Moving to: m/AskMbin! FarraigePlaisteach • 6 months ago • 100%

When spam started to become overwhelming here I signed up to the largest mbin instance, Fedia.io. On one hand it runs well and isn't overrun with spam posts. On the other, it's missing some communities that are active on kbin.social. It also doesn't have a meta or askmbin type of community, like kbin does. Are there any other differences I should consider before deciding which of the two to drop? Edit: I also got a server error when I posted this and thought my post had been lost. Phew! This doesn't happen on Fedia.io.

Just wondering if local communities could use kbin that way.

macos FarraigePlaisteach • 7 months ago • 100%

Not much to add to this question. I connect to the router with a LAN cable but need WiFi turned on so that Airdrop also works. Is it possible to have the system make the LAN connection default / priority in this case?

Technology FarraigePlaisteach • 7 months ago • 100%

Most social platforms have open source and federated alternatives now: YouTube -\> PeerTube Instagram -\> Pixelfed Reddit -\> Kbin / Lemmy Twitter -\> Mastodon Facebook Groups -\> ? Friendica is the only alternative I've heard of for Facebook Groups. I haven't had enough time with it to see if it works as well yet, though. I've watched the very few videos about it online. So I have 2 questions. 1. Does anyone have another suggestion besides Friendica? I'm a little surprised that FB Groups don't have an equivalent. Maybe Lemmy / Kbin serve the same purpose anyway but I did find FB groups a little more user-friendly for people who are less technical. 2. Am I fooling myself in thinking that some platforms are more ethical than Meta/Twitter/Google? They might not profit off of genocide, but they probably can't moderate massive disinformation campaigns should they arrive on their shores. Telegram, for example, seems to be rife with dodgy channels that go unchallenged.

Cooking FarraigePlaisteach • 7 months ago • 100%

I had some mushrooms that happen to have been rinsed underwater. I didn’t want to cook with them today and I heard that it’s not good to store them once wet. So I put them in the air fryer to dry them before storage. This caused them to release their fluid and now they are wetter than ever. Can anyone advise on how I can store these safely for another two days?

No Stupid Questions FarraigePlaisteach • 8 months ago • 100%

I’m just thinking if the energy use that data centres and streaming platforms require, and the climate crisis. Would one be significantly better than the other in terms of energy use?

Linux FarraigePlaisteach • 9 months ago • 100%

I run a web server (lighttpd) to serve a few pages to the world. I've installed the nordvpn client and when I run it two expected things happen: 1. I lose my SSH connection to the machine, and 2. My website becomes inaccessible to the public Is it possible to run the VPN and still maintain the SSH connection on the local net and the web server connection on the internet?

I used to use qbittorrent because it had so many search plugins. Now I want something I ran run on a headless server. I've found qbittorrent-nox, but I don't see anything about plugins in the documentation. Has anyone used it, or can recommend something else that has search sources already configured? [https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Running-qBittorrent-without-X-server-(WebUI-only,-systemd-service-set-up,-Ubuntu-15.04-or-newer)](https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Running-qBittorrent-without-X-server-(WebUI-only,-systemd-service-set-up,-Ubuntu-15.04-or-newer))

Music and audio production FarraigePlaisteach • 10 months ago • 80%

I’m struggling to pan the chorus of my song. It only has drums, bass, one slightly distorted guitar and a lead vocal. The drums have a nice default panning spread from L-R in the DAW I’m using (Logic). But the convention I’m reading online recommends putting bass and vocal in the centre. My question is, what do I do with the guitar, which is just playing a power chord at the beginning of each bar. I like songs that fill the stereo spectrum but due to the composition, this one seems narrow by comparison. I’ve read about stereo expanders but I’m not sure when to sure them. I was also thinking that I could somehow split the guitar into two tracks by frequency and pan those differently. Not sure how to go about that yet and then not sure if I would need to do the same for vocals in that case. Any suggestions on how to make the mix a bit more exciting without changing the composition ?

