Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ RootBeerGuy • 2 weeks ago • 99%

arstechnica.com

I am just impressed by the idea and execution. Just wow. Too bad he took it too far.

Selfhosted RootBeerGuy • 3 weeks ago • 100%

github.com

I am using hd-idle (see link) to spin down my one external hard drive on my RPI server. It is not used for large parts of the day and night so it has been quite useful to set up hd-idle, which spins down the drive after an hour or so of no activity. Now hd-idle can generate a log file where it notes down some data, e.g. when the drive was spun down, how long it was running, what time it spun down. You can read the file to get an impression how well it works, but I'd like to see the data visualised or analysed in some way. Seeing the past month of how often per day the drive was spun down, or average length of long it was running and so on. Searching online I couldn't really find anything. Maybe anybody here knows more? Or what ways of recording and looking at this type of data are you using?

Thunder App RootBeerGuy • 2 months ago • 90%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18159531 > > **Updated!** Updates are shown in quote text like this. > > # An Apps Experiment > > ## Introduction > > This is an experiment I performed out of curiosity, and I have a few big disclaimers at the bottom. Basically, I've seen a lot of comments recently about one app or another not displaying something right. Lemmy has been around for a while now and can no longer be considered an experimental platform. > > Lemmy and the apps that people use to access the platform have become an important part of people’s lives. Whether you are checking the app weekly or daily, and whether you use it to stay up on the news or to stay connected to your hobby, it’s important that it works. I hope that this helps people to see the extent of the challenge, and encourages developers to improve their apps, too. > > ## How I did it > > I wanted to investigate objectively how accurately each app displays text of posts and comments using the standard Lemmy markdown. Markdown is a standard part of the Lemmy platform, but not all apps handle it the same. It is basically what gives text useful formatting. > > I used the latest release of each app, but did not include pre-releases. I only included apps that have released an update in the last 6 months, which should include most apps in active development. ~~I was unable to test iOS-exclusive apps, so they are not included either. In all, 16 apps met the inclusion criteria.~~ > > > I also added Eternity, which is in active development, although it has not had a recent update. I was able to include several iOS apps thanks to [testing](https://lemmy.world/comment/11506252) from @jordanlund@lemmy.world – Thanks, Jordan! This made for 21 apps that were tested. > > Each app was rated in 5 categories: Text, Format, Spoilers, Links, and Images. I chose these mostly based on the wonderful Markdown Guide from @marvin@sffa.community, which was posted about a year ago in !meta@sffa.community ([here](https://sffa.community/post/105)). > > I checked whether each app correctly displayed each category, then took the overall average. Each category was weighted equally. **Text** includes italic, bold, strong, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript. **Format** includes block quotes, lists, code (block and inline), tables, and dividers. **Spoilers** includes display of hidden, expandable spoilers. **Links** includes external links, username links, and community links. **Images** included embedded images, image references, and inline images. > > > Thanks to input from others, I also added a test to see if lemmy hyperlinks opened in-app. There was a problem with using the SFFA Community Guide that caused some apps to be essentially penalized **twice** because there was formatting inside formatting, so I created this [TEST POST](https://lemmy.world/comment/11514952) to more clearly and fairly measure each app. > > In each case, I checked whether the display was correct based on the rules for Lemmy Markdown, and consistent with the author’s intent. In cases where the app recognized the tag correctly but did not display it accurately, that was treated as a fail. > > ## Results > > Out of a possible perfect 10, only 3 apps displayed *all* markdown correctly: > > ### Jerboa (Official Android client) - 10.0 > ### Alexandrite - 10.0 > ### Voyager - 10.0 > ### Summit - 9.7 > ### Photon - 9.3 > ### Arctic - 9.3 (pending) > ### Interstellar - 9.1 > ### Lemmy-UI - 9.0 > ### Thunder - 8.9 > ### Tesseract - 8.6 > ### Quiblr - 8.1 > ### mlmym - 8.0 > ### Lemmios - 8.0 (pending) > ### Mlem - 7.5 (pending) > ### Boost - 7.3 > ### Eternity - 7.0 > ### Sync - 6.9 > ### Connect - 6.7 > ### Lemmynade - 6.1 > ### Avelon - 5.7 (pending) > > [More details of testing here](https://lemmy.world/comment/11514952) > > > ::: spoiler Disclaimers > > ## Disclaimers > > ### I Love Lemmy Apps (and their devs) > > Lemmy apps devs work very hard, and invest a lot in the platform. Lemmy is better because they are doing the work that they do. Like, a LOT better. Everyone who uses the platform has to access it through one app or another. Apps are the face of the entire platform. Whether an app is a FOSS passion project, underwritten by a grant, or generating income through sales or ads, no one is getting rich by making their app. It is for the benefit of the community. > > This is not meant to be a rating of the quality or functionality of any app. An app may have a high rating here but be missing other features that users want, or users may love an app that has a lower rating. This is just about how well apps handle markdown. > > ### This is pretty unscientific > > You’ll see my methodology above. I’m not a scientist. There is probably a much better way to do this, and I probably have biases in terms of how I went about it. I think it’s interesting and probably has some valuable information. If you think it’s interesting, let me know. If you think of a better way, PM me and I’d be happy to share what I have so you don’t have to start from scratch. > > ### My only goal is to help the community > > I do think that accurately displaying markdown should be a standard expectation of a finished app. I hope that devs use this as an opportunity to shore up the areas that are lagging, and that they have a set of standards to aim for. > > ~~I don’t have any Apple things~~ > > ~~Sorry. This is just Android and Web review. If someone would like to see how iOS apps are doing, please reach out and I’ll share how we can work together to include them.~~ > > ::: > See the test comment in the comment section of the original post (this is just a cross-post). Thunder is doing pretty well but has a few things not showing entirely correct.

