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[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 months ago

I imagine Microsoft has the same problem as Google, which is internally prioritizing flashy new things over maintaining useful old things. That's why Google comes out with so many new things and kills so many old things.

If you want a raise/promotion/etc., you have a better shot at it by bragging about the new feature/service you launched than bragging about maintaining the relatively stable project that's been running for years but could use some improvements.

It's a really bad structure imo and I hate that Google and other companies prioritize like that :/

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

My server pc is just my old computer parts. Ryzen 3 2200G with with 6Gb of RAM. It gets the job done!

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

No clue, but you can selfhost it! So even if you don't like the official Revolt instance, you can spin up your own for you and your friends and not worry about it!

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's not a full replacement for Discord, but it's working towards that. If you just want a basic server for yourself and friends with emotes and voice chats, Revolt works. If you want polls, events, threads, forums, etc., it can't replace your setup. I think the goal is to be a full Discord replacement in the future, but it's still a work in progress (such is often the case with FOSS software maintained by hobbyists).

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

I use Docker for my setup and mistakenly had my qBittorrent download folder and my *arr media folders mounted as /downloads and /movies as opposed to /arr/downloads and /arr/movies

The *arr programs running inside their containers don't know that the two folders are actually on the same drive because it sees them as two separate mount points. Once I changed my *arr containers to mount my directories correctly, the hard linking worked as expected instead of copying files over. I then ran fclones and recovered over 700 GB of storage from deduplication.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Me when I didn't read and comprehend the piece of writing I'm commenting on. The author literally talks about this and why essays specifically are an important tool that can't be replaced by arguing your point in the classroom.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

I had a few metadata issues with Jellyfin until I changed the primary metadata source to be the same as what Radarr/Sonarr use so they all the file names match up and I've had no issues since.

I also don't have a notable issues with subtitles in Jellyfin, but maybe your requirements have more friction. Have you tried the (iirc included by default) Jellyfin plugin to automatically download subtitles for your stuff? Or the *arr program that handles subtitles (I forget its name)?

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 months ago

In the case of books, Anna's Archive is looking for help seeding their enormous collection of books and research papers. Consider reading that page and helping them as well!

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

The Internet Archive is, and I really want to emphasize this, Fucking Huge. If you want to help archive it, every upload has an associated torrent you can download and help seed. Torrenting itself isn't illegal, only torrenting illegal stuff like copyrighted movies. You can buy a relatively cheap refurbished HDD of whatever size you want, set up qBittorrent, and torrent the uploads that you want to make sure are available even if the Internet Archive has to take them down or has a critical data loss failure.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 months ago

A lot of what this administration will do is going to be illegal and nonsensical and dumb, but they will do so much of it that it will be impossible to effectively push back against it all. If you hear something that you care about, pick that and keep up with it. Don't get overwhelmed by the torrent of stuff happening over the next four years.

This is especially true in the current media environment, where there's so much noise that it's really difficult to break in and sort through what's true and what's false and what's missing context and what's misleading and what's technically true but there are other factors that change how it plays out in reality, etc.

It takes a lot of energy to keep up with it all, so pick something you care about and pay attention to developments about that. Maybe that's trans rights, immigrant rights, democratic institutions, economics, geopolitics, military industrial complex, whatever. You won't be able to effectively care about it all, so pick one and focus on that.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

For anyone wondering why a new law would target reusable bags as well, the phrasing of the old law basically encouraged stores to replace single use plastic bags with reusable plastic bags. Reusable bags use more plastic so they're sturdier and last longer, but they were treated as single use bags anyways so functionally we were just producing and subsequently wasting more plastic.

I haven't read this new law but hopefully it encourages or requires actually using paper bags or cardboard boxes or something if you don't have your own reusable bag. It would be a shame if it just kicks the can down the road again and people buy reusable bags in the checkout aisle that they throw away when they get home instead of keeping in the car.

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