For anything important, use matrix instead of lemmy DMs.
For me, Plex would often end up having audio drift lag and it was annoying as fuck. It’d start fine, then the lag would gradually increase until you changed encoding back and forth, then gradually increase again.
Jellyfin just works.
That was enough to get me to switch and not look back. I’m also rid of the bullshit plex login that I never cared for, and also of their push for whatever “recommended” stuff is supposed to be about.
Make sure you test this from outside your network and not simply by using the public IP, but from inside your LAN. Odds are your ISP modem doesn’t support NAT loopback (also known as NAT hairpin).
Your own user might have root, but the ansibke user probably isn’t.
You can enable ansible privilege escalation by adding become: true in your yaml file.
It is likely safer in the long run to set it for a specific task than globally.
Lemmy does exponential backoff with something like this:
retry_in = min(1.25^retry_count, 24*3600)
Basically, the timer for the next retry will grow exponentially until it reaches 1 day, then it continues to retry every day.
By that time, about 5 days will have gone by going through the previous retry failures.
If will eventually give up and mark as dead but I don’t remember the threshold for that.
A high enough dose of UV would definitely kill the brain worms.
Yeeting them into the sun would be a proper posology.
Also: Obligatory “so does a handgun” XKCD
That and loading children comments… but only from a single thread, load more, lpad more, show all comments or context or whatever.
The UI became garbage along the way.
There’s plenty of bans to go around, but mostly spam and the odd pathetic bigot.
When I discovered lemmy… I thought it was nice just being able to browse and not be immediately assaulted by several popups to login, cookies, or the classic “download our app” bullshit.
I know people love their apps, but the web UI works. Browsers have great features already like tabs, bookmarks, adblockers, etc.
Reddit has been actively hostile for a while.
Here?
On one hand, it’s a smaller place, so there’s less content to browse…
On the other hand, it’s a smaller place so you can reply to an older thread and still have interaction with people.
On reddit, if I replied to a thread that was 1h old, it was like sending a message in a bottle, floating in an endless sea where none would find it or shouting in the void.
Anyway, welcome home / make it your home.
Peace
Canada, where every alert is in the nuclear attack category.
Yea, it’s not the first time I’ve seen this discussion either.
I don’t wanna seem like I’m not believing you or belittling your experience, I just find it weird that we (we, users, as a whole, not just you and I) have such wildly different experiences with it.
As is, I have a vastly better experience with my own nextcloud than with corporate’s onedrive, with more stuff on mine.
Wish I knew why it’s so inconsistent.
Even though my nextcloud experience is fine, I know plenty of people with the opposite.
Legit have had none of these issues.
I do get a notification once in a while if I modify a picture fast enough, like a quick crop and it’s still uploading. Like snap pic and edit within the same 5 seconds or so.
Basically just a: “there are multiple versions of the same file (which is true), which one do you wanna keep”.
Then again mine is running on a pretty beefy server which might hide issues rooted in performance.
I remember it being hell when I was running it on a RPi.
Yea only times I’ve had issues is if I run out of space allocated to the container that runs it.
I currently have 16GB of phone uploads and 540G overall, it works fine
Nextcloud’s instant upload feature?
Whenever I take a picture or screenshot it’s uploaded there.
Nextcloud might be overkill if that’s the only feature you need. I’ve never used the more involved stuff like chat or document editing, just sync.
“eh, that’s a problem for future me”, sais previous me, the asshole.
This, but bottom right also includes past me.
Well I got cut off by word limit.
You can put text in a post’s body, and not only in its title.
Some subjects you might wanna look into.
NAT hairpin, also called NAT loopback If you’re sending packets to your ISP’s public IP from inside your LAN and it fails, your ISP modem (or whichever device does the NAT, probably doesn’t support NAT hairpin.
Split-horizon DNS That’s when you configure your own DNS for your hosted services, but with a different config on your LAN (which would point towards your services LAN IP) and another config with your public DNS provider (which would point to your public IP)
Carrier NAT This could break your chances of having a reachable service as they likely won’t make a port forwarding rule for you in their stuff.
IPv6 address types
Link-local addresses are within fe80::/10 (kinda similar to how 169.254.0.0/24 is used in ipv4). This IP wouldn’t be reachable from the outside.
Global unicast addresses are all in 2000::/3, this would be reachable from the outside.
5.IPv6 DNS Make sure to configure both A (ipv4) and AAAA (ipv6) records with the right info. Although if your LAN devices only have ipv4 addresses and you’re doing Split-horizon, you could theoretically omit the AAAA on your LAN
As for your problems, it depends.
There might be a way to make this work without the VPS, but I don’t have all the info.
That said, a VPS or something like a cloudflare tunnel could come in handy. I usually prefer to host directly but still, that’s an option if port forwarding doesn’t work with your ISP.
You’d configure the DNS for your services to the VPS IP and configure the VPS to reach your stuff.
Using the VPS kinda also gets rid of NAT hairpin problems although it is inefficient to go through the VPS from the LAN with the downside of not working when your Internet is down.
You can still use the VPS and Split-horizon DNS if you wanna have local availability from your LAN when your Internet is down.
Good luck
Your examples seem vaguely related to home automation, so maybe they’re already in Home Assistant.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/
It has a bunch of sensors and media related integrations. You can also add custom REST API queries.