Wizards RootBeerGuy • 2 months ago • 80%

www.livescience.com

It's pondering' time!

Linux RootBeerGuy • 3 months ago • 100%

Just installed Bazzite and it seems to work well so far. Then I added a second standard user to the system and thought they'd have access to all software I just installed for the main user. But that doesn't seem the case, Bazzite prompted me to install all those again for the second user. Is that just a thing with immutable distros or did I do this in a wrong way? I tried looking this question up, but I couldn't find any info on multi user setups with immutable distros.

Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System RootBeerGuy • 3 months ago • 94%

I am a bit late to the party in that I only today updated to the latest version. I now see that the intro skipper plugin from confused polar bear (or whathisname...) isn't working anymore. I guess that was bound to happen after the archiving of the repo. Is there a working fork out there? I found a few threads here and there but the only forks I saw people mention seemed to also stop working after 10.9.3? Or did that get fixed?

Selfhosted RootBeerGuy • 3 months ago • 100%

I have a small self hosted setup at home with a RaspberryPi and an external HDD, just enough for what I need. Some time ago I found a pretty sweet app which from the name implies its mostly working when you use a RPI OS, to monitor the RPI from your android phone: https://github.com/eidottermihi/rpicheck Its called RaspiCheck (picture in the post is the one from github), and unfortunately it is seriously outdated and development ceased. It is still working on my current phone but I am well aware that's not going to last. So I am wondering what else is out there that could fill the gap it would leave. I am using it for 2 things mostly: 1) monitor system stats, like simply seeing the system is running (I know, like ping), but at the same time also showing memory, average load, temperature and so on. 2) sending SSH commands, and this is where the app really shines. Using a terminal on the phone is not impossible, but boy is it annoying. In RaspiCheck you can define commands, with placeholders, which allows you to send those to the RPI just by tapping them. So for example I got my backup set up that I can mount the backup drive with one tap, a second tap runs the right backup script (I have several I can choose from by filling the placeholder I leave in that command) and then unmount with a third tap. I got other commands I like to reuse a lot set up in it and its really useful to me, let's me manage the RPI from my phone in an easy way. So back to the question at hand, is there anything else like this out there for Android? If possible one app, FOSS preferred. I am pretty sure there are browser-based solutions, if there is no dedicated app other than this, then I guess that's the next best thing. What are you using in your setup that you can recommend?