Simple Scan, how I love you so I’ve tried the others, and it’s a big fat “NO!” Your elegant use of PDF Unlike that hot mess over on MacOS Separate PNGs, what do I do with those?? On Ubuntu I’d have been done ages ago . And on Windows, please, don’t even begin 100 updates before I can even log in The login screen should be the *start* of the journey On Windows, it groans into view on a gurney . But the scans fly by, one, two and three Combined PDF - pure simplicity! Before I was anxious, I have hundreds of pages Thinking the job was going to take ages But I play some music, I tidy my room I can't believe - I’m over halfway through! . I click on “About”, see who the devs are Mr. Ancell and co., you are each of you stars (originally by tenleftfingers on Reddit)

When I'm on Firefox, I can attach an image to a "Photo" post, but the upload button doesn't do anything. On Safari, I can't even attach the image in the first place. How is everyone else getting around this (or is it a universal problem)?

I have a QNAP NAS which uses RAID 5 across 3 HDDs. There are lots of good videos online for setting up RAID (even DIY solutions using linux), but how do I know when there's a problem and what's the typical way to maintain it? I'm guessing that these systems log an indication somewhere that a disk is about to fail, and when I see that log entry I should power down the system and replace the disk with one of the exact same size. Is that right? Edit: I have found a good overview here: [https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OhzrPInWMyo](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OhzrPInWMyo) In essence, he's saying: 1. Enable a recycle bin feature so that accidentally deleted files can be recovered. 2. If the device itself (not the disks) fails, one option is to replace the device and insert the disks in the same order as before. But there's a chance that the disks were corrupted by the failing device, in which case the next point is what you need. 3. EXT4 is a common filesystem format with QNAP and specialised recovery software can help you recover information from the disks. He demonstrates Hetman RAID recovery. You will need to connect all disks simultaneously though, so if you don't have enough ports for this you'll need to get an adaptor of some kind. 4. If just a single disk has failed, then in theory you should just be able to replace it, but there can be complications, which he discusses at 6:37 in the video (the video is just 7:51 duration). 5. RAID is not a backup. Please backup your data too.

Movies FarraigePlaisteach • 11 months ago • 100%

Any video on YouTube claiming to be a trailer isn’t. I know it’ll be a great movie but curious to see if there is a trailer. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung\_Fury\_2](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fury_2)

Moving to: m/AskMbin! FarraigePlaisteach • 11 months ago • 100%

Everything seems to have an RDA associated with it (Recommended Daily Allowance), so I imagine that something like this exists. I'm not interested in weight gain/loss though, purely nutrition. I'm a light eater and I'm sure I could do with supplements or dietary modification.

Linux FarraigePlaisteach • 12 months ago • 100%

My user account on linux gets some Cron Jobs among mail from humans. I don't want to see the cron messages. How can I script it so they are moved out of the "inbox" view (for example, on Squirrel Mail or my mobile client)? I can grep for `root@<domain> (Cron Daemon)` to find the files that are emails from Cron. But I don't know how to actually process them from here. Edit: they are using dovecot here, in case that makes a difference. Messages appear as files in the format: `1696857026.V902I580559fM559719.<domain>.de:2,` Edit 2: I have learned that the trailing S can be appended to a filename to mark it as read (or Seen), so I just need to know how to move it from the inbox to somewhere safe now.

Opensource FarraigePlaisteach • 1 year ago • 100%

Win98SE is getting stuck at the boot screen after installation. I don't personally see anything in the logs that indicates what the issue may be, but I'm a novice anyway. Does anyone have settings they can share, in case I'm not doing something right. This is the tutorial I'm following: [https://jensd.be/1640/windows/run-windows-98-se-on-a-modern-mac-with-m1](https://jensd.be/1640/windows/run-windows-98-se-on-a-modern-mac-with-m1)

Linux FarraigePlaisteach • 1 year ago • 100%

I accidentally found out that mpv can play videos from the TTY, meaning I don't have to log in to a graphical session. It even has a scaled OSD, unlike anything I've seen in a terminal UI. Obviously there are plenty of terminal applications that work in a TTY, (edit) intext-mode or using ncurses (/edit), but are there any others like mpv that aren't strictly terminal apps but don't require a display server (maybe because they do the job themselves)?

