Linux gives you freedom.
Freedom lets you break stuff.
If, like Windows or MacOSyou just use it as intended by official support, it should be fine. If you start just adding everything and anything from anyone you’re gonna break stuff.
Other stuff is made to be idiot proof, Linux is not.
This seems more like UK Gov vs. WhatsApp.
Nice Signal are also holding their ground but they are a little fish in a big pond. The Government uses WhatApp heavily and there have been quite a few leaks, assume they would love a wee backdoor.
500+ on this peertube instance.
Glad to hear.
Had similar struggles, but glad I pushed though.
Between my Android phone, pi & stereo I now have music on the go and in the house that can beat what I had with Windows, Limewire, stereo & a 20GB ipod classic ~2003. Better late than never.
I was struggling too…ended up being I had a space or a tab or something in the yml config file and everything just worked…I was messing about with symlinks, remounting drives under /home and it was all due to one blank space in the config I think.
I’ve got navidrome on my pi too and Symfonium & Tailscale on my Android…awesome to be able to grab tracks, in flac, anywhere in the world and immediately stream them back using MP3 or ogg.
I used it for many years but have more recently switched to slskd, which is a game changer for me.
Honestly no idea about searches and queues, I can usually find what I want.
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Think I’m still on keepassxc but looking to change. Bitwarden is looking good.
Do you selfhost?
Morons are everywhere, be prepared. Occasionally I’m one of them.
Check out the ‘selfhosting’ communities.
Retro gaming is an another option, Arcade Punks have a lot for resources for this. I don’t retro game that often and storage speed is not an issue when I do so I have a few old drives with gaming systems on them I can just connect via usb & boot into when I’m in the mood.
On YouTube Network Chuck, Jeff Geerling and Explaining Computers have a lot of easy to access tutorials on setting up server stuff but most of it you can just copy & paste from tutorial sites or github.
Connect a few TB’s of storage via usb, hdd dock is great but use whatever you can get. You could even run the OS from a USB stick and use the internal drive just for media storage, I done this for years with a 2008 pc server running Alpine Linux…as you have loads of ram you could even run the entire OS in ram from usb for an even faster system than ssd will provide with Alpine’s diskless or disk data options.
Tailscale was a big one for me. Makes it simple to install on my server, laptop, desktop & phone so they can all talk to each other when out and about instead of worrying too much about firewalls and open ports at home…I am looking into this for hosting my own Lemmy instance at the moment.
If you have a personal music collection Navidrome + Symfonium, or other client, is amazing imo. Spotify killer. I also have slskd docker daemon running for soulseek so I can download flac music to my server when out and about and instantly stream it as mp3/ogg to my android device or laptop. Jellyfin and a torrent deamon does a similar job for video. As other have mentioned Pihole is cool and stuff like NextCloud too.
Best bet at the moment is to look for a sub about dogs, or even just animals, as opposed to hoping for a vibrant labradoodle community. Or cars, instead of The Honda Civic Users Club.
The entirety of Lemmy & Kbin is around that of a medium sized subreddit at the moment.
I’ve decided to ditched the subscription option, it feels largely pointless for me aside from expressing support at the moment. The whole thing can be managed as one would a subreddit using the local/all/hot/new/timescale/active options, the text search and alerts system.
84.93KB…I feel cheated.
Yeah, issue with uploading pretty much all images. Occasionally it does work.
Is fine on other instances.
Beehaw’s fine, no need to promote one side of Lemmy whilst laying into another.
I appreciate the need for variety but personally value safe spaces for discussion over anons right to troll with porn.
The code base needs work to allow safe spaces to exist and integrate with anons trolling now that there are a few million accounts.
It seems much more likely beehaw defeded due to the accounts here lolzing about posting homophobic content everywhere, as the instance owner is apparently gay, & posting knobs all over the feminist spaces. I suspect your take that beehaw action’s are to generate income is complete fiction, it’s to limit the ability of fuckwits on the server as the current mod tools are shite.
The first 3 books of A Song of Ice & Fire.
By the time he gets to book 4/5 it’s all starting to get a little out of hand for poor George.
I looked at a few instances a week or two ago and decided on fmhy as they seemed, by name, prepped for Reddit users. I then subscribed to a lot of communities often on other instances or kbin. I’ve found that my local feed is not what I want, lots of piracy & porn, and my subscribed feed has a lot of repetition as a lot of communities are cross posting stuff. Also uploading media seems broken.
I’ve created an account on a smaller instance with a local feed that is fairly quiet, inoffensive and a little more niche, which makes for a pleasant homepage. Switching to the ‘All’ feed gives a nice overview of the lemmy & kbin world.
I think I’m gonna avoid the subscribe button for a while and watch, post, comment & vote instead. The entirety of lemmy & kbin is about the size of a medium subreddit at the moment. I think the ‘All’ feed with some sorting options alongside the search and alert system may be a better way to navigate the current landscape than subscribing to 1234 communities with liberal use of copy & paste.
3 of my mates
Easier to keep track of everything they are wrong about and factor that in.
Occasional Mark Kermode
slskd is a game changer for me. I have it running 24/7 on my pi but should run on pretty much anything.