equidamoid

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[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Nope. Where I live employees' salary is included in the food prices.

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, but then you have to use Evolution.

Maybe, after a few months (or a year, as I may or may not have experienced) of "communication" you'll be allowed to use Thunderbird. Only for it to be suddenly blocked again later because some dude didn't understand why can't everyone just use Outlook.

And don't even dream of having a script to, say, sort and preprocess your mail.

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

gentoo with openrc works just fine for me (for docker/podman there is a separate debian machine though, as I don't want untraceable blobs from the internet in my LAN)

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

and/or getting your games from places like gog.com

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'd go for HLS due to its simplicity: just files over http(s). VPN or not - depends on your network. If your machine is accessible from the internet, just putting the files into a webserver subdirectory with a long random path and using https will be secure enough for the usecase. Can be done with an ffmpeg oneliner.

The downside of HLS is the lag (practically -- 10s or more, maybe 5 if you squeeze it hard). It is in no way realtime. Webrtc does it better (and other things too), but it is also a bigger pain to set up and forward.

Also, just in case, test that the webcam works fine if left active 24/7. I had (a cheapo) one that required a powercycle after a week or so...

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For me it's GOG first. Using lgogdownloader and wine directly (in a custom apparmor profile). No DRM, no forced updates, no annoying client that takes forever to start. Games are also dramatically much easier to isolate and sandbox this way.

If the game is not there, then yes, Steam (as a separate unix user).

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Better dependency control. I strongly prefer software that only depends on the stuff I can get from the package manager. This lowers the chance of supply chain attacks. Doesn't prevent them, but I expect repo maintiners to do a better job looking at packages, than a developer who just puts another pip/gem/npm install in a dockerfile.

Also if something is only available in a container, it sort of screams "this code is such a mess, we don't even know a simple way to run it" to me.

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Depends on your local waste service. I'd go for the "everything else" dumpster. Here in NL it is incinerated, which is a decent option for such a mix.

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This might be actually it (or at least one of the "competitor" projects they mention in the docs), thanks! Just need to figure out how to do a nice grid layout of the graphs.

I know R a liiiitle bit, so that may help too =)

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you ever notice that grafanalib is noticeable behind grafana itself? That's something that turned me off it, but I wonder if it was a one-time situation because of some major change in grafana...

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

create graph on the UI

that's something I want to avoid

hard for me to imagine a situation where graphs need to be edited so often

the whole system is under development (trying new views, changing how the data is represented, etc), so I don't need to imagine it, I have it right in front of me ;)

[–] equidamoid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something like that, where I just write a function that spits out a numpy array or something like that and it gets plotted, would be great, but there is one thing Grafana can do and vega-altair, plotly and even matplotlib (*): a UI that allows to select a time interval to view.

So I can freely pan/zoom in/out in time, and only the required part of the data will be loaded (with something like select ... where time between X and Y under the hood). So if I look at a single day, it will only load that day, and only if I dare to zoom out too much it will spend some time loading everything from the last year.

(*) yes, you can do interactive things with matplotlib, but you don't really want to, unless you must...

 

I currently use Grafana to view how all sorts of stuff changes over time. It gets the job done, but is far from ideal:

  • edititng the data queries is intended to only be done in the web ui (so I end up just copypasting stuff to/from pycharm to at least have a nice text editor)
  • can't store config in a git repo (yes, I can dump & restore the config as a huge json, but AFAIK the json structure is considered an internal api, so it can change at any time making versioning useless)
  • all plot parameters other than the data query have to be configured via gui

I did try grafanalib some time ago and it didn't feel right. It was quite behind in plot types (Grafana screamed at me "don't use this plot type, use the new one instead"), and is using unofficial api (the json config again).

Any suggestions? It doesn't even have to be a ready-to-use tool, a library/framework for making dashboards will also do.

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