whenever8186

whenever8186 , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp?

UK here. Most people I work with will have Signal or Telegram. However my kids and the parents groups and schools all use WhatsApp.

None of them could get their friends to switch from WhatsApp. Nobody gives a shit at all about Meta and their dodgy data practices. Convenience is king. “aLL mY frIEnDs aRE oN WHatSaPp!”

They will literally be excluded if they don’t use it.

Super-frustrating and makes me feel pretty helpless tbh.

whenever8186 , 11 months ago to technology in Uncharted territory: do AI girlfriend apps promote unhealthy expectations for human relationships?

ya think?

whenever8186 , 11 months ago to technology in Lab-Grown Cotton Enters The Market

I’m not up to speed on the environmental impact of cotton farming, but it would be pretty cool if this technology could be applied to stuff like the oil palm, which only grows in tropical areas.

whenever8186 , 11 months ago to technology in ChatGPT for Android launches next week

Great, now it will be even easier to post endlessly about it.

whenever8186 , 11 months ago to technology in A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students

My kid’s school here in the UK banned them, but the kids all take them in anyways and the teachers don’t care.

I had banned YouTube in the house, but then the school started assigning homework to watch YouTube videos.

The dependence of our infrastructure on private social media companies is shocking and needs to be stopped immediately.

whenever8186 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Pihole vs AdGuard Home

I used to do all this, but then I gave up and started paying for NextDNS. It’s like having your own Piholes in the cloud. It’s like £18/year and is way more reliable than self hosting, especially for something as crucial as DNS for your home. It also has excellent parental controls if you need that, multiple profiles, good logging and analytics and a decent looking privacy policy.

Sure, it’s not as fun as self-hosting but it’s better then getting shouted at every time someone’s app stops working because of some glitch in your setup.

whenever8186 , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Hosting Lemmy in Azure—best approach

I’m currently trying to get Lemmy working on Azure Container Apps and Azure Postgres Flexible Server. I’ve got it all deployed, but I’m having some issues with the reverse proxy.

Regarding the ‘best’ choice - well it depends on what you mean by ‘best’. AKS will be the most flexible and ACI will probably be the simplest (if it will even work for Lemmy - I haven’t looked at ACI in years). Container Apps will probably be somewhere in the middle. Container Apps is just an abstraction over Kubernetes, so in theory you should get the scalability and flexibility of k8s without the overhead of managing a cluster.

I got Lemmy up and running on my home Rapberry Pi microk8s cluster pretty easily, so it will work fine on AKS for sure.

I’m looking at Container Apps just as a pet project because I’ve been waiting for a product like this for years. Kubernetes is awesome, but has always been too complicated for the average software developer to use. It needs a layer of abstraction and that’s what Container Apps is. So anyways I figured running Lemmy on it would be a good way to test drive it.

As I said though, I’ve run into some issues and am almost at the point where I was going to ask for help. If anyone’s interested, I can post links to my Github repos with my Terraform code and all that.

whenever8186 , 1 year ago to nostupidquestions in Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?

If you make the bread yourself (i.e. with a breadmaker) it’s dirt cheap. I buy flour and yeast in bulk and it costs bugger all per loaf.

You could maybe argue bread isn’t healthy because it’s technically a processed food (flour, carbs, etc.), but as others have pointed out moderation is key.