Corgana

Corgana , 21 hours ago

I have a very similar setup to you, and I use SyncThing without issue for the important files (which I keep in my Documents directory to make it easy to remember).

Corgana , 1 day ago

https://c.tenor.com/punj70NkFc0AAAAM/the-simpsons-why-didnt-i-think-of-that.gif

Corgana , 1 day ago

The devs did a Q&A that answer pretty much every question in this comment section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz2iZwYpgg

Corgana , 4 days ago

Asking an llm to do things it’s particularly bad at and being surprised that it isn’t good at it that the company that makes it says it's really, really, good at it.

This image isn't making fun of GPT, it's making fun of the people who pretend GPT is something it's not.

Corgana , 5 days ago

This is really cool, it would be nice to have some quick options like start minimized or minimize to tray.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Or Nativefier (which uses electron) but with a nice GUI.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Oh no I didn't realize it had ended! Maybe someone else will pick it back up.

Corgana , 5 days ago

Mint or Zorin for those with windows experience, Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh, are all great "just works" distros. Don't overthink it, OP!

Corgana , 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I have trouble believing that last bit. My Mastodon feed is always extremely full of scientists and Mastodon has almost 3x the active users that BlueSky does.

Corgana , 7 days ago

You have a problem.

...subscribed.

Corgana , 7 days ago

dead project

alive

🤔

Corgana , 2 days ago

Space Babies was very RTD but I actually thought it was charming and pretty fun. Ncuti has a lot of promise, too.

Corgana , 9 days ago

Fun fact, "Riker" is actually pronounced fee-yet-ee

Corgana , 10 days ago

Uhh... why did you just paste the comments from the video without the answers?

Corgana , 11 days ago

I really like Zorin as a beginner's distro. It's based on Ubuntu so most everything is designed to work with it without learning a whole new command line tool, but it doesn't try to hide the Linuxey stuff and mimic windows. On top of that it's just very polished.

Corgana , 11 days ago

Sometimes FOSS communities are so very uptight, we should relax a bit.

Now THIS is funny

Corgana , 11 days ago

Hmm

Corgana , 11 days ago

Good point, perhaps "beginner's distro" is not the best term because not everyone wants to put a ton of attention into their operating system!

Corgana , 12 days ago

A better comparison would be energy utilized per user, in which case the energy requirements for Bitcoin are miles and miles ahead of what the average person produces using a computer in the same amount of time. Even a gamer, playing 4k 120fps ray traced games 12 hours a day would use a fraction of the energy of someone mining bitcoin.

Corgana , 12 days ago

How much energy is used by our current financial system?

Orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin requires, which is the criticism.

Corgana , 14 days ago

Online accounts works seamlessly with Google Drive but yet not for OneDrive.

It also is not the same thing as "Drive Sync" on Windows that mirrors local files.

Corgana , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

2008 is not "damn old" in terms of filesystems.

Corgana , 15 days ago

Impossible to not read in his voice

Corgana , 15 days ago

Clapping

Corgana , 16 days ago

Yes. Why bother sharing if you're not trying to help others?

Corgana OP , 17 days ago

I don't remember Zimmerman looking so feminine and classically attractive but if you say so.

Corgana OP , 16 days ago

Smiling

Corgana OP , 16 days ago

"Living Witness" might be my all-time favorite Voyager episode for this reason.

Corgana , 17 days ago

I know this is a joke but "Enshittification" requires there to be a monopoly that abuses commercial customers along with users. Linux distros can't really have monopolies since the switching costs are so low.

Corgana , 17 days ago

Annoyed

Corgana , 17 days ago

Is this using ActivityPub? I notice that the lead dev shares a username with a lemmy.world admin.

EDIT: yes it is I missed that it is already federated with Lemmy instances

Corgana , 19 days ago

How so?

Corgana , 19 days ago

They absolutely were, without question. That said, there's nothing this guy can do to make that happen on Mastodon instances he doesn't own.

Corgana , 19 days ago

It seems like we agree on the facts, and I certainly won't disagree that it's worse now, but I would characterize Twitter's (pre-Musk) response to extremism as "measured, lacking and lethargic", before I would use "imperfect", which still implies "pretty good" and from my perceptive it was not good enough to make me want to use it. I think maybe we just have a different tolerance for hate speech.

Corgana OP , 20 days ago

https://media.tenor.com/RBOSB1y4ggYAAAAM/startrek-ok.gif

Corgana OP , 19 days ago

Ones-for-two more like it

Corgana , 20 days ago

While TrueNAS is great I found it to be significantly more NAS-oriented than a general "home server". It's certainly capable just very into the weeds with permissions, users, groups, etc. It's not very noob friendly. If you aren't primarily dealing with a ton of data, you might want to look into something like CasaOS or Homarr which make sharing data on the network very "set it and forget it" and are more focused on apps.

Also recommendations include PiHole, Immich, Qbittorrent, Plex (or Jellyfin) obviously, SyncThing, Duplicati, Home Assistant (although you probably want to run that in a VM) and Tailscale and NGINX proxy manager for accessing outside the house.

Corgana , 24 days ago

This is such a baller line. Another good one is in "Up The Long Ladder" when Brenna asks Riker "What are you staring at? Have you never seen a woman before?" and Riker just casually says "I thought I had."

Corgana , 25 days ago

This public issue on the nut.js repo, where I'm publicly accused of something that's entirely not true was the final nail in the coffin.

Damn FOSS geeks, they ruin FOSS!

Corgana OP , 25 days ago

It's nice to know the engineers aren't scrolling reddit during their breaks at least

Corgana , 26 days ago

This is very cool. Wordpress also has activitypub integration. I would love it if I could comment "directly" on blog posts with a Mastodon (or Lemmy!) account.

Corgana , 27 days ago

I actually think users who click ads are probably the ones who most need to learn about the alternatives!

Corgana , 27 days ago

lol fair. Whats good for me is more people educated on the benefits of open source!

Corgana , 27 days ago

it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again.

The biggest hurdle for widespread adoption of open platforms, imo.