Zagorath
Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
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I like it cos it lets you browse more sneakily at work.
Not exactly the same thing, but I used to have a terminal-based Reddit client, back before the API change put a kabush to that. Anyone know if there’s a simple text-based Lemmy or Piefed terminal client?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago?
40·6 days agoI also would love to know what the subculture was.
But IMO no, you’re not immature. I think it’s only natural.
Personally, I get sad just hearing stories like this. About subcultures, or communities, or groups, or websites, or games, that people used to love and get joy out of no longer being around because they died or faded away over time. That sense of loss makes me sad even when I had nothing to do with the community.
A lot of that’s still available in AOSP. The devices they actually sell just load a heap of commercial crap on top of that.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDAEnglish
7·8 days agoOh good tip!
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDAEnglish
4·8 days agoThat’s a pretty righteous set up OP.
Lol not me. I’m not the author. Just saw the article and thought it was an interesting conversation starter.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDAEnglish
1·8 days agoor a recipe for an insecure mess that could become difficult to maintain
The concept, or the specific setup the author of that article has? If you mean the latter, I’m not going to argue. But the concept? It shouldn’t have any effect either way on security, but the whole advantage of it is that it’s less of a mess. The same way that running a whole bunch of services on bare metal can quickly become a mess compared to VMs or Docker/LX containers, declared state helps give a single source of truth for what all the services you might be running are. It lets you make changes in repeatable and clearly documented ways, so you can never be left wondering “how did I do that before?” if you need to do it again.
If everything you run is a Docker container, there’s a good chance Terraform is overkill; a Kubernetes config will probably do the job. But depending on your setup there are a whole bunch of different tools that might be useful.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDAEnglish
2·8 days agoWhat’s your preferred approach to defined state in your home servers?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What to look for in building/buying a server?English
1·13 days agoOh, I used HA to mean high availability. I was not aware people also abbreviated Home Assistant.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What to look for in building/buying a server?English
2·14 days agoSorry for the late reply. I’m just disorganised and have way too many unread notifications.
LXC containers sound really interesting, especially on a machine that’s hosting a lot of services. But how available are they? One advantage of Docker is its ubiquity, with a lot of useful tools already built as Docker images. Does LXC have a similarly broad supply of images? Or else is it easy to create one yourself?
Re VM vs LXC, have I got this right? You generally use VMs only for things that are intermittently spun up, rather than services you keep running all the time, with a couple of exceptions like HomeAssistant? What’s the reason they’re an exception?
Possibly related: your examples are all that VMs get access to the discrete GPU, containers use the integrated GPU. Is there a particular reason for that distribution?
I’m really curious about the cluster thing too. How simple is that? Is it something where you could start out just using an old spare laptop, then later add a dedicated server and have it transparently expand the power of your server? Or is the advantage just around HA? Or something else?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What to look for in building/buying a server?English
1·14 days agoSorry for the late reply. I’m just disorganised and have way too many unread notifications.
LXC containers sound really interesting, especially on a machine that’s hosting a lot of services. But how available are they? One advantage of Docker is its ubiquity, with a lot of useful tools already built as Docker images. Does LXC have a similarly broad supply of images? Or another easy way to run things?
and MacOS
Oh that’s interesting. I wonder why they do it that way, considering macOS is a Unix OS.
Yeah I’m interested in how that works too.
I’ve recently been looking at the Nextcloud “all in one” Docker image. It works by mounting the docker.sock file into the master container, which allows that container to stand up a whole bunch of other containers on your machine.
How would that work on Windows, if the Docker socket isn’t a file handle?
That might be part of it, but I was thinking it was more how things we don’t think of as files, like sockets, are accessed with a file descriptor.
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pics@lemmy.world•This is Jehan Pages, the top developer behind GIMP, a free open source photo editor. Adobe executives hate Jehan. Because of his hard work, Adobe lost millions of dollarsEnglish
1·18 days agoBut FCP X is amazing. It’s the one thing I really miss having a Mac for and it’s so disappointing that nobody else has even attempted to replicate it. It’s leaps and bounds ahead of everybody else. Calling it a “rebranded iMovie” shows either a complete lack of awareness of literally anything about it, or an incredible intellectual dishonesty that doesn’t even seen to serve a practical purpose.
It’s also…not subscription based. Or wasn’t in 2018 when I last had a Mac.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages
1·20 days agoI do wonder if there might be a difference between the phonemes and the realisation, the way there was in German according to the German commenter.
But also, even without that, stress undoubtedly changes the perception of the vowel (not nearly as much as in English, but certainly not nil), as does an r after a vowel.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languagesEnglish
3·20 days agoI took German in primary school (0.5 or 1.5 years, I forget which), Spanish and Korean in late primary school/early high school (3 years), French (5 years) and Vietnamese (1 year) in high school. Of these, I can hold a very basic conversation in French and have good enough grammar to put together fairly sophisticated sentences, very slowly, using a dictionary; and can read the Korean script (the same way someone who speaks Turkish but has literally never heard a word of the language can “read English” because their language uses the same script) and barely any more than that, in any of those languages.
I blame the fact that I changed languages so much for my poor skill in all of them. (Though a lack of will or immersion certainly has a fair amount to do with it, too.)
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languagesEnglish
8·20 days agomercedes
In English’s defence, it’s not an English word. It’s a German company named after a Spanish name. And at least to my ear, the Spanish and German pronunciations also have 3 different Es. One helpful Redditor also provided an IPA guide to the German pronunciation, agreeing with my ears:
mɛrˈtseːdɛs
The “e” in the middle is long and stressed.
Edit: I would also say, that most of the times it is even pronounced like this:
məˈtseːdɛs
But I can’t even begin to justify the letter c sounding like /s/, /k/, and /ʃ/.











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