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WhiteHotaru ,

I have limited my usecases for selfhosting and thrown money at the problem. The usecases are:

  • image hosting and sharing with the family
  • backups of our family computers
  • digital file hosting
  • media hosting

The last one is expendable. The first three are backed up into the cloud. I use a Synology, thus throwing money at the problem. Their cloud backup just works.

Edit: use cases I do not self host are a mail server for example. The stress outweighs the 12€/year I pay for the service.

WhiteHotaru ,

4GB works. My kids use a T410 from 2010 with a SSD and it is a pleasant experience for daily use (browsing, YouTube, small Linux games)

WhiteHotaru ,

Have you seen the clip of the Irish who has prepared a cassette to be played at his funeral?

WhiteHotaru ,

On iOS there is GPX Tracker which simply records a GPX track and can overlay openstreetmap data while doing so.

WhiteHotaru ,

The eagle as a symbol predates the nazis - a lot. The „Reichsadler“ has been used since 800 A.D. as in the region that is now Germany:

The Reichsadler, i. e. the German Imperial Eagle, originated from a proto-heraldic emblem that was believed to have been used by Charlemagne, the first Frankish ruler whom the Pope crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in AD 800, and derived ultimately from the Aquila, i. e. eagle standard, of the ancient Roman army.

Edit: of course the Nazis twisted this as well. To decide, if the eagle has to go, we need more details:

During Nazi rule, a stylised eagle combined with the Nazi swastika was made the national emblem (Hoheitszeichen) by order of Adolf Hitler in 1935.

Despite its medieval origin, the term “Reichsadler” in common English understanding is mostly associated with this specific Nazi-era version. The Nazi Party had used a very similar symbol for itself, called the Parteiadler (“Party’s eagle”). These two insignia can be distinguished as the Reichsadler looks to its right shoulder whereas the Parteiadler looks to its left shoulder.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsadler

WhiteHotaru ,

Happy cake day! 🍰

WhiteHotaru ,

Because if the military wants something, budgets are big. And they do not need to make money.

WhiteHotaru ,

Came to say this. Ginko is a symbol for longevity. I’d take it over a heart, @daddyjones

WhiteHotaru ,

This @cheezits! I run Linux Mint on a T410 with 4 GB of Ram and a 250 GB SSD and the user experience is quite ok for normal day to day usage like playing light games, browsing and HD video streaming.

WhiteHotaru ,

+1 for Linux Mint for the power user. They will fell familiar and can start their journey from there. The most important concept I would explain would be package managers and flat pack, as in vanilla Windows there is no such thing.

The second one would be regular updates and that you have to do a little maintenance from time to time

Mint would be my recommendation for the noob as well. It is a clean distro and does not require a lot of maintenance except regular updates.

WhiteHotaru ,

Louis picked it up from Gamers Nexus, as he says in the video.

WhiteHotaru ,

Ayyy! Caramba!

WhiteHotaru ,

Use a service with card DAV support like posteo.de.

My contacts are synced between an iPhone, Linux Mint and a Mac. My Parter syncs between an iPhone and a Windows PC (Witt Thunderbird as mail Client).

WhiteHotaru ,

Someone please stop time before I get any older; I want to get off.

Not as hard as you think. Stopping is not the problem. Stopping and still having fun is.

WhiteHotaru ,

Great answer.

WhiteHotaru ,

Fuck spez!

WhiteHotaru ,

Where does this System Information edit: on the right side as desktop overlay come from?

WhiteHotaru ,

I meant the right side. Sorry, I should have clarified.

WhiteHotaru ,

Thanks!

WhiteHotaru ,

Thanks!

Beautiful decaf mokka coffee from freshly grinded beans and lots of fresh warm milk. This is by far my favourite drink to have in the late afternoon. [update with recipe] (feddit.dk)

A few of you asked for how to do it so here’s my guide. This method gives me perfect coffee every time, but your milage may vary so don’t be afraid to experiment....

WhiteHotaru ,

I love the rubber band hack!

Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter (www.neowin.net)

Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux). Statcounter doesn’t provide any...

WhiteHotaru ,

How was your experience? What information did you miss, to make this a smooth transition?

NVIDIA dynamic boost wattage

Hi, I have an Asus vivobook pro 16x oled (M7600QC) optimus laptop with a dedicated Nvidia RTX 3050 Max-Q rated 50w. When I try to use the dedicated Nvidia GPU on Linux, the wattage is only 35w. If I enable the “nvidia-powerd” daemon, it goes up to ~40w. Is there a way to raise the wattage to the rated 50w like on Windows?...

WhiteHotaru ,

You are welcome! Btw there is no question in your post. Do you have one?

Beginner looking for NAS advice (kbin.social)

I'm looking for advice on how to get started with a NAS, probably Synology since it's beginner friendly and often well recommended. I'm thinking of a 2 bay case with 2x4TB HDDs in RAID1 setup. What do I have to look out for in a device to get the best bang for my bucks?...

WhiteHotaru ,

Hi! I was in your situation in January. I went for a used two bay Synology 720+ model, that came with 10GB RAM and a used WD Red 4 TB WD40EFRX.

The main reason I switched to a NAS was an easy way to share our children’s photos with my SO. Synology is perfect for this, because the photos app has face recognition and can search through location data, which is coming in handy with 25K photos.

Second thing I wanted to do on the NAS was the whole backup strategy of our laptops. At the moment we rely on cloud backups, but I wanted to change this to a solid 3-2-1 strategy. On top the cloud backup never really worked on my SOs laptop.