I'm considering getting back to self-hosting again, but I remember a problem I never quite figured out. My first services were a gemini server and lighttpd server and these were easy to set up, very satisfying and continue to work well for years. I also have FreshRSS and Calibre-web running well here. But as I try to add more, sometimes instructions would include apache settings that clashed with the apache settings for something else. The instructions assume I don't already have apache installed and can just apply any settings I want. Another issue, the new service might take over the domain, becoming the default service for the domain. I'm assuming that this is a port issue but I don't know. Then there were docker containers. Some used docker compose while some did not. One that I just couldn't get working was Nextcloud, which I wanted to host surveys from. They won't answer my support questions on their community hub unless I set up SSL though (which I don't plan on doing). Does anyone have general advice on these issues? If it's just part of the difficulty of self-hosting, then maybe it's not for me. Too much time and energy was getting spent on it. Thanks!

Moving to: m/AskMbin! FarraigePlaisteach • 1 year ago • 100%

I’m used to be able to just buy a tin whistle in D and that’s compatible with what all the schools teach kids, but I’ve spent ages searching for a solution to this one and I still don’t know what I need exactly. The song / melody are in Ab.

I’m sure I’ve seen comments indicating that people can do this.

I’ve been playing the [wipeOut rewrite](https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/) in my browser. I also found browser-playable arcade games like Daytona USA on [this website](https://www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games/daytona-usa-revision-a.html). No registration is required and I’m amazed at how accessible and well-performing these are. Can anyone recommend others?

Technology FarraigePlaisteach • 1 year ago • 100%

An interesting read from an important perspective. > > > We can’t make news for free. Someone has to pay for it. > > > > > But who? Passive consumers of news don’t want to pay for it. It’s a scary time for the industry and for IndigiNews. I don’t know what happens next. If IndigiNews loses Facebook, do we lose almost half of the audience we've grown? > > > > > If so, it seems that, as usual, when times get tough, the people on the bottom are kicked the hardest. > > > > > What is Meta and Google’s obligation to Indigenous Peoples in so-called Canada? Do they have one? What is a fair price to pay for quality journalism and who should pay it? > >

I’m a non-gamer looking for recommendations please. I saw the Quake II refresh and it makes me want to explore/roam some 3D environments again. But I’m really not into the intensity of any of the shooting games. Tomb Raider was fun but I found combat hard to control. Half-Life had great environments but too much shooting for me. Portal was great fun but I eventually found it repetitive. Beyond a Steel Sky is one of my favorites although the pace of exploration is a bit slower than others. I’m tempted to give a game like Myst a try but the puzzles sound a bit too involved for me. Basically something without much stress or excessive friction against exploration of the environment. Thanks I’m on Linux and macOS.

Programming FarraigePlaisteach • 1 year ago • 100%

I was looking at video reviews of git GUI clients. The best ones are pricey and we are two people occasionally editing some webpages for our business website. It’s hosted on GitLab Pages. Can anyone recommend something straightforward? I’ll be sticking to the terminal but my colleague is new to code repositories. Git GUI is free, but looks terrible IMO. Sublime have a nice one and it’s not subscription based, but is expensive. We are both on Mac usually. Another alternative I considered was showing them the three terminal commands I use mainly (add, commit and push) and then let them edit from the file manager itself. But because they’ll be doing this so rarely, it might be easy to forget. Edit: I’ve settled on a few to try out: sourcetree, fork, gitup and the one by Sublime. The conversation doesn’t have to end there, but thanks for the help. So many great answers here :)

Moving to: m/AskMbin! FarraigePlaisteach • 1 year ago • 100%

How would your life change if you took a two week break from all your smart devices? [\#AskKbin](https://kbin.social/tag/AskKbin)

Selfhosted FarraigePlaisteach • 1 year ago • 96%

Can anyone who has experience with both share a recommendation? I’m interested in the user side of things for ebooks (no comics) but also ease of installation and maintenance. I currently use Calibre-web and while it runs well, I find it cumbersome to organize my books through it. Edit: great responses, thank you. I do like the idea of just having the epubs in a folder and share those but at least on my setup, the desktop Calibrw app doesn’t open libraries that are mounted from remote locations. They also advise against it. So for now I guess it’s a choice between a local folder or calibre -web