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Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what's this or that sticker. I'm impressed when they can pick one out on their own.
FOSS source is here.
Since I see both on here,
Trilium > Obsidian
FOSS source is here.
That's not the source, that's its output. We don't know how you sourced the images used in each triangular tile: generated to best correspond with AI? Matching pieces from Wikimedia Commons photos?
Edit: Look closely at Arch for example. It's clearly just the logo placed in a hexagon, approximated by a mosaic of 24 triangles with AI images of differing quality. Is that snow or whipped cream? How can PCB traces be as blurry as watercolor? At least they're topical: for Arch the prompt was probably "mountain OR architecture OR arch OR technology".
Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?
This is not an AI-generated pic, it's a photo taken with a real camera. The logos, however, are hexagons divided into 24 triangles each, and these triangles contain often thematically related (e. g. lions for Brave) photos or photorealistic AI images (the info I found online does not state either way) cropped to best correspond to what the triangle would contain if it just had the original logo. Basically, that corner of the whale surrounded by white was taken from a face photo (or AI pic).
Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.
Looking closely at Perl, it seems there are photorealistic (hard to tell if AI) photos toned blue, abstract shapes that might be edited/vectorized photos, and in the bottom right there's a bead necklace that's so unshapely it's an AI giveaway. Well spotted, it was indeed made using AI-generated images!
Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.
Did you look closely at Jellyfin? The things in the dark are OK, they add flavor − the problem is unrealistic silhouettes of people & animals in one mosaic piece. Also, it's rotated on the laptop, and so is Debian.
The hand and face (bottom right) on Gimp is way more awful.
The GIMP one is the worst
No, hardest part was obsidian livesync
Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.
I am so thanlful for that japanese person that made it, but it is so fiddly! At least for me with the cors, the couchdb administration and all. Did you use some other backend?
It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.
Also Steam... i mean it's a LOT of games!
I'm proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?
Hehe, why do you have a butthole next to Tux?
I think it's Claude, the LLM from Anthropic.
I see Trilium!
Out of interest by "selfhosting" steam are you running a steam cache or just using it?
I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few "normie" stickers but few people I know that would even recognize that. I also don't self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that's not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
And yet I see no pornhub sticker....
Should be a stash sticker if we're selfhosting
You can use jellyfin for this 👀
What is stash?
you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?
I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you're good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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these ones: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SoHexy ?
I think I'm in love. They have such great variety, and the artstyle is so neat. And I love stickers because they are such great conversation starters.
~$5 for a single sticker??
I wonder is OP the one selling them? 🤔
EDIT: Turns out that OP is the one selling them.
If you don't want to pay, print them for yourself.
I get a 502 bad gateway on the domain :(
Fixed. I don't know why the node went down but I forgot to put it on the HA list. It'll be more resilient now.
They do look really nice. Don’t get me wrong, these are lovely stickers. But say I want 10 of these, it would be $50, which I am not going to pay for stickers, no matter how nice they are.
Maybe put them in packs? 10 for $20 for example? Something like that.
I appreciate the feedback. I figured out how to fit 5 on a 6x6 sticker. So that's five stickers for $12. I can also fit 4x that on a big sheet, so it'll be 20 stickers for $25. I just need to find a group of 20. The downside is that Etsy doesn't do volume discounts, I have to build the multipack myself. I'm also trying to figure out how free shipping works to take that off larger orders.
I was thinking you could buy a pack for $5 but power sticker is ridiculous
power sticker
I am sure you mean per sticker but the typo is hilarious :D