I had no ambition with selfhosting, but am familiar with Linux. At the moment I have a paperless instance and jellyfish running. I plan to put some shows for the kids on it, my CD collection and am ripping my DVDs.

Until now the process was very smooth. Paperless has some minor hiccups I could iron out, but the whole Synology infrastructure is really solid.

I picked the 720+ because the perks of a 723+ seemed negligible to me. This page offers a good comparison: nascompares.com/…/synology-ds720-vs-ds723-nas-whi…

WhiteHotaru ,

Take a look at „The Linux Experiment“ on YouTube or tidal. He switched his whole setup to Linux and runs a business on top of free software, including editing his screen casts.

Edit: he uses tuxedo computers hardware and the OS it is shipped with, Tuxedo OS, which is Debian based.

WhiteHotaru ,

I would try the „retina formula“ to see, if the upgrade would benefit me.

Basically apples retina displays are engineered, that either the selected pixel density, pixel size and typical viewing distance, single pixels cannot be seen by the human eye. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_display?wprov=sfti1#…

If you have a small tv and it is several meters away from you, my guess would be that the difference is not that big.

WhiteHotaru ,

I am currently reviving an T410 for my kids. I put an 250 GB SSD inside and the newest Linux Mint and play around with it now. I am still on 4 GB Ram, as I didn’t want to spend the 60€ to upgrade to 8 GB, yet.

It runs great. I can watch YouTube, browse the web and rip some of my CDs for my NAS and my Kids Audio Players with that sweet internal DVD drive. My guess is 60% of the people would not need more computing power. And this machine was released in 2010.

WhiteHotaru ,

This is my experience as well. I would add: if you like to tinker and have time to spare, use Linux. If you want a Unix and have more money than time, buy a Mac.

WhiteHotaru ,

The ranking is based on his use case. He does media production and uses tuxedo laptops. My guess is, he just took a different path and never got deeper into Suse.

WhiteHotaru ,

Why are US users so focused on iMessage? I have seen rejected date memes because the message bubble had the wrong color. There are tons of alternatives out there. Is this a status thing?

WhiteHotaru ,

39 cents/SMS. I remember this time. This does not explain why it has to be that specific protocol, though.

WhiteHotaru ,

Business users are the target group. If your job needs you to reply to a lot of mails and the Myomen you press the reply button AI creates an answer for you, you only need to edit in some details, the time safed will probably be worth more than 30$ a month.

Other use cases are internal communications. I know intranet software where you just promt a topic, a tone and what department you like from and it will create a news for you. Again not perfect, but safes you from staring at a blank page.

WhiteHotaru ,

U-Boot is German for submarine. I was really curious what kind of submarine runs on Linux and what they wanted to test.

WhiteHotaru OP ,

Thanks. Looks like a good replacement for Apple Notes and Lists.

WhiteHotaru ,

As an European I just sigh and read on.

WhiteHotaru ,

I work as an Information Architect. I liked following their stream of thought to get an idea about what information weights more for a user.

WhiteHotaru ,

Best played with headphones.

WhiteHotaru OP ,

Thanks. I’ll look into this.

Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

WhiteHotaru ,

Have you tried languagetool? There is an integration for Libre Office, Obsidian, MS Word and others. It offers spell checking, rephrasing and is superior to the build in checker in my experience. You could compare it to DeepL versus Azure Translate.

WhiteHotaru ,

I like this one

https://en.opensuse.org/images/1/1e/Overview_by_pprmint..png

It is a friendly recognizable chameleon and they did a good job with integrating the existing abstract logos.

From the Solo designs I loved the ones with the branch with different endings a lot. It had a warm touch to it, but was a little to filigrane for a logo.

WhiteHotaru ,

These are two variations from the same artist.

WhiteHotaru ,

🏅

WhiteHotaru ,
  1. harden parental controls on windows install.
  2. „hey son! I hardened the parental controls on your windows install. And by the way, I installed Linux to your PC as well. It has no parental controls.“
  3. ???
  4. Linux Sysadmin

T-Mobile sued after employee stole nude images from customer phone during trade-in (www.cnbc.com)

T-Mobile sued after employee stole nude images from customer phone during trade-in::T-Mobile has been sued again for failing to protect consumer data after an employee at one of its Washington stores stole nude images off of a customer’s phone.

WhiteHotaru ,

There is actually a theory floating around, that people growing up in the 80ies-2000 were the most tech literate, because they had to tinker to get thinks to work. Want to play a game on DOS 6.2 and it did not work? Edit some system files for more memory. Today the technisch hidden behind false physics and got really well.

My son is nine. I got him a Kano (the old one with a raspberry pie as base) and he has to learn why we need to connect a display to the processing unit and connect peripherals to do things. His friends own a tablet, a smartphone and a gaming console. You cannot see behind the tech in those, if you don’t want to destroy them and explore hobbit works (on a basic level).

WhiteHotaru ,

It is a great project, but unfortunately I guess it is not running very well. They did the setup with raspberry pies first with additional modules like a screen, an LED matrix and other things you could program. The software experience is pretty awesome. The whole manual is telling your kid a story and describing everything in just the right language for a kid. You plug it and the story goes on at terminal level when your kid is promted to write their name. After this it boots into a really well made desktop with a adventure game to get to know the computer, a bunch of programming tools and a browser.

WhiteHotaru ,

Corporate Users. My guess is, that almost any office job where you work on a Computer has Windows as OS. You have a license for your job. The license for home usage is bonus money to Microsoft.

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