look at this blessed individual who has a MicroCenter within reach, lucky you!

yeah, I mean, I only have 2 monitors, but since I use the sway window manager, I have it configured to automatically highlight the window that my cursor is under, so it kind of supersedes the need for a cursor locator. And all but my active window are set to dim as well, makes finding where I’m at much easier.

goonin and boolin, jizzmaxxing in 2026

I mean . . . . .

PC users be like: download pirated version and burn to disk anyways?

I’m more and more leaning to this solution. I only have a 8GB phone data plan, and refuse to waste any of it on my recreational music listening, nor will I ever see the need for paying for more mobile data.

My next phone needs a microsd slot, I miss them so much!

Funny, i’m also 20 years into linux, but i still love to tinker, and im slowly teaching my child how to use linux. I’m literally installing arch right now as I type this. I love customizing the OS, and ive built a post OS install script to handle all the software and driver stuff.

Very true, I began my own linux journey, almost 20 years ago (fuck I feel old) with Ubuntu, not for any other reason other than it being the only linux distro that had any mass appeal, relatively speaking. But it was a perfect introduction to linux.

Debain-based distros are the way to go for linux newbs, but i’m sure some tech savvy people might like an arch based distro instead. All in all, experimentation, especially when you’re young and not obligated to work or a wife and kids, is great for providing enough time to learn and grow in the linux world.

I’m not surprised by that at all. I used to use it, but found it strange how closed-source it felt, and how it’s almost a carbon copy of microslop office, in it’s interface, the latter being the main reason I started using it.

Literally why I’m here. Some bullshit in their bot detection flagged me as a bot, and disabled my account, that I had for 7 years.

just a heads up for people, the guy, GE, lives in Colorado. He is prepared to follow whatever fedora chooses to do in response to age verification laws. I don’t blame him, but since I have been using Nobara for years, I will switch to something else if age verification comes to Nobara.

ditto, switched from keepassxc to vault/bitwarden. Couldn’t be happier. I have it accessible via cloudflare tunnels, so I always can sync so long as I have internet.

Once I set up S3 cloud storage, I’ll have offsite backups as well.

seems cool, as I certainly seen this rivalry between complexity and simplicity. I don’t really need E2EE for a simple private communication server, but it is nice to have. I mean, We use it when relying on 3rd party services, because we don’t want them spying on our communications, but when it’s a private server hosted locally/in the cloud, the only unwanted eyes are hackers, who I don’t think care that much about private servers with small numbers of users.

glance averages around 20MB of RAM per day on my home server. Others have mentioned syncthing, which is also very light on resources, and super useful.

don’t have an old pc lying around? I literally built my first server while I was jobless, (I did purchase HDDs when I was employed, though). That same server has a cpu, mobo, ram and case that are well over 15 years old now, only the PSU and storage are new.

I’m hosting a discord alternative called sharkord. Initially I just hosted it on my home server, but I couldn’t open ports for voice chat so I did move to a VPS with akami (linode). At most it’s costing me $5 CAD a month.

It’s wayyy lighter to run compared to lemmy, because servers aren’t federated. I know, different application, but just wanted to provide a point of reference.

oh yeah, and I don’t know, but I only run linux, and almost never shutdown my main PC anyways, only reboot for updates or shutdown for maintenance. I could 100% just host things on my main PC, but it’s only connected to the internet via wi-fi, which is why I went the separate pc route. If you need parts, see what people are willing to give away.

I use dockwatch, but not for automatic updates. I just update after reviewing the changelog and user reports.

It’s already been said: FOSS projects can be abandoned, but resurrected via forks and re-writes, whereas proprietary apps are simply dead with no recourse unless the original dev/team releases the source code.

That being said, I am not a developer, so when a project dies, I am at the behest of other devs to revive the project. I do find that projects that many people value, like all the recent discord alternatives or health/money management apps, tend to survive longer because they provide value to a wide range of people. Things like wikis or new protocols are far more niche, so I am not surprised that they might not outlive projects like sharkord or rackula.

Good on him for this. I started self-hosting a couple years back, so my “tech fence” is already fairly complete, with a few glaring omissions, still a WIP.

I do wish he got someone to provide links to guides or wiki pages, but I understand that making people go out and search for things is also important, even if it’s a simple task to search on google/github for open source projects.

Inspiring tale, glad you found something you both enjoy and learn from! I think that’s a great use of time, to problem solve and develop tools that benefit you day-to-day.

I’ve had some family that have experienced strokes, ranging from a slight scare to full on life-changing. You’re certainly doing well if you’re writing your own apps, I can barely script BASH.

who are the fascists and white supremacists?

I honestly don’t understand people beefing with people they don’t know personally. Like, sure, I’m not the biggest fan of furries, but hey, you do you, I like animals but just not like that.

Not using software because people you don’t know like something you don’t like??? So stupid. Be you, be proud.

(I’m speaking generally, not directly to you op, btw)