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brayd , 1 month ago

I’m currently on Wayland with Nvidia hardware and it’s running fine tbh

brayd , 1 month ago

An actually good alternative to Notion for Linux.

brayd , 1 month ago

Yes I know about AppFlowy and also about Anytype. However AppFlowy feels off for some reason and not as stable. Anytype feels pretty good but it has the issue that you can’t store and sync more than I think 1 GB of data. You could self host a sync server but that’s extra complicated with that software for some reason. So it’s not really a good alternative either. :/

brayd , 1 month ago

Some people say it’s “evil” since some drama with RedHat or something? I actually never looked into that drama and it’s probably overreaction of someone but has anyone heard of it or an idea what it’s about?

brayd , 1 month ago

Debian is awesome but only if you don’t care about having the newest features and updates.

brayd , 1 month ago

Fully agree. That’s also the main reason I am using Notion even though it’s not FOSS, not encrypted etc.

I was fine using Obsidian (even though it’s not FOSS either, but you own your data) but I can’t figure out a good way to track books and quotes plus my opinion about them while querying them the same way it works in the database with Notion. Dataview is great for many things but doesn’t have pagination etc.

brayd , 1 month ago

Yes, I have tested Logseq and even donate to them monthly. However I don’t use it actively. Reason is that I just can’t figure out a way to store my quotes and my opinion about them from books the same way I do it in Notion.

Basically I store my quotes like this:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/33c4ce22-f5b0-43c0-849c-af41796e3a41.png
Inside each quote I write my opinion or the summary of the quote in my own words, etc.

And then for the books I have it like this:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/7347618a-9782-4f27-a830-40273de1dd46.png

And inside each book I have the quotes linked:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/618a8473-bc02-4b19-89bf-c48be8f5db41.png

So yeah I haven’t found any way in Obsidian or Logseq to replicate this structure. It’s always something simliar that’s not working the same way and feels off and only with tweaks, custom CSS and stuff like that.

brayd , 1 month ago

Android Auto is supported. Payments are the only thing holding me back currently. But that’s not something the developers of GrapheneOS can change unfortunately.

brayd , 1 month ago

For me Nextcloud AIO works. Still I don’t like how “unstable” NC is. There’s always something that does not work in any setup. Wish it was more stable or there would be a better alternative. For me it’s videos. But only those that are MP4 and have their moov atom at the end of the file. They can’t be played.

github.com/pulsejet/memories/issues/984

It’s a headache. Set up Ente Photos just for that. Good side effect is that the images from my family and myself are stored E2EE encrypted on the self hosted Ente Photos instance.

brayd , 1 month ago

Hydra

brayd , 4 months ago

I had everything behind my LAN, but published things like Nextcloud to the outside after finally figuring out how to do that even without a public IPv4 (being behind DS-Lite by my provider).

I knew about Cloudflare Tunnels but I didn’t want to route my stuff through their service. And using Immich through their tunnel would be very slow.

I finally figured out how to publish my stuff using an external VPS that’s doing several things:

• being a OpenVPN server
• being a cert server for OpenVPN certs
• being a reverse proxy using nginx with certbot

Then my servers at home just connect to the VPS as VPN clients so there’s a direct tunnel between the VPS and the home servers.

Now when I have an app running on 8080 on my home server, I can set up nginx so that the domain points to the VPS public IPv4 and IPv6 and that one routes the traffic through the VPN tunnel to the home server and it’s port using the IPv4 of the VPN tunnel. The clients are configured to have a static IPv4 inside the VPN tunnel when connecting to the VPN server.

Took me several years to figure out but resolved all my issues.

brayd , 4 months ago

I had the same issue. Wrote another comment here explaining my setup to solve my ISP issue.

brayd , 4 months ago

With DS-Lite you don’t have a public IPv4. Not a static one but also not a dynamic one. The ISP just gives you a public IPv6. You share your IPv4 address with other users. This is done to use less IPv4s. But not having a dynamic IPv4 causes you to be unable to use DynDNS etc. It’s simply not possible.

You could publish your stuff via IPv6 only but good luck accessing it from a network without IPv6.

You could also spin up tunnels with SSH actually between a public server and the private one (yes SSH can do stuff like that) but that’s very hard to manage with many services so you’re better of building a setup like mine.

juniper.net/…/security-ipv6-dual-stack-lite.html

brayd , 4 months ago

Don’t use a free one. Use ProtonVPN or Mullvad VPN. In general even for normal browsing. Free VPNs are trash.

brayd , 5 months ago

Take something like GrapheneOS if security is important for you:

1. No bloatware
2. 7 years of updates on the new pixel phones with it
3. Much more secure than an iPhone
4. An iPhone isn’t really privacy respecting or similar even though Apple always claims it to be
5. An iPhone locks you in. Heck you can’t even let Nextcloud or Immich sync files in the background on iOS just because Apple says “no background sync only works good with our own services so you give us your money and use iCloud Photos and Drive”.

brayd , 5 months ago

Which ones? Haven’t experienced any app that doesn’t work with GrapheneOS. Even my banking apps work. Only thing that doesn’t work is Google Pay.

brayd , 5 months ago

It’s not a front end for Lemmy but it’s a website that you can use to find new communities over several instances. It’s called Lemmy Explorer.

brayd , 6 months ago

Honestly everything besides Debian and Arch after distro hopping for years.

brayd , 6 months ago

I loooove Debian and I don’t mind having older packages for better stability. However the only reason for me for not using Debian is actually KDE Plasma. I don’t want to miss out on new Plasma released and have to wait forever until I receive them.

brayd , 8 months ago

And adds literally built into basic system components…

brayd , 8 months ago

Any idea how long it will take (estimated) until you can install GrapheneOS on the upcoming devices after they’re released?

brayd , 8 months ago

The files app has built in ads to push OneDrive to the users. And yes it can be declared as advertising because you can’t remove that ad and because MS pays Samsung for it (or gives Samsung benefits for it inside Windows on Samsungs computers).