Linux RootBeerGuy • 3 months ago • 93%

I have been planning to install Kinoite on my laptop, dual booting with Windows. However depending on what I read online, it is either not possible, not recommended, tricky to setup or it is just a matter of setting partitions up before installing Kinoite. Broad range of opinions and no good "tutorial" how to do it. Anyone having direct experience with that?

LinkedinLunatics RootBeerGuy • 4 months ago • 77%

Let's work from home when the kids are sick, thank you great company that I am allowed to slave away for you while taking care of my sick kid! It isn't even a US company it seems. Edit: guess I should have posted to unpopularopinions instead! I just wanted to add I cut off the photo of the person on purpose. She is posting that with her sick child in her lap and that photo has been taken by some other person, not a selfie. If you are not feeling that the content of the post is bad, you hopefully still agree that presenting your sick child in an almost professionally looking photo to the world for LinkedIn clout is not great.

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 4 months ago • 86%

I don't play this but it now features Banana guards and maybe other AT characters.

Pixel Dungeon RootBeerGuy • 4 months ago • 100%

Not going to spoil what that is though...

Pixel Dungeon RootBeerGuy • 4 months ago • 95%

...the placement of these stairs really cracks me up.

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 6 months ago • 97%

Finally made it through after starting long time ago (like... a year back). Was just watching a few episodes at a time when I felt like it and it was my first rewatch since it finished airing. Can say it really held up well! Definitely rewatchable more than once! Lots of details I forgot about, like the whole deal between Finn and Huntress Wizard. Still think he should have gotten together with Canyon, Billy's ex, they had a good vibe.

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 6 months ago • 95%

Love this episode, especially that while being super silly it actually leads into the main story of the final season. Best quote "These baby-smashing hammers are great!"

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ RootBeerGuy • 8 months ago • 89%

I guess most people know about the movie web app site, which pulls videos from various sources. Recently they added a request to download an extension to your browser, for optimal perfomance and better quality. It is featured on the [firefox android extensions](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movie-web-extension/) site from Mozilla, it has a [github](https://github.com/movie-web/extension) page. What I read online is that it seems the extension wants access to everything you do in your browser, which seems kind of sketchy. What do people here think about it? Anyone installed it and can say more? Edit: thanks for all the comments, looks like less people knew about this than I thought.

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 8 months ago • 100%

I will always be sad that Canyon and Finn never got together. They seem to fit so well on a spiritual level.

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 8 months ago • 94%

Just loved that Jake chose the biggest sword he could find. I think it is one of the swords in Final Fantasy. This scene has my favourite quote of the episode, when Jake notes about the sword "Why is it so dense?".

Science RootBeerGuy • 8 months ago • 100%

cen.acs.org

Not sure this fits in the community but I felt it is an important topic that needs visibility. Researchgate made a deal with MDPI to prefer some of their journals on the site over other publications or journals. It will likely be impossible to know if suggestions you see in the future are genuine or paid for by this deal. MDPI made a post on their site about this https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/7051 I could not find an announcement on the Researchgate site so far. Possible enshittification of Researchgate up ahead?

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 8 months ago • 90%

I remember when the Orgalorg episode came out people who rewatched it thought it is Orgalorg in the bottom right.

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 8 months ago • 95%

Another fantastic lore episode, I forgot how good season 6 of AT is. Check out the toaster on the shelf in Evergreen's study.

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 8 months ago • 100%

Damn good episode on the whole!

Adventure Time RootBeerGuy • 9 months ago • 100%

This sub is pretty dead since Fionna & Cake finished, so lets try and reanimate. Have been rewatching the original series for a while now, slowly and finally reach the really good seasons. However those include the weird ones like Food Chain. I totally forgot about that one. Super beautiful title card but the storyline is just bonkers. Not sure I would have rewatched it if I had remembered it better. Whats your pick of the weirdest episodes?

