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  • And this is why peertube will never actually take off outside of a Utopian future of unlimited energy and a future where everything is perfectly distributed

    Who is going to pay the hosting costs? Who is going to pay the bandwidth costs? Let’s say magic happens and the users donate enough for that. Who is going to pay the creators who that is their main source of income?

    Now what will happen when people demand 4k content everywhere, and then 8k after that? That quadruples the cost of the bandwidth and hosting costs.

    I absolutely hate hate hate subscription models and hate ads. There has to be a subscription model for any video hosting platform, and YouTube doesn’t split up into exclusivity deals like shitty steaming services to screw over the consumer for profit. So at least there is that.

    Decentralized systems work extremely well for text and even audio-based services. Video is a whole other beast, especially long form video at high resolutions.


  • Yes but as a somewhat layperson (electronics engineer and light firmware design, and some hobby sysadmin stuff), I can learn systemd’s “language” in 30 minutes and most attributes are so self evident that you can puzzle them together without learning the language at all.

    That Shepherd mess I would have no idea what to change to make a small tweak without spending hours and hours learning it because it is written extremely cryptically in comparison.

    It’s the difference between modifying a config with human readable names and having to go into the source code to change heavily abbreviated variables that require a lot of background knowledge to even read.


  • Pretty much people that don’t game with hardware from the previous 5 years or so, which is a ton of people.

    My hardware just hit 5 years old and I think mint 22 was the only one with a recent enough kernel not to have breaking bugs for Navi 1 on AMD. It is not easy, straightforward, or often well compatible to upgrade the kernel and mesa on mint.

    Plus ppas are terrible. I had more things break due to ppas or bad updatws in 3 years of mint (granted it was 2014-2017) vs 7 years on arch and 6 months on Bazzite.

    Other than that it is great, and definitely familiar for beginners! Plus the forum is great!












  • Yeah it is a many decades long issue of Israel literally pushing over Palestinians houses with bulldozers to expand their territory, beating and sometimes killing the owners of the houses, then calling it “settling”. Then Palestinians being radicalized and carrying out attacks (and terror attacks) against Israel. Then Israel responding with complete ethnic cleansing genocide and teaching their entire country that the Palestinians aren’t human and kidnapping torturing them in Nazi-ways.

    It is pretty much exactly the US vs Native Americans of the modern day. Down to the difference in funding, available technology differences, starvation tactics, and genocide. I think the torture tactics have gotten worse though



  • I don’t really get the idea of decentralized internet.

    The internet is already decentralized. There are millions of websites hosted on thousands of separately-owned machines.

    “Decentralized” services like the fediverse use thus exact same structure and bind them together by a search/aggregation API.

    The “centralized” part of the internet is DNS, Service providers, and search.

    You are perfectly allowed to go your whole life without using search, or by self-hosting searX.

    If we go back to the age of webrings, that is essentially decentralized internet. It seems like every decentralized internet idea is just a rehash of this with some Tor ideas sprinkled in.

    You are never going to be able to pull a “Silicon Valley” and make every device into a mini server. The ping and uptime would be horrific.



  • Sorry, I think options like Firefly III for that might not be sufficient for small business, but it was the only great Foss personal finance software for a long time.

    Odoo is the gold standard for business. I think they also have a business finance app? It isn’t free, but the cost is reasonable.

    Otherwise, I use Leantime for project management. If you work in a project-based or contract-based company (like consultancy or design house), then it has a lot of project & product features including time tracking with a plugin. Not financial though.


  • Oh boy! Here goes

    Desktop:

    • Bazzite
    • KDE Connect
    • KiCAD
    • FreeCAD
    • Plasma
    • LocalSend
    • Thunderbird
    • Bitwarden
    • Code OSS
    • Krita
    • CoreCTRL
    • LibreOffice
    • CuteCOM
    • KopiaUI
    • Calibre
    • Heroic Games Launcher
    • Lutris
    • PrusaSlicer
    • Okular
    • Inkscape
    • FluffyChat
    • SyncThingy
    • Elisa
    • Haruna
    • Kdenlive
    • YouTube Downloader GUI
    • Paperwork (stille can’t get network scanners working on Bazzite with sane set up)
    • Solar
    • ProtonUp-QT

    Phone:

    • AntennaPod
    • Immich
    • Aegis
    • Heliboard
    • Organic Maps
    • Breezy Weather
    • Aurora Droid
    • K9 mail
    • Signal
    • Fluffy chat
    • Home Assistant
    • Eternity
    • Findroid
    • Gadgetbridge
    • Fitotrack
    • Loop habits
    • Tuta
    • StreetComplete
    • Wireguard
    • Unit converter untimate
    • mastodon
    • ntfy
    • newpipe
    • KDE Connect
    • bitwarden
    • findroid
    • localsend
    • material files

    server:

    • Leantime
    • Bookstack
    • Immich
    • Jellyfin
    • Home Assistant
    • Traefik
    • Crowdsec
    • Authelia
    • Dozzle
    • Glances
    • full *arr suite
    • transmission + wireguard
    • paperless-ngx
    • cloudflare-ddns
    • syncthing
    • valheim server
    • Boinc
    • stash
    • ntfy.sh

    If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