make it a bit more complicated. A smaller company will need less compute and storage and manhours to manage a next cloud instance and so they can get away with it if they have a great IT person/staff

An on-premises deployment is going to take more manpower to support and maintain than a cloud deployment and an organization of 200 like OP is probably going to have 5-6 IT people who are already stretched thin.

And cloud storage is definitely a cost just like on-premises but it also comes with SLAs with guaranteed uptime and has factors of scale to be able to make delivering uptime, performance, security, and updates a lot more cost effective than rolling your own nextcloud. I’m sure it can be done in a way that is cheaper than $4000 a month or whatever 200 workspace licenses cost but not without taking a shortcut. I wouldn’t run it without a dev, prod, backup and DR server and the salary to maintain those would be just as high.

I’m making assumptions based on my experience and organization’s size and making an educated guess about his friends situation. It could be totally different and they could still have capable hardware and storage from before their cloud migration. I just know that if I was in the same position I would not want to be the one in charge of rolling the company nextcloud when down time is money lost.

TORFdot0 , to news in In-N-Out bans mask wearing for employees in some states

Why did adding this little bit of context get downvoted? Yes it’s still a ridiculous requirement to require a doctors note if someone wants to wear a mask to protect themselves from illness but OP wasn’t commenting on that, just adding context. If we want this place to be better than Reddit we really should only use the downvote button against posts and comments that are off-topic, inflammatory, or trolling

TORFdot0 , to selfhosted in Is NextCloud worth it for a company?

I wouldn’t recommend it, a company that size is going to need to guarantee uptime and performance and they are going to need a big cap-ex purchase on servers and storage networks to get it done and get enterprise support and hire staff to maintain it.

For a smaller company that already has the infrastructure to run it, it makes a bit more sense but I wouldn’t recommend it for a small company with nothing or a large company that’s already moved to cloud.

Just one man’s opinion though, I don’t know the situation.

TORFdot0 , to technology in Fable Studios created an AI-generated episode of South Park... during a Hollywood strike over AI.

AI is too polite to make a compelling South Park episode honestly could be an interesting premise for a South Park episode though

TORFdot0 , to technology in Bitwarden or Proton Pass

I use Bitwarden with DUO as my Authenticator app. I know that you can set up keepass with 2FA via an extension but I didn’t find it as portable with my existing apps which is why I decided to make the switch

TORFdot0 , to technology in Bitwarden or Proton Pass

No sir, I did this for years. I used Kypass on my iPhone so I could use my passwords on my phone as well. I ended up switching to Bitwarden for easier 2FA implementation and granular password sharing rather than having to share my whole vault or manage a separated shared vault

TORFdot0 , to technology in DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable

You can ascertain how much effort the creator was willing to put in the thumbnail but that’s really it. All YouTube thumbnails are basically just try to trick monkey brains into clicking. I can’t stand clickbait thumbnails so this would be really nice in my opinion

TORFdot0 , to technology in Apparently, Google's new AI-based search is quite honest.

WRT #1 It’s sad that pro-evil workers have to form a union just to be recognized in the tech industry these days

TORFdot0 , to fediverse in The migration of large communities from Reddit to Lemmy is like a world-renowned band performing an acoustic set in a library for 50 people.

Lemmy.ml is hosted by the maintainers and Lemmy.world is the biggest instance (because they were one of the few that didn’t restrict sign ups when Reddit API went dark) so those users are going to have the most communities.

Despite this I still am subbed to many communities on beehaw, Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and sh.it.just.works

And I have some subbed communities on smaller instances.

But I will say that I’m thinking of starting a new community but I’ll probably do it on Lemmy.world as they have the funds and manpower to guarantee uptime

TORFdot0 , to retrogaming in Hey, you, what controller do you use for emulation?

Razer kishi v2 connected to my iPhone using afterplay.io

Basically a retro switch on my iPhone

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