Pixel Dungeon RootBeerGuy • 9 months ago • 80%

Just something to rant about, obviously ShatteredPD is great and I still enjoy playing it after so many years... ...however! The one addition I don't like is to use the crystal keys for so many more goodies than just the two chests rooms. It used to be when you found a crystal key, you would immediately know there are two chests waiting for you, maybe even the crystal chest mimic. I was always excited to find those keys because it meant I would get a new hopefully useful item. These days however, its just one of many possibilities and once you find that second or third key, you know its not the chest. I don't dislike adding all these other options, but I like them all less than the original chests. Could there not be another key type to use for those? Like the golden ones, if it has to be an existing type. Or make the original crystal keys into something else, skull key or dragon keys or whatever. Rat king keys maybe. Please?

Lemmy Handshake RootBeerGuy • 9 months ago • 100%

I have two account to sync, one is on an updated instance with lemmy version 0.19, it can login but gives an error when fetching user data. My second account is on an instance that has not updated yet, there it all worka fine.

F-Droid RootBeerGuy • 9 months ago • 97%

Is there any good FOSS app that could record the phone GPS location, but keep the data locally on the same phone, no dialing out? Like the Google Maps location history, just not sharing it with Google services.

Selfhosted RootBeerGuy • 10 months ago • 88%

I need some help with some new suggestions for what I want from my tiny homeserver, made up by a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB (passive cooling case) and an external hard drive. That server will not be reachable from outside my home network, if that makes a difference for suggestions. I am looking for an easy solution that works well on the limited resources of the Rpi. What I mostly need is an app I can self-host that has a nice and well performing gallery function, I got tons of old photos from when I still used digital cameras a lot. Those are already sorted in folders, and I want that app to not mess with that at all, just read them basically. What I also need is for that app to be able to auto-upload new photos from my phone regularly, so I can include them more easily in backups of my server. I also do not want them to be weirdly hidden in some strange folder structures, so that they remain accessible if I want to change apps again down the road. Here is what I tried already: Photoprism - loved it in general, but all the indexing was super slow on the Rpi of course. I didn't really need the AI features of it either. It also made quite big thumbnails for the image analysis so it would really add a huge requirement of a ton more storage space just for features I did not want to use, I understand those could be downscaled but the process seemed tedious and resource-intensive. Overall wasn't practical for the Rpi, if I had a stronger server I'd try again. Nextcloud - thats the current solution I am looking at, since it got all I want. Auto-upload, easy access, no resource-heavy features I don't need. But overall, it is pretty slow on the Rpi for scrolling through photo libraries. I found today the NC Photos app on Google Play Store, which seems to work better than the Nextcloud App to look at galleries, but still seems slow. Aside from that I found out about Immich, but cannot test it right now since my Rpi runs on 32bit. But it sounded to me like a lighter type of Photoprism app, maybe not fair to say, I know its supposed to be like Google Photos. But the stuff it does for face recognition and what else makes it sound again like a choice I won't enjoy using on the Rpi. Maybe that is an unfair view? I see recently the feature that allows external libraries in it, was added, so that fits my needs. Anyway, thanks for reading all this, I will end with the question, are there any other solutions that I haven't considered so far?

Sweden RootBeerGuy • 11 months ago • 93%

jag försöker hitta bra rss-flöden för svenska nyheter för att träna på att läsa svenska. men alla länkar jag kan hitta är 10 år gamla och fungerar inte längre. finns det några fungerande rss-feeds för några svenska tidningar?

Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System RootBeerGuy • 11 months ago • 91%

I am going to soon start over with my homeserver that has jellyfin running on it and I'd like to take over all user accounts on there plus their collected data, like watched episodes, into the new installation. Its a linux system, no docker, next system is going to be the same basically. Via searches I found a few solutions online, some on reddit, some other places so it seems possible. Just asking here as well since no one has asked before, seeing this is a quite new channel, but also because all solutions I found go back a few years and I wondered if there is anything more recent I may have missed in my search. Some solutions were heavily hands on looking up data in sql tables, if there is anything more user friendly it would be great.