smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, my bad then! I didn't see a repo linked in the post or on the site. That's great, then!

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Cool idea. But since it doesn't seem to be open source and self-hostable, I won't trust it.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

FWIW, I have no issues sending mails/having them be received from my self-hosted to Google mail

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

On many trackers, you get "paid" for time seeded. Usually in the forms of bonus points or the like. You can then exchange these for improving your ratio (or a freeleech token, or an invite,...).

It's a system that also rewards keeping media available even if you are not uploading to anyone.

Also, keep in mind that often, a large part of the available content is freeleech (meaning leeching it doesn't affect your ratio), but seeding those torrents usually still does improve your ratio.

Pimsleur. It's very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.

Isn't that what Sichuan peppers do?

Sorry, I should have mentioned: liking bare-metal does not mean disliking abstraction.

I would absolutely go insane if I had to go back to installing and managing each and every services in their preferred way/config file/config language, and to diy backup solutions, and so on.

I'm currently managing all of that through a single nix config, which doesn't only take care of 90% of the overhead, it also contains all config in a single, self-documenting, language.

YES, WATCH STEINS;GATE!

Not Steins;Gate Zero though, that's a sequel.

The most common criticism is that the first handful of episodes are slow, but I hard disagree. Every moment is either re-contextualized later on, or is important character work.

Nice. My partner has a Proxmox setup, so we've adapted the Nix config to spin up new VMs of any machine with a single command.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

NixOS :)

Maybe I should have clarified that liking bare-metal does not imply disliking abstraction

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Containers != services.

I don't think I am better than anyone. I jumped into these comments because docker was pushed as superior, unprompted.

Installing and configuring does not an expert make, agreed; but that's not what I said.

I would say I'm pretty knowledgeable about the things I host though, seeing as I am a contributor and / or package maintainer for a number of them...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They are using a hosting provider - their dad.

"The cloud" is also just a bunch of machines in a basement. Lots of machines in lots of "basements", but still.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by smiletolerantly@awful.systems to c/ich_iel@feddit.org
 

Danke!! Endlich sagt wer was!

 

Schadenfreude 🙂

 

Five years ago, I bought a Supernote A5. It was (and mostly still is) a great device for reading and writing on an eInk display, and it runs plain old linux.

The deciding reason I went for this device instead of the competition is that I was "under the impression" that they were about to enable full SSH access to the device! Awesome!

"Why were you under that impression?", I hear the skeptics ask. Well, their spokesperson has stated that they would do so. Via mail, and on reddit, publicly, multiple times. I was still torn, so sent them a DM, asking if this was ineed factual. "Yes", they said, "the next quarterly update will enable SSH access!".

Great!

Well, it's been 5 years. They did not follow through. A couple updates were published, none contained the promised functionality, the spokesperson stopped answering questions about SSH. The last software update I received is from 2.5yrs ago. Mentions of the original Supernote A5 have largely been scrubbed from their website.

Let me be clear, the device still functions perfectly. But it is in danger of becoming e-waste because it is so needlessly complicated to get stuff on the device. I'm currently in need of an ebook reader with (ideally) OPDS capability, and I am pretty confident I'd be able to get something like koreader running on this, or at least just run a script to sync files over SSH. Also, I frankly feel wounded in my pride having a Linux device in my possession which refuses to do my bidding (I'm joking of course, but also I am 100% serious).

Here's all I know:

  • plugging it in via USB, the device reads as an MTP device, with access only to the documents/books/... stored on it
  • you can place an update.zip file (obtained from the SN website) into the root of that MTP directory, and upon reboot, the device will update. To me, this appears to be the most promising route of gaining access.
  • unfortunately, the zip file is encrypted. The decryption key clearly has to be known to the device, but since I have no access to it,...

I'm a software engineer, but I have zero knowledge of the "dark arts", so to speak. If anyone could help me (or point me into the right direction!), I would really be grateful. I don't want this (generally nice) product to turn into a paperweight instead of a paper replacement :(

 

Basically, the title. After years of inactivty, I'll be taking music (cello) lessons again, with my teacher of yesteryear, from whom I've moved half a country away.

She has suggested Zoom but is open to alternatives. I don't particularly like Zoom, plus I have a feeling better quality can be had through a custom solution - but I'm at a bit of a loss as to what exactly would be a good fit for this project.

Maybe Jitsi? Does someone here have experience with it and could tell me if it's possible to set something like a "target" audio quality?

For hardware, I basically have two options. Both are already in use, for different things, and have sufficient processing capabilities - albeit no GPU:

  • host everything at home. Plus: lowest possible latency from me to the server. Not sure how much that is worth though.
  • root server in the Hetzner cloud: much faster network speed. Again though, not sure how beneficial that is, the ultimate bottleneck will always be my upload speed (40Mbit)

OK, I realize that this post is a but of a random assortment of thoughts. I'd be really happy about suggestions and / or hearing about other's experiences with similar use-cases!

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by smiletolerantly@awful.systems to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hi,

not sure where else to post this. For a while now, I've unsuccessfully been trying to get WireGuard to work with Crunchyroll.

Setup is as follows:

  • dedicated server hosts a wg-quick instance in [neighboring country]
  • OPNSense acts as peer on a single IP
  • I have a rule for routing the entire traffic of some source device via that IP

This works just fine. Handshake successful, traffic is routed via the server. traceroute shows the server as the hop immediately after my device's local gateway. The connection is stable, and fast.

...except for Crunchyroll. The site / app itself is fine, but I can not, for the life of me, get a video to play. It just keeps loading forever.

I don't think this is an issue with CR recognizing that I'm not where I say I am - looking online, it seems pretty easy to use CR with a VPN. I've also tried from multiple other devices, all with the same symptom.

If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them 😅

EDIT: ~~It was MTU. Had to manually set it to 1500 on both devices.~~

Nope, still the same issues. I was using the fallback interface there briefly.

EDIT: It WAS MTU related, I had to enable MSS clamping on the OPNSense.

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