I don’t see how people can go without using dashboards. Considering I’m in America, I use them just about any time I go anywhere, as nearly all automobiles have them.
Real answer: I just have a script that updates everything. I run it manually when stuff needs updating. If a service goes down, I notice when it’s not accessible.
You can also get obsidian to sync using the guide here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/GegPIcBjFg. It’s really good.
Least pretentious Lemmy user.
I was wondering if a federated alternative existed, neat. Short form video is not for me, but I’m glad that exists for those that like it.
The pieces of software the article mentions are:
Meta – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
Snap
Tiktok
YouTube
X
Roblox
Pinterest
Discord
Lego Play
Reddit
Kick
GitHub
HubApp
Match
Steam
Twitch
Sketchy ID verification aside, I agree with everything except for GitHub and YouTube.
YouTube is such a resource for DIY and learning, you just can’t ban kids from it, even if parts of it are sketchy. A restricted mode for kids would be better.
GitHub is also a huge database of knowledge, important for being techy and computer literate, and doesn’t really even have much on the way of social features. Banning this would be asinine.
I was initially against Steam, but then I realized that parents could still buy their kids games, and it’s probably better to force parents to take responsibility for that anyways.
One could argue that without Meta’s investments into the technology, we might never get an open specification at all. With something like Valetudo, it wouldn’t exist without the privacy nightmare that is off-the-shelf robot vacuums.
Yeah, not looking forwards to being in Meta (or any other massive company)'s database or whatever when a friend or family member wears one of these.
I’m not talking about a Meta made pair of glasses. I would never buy those due to the privacy issues. I’m talking about a potential pair of glasses that are open source, or at least privacy focused, and don’t phone home.
I’d want them to use a local database that you’ve created. After you’ve met someone, the glasses could be like “remember this person?” and you could choose to save them or not, or something like that.
Have you got hardware acceleration working? I’ll often take half a TB of 360 footage on a trip, and stitching it on Linux via Bottles isn’t viable due to me not having hardware acceleration working. It takes days on my current Linux setup, as compared to less than a day with HW acceleration on Windows.
I have been just considering getting a Mac Mini M4 for 450 bucks next time it’s on sale and using that as a DaVinci/Insta360 render server.
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No, you could tap shuffle on an album-by-album basis, or on a Playlist with like 10+ tracks or something.
If, to you, not being able to play one game in the sea of many many many games is akin to death, maybe you need to see someone about addiction.
If you cheat in a game, you’ve burned your bridge. It’s like taking a piss in the cereal isle of Kmart, you probably won’t be welcome in that Kmart any more. Or hey, maybe you’ll end up like an acquaintance I knew who was banned from a Kmart, maybe you’ll be hired on as staff without them checking the binder of banned people. I think I’ve lost the plot of this analogy.
I run Kubuntu and it isn’t that bad, but it’s definitely less reliable than Windows. Often KDE seems to completely crash, requiring a force restart of my system. I also have a bunch of monitors that turn off via a smart plug when I leave the house, and it sometimes doesn’t like that.
I guess if I wanted AI in HA this would be how I’d want it done, but I don’t really want it at all, so that’s sort of a moot point.
Yeah, free isn’t the right way to put it, but I’m not sure what other word to use, considering that most places don’t have different pricing for debit/credit (God bless Winco for not accepting credit).
I wish I could do it weekly, or even daily. In the US it’s monthly. To be completely honest, I wish credit cards didn’t exist at all. They’re a tax on the financially illererate, and the fact that financially responsible people can gain an essentially free 1.5% (or more) cash back isn’t enough reason for them to exist. I’d happily forgo the cash back to be rid of them.
I’d second the fact that it’s really difficult to do it, and that you genuinely need to enjoy the process. More likely than not, you won’t “make it” and you’ll just be doing it as a hobby. Though, more than anything, you just need to do it. You might not know what to say today, tomorrow, or next month, but eventually you’ll find a rhythm and know what works for you. There’s no way to find that rhythm if you aren’t making anything.
My source for this is the fact that I’ve been doing YouTube for nearly 2 years now, creating weekly videos. I think they’ve been of pretty good quality for about 14 or so months now. I have just over 500 subs which, while I’m super proud of and thankful for that, isn’t even enough to enable ads on my channel. I also specifically chose a niche that’s a tad easier to stand out in, as the market for gaming videos is so so so saturated and difficult to stand out in, as the barrier for entry is so low.
I don’t mean to discourage, and of course wish you the best of luck, but I do want to share a realistic view on it based on my experiences being a small potato YouTube creator.
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^This is a really cool Z-Wave one that I use for lighting, as it supports dimming. Works awesome in HA. I have some lights hooked up to it outside for hanging at night, as well as inside, as no-one put ceiling lights in the living room of the house I’m renting. Just make sure your LEDs are dimmable of course. I still haven’t found a different dimmable zigbee/zwave smart plug, though I haven’t looked after I found that one.
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I use those ^ for everything else. Zigbee of course, wifi plugs suck to set up and don’t do the mesh thing. Power monitoring opens you up for some super clever automations. I have my Xbox plugged into one, and when the plug notices the Xbox turns on, my IR blaster turns on the TV. I also have my TV plugged into one, so HA knows when the TV is on.