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  • The thing is, id Software has landed in this medieval war against Hell not out of convenience but out of a need to change the fundamentals of play. To return to where Doom became legend two decades ago.

    I have bad news for the author of this article regarding what year it was two decades ago.

  • So that's admittedly not a good look for canonical, but my read of that is that if you're getting widely-known software from a developer who's publishing it to snap themselves, and you're cautious about your usage, snap is fine.

    For example, essentially my only use of snap is to install certbot. If I follow the directions from certbot.eff.org precisely, then I'll get certbot installed and no issues.

    I certainly agree that (a) the system is ripe for abuse and (b) should be self-hostable to support Free software. Both of these could be fixed by canonical opening it up.

  • Why? I've heard this for years at this point, but as someone who rarely uses snaps because they're the only convenient option for software I'm using, I'm generally ambivalent about them.

    People seem to hold really strong opinions about snap but I've never been able to get a straight answer, just a bunch of hand waving.

  • I use Mail-in-a-Box on a small VPS. Have been doing so for about 10 years. It takes care of basically everything.

    Last year I subscribed to a small-time email provider, anydomain.net, because I got tired of playing whack-a-mole with services blocking my entire subnet due to spammers on the VPS. All told I probably spend ~US$20 per month to host it.

  • You're right. I was angry when I posted this, and couldn't help but read glee in the repeated ways they described generations of people who are on track to simply never be able to save up for a comfortable retirement.

    It does feel hopeless, though. I love my job and earn a decent wage, but if I had the money to retire, I'd do it today. I definitely don't want to work until I drop.

  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
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    What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.

    Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.

    About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement.

    ...

    This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete.

    Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.

    It's ok! Don't ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we'd have to deal with the removal of your corpse.

  • Gotta wonder how many people are down voting because they think the title is moralizing, when it's anything but that.

    There's nothing like going for a nice long walk around the world of The Witcher 3 and meeting some of the locals there. They say the nicest things. "Sod off, you misborn clod," a guard will tell me. "Got so fucked up once, blood came out me ears," a chap at the docks will announce. Or if I'm really lucky, "Go fuck your mums tits!" What a world to live in.

    The thing is, I love this about the game. Being scolded by the ruddy-faced inhabitants of The Witcher 3 has long been one of my favourite things, ever since I first played it eight years ago.

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    I made a thing! A python script to delete old, unwatched movie/tv content from Sonarr/Radarr/Tautulli. (update)

    About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

    Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

    • Make it do TV, too
    • Make a dry-run mode
    • Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

    The code is now available on github here:

    https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

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            docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py
    
    
      

     

    It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collectio

    plex @lemm.ee
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    I made a thing! A python script to delete old, unwatched movie content. (update)

    About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

    Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

    • Make it do TV, too
    • Make a dry-run mode
    • Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

    The code is now available on github here:

    https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

     undefined
            docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py
    
    
      

     

    It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collectio

    Plex @lemmy.ca
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    I made a thing! A python script to delete old, unwatched movie content. (update)

    About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

    Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

    • Make it do TV, too
    • Make a dry-run mode
    • Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

    The code is now available on github here:

    https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

     undefined
            docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py
    
    
      

     

    It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collectio

    Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    Can you recommend a service or container for doing disk analysis and reporting failure conditions?

    I recently stood up a new file server using ZFS on linux. I'd like to automate the disk checking in such a way that I can essentially ignore and have a service notify me when SMART or other indications are hitting failure or pre-fail levels.

    I'm not looking for a fancy GUI or web UI - a plain old config file would suit me just fine. In my ideal world, it would be a container I could simply spin up with minimal configuration, but I'm willing to give anything a try.

    Sync for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Is it possible to set the default view on Profile?

    I comment more frequently than I post. Is there any way to set it to view comments by default? Even better, can we display a merged view of comments/posts in a single listing?

    Bitwarden - The unofficial Bitwarden community @lemmy.ml
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    PSA: self-hosting Bitwarden is NOT a security feature

    The fact that BW is open-source allowing the ability to self-host is a very awesome and unique feature. The fact that Dani Garcia ported the code and allowed you to host vaultwarden on a low-power device like a Pi or a small VPS is even more awesome. The fact that they both made it easy to install and run the service with Docker etc., and that there are a lot of guides on how to set the whole thing up is super awesome. You can play around, learn some things, and get control of your own data. It's all awesome. But none of that is a security feature.

    BW started as a tool for enthusiasts, people who probably can review and compile source code, set up a server, and run services securely -- seasoned c/[email protected] folks. Maybe in their hands, a self-hosted instance of BW can come close to the security provided by the official service. If they are experts in the field, maybe they can make it even more secure. Maybe.

    For mo

    Plex @lemmy.ca
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    Getting stuttering playback on a Roku 3 when Direct Playing some content

    I've recently upgraded my Plex instance to separate out the storage side and the compute side. In general, I couldn't be happier - the compute side is a little HP prodesk with a quicksync-capable CPU, and the results have been phenomenal.

    I have one user who has been complaining about stuttering playback when doing Direct Play on a Roku 3 (2015). When they switch to transcoding, it works perfectly. The only time I've seen it, it has been doing a direct stream of MKV -> MPEGTS for the video container with a transcode of DCA 7.1 -> Stereo audio.

    Bandwidth is not the issue and they were the only ones streaming at the time.

    Do you think the Roku choking on it somehow? My 2017 Shield TV can fully direct play it without issue.

    Bitwarden - The unofficial Bitwarden community @lemmy.ml
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    Bitwarden Windows Client vulnerability prior to 2023.4.0: CVE-2023-27706

    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27706

    Bitwarden Desktop v1.20.0 and above stores the biometric key in plaintext which allows a local attacker to decrypt the entire local vault if you are using Windows Hello and are not on the latest version. The Bitwarden Windows client before version 2023.4.0 is affected.

    Details here: https://hackerone.com/reports/1874155

    (shamelessly stolen from reddit)

    Maryland @exploding-heads.com
    ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works

    Are you out there? Join us at https://dmv.social/c/maryland and we can talk about how the Maryland flag is the best flag.