Evkob

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

Ottawa announced yesterday that they'll be dropping more than half of federal internal trade barriers.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I wore all black regularly for years, as a consequence of being a theatre student and working a lot of catering/food service jobs.

Today, I dress like a preschooler who just learned about colours and whose parents have let them dress by themselves for the first time. No shade to anyone who likes wearing black, but goddamn do I find it incredibly boring for myself.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago

Me: Ugh, sudoku, I hate puzzles.

Also me, when something on my PC or server doesn't work the way I want it to: Yay, Linux! I love ~~puzzles~~ troubleshooting!

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

Mull was part of the DIvestOS project, which has recently been discontinued.

For a similarly strengthened fork, I've been using IronFox after seeing it recommended on Lemmy.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They meant pinging your server from another device, I assume.

What error(s) do you get when you try to SSH into your server?

By "can't access containers", I assume you mean via devices you're trying to connect to the server with? Can you still access the stuff you're running in the containers directly on the server via localhost?

I'll echo what the other commenter's have said and you need to give us more info. "I added two containers" is pretty much useless if that's all we have to go off of to start troubleshooting. More details on what exactly you did, any troubleshooting steps you've already tried, what specific errors you get, etc.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The app you're thinking of is StreetComplete!

Which reminds me, I should really download it and start contributing to OSM.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Warning: Kind of a long whiny post

One of my roommates just told me she's buying a house, and my other two roommates are moving in.

I'm invited too, but I feel like they're doing so more out of obligation or pity than a desire to continue living with me. I hear them having fun in the living room when I'm holed up in my room, only for them to immediately cool down if I come out. They keep making plans without me, they went skiing last week on a day I was busy. I was the one who had suggested skiing... They just seem to vibe a lot better together than with me, which is fine, but it gets really tiring feeling like the odd one out at home.

I guess I just can't help but feel they'd rather bring in a fourth roommate that fits their vibe rather than haul me over to the new place.

I'm frustrated because I can't tell if this is all in my head or if they actually find me bothersome. I know I'm at least part of the problem, I've never been able to feel fully accepted in any group. Ever since I was a kid I felt like everyone just tolerated me, or accepted my presence, rather than feeling like an integral part of the gang. It's at the point where even if I were to become accepted in a group, I don't think I'd even be equipped to realize it. I'd just rationalise away any love and acceptance as fake. Or maybe it's just a self-fulfilling prophecy, where my incapacity to feel wanted results in no one wanting me.

OK so this ended up as more than "kind of a whiny post", sorry for the feeling-dump. I just really needed to get this off my chest and yell it into the void.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I can only assume it'd be a bridge for Nextcloud Talk.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the overview! I appreciate it, and can definitely see how these features could be worth the investment depending on your use case. I guess I've mostly seen Kagi pushed as a privacy-respecting option, which doesn't appeal to me considering the alternatives such as Searxng.

Feature-wise, I can definitely see why some people would prefer Kagi.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Care to share what makes it worth it for you? I'm honestly curious.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I truly don't understand the hype around Kagi. Maybe I'm just too wrapped-up in my own little FOSS and privacy world, but paying for a closed-source solution that ties you into an account just doesn't make sense to me.

For basically as much money as an unlimited Kagi plan, you can rent a small VPS to host Searxng and a VPN service to run it behind and you'd have a much more privacy-respecting search solution, plus a VPS to play with. Kagi just seems like such poor value for your money. Granted, I've never used it, but I can't imagine its results could realistically be good enough to justify paying 10$/month.

 

I'm ready to completely jump in to using decentralized, federated platforms, however most people I know aren't fully there. It strikes me that this moment in time, where a lot of people are newly actively aware and frustrated by Meta and Twitter's actions, is ideal to get people to switch over to new platforms.

To encourage people in my community to join platforms on the Fediverse, I want to host instances of various platforms (probably Mastodon and Pixelfed to start with). Having a specific instance on these platforms to point people towards would probably help a lot of the folks I know get on board.

However, I'm scared I'm not knowledgeable enough to admin these public instances for others. I know some basic networking, I self-host a bunch of stuff with Docker on an old laptop, and I definitely am smart enough to figure out how to start up instances of these platforms. However, I'm mostly concerned with whether I'd be able to properly maintain and secure these instances. I wouldn't want people to be soured on decentralized social media just because I don't know what I'm doing.

Any thoughts, words of encouragement, tips, warnings, etc. are welcomed!

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Evkob@lemmy.ca to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
 

I have been using Quad9 for my DNS, setup at the router level, for months without issue. Today, I woke up and the internet wasn't working, and as the one in the house who self-hosts a couple things on an old laptop and thus tinkers with the router, I was the one my roommates looked at in a panic.