Besides that there are the same kind of ads in the settings app.

And there’s also many components of the OS that push the user into paying money like for fonts or for Always on Displays or lockscreens or whatever else. Those are not direct ads but you could declare them as auch because of the fact that a user gets pushed into micro payments for basic customization of their phone which for me personally is a no go, especially if you pay money for a flagship phone.

brayd , 8 months ago

I answered on another comment regarding ads in this thread to clarify what I define as an ad with that comment.

brayd , 9 months ago

I disagree while agreeing. The biggest reason people use windows is simply because its pre-installed. That’s the same reason people use Edge on Windows or Bing as their search engine. They get it preinstalled and don’t know how to change it.

If you install anyone Linux and give them a simple and easy distro preinstalled they’re usually fine with a few words about how to use it, update it and install stuff. Especially if they’re not tech savvy because in this case they wouldn’t know exactly how to use Windows either. I mean look at companies: how many employees use Windows in their daily work but still don’t know how to actually usw windows? They get teached to use their software and tools but not the OS itself and have to figure things out on the OS level if they would want to change something on Windows too.

My observation was that people that are not tech savvy find it easier to understand some beginner friendly Linux distros than Windows.

If on the other hand a person is used to use Windows and knows how to actually use Windows it’s harder for them to switch because things are just different on Linux. For me it’s hard and annoying to use Windows which I have to do at work since February. Before that I used Linux in private my whole life, I used it in school because my school never used Windows as one of the few schools in my country and my last employer also used Linux. And from that perspective I can say that Windows is hard and not intuitive. It’s just being used because it’s being used. I guess you could compare it to Whatsapp vs Signal. From an objective standpoint Signal is better but most people still use WhatsApp because others use it and because it comes preinstalled on some Android phones.

brayd OP , 9 months ago

Awesome, thank you! That sounds promising.

brayd , 10 months ago

I don’t even think the CLI stuff and so on is an issue. The main reason people don’t use Linux is because it’s simply not pre-installed everywhere as Windows is. The same reason many people use Edge on Windows and don’t install Firefox etc. The average user just uses it as it is and doesn’t tinker around.

Installed Linux on my grandmother’s computer some years ago and she was working with it fine because it was the first time of her using a computer and she learned it that way. For she Linux was was for other people Windows is. She didn’t had any issues installing software via apt etc. after getting it explained and teached a few times.

But a user who just uses a system as it is and who is used to Windows will always dislike Linux. I dislike Windows because I find it complicated in many parts. I used Linux and sometimes MacOS for my whole life besides Windows Vista as a child.

brayd , 10 months ago

I’d say in general this would be Bonfire but it’s still in active development and not yet ready to run stable as a public instance.

brayd , 11 months ago

A good alternative to Bitwarden is KeePass/KeepassXC btw

brayd , 11 months ago

I am younger than 25, but I’m a Sys-Admin.

However my mother also uses the Fediverse and has nearly to none technical knowledge.

Also my cousin who’s 15 uses it. And some friends of mine who are between 18 to 26 use it without being what you typically would call a nerd.

So I think for the majority it applies but there are also people here not fitting in this sector.

brayd , 11 months ago

It makes Threads less attractive for people using it because they „can follow people from Mastodon too“. So maybe through that a few people will decide to register in the Fediverse on any other platform rather than using Threads for it. If we only get a few people with that I’m fine with it tbh.

brayd , 11 months ago

For me I personally decided to block it because I made a poll and most of my users decided to block it. Also, after 24 hours we can see that moderation is not that good which is why I’d defederate from it as from any other instance that doesn’t match with the rules of my own server at all. But that is really the good thing about the Fediverse. Being that flexible.

brayd , 11 months ago

Yes I did. Doesn’t change something now besides that they’re instantly defederated as soon as they enable Activity Pub support

brayd , 11 months ago

Mastodon is very Twitter like. It’s focus is on implementing the main features and it’s just the software most users use. Then there’s also other software like Misskey (and Calckey (which I run on my server) as well as some other fork of which I’ve forgotten the name). Misskey (and its forks) implement additional features that Mastodon doesn’t have and don’t use the Mastodon API. So using Mastodon apps with them won’t work as good. There are Misskey apps though.

My personal opinion is, that Misskey and Calckey have a better and more modern approach in regards to UI/UX-Design. However that’s subjective. Misskey and Calckey also have additional features like longer posts (3000 characters per default with Calckey), pages, clips, drive and much more. Misskey and Calckey also use Reactions instead of “Favorites” which means that if you react with a 🎉 emoji to a post users on Misskey and Calckey will see that emoji as a reaction. Mastodon users will just see it as a favorite (so as a star).

In general I used Mastodon for quite a while and switched to running my own Calckey server at calckey.braydmedia.de

brayd , 11 months ago

Hm for me it really works well. Especially because it has full text search by default. 👀 Just took me some time to figure out how to search accounts because I was used to how it is on mastodon and didn’t see that when you search for a users name it defaults to posts but there’s a tab for users.

brayd , 11 months ago

You’re welcome!

brayd , 11 months ago

“I stop at 2:59” lmao