Chewy7324

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I feel like most of these "10 alternatives to xyz"-articles are basically a summary of alternativeto.net. Or they've just listed all projects they've found with a quick search. I'm almost certain they didn't install them most of the time.

This also applies to "comparison" sites, which usually are a list of Amazon affiliate links. At this point, I don't trust websites with affiliate links anymore, as they've never actually tried the products. Sadly those spam sites make it difficult to find actually good reasearched tests.

Back to itsfoss, they write many articles, and some are good, but they still are blog spam.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If I'm cooking, I make enough for a few meals. It takes a similar amount of time and it can be stored for a while in the fridge.

Also I don't think hello fresh is able to have lower prices than supermarkets, and it's easy to find recipes online. I won't be surprised if those services go bankrupt in a few years.

Edit: I can't recommend SponsorBlock enough. Hearing the same sponsor message again and again is incredibly annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Off topic: ff2mpv is awesome. It supports many video sites (I believe everything youtube-dl does) and opens the video on a page/link in an external mpv window.

This helped me mirror a video without downloading to read the embedded subtitles (why uploads a mirrored video with subtitles?). Also playback speed and all other advanced features mpv supports are really useful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Great explanation, it's what I was hoping to write until my lemmy client crashed with the unfinished comment.

I'm curious what would happen if some copyright holder tried to get information about a user on lemmy. Iirc only the users instance could log their IP, but almost all instances are run by volunteers, so risking a lawsuit might no be viable. Just look at what Tachiyomi devs have to go through, even though all they're doing was and is legal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Or simply set up wireguard.

At least I suffered from terrible battery life with Tailscale, while 24/7 wireguard isn't even showing on the battery stats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with docker on Windows, but I believe it runs through a (well integrated) VM. Do you run it 24/7 on your desktop pc? If yes, do you notice a performance impact while e.g. gaming?

It's surprising to me how docker managed to be the ultimate way to run services across all major OSs while only running on Linux specifically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The DNS-01 challenge [1] allows for issuing SSL certificates without a publicly routable IP address. It needs API support from your DNS provider to automate it, but e.g. lego [2] supports many services.

I personally leave my Wireguard VPN always on, but as its only routing the local subnet with my services, it doesn't even appear in my battery statistics.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challenge

[2] https://github.com/go-acme/lego

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rotating the display by a custom angle is possible through xrandr on X.org.

There's no Wayland protocol for custom angle rotation, and I don't expect anyone to create a protocol extension without a use-case.

My wild guess: Theoretically it should be possible for a compositor to support similar custom rotation, as applications simply draw to their surface (window), without knowing how and where it is displayed on the viewport (display).

But it might require quite a bit of work, depending on the project, so I don't expect to ever see custom rotation on anything besides smaller/niche compositors.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552138/rotate-a-display-by-custom-angle#552140

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Some products are only available on Amazon, altough there's always an alternative on another shop.

I try to avoid Amazon because of how many bad products are on their platform. Other shops also list third-party sellers, but by avoiding those platforms and only buying on proper non-marketplace shops the products usually meet a minimum quality. At least my experience with shops that actually specialize in a specific categorie (pc hardware -> mindfactory.de, electronics -> reichelt.de, ...) is generally better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is to find those german trackers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Additionally, companies doing business in the US also follow US laws. If they don't, they could still be sued overseas (or stop doing business over there).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Unless the container follows semver and only auto updates minor versions.

Edit : Which Immich isn't.

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