Super interesting stuff, thanks!

They’re effectively dead. I haven’t ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.

That’s a YouTube/VPN thing. Every other app is experiencing the same issue, in my experience.

That’s not GrayJay. That’s YT. They’ve started blocking access to users who use a VPN without logging in.

God forbid they don’t know everything about you.

Edit: response from FUTO

Seems to be related to UMP streams and we have issue opened for it and it’s top priority for us to fix this now. It is however very complex so it takes time to fix it but at least we figured out why it is happening and once it is fixed it should be a smooth experience on Youtube at least for a while until they change something else on their backend…

Do you support automated posting from RSS feeds?

If I’m honest, it’s not convenient either. I stopped using it years ago because I kept getting logged out of my accounts and flagged for “automated activity”. Plus they straight up lie about supporting SMS and RCS. The only “support” they have is connecting it to your Google account.

Theoretically no, all of your messages stored on Beeper servers are encrypted. But they will get all your metadata.

But I wouldn’t worry about that anyway since Discord not only has access to all of your messages but sells them to companies to process for AI. So that’d be the far easier and faster route for them.

Not only is it possible, but people are already doing it.

Depends if you consider Signal “popular”, because based on your own link, the only information they provide is:

No message content., Date and time a user registered. Last date of a user’s connectivity to the service.

There’s privacy and then there’s user experience. UX on Matrix is awful. Not to mention Matrix collects all the metadata, and the vast majority of it sits on a single server (matrix.org), which is owned by a private company and subject to subpoenas.

I did read and didn’t see anything about archiving pages.

Why wouldn’t I just use the bookmark manager in my browser?

There’s a Frigate app within Home Assistant.

Me in 2005: “Bots please crawl my site!”

Me in 2025: “Bots GTFO my site!”

Those “Solar generator” systems are all grossly overpriced. Look at something like this instead

Is it true that if you don’t use it, you lose it?

This is one place where AI actually makes sense

Hence it is not a reasonable solution.

No one’s hating on anything. If you actually read my comment I expressed precisely the opposite, while answering OPs question.

Like call up someone in another building ‘hey plug the jet into tower X so I can remote in?’

The whole idea is you don’t need anyone local. You leave it plugged in 24/7 so that’s it’s accessible remotely, as needed.

All those TLDs cost money

Point three: not true

Yes it is

My blog is TLD

I didn’t say every service was this way

what’s the problem with a subdomain?

Nothing. The problem is when they make you use both.

Nothing in your comment would make mine “inaccurate”.

Some of these points are inaccurate.

…any specific ones?

the XMPP chat is more responsive

I didn’t even know there was an XMPP chat, but any chat seems like an awful way to get support…

timezone can cause delays

We’re not talking about hours here, we’re talking about days/weeks or months.

1. Unable to host apps without exposing them to the web
2. Despite a simplified GUI, a lot of the system is still dependent on CLI
3. they make you use subdomains and / as well. Like blog.website.com/blog
4. Outdated apps (some much more than others)
5. Poor/no support when something goes wrong
6. An entire Debian generation behind (not sure if that one matters but it is weird)
7. Can’t run multiple of the same service

I’ve tried them all and it’s overall the best but still has a whole lot of room for improvement

You don’t need to add a motherboard, case or PSU, the first item is an entire mini PC, minus ram and storage.

The RAM and storage was just a suggestion. Change them up as you prefer.

There’s also another model if you don’t need HDD that comes with an aluminum heatsink/enclosure, for an extra $20.

CWWK N100 - $152

1x16GB Teamgroup elite DDR5-5600 = $37

3x2TB Samsung 990 EVO - $255 1x128GB Patriot P300 -$14 (4TB storage + 2TB parity drive and 128GB for OS)

$7 for some heatsinks for the SSDs.

Total = $465 USD

No idea what those prices look like in Europe.

You also have the option of expanding with 2 SATA ports.

Gotcha. I like Saber for handwritten notes. It also supports photos and PDFs, so I will get some meeting notes, upload them into Saber and then handwrite notes on top of the PDFs.

It is cross-platform and has native NextCloud support, and they’ll even give you a server to use if you sponsor the project.

You are posting in self hosted by also referencing some software that isn’t so I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking for in that regard.

Saber is the only non-onenote notes software that supports handwriting and is fully FOSS, to my knowledge. I use that and then back up with Syncthing.

You’re wrong because of the specific words you’re choosing to use. Even if they aren’t, it doesn’t mean they can’t.

“design by committee” approach that large studios are using

They don’t have to use that.

This kind of game can only exist as a solo or very small team project.

That’s just very clearly wrong.

You can not generate the kind of money that large publishers and studios need to survive with little Indie games.

Wrong again. If anything, only large publishers can lose the kinds of money that they sometimes do.

Balatro is…not something big studios could even possibly replicate

…and why not?

What would be the point of a big studio trying to make a game that one developer can pull off?

…money?

They’re simply drawing all the wrong conclusions here:

even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

The layoffs don’t mean the game or company were unsuccessful, it means they found other ways to eliminate those jobs.

Warner Bros. Discovery took a $200 million loss on Suicide Squad

That’s nothing to do with graphical fidelity, it was a shit game that followed up a shit movie.

Sony closed the studio behind Concord

Lots of potential reasons for this. If you ask me, they released a $30 game into a genre chock full of “free to play” games.

Personally I appreciate “cinematic” games but titles like Balatro and Stardew Valley (neither of which I own) are proof of the simple fact that making games that are actually fun to play is far far more important, and far more profitable.

That won’t make much of a dent in climate change.

It makes a massive difference. Think about how much food and other products a single person consumes in their lifetime. All of that is gone if they’re never born.

The main cause of climate change is pollution on a massive scale by corporations.

They don’t pollute just for the fun of it, they pollute to make products to sell to consumers. No consumers = no pollution.

Uhhh I’ll take one if you’re giving them 😃

You shouldn’t be okay with that.

It doesn’t matter what software you use, Apple doesn’t allow automatic backups on their phones. Consider buying a different phone that allows you to use it as you see fit.

It’s Korea.

Honestly culling the herd is probably our best bet at battling climate change at this point.

Which GPU? How many drives?

Put a kill-o-watt meter on it and see what it says for consumption.

0.1kWh per hour? Day? Month?

What’s in your system?