I’m not in a country with the age verification thing, but has it been turned on for Lemmy servers?

I was thinking OP could give everyone their own VM to use as a workstation so they could access the files on the server easily, and/or run programs based on their work. When their coworkers leave, OP can easily destroy the VM and the resources would be automatically reallocated (depending on the servers configuration). With a physical device, the storage on that device is only allocated to that device and can’t be shared when it’s not in use

Me, personally? I have multiple VMs for different contexts: my teaching job (super clean, video sharing tools, presentation tools), gaming, media server (has scripts to download stuff off of YouTube), server management (just a regular Debian install), and a fuck around box (I just use it to try new OSs like Fedora, or try breaking OSs like deleting the system32 folder on windows)

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking for, but I’d recommend also looking into a VM OS such as proxmox or unraid (I’m running unraid)

They’ll let you create/destroy VM instances you can access remotely. So in theory, you can give everyone their own VM to use and access the files on the server.

However, unraid / proxmox may have performance issues running in a VM on a Mac mini…

This is why I’m not going to buy RAM / Dodge / Chrysler/ Jeep / anything Stellantis owns, and this is why I’m not buying any new car with “smart” / “built-in” junk.

I don’t know of any car that has an actually good head unit. Its either garbage because its a giant touch screen, making it super difficult to navigate without looking (that’s why all the controls in an airplane are different shapes and sizes), or its just a hub for you to run Android Auto / apples equivalent.

Now ads? Ffs…

To add onto that: dots are short, dashes are long. So if you’re using a flashlight, or something else, it would be:

short, short, short, long, long, long, short, short, short

Then include a small pause (1-3 seconds) once you’ve sent the SOS before repeating. You want to continuously repeat this for as long as you can until you know someone’s received your message.

As much as I want to see Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse flourish; at the same time, I hope it doesn’t.

Once the fediverse becomes popular and gains main-stream attention, the billionaires and political twats will flock towards it and try to monetize it; Morons will flood the fediverse with memes and AI slop worse than !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world (you know what you’ve done); corporations will start spamming ads for their shitty products; and scammers will start setting up bot nets to coerce users into sending them money to their new AI waifus.

The unbearable weight of all the garbage entering and attacking the fediverse will drive moderators out the door, leaving servers as wastelands of junk. No longer interesting, no longer human. Just trash, like how Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, etc… are today.

So yes, I’ll welcome friends and family into the fediverse with open arms. But I really hope we don’t start getting too many shout outs

Good job Mr president. Now you’ve helped Russia with a few things.

1. If they know where the sub’s are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub’s.
2. If they didn’t know where the sub’s are, they now know where they probably weren’t, and where they may be going
3. In either case, they know you’ve fucked with their patrol routes, which may give them yet another advantage with finding them; or seeing how you influence their routes

They’re already making suggestions. Got one this morning telling me I can ask it for updates on Amazon packages.

Speaking of which, anyone have any suggestions for better smart speakers?

I work in the education space and my biggest worry is the next generation losing the ability to critically think.

Just like how Gen X is much better at mental math than Millennials because the invention of pocket calculators / calculators on phones made math trivial; I think AI is going to trivialize critical thinking. We (as a Millennial) still had to hunt for a correct answer to our problems, which forced us to question possible answers we found and used our critical thinking skills to determine if it was a valid answer or not. With AI though, you type in your question and it’ll spit out an answer. For easy questions - it’s great. But for anything a little more nuanced, it struggles still. So if we don’t develop our critical thinking skills on easy questions, I wonder how we’ll do on the harder questions

Is PipePipe still working for you? I’ve been having issues with yt-dlp since YT released an update a few months ago

Looking through the docs n’ stuff, this is what I found:

• Updating Guide. Just basic steps, similar to what I explained above; but with commands to run.
• Backing up and restoring
• 2.0.0 Change Log. Unfortunately they don’t include any notes about how to upgrade

I wasn’t able to find any additional instructions on how to update other than the expected generic steps (docker pull or pip install -r requirements.txt). So my guess at this point is that they have scripts built in to check the version and run upgrade scripts as needed

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I haven’t gone through your specific case, but generally what I do when doing a major update with potentially breaking changes:

• Read the upgrade guides, if they have them. Some devs will put them out if they know their users will encounter issues when upgrading. If they don’t have an upgrade guide, there might be some in the change logs. Going from 1.17.1 to (assuming) 2.x.y, check the change logs at 2.0.0.
• Backup everything. I’d recommend doing this on a regular basis anyway.
• (If you’re running it in a docker container) Setup a second instance, restore the backup, then run the upgrade. You’ll be able to check to see if it breaks at all. If it works, you can just destroy the old one and use the new one
• (if you’re not running it in a container) with the backup, try upgrading. If it breaks, you should be able to uninstall & reinstall the old version, then restore the backup

For context

I usually only keep documents and media. Programs can be redownloaded and reinstalled (and it might be better to reinstall them in case you move to a new OS anyway to ensure compatibility).

For docker specifically, only keep stuff that’s specific for your instance; which you normally setup as an external volume anyway. Docker is designed such that you should be able to nuke the container, and all persistent data is restored via an external volume on the host. If you’re not doing that, you should immediately go and set that up now (to get the data out safely, setup a volume connection such that the container path is new - that way you don’t accidentally destroy what’s there, copy the stuff you need out, then readjust the path so it’s correct)

Vim ftw!

This is rreeaaalllyy close to what I want. However, it’s missing WordPress. I think I’ll set it up and play with it anyway just to see though…