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Cake day: March 10th, 2024
  • Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit imposes new restrictions on Old Reddit - EngadgetbyAHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6 days

    just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche

    I think this is a big part of why they’re trying to kill it. They want to trap you in an endless doom scroll. They don’t want you to be able to quickly see there’s nothing new and get out. Everything you look at needs to be another attempt to ensnare you and shove ads in your face.

  • Technology@lemmy.world•US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystembyAHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8 days

    NixOS is great, but it definitely breaks things. It’s the way it works, though, not whether the software is bleeding edge. Nix lets a package specify its own dependencies, even if those dependencies conflict with those of another package. It does this by breaking the traditional POSIX file system structure that many programs assume they can depend on. It puts all sorts of things where they “don’t belong”, and then uses a small army of environment variables, scripts, and symlinks to stitch it back together so that no individual package realizes what happened. If you only use software from the package manager, this is often (but not always) seemless, but if you download stuff from the web, none of the system libraries it traditionally expects are there. Likewise, if you’re using Nix alongside something like Debian’s apt, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the two package managers doing things in two different ways causes some issues that are hard to interpret to the uninformed.

  • Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Can you run multiple servers on one machine (e.g. Raspberry Pi)?byAHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 days

    A lot of people saying ditch the Pi, but it’s fairly viable depending on what exactly you want from it, so long as you get one of the newer models with plenty of RAM. Simply streaming media is relatively manageable for a Pi. It will most likely run Navidrome okay, and Jellyfin will be okay if and only if media doesn’t need to be transcoded, and you MIGHT have issues with 4K, not sure. If you stream to something like a smart TV or Fire Stick, those can typically only handle certain video formats, so if your media isn’t that type, either the server transcodes it, which the probably Pi can’t do fast enough, or playback fails. Music typically doesn’t require transcoding, so that’s why I think Navidrome should be okay. Pi-Hole is manageable and is, after all, expressly designed to be run on a Pi. It can also be run on standard hardware, so while you can do it on a Pi, you don’t need one to use Pi-Hole.

    Now, that said, two main concerns about a Pi. The first is that you’ll probably eventually want to host and do more, and you may run out of resources and wish you’d just gotten a cheap mini PC instead. The second is that you really should get an external HDD or something to store as much as you can on, preferably including the OS. An SD card just is not meant to handle the constant I/O that comes with being the main drive for a full computer. It’ll eventually fail, taking all the data on it with it. I think the best way to run off an external HDD has changed since I used a Pi, so some research recommended, but what I did before was flash the EXACT SAME image to the SD card and HDD, then delete the boot partition on the HDD, expand the data partition to fill the HDD, and delete the data partition off the SD card. If you use the exact same image for both, it at least used to be that the partitions keep the same UUID, so it boots from the SD card as normal, and when told to find the other partition by UUID, it finds it on the other drive and works just fine.