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Building a custom NAS/homeserver with Fedora CoreOS

xyny.art
1 points·by FireInsight·2 months ago·1 comments

KDE developer's plans for a QML-based GPU-accelerated video/photo editing suite

youtube.com
1 points·by FireInsight·3 months ago·0 comments

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FireInsight
·3 days ago·discuss
I used this blog post as one learning resource while building my own NAS a while back: https://xyny.art/blog/2026-building-nas/

Building a NAS from scratch is really fun! A small hinderance, but definitely part of the fun as well, is the lack of a "complete resource" on the topic covering how to do every single thing you need to do. Part of the point of my blog post is actually to bring to the internet yet another opinionated NAS setup "guide" (eventhough I would hesitate to call it a guide, but if I ever had to do the same thing again I would definitely read my own post first).
FireInsight
·3 days ago·discuss
The password for my TimeLimit (to prevent phone addiction a little bit while still being able to cheat quickly ex. to use a browser) is ",,," because it's a good balance between easy to remember but annoying enough to type on a phone I have to put some intention into it. And sometimes,,.. I just take a totally ungrammatical and weird looking thinking break while formulating a difficult thought in casual conversation.
FireInsight
·3 days ago·discuss
I tried it for family location sharing a few months back and, I don't remember exactly, but I remember the UI/UX feeling a bit slow/clunky in general, eventhough setting things up was user-friendly. Definitely potential there, though.
FireInsight
·4 days ago·discuss
I have set up Owntracks with a self-hosted server, and the android app reports my location to it periodically over MQTT. I would prefer to use https://dawarich.app/ but last time I tried it it was clearly very beta-quality and not ready for reliable usage.
FireInsight
·17 days ago·discuss
Thumb-Key is awesome and I can't live without it. Clearflow sounds promising too, but I have to be able to write my,, repeated symbols and >:) smiley faces with the same speed and finesse as words (not having to thing about it at all).
FireInsight
·27 days ago·discuss
> If you didn't imbibe in your children that the only way to be a "man" is to be the jock on the football team, then maybe far less people would be suffering the dysphorias. Just like how exposure to Instagram causes body dysphoria in both young men and women.

From a queer perspective, I think this is what we really do want and support: raising children gender neutrally, free from role expectations that make them feel like specific kinds of toys or activities or clothes are or are not for them. Just letting people grow up to be whoever they are, etc. etc.

That being said, gender dysphoria especially does have biochemical component. Most men would feel horrible being on estrogen, most women would feel weird being on testosterone. That's true for both trans and cis people, not 100% of the time, but often. That's how they got Turing killed.

Instagram and unhealthy expectations is not really always dysphoria but rather dysmorphia. The difference really is more than a few letters. Dysmorphia is a disordered body image and obsession with flaws in yourself. Dysphoria is a persistent feeling of distress related to your physical gender characteristics and/or gendered social expectations.

Of course, where the lines blur is when people speak in memetic terms of male-to-Male transition: stuff like looksmaxxing, where dysmorphic body image stuff is mixed with toxic culture relating to the pursuit of high masculinity and acting tough in a certain way, to be more of a man, or something.
FireInsight
·29 days ago·discuss
There's the rename-exe option in mise.toml to rename the docker compose binary to `docker-compose`. I've used it on some machine, I think. Look it up in the docs, it doesn't take long to wire up.
FireInsight
·last month·discuss
DICE is a great experience, but I hate that they have no option to buy tickets without installing and using their app. It should at least be possible from a website, come on...
FireInsight
·2 months ago·discuss
Tried self-hosting it and importing passwords. UX was very good, but I had some understandable UI hiccoughs that made me not want to use it. The non-native Android app also felt pretty slow.
FireInsight
·2 months ago·discuss
Very interesting. With the "virtual folders" feature, doesn't this also compete with Syncthing kind of? I have actually been looking for a solution like Syncthing, where I can write and cache files offline without actually having all the files in the full synced folder on every device (just my NAS). Kind of a hybrid between a remote filesystem mount and full-on folder sync.
FireInsight
·3 months ago·discuss
Android Firefox versions that are geat as well - [Ironfox](https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox): Hardened - [Fennec](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/): Fully FOSS
FireInsight
·3 months ago·discuss
Try dragging a youtube video URL onto an MPV window. I believe that should use yt-dlp under the hood. Not that much privacy since they still get your IP and you have to browse for the videos somewhere else as well, but great for minimal ad-free playback. Haven't tried this in a while though, but last time I did it worked perfectly.
FireInsight
·3 months ago·discuss
I am genuinely in the "target market" for a tool such as this, but having evaluated one previously I found the quality and self-hosting experience to be pretty bad, and that a proprietary freemium product was still a better experience.

I'm hesitant to even take a look at this project due to the whole "vibe coded in 3 weeks" thing, though. Hearing that says to me that this is not serious or battle-tested and might go unmaintained or such. Do you think these are valid concerns to have?
FireInsight
·3 months ago·discuss
> Yeah, somewhere where regular people that aren't terminally online won't ever have the chance to see it.

Honestly the first time I read this I thought you meant to say "will have the chance", because I don't know of any normal people that used Xitter in years. Most are now just on Instagram. Then again, my generation and geographical locatin might have something to do with that.
FireInsight
·4 months ago·discuss
Unprofessional photograper, the camera is pretty old but serves me well enough.
FireInsight
·4 months ago·discuss
I don't find Zed much worse for working with webtech either.
FireInsight
·4 months ago·discuss
One thing I also care about is the storage space on my phone running out... Also, I haven't found any good RAW editing app on my phone yet, and I am not gonna jump through the hoops of taking the picture to my laptop and editing it there before just sharing some random snapshot of a day with someone.

But yes, I am a photograper and always take raw photos with my DSLR.
FireInsight
·4 months ago·discuss
I looked at the brainrotty name[1] and instantly assumed AI slop, but I'm glad the website was upfront about that.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/mog
FireInsight
·4 months ago·discuss
What I love in Open Camera is that I am able to turn off all extra post-processing (noise, yes please) and use my phone camera with full manual settings like it was a DSLR (with a really bad sensor). Only problems are clunky UI and general slowness of taking pictures, but you get used to it.

It's really unbeatable from a photographer / artist perspective, especially because I care a lot about imperfect gritty noisy looks and full control.
FireInsight
·4 months ago·discuss
Gotta have someone over 18 click the button for you then I guess.