I figured I'd just do a factory reset, and it worked! And then stopped working when I changed the DNS from my ISP's servers to Quad9's. I can't even ping their servers from my home network.

Could my home IP have been banned from Quad9 for some reason? I truly can't imagine why.

EDIT: Update if anyone cares, it works now. I assume it was a problem somewhere between my network and Quad9's servers, since I didn't change any configurations to make it work.

 

Article en français (La Presse)

The Liberals under Susan Holt have won the majority of seats in the New Brunswick election.

At 9 p.m., with 80 per cent of the polls reporting, the Liberals were leading 31 ridings, the Progressive Conservatives were leading in 16 and the Greens were leading in two ridings.

Just before 9 p.m., CBC projected wins for Holt and Green Party Leader David Coon, who both ran for Fredericton seats, but PC Leader Blaine Higgs lost his Quispamsis riding to Liberal Aaron Kennedy.

 

Hello! I've posted this a few weeks ago on /c/linux4noobs@programming.dev but I didn't get much of an answer, I hope it's okay to post it here as well.

I use 3 audio devices on my computer: my monitor's speakers (through HDMI), my headphones (through line-out/built-in audio) and my microphone (line-in/built-in audio). They all work fine, but when I reboot my headphones / line-out don't seem to get recognized at all.

The only solution I've found thus far is to re-install alsa-utils twice after rebooting. Upon the first reinstall, my line-out / headphones reappear but my line-in mic disappears, only to come back after the second reinstall. Technically my sound works perfectly fine after this, but it feels extremely dumb to reinstall a package twice after every reboot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance :)

 

Hi there! For context, I'm on EndeavourOS using Pipewire.

So like the title says, my audio configuration works until I reboot my PC and then I need to fix it. I'm using both my CPU's internal audio (to power a microphone and headphones through 3.5mm audio jacks) as well as my GPU (to send audio to my monitor through HDMI). I never use the headphones and monitor speakers concurrently, I switch between them in the device manager as needed.

When I reboot, only my HDMI audio and microphone appear in my device manager. The only fix I've found so far is to sudo pacman -S alsa-utils, which makes my internal audio reappear but makes my microphone disappear. I then re-reinstall alsa-utils which makes the microphone reappear, giving me access to all three of my devices.

Anyone have any leads on how to permanently fix this? My system still works, but it feels really silly re-installing alsa-utils twice after every reboot.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Evkob@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

Okay I'm fully aware of how ridiculous this sounds in 2023, but bare with me.

I have a wonderful neighbour, Jackie. She's in her mid-sixties, and ever since she moved in we have become very good friends, she's like a second mom to me.

Jackie loves movies and has an enormous DVD collection. One day, she was talking about how she couldn't find a particular movie, and I said "I can probably download that for you!" Her immediate reply was "Can you put it on a DVD?" I tried telling her the many reasons it would be better to use a myriad of other solutions, but she insists on DVDs.

I did them for a while using DVDStyler on Windows, and it worked fine. But then I installed EndeavourOS on a new partition on my hard drive, tried using Brasero and Devede but it wouldn't read on her DVD player. Then I tried DVDStyler on my Linux partition, and it didn't work on her DVD player, despite saying the operation was successful on my end. I then tried booting up into Windows and using DVDStyler, and that also didn't work, not even letting me burn the disc. Does anyone have any ideas what could fix this? I've tried playing around with the settings in all these apps but I couldn't figure it out.

Apologies if this isn't the best place to ask this, but I figured a community of pirates would understand my desire to get movies to Jackie without her having to pray to find them in a pawn shop!

 

I've been using Feeder on my phone, and while I quite like the app, I would love a widget for my RSS feeds on my launcher.

Are there any apps that include a widget, or standalone widgets, but that are also FOSS?

 

Bike on a beer can on a bike.

Fun fact: Radler is the Bavarian dialect word for Radfahrer (“cyclist”)

 

[Image description: A screenshot of a tweet, with a picture attached. The tweet by user @TomZohar reads: "ELEMENTAL features Pixar's first nonbinary character" oh so we're just ignoring this legend's impact??

The attached image shows a screenshot from Pixar's Toy Story of one of Sid's toys. A toy fishing rod has had the legs of a doll with high heels attached where the fishing reel would typically be.]

 

(...seriously though why does my brain do this still??)

 
 

I'll start with a couple of mine:

  • Terry Barentsen (fast-paced urban rides, mainly in NYC)

  • BCpov (MTB rides as well as some trail building stuff)

  • Shifter (informative videos on various topics relating to cycle commuting)

  • One Cyclist in Lisbon (pretty much what it says on the tin, lots of silly city cycling moments in his compilations and as well as longer rides outside Lisbon)

  • Ed Pratt's Unicycling The World series (I know it's not a bike, but it touches on a lot of just cycle touring in general)

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