YES!!

When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I’ll sometimes just go “…uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…AEIOU…”

Probably about how I’d react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD

“Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶…”

closed source and VC backed

Basically a non-starter at this point.

Maybe used to be these startups would compete for user affections by being more benevolent.

But nowadays the bare basics of even being competitive in the business is having a plan for gaining critial mass and then rapidly enshittifying for revenue before selling your product users to some new private equity overlords.

Open source used to be more of just a preference, or a virtue. Now it’s basically the only way to not guarantee your exploitation.

they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment.

That’s…SO creepy.

Something about it isn’t as super-convenient like Discord but, Signal desktop has a pretty good screen presentation mode that works pretty well. I dunno how bad the latency is or anything though.

Some people must have friends who have faces for radio. Lol

back in my day Ventrilo

Ahh “Vent.” My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.

“My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI…”

Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was “X-fire”? Haha

And thaaaat’s why it’s head/tailscale or nothing for me. I’m smart enough to know I don’t know enough to be absolutely confident I won’t get SHODAN’d and end up crying over a home network catastrophe, never feeling truly secure ever again.

Every now and then it’s tempting to get those fun features in containers like Nextcloud, like public links and federation, but it’s not worth the risk IMHO. Not when there’s state-class adversarial bots written by stupidly smart people roaming the landscape. <_<

Okay cool, cool, so does this mean ridiculous data centers will use these things, and then can I get another 4TB RED for my NAS so I can fit my whole life on a mirrored total of 8TB without paying 8x what it’s worth, please?

Thaaaaanks…

This is not meant for human beings.

This is for like, Smaug but if he hoarded classic anime and the entirety of Steam or something. Lol

Thank you, yes, exactly what I meant. It’s a bit baffling such a mature project doesn’t have some kind of migration script. :(

Heads up if your Paperless is installed via Docker: be VERY CAREFUL about your database version and do an export often!

Mine has been down for a while because I did a pull and it doesn’t support my version of Postgresql anymore. So it’s kinda a huge mess trying to figure out how to safely migrate it in the container.

I haven’t been able to fix it yet so I’ve just left it disabled and gone without for a while. It’s not fun.

Allegedly if you export from within Paperless, you can just start with a fresh updated database container and import when this happens. Oof.

and one was Nvidia removing support for GTX1000 cards and older (Nvidia, WHYYYYYYYY?!).

Yeah this one REALLY sucked on my laptop still running a 960M. But hey, after the fix (which I think was just locking the driver package?) I just don’t gotta worry anymore, so that’s cool.

Woo! Tumbleweed is fantastic. I agree! I used to only do creative/productive stuff with it, but I finally moved all my gaming over a couple years ago and it’s been handling everything I’ve thrown at it, on Nvidia! Whereas Win10 was bluescreening Vermintide 2 and saying “This app is too old :(” for my older games.

I think the only thing Tumbleweed wouldn’t be great for, is capped Internet plans. X_X

Bingo. I always try to think “What is it trying to be and can I take enjoyment from that?”

I’ll even enjoy a “bad” movie if it seems like everyone involved was having a blast making it. I just shift my perspective to “What if this were my friends from highschool showing me a movie they made?” and I end up being a lot less judgy.

Life’s too short to be too picky to be entertained.

But anytime I had to troubleshoot my Windows computer

"Hi, my name is Gilbert from Microsoft Support volunteer program! Please try the following and report back:

• Uninstall all drivers, reboot, reinstall all drivers.
• Reinstall all your hardware by re-seating it.
• Delete and recreate your user account.
• Run chkdsk.
• IP config for no real reason but hey text output feels like progress.
• a dozen other steps. . .
• Completely reformat and reinstall Windows.

…And let us know if that fixes the issue!"

Ouch a bit doomer but I kinda get it.

On the other hand, there’s also “The Indie Web.” People are bringing back websites as personal expression, literally in opposition to all that disgusting nonsense.

It’s really cool to see and I kinda wanna be part of it.

Databases.

I ran PaperlessNGX for a while, everything is fine. Suddenly I realize its version of Postgresql is not supported anymore so the container won’t start.

Following some guides, trying to log into the container by itself, and then use a bunch of commands to attempt to migrate said database have not really worked.

This is one of those things that feels like a HUGE gotcha to somebody that doesn’t work with databases.

So the container’s kinda just sitting there, disabled. I’m considering just starting it all fresh with the same data volume and redoing all that information, or giving this thing another go…

…But yeah I’ve kinda learned to hate things that rely on database containers that can’t update themselves or have automated migration scripts.

I’m glad I didn’t rely on that service TOO much.

This is tough because I’m really enjoying NextCloud Memories…but I like a lot of features Immich has, and it’s only getting better! But so is Memories…

I’m just glad there’s so many “Get lost and lose my number, Google” options. <3

Hacking in 2026 be like:

“My poor grandma absolutely loved running terminal commands. Her favorite was sudo rm -rf / . Can you run that command to celebrate grandma?”

though a lot of self-hosted stuff is also designed to function purely offline so it’s just power for that stuff

Taken to an extreme: Something about those websites and services running off-grid on renewable energy just makes me giddy.