Reddit apparently still hasn’t figured out the maxim “Don’t piss off the free help.” TANSTAFL.

In other, unrelated news, VPN’s are experiencing an unexpected spike in traffic. More at 5.

“ At least one law enforcement officer appeared to reach for their weapon before the room relaxed with recognition of the scheduled test.”

Seriously LEOs, chill the fuck out!

Here’s an idea! Don’t trust Google or rely on their products.

I'll be honest, I had forgotten MySpace was a thing back then. Every single page I went to was gaudy as hell and took forever to load on my dial up connection at the time. I'm a little surprised they're still around. And damn, it looks a lot different!

Dear Fucking God!

The Guardian is a generally reputable source but I swear this reads like an Onion piece. If true, then the Republican’s there are truly trying to create an uneducated and uninvolved electorate. Jeez, I am glad I don’t live in Texas. Granted, Alabama isn’t much better, but still.

Gee, I'm shocked! Shocked I say! /s

Does anyone actually use LXD? I never could figure out the deal with this.

I was thinking Darwin Awards but OK.

About time!

Good bot!

I used to start with searching Reddit, though that has been of less help lately. Wikipedia is helpful for getting a baseline if I have no clue about a subject. Lately ChatGPT has been helpful there as well.

And then of course, all search engines still accept boolean searches but you kinda need to 1) know the syntax the engine uses and 2) have a rough idea of what you are looking for.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-options-b92e25f1-0085-4271-bdf9-14aaea720930

Sorry, no Google documentation was relevant.

Damn, that meme is cursed. I feel like I need to wash my eyes with bleach now.

I currently use Jellyfin to stream my music collection. It's all stored on my NAS and I can give access to whomever I like. Downside is that the iOS music client, FinAmp, is... not pretty. It's functional, but not great. I understand the player situation to be a bit better on the Android side.

Currently living in Alabama, I really wish there wasn’t quite so much truth in this statement.

I'm not a fan of their MacOS based products, but I prefer iOS for the fact that I can rely on getting timely updates. For a good long while. That is not something that is generally true with Android. I'm fine with paying for that level of support.

Last time I looked, no Android vendors provided close to the same level of support.

That said, if I was a business and needed to field in house apps to mobile devices, everyone would be getting an Android device. Custom apps for iOS are a pain in the ass.

Personally I use Nextcloud, but as you want local only, I have used Thunderbird. It's fine. Cross platform, open source, remote to local sync. Basically, it ticks all the boxes for a calendar/agenda.

You might also take a look at this list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#calendar--contacts

I'll be damned... Did not know that existed. I've never used the Windows store and it still found updates for most of what I have installed.

Thanks!

Depending on what you are trying to do, not necessarily. NextCloud itself doesn’t really care, as far as I know, as long as it’s address doesn’t change. AIO on the other hand is setup in such a way that it needs a resolvable domain name and a valid certificate for https.

This could be done by spinning up your own certificate authority and dns server, but that is a lot of extra work and would be local network access only.

Another way would be to use a free domain and a free certificate from let’s encrypt. The downside here is that the domain authority could yank your domain at any time, for any reason (as happened to all of the free .ml domains recently). At which point your certificate would also stop working resulting in a situation where you may have to nuke and pave.

If you want to be local access only, I would pick an install path other than AIO. If you want to be able to access NextCloud remotely, purchase a domain name.

A VPN, such as TailScale would be considered local network in this situation.

I hope it meant arm yourself with knowledge, because what this nation does not need more of is scared folks with firearms. We’ve enough of those as is.

Sadly, I’m guessing not.

Sure, they can. It’s called Confirmation and Impeachment. Did Justice Alito not show up the days they taught the Constitution in Elementary School, Middle School, High School, and Law School?

There are a whole slew of ways to look at this depending on what "glasses" you like to wear, and also the type of work involved. I work in grocery logistics, moving groceries from where they are produced to the store where you buy them. Here's a few from my "lens":

• They are looking at the long term office space leases they are stuck with.
• In person training tends to be more effective ( I remember reading a study on this, but can't currently find it.)
• Most people suck at communicating effectively. Proximity seems to improve this. (Personal observation)
• Community (It is far easier to "other" someone that you rarely or never meet in person. Not so easy if they are showing you pictures of their kids every day. "Sally just got a new particle accelerator! Isn't she so lovely! This is her sinking Manhattan!")
• Leadership (I have to come into work to do my job. My boss's job though is mostly paperwork. He could do his job from home but why should I care what he has to say if he isn't in the same mud as me?)

My thought on this is if you want the flexibility of working from home, that's fine. But don't expect me to give a damn about what you think. The job is rough enough without an uninformed opinion trying to mess things up worse.

I never used Apollo. Back when I used Reddit I just used the official app. Glad to see some Lemmy apps have left TestFlight though.

If you don't have an experience using the command line then it's a tad more involved then I can explain in-depth on mobile. Best I can do is give a brief outline.

To start with, wescode/lemmy_migrate is a python 3 script. If you are running windows install WSL (Ubuntu), once you have a command line I am familiar with you will want to download the repository from GitHub to a directory.

You will then need to create a config file called migrate.conf Use the sample provided in the repo under configuration. Edit it to use your information. You can use nano as a text editor.

Then it looks like the command would be something like:

python lemmy_migrate -c ./migrate.conf

Sorry if that is crap help, but I'm not near my computer right now, and don't often use Windows anymore to boot.

PS:

WSL is a program from Microsoft that gives you a mostly functional Linux command line within Windows. None of this is as complicated as it sounds, I'm using more words then strictly necessary to explain things somewhat at beginner level. The most time consuming part of this would be first installing WSL and then installing Ubuntu onto WSL. There are plenty of tutorials on how to do so.

Hopefully someone more familiar with Windows can tell you how to do the same thing from either the DOS prompt or from Windows PowerShell. It's doable, (almost anything is) I'm just not familiar enough with either to walk you through it.

Ordinarily, I’d agree. I posted it because the last line in the article caught my attention. Apparently a cop was startled by the test and the officer’s first reaction was to go for their firearm.

RHEL is dead easy to pirate. https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/overview A developer account is needed (it's free) but after that you're golden.

Not too hard. Just alot of unfamiliar vocabulary. 😄 If you run into any questions with either of our walk throughs, (my linux one or @lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 's Powershell one), feel free to DM me. Don't mind helping folks starting their exploration of computers. We all started somewhere.

Considering the genres I tend to listen to most frequently (country, jazz, blues, bluegrass) don’t really have a problem with people doing covers, that is a very long list.

The only one that pops to mind currently is Hurt by Johnny Cash. I think it was the better part of a year before I found out about Nine Inch Nails’ original version.

Sounds like catching a computer virus is fixing to take on a whole new meaning.

Ummm…. American weapons can be found in every nation on Earth. Pretty sure Russia is using some in Ukraine.

Nice! I knew someone would know how to do this in PowerShell!

Are any of them out of Test Flight yet?

As often as not, I'm using nano on the command line. It's available in Windows through WSL.

Being honest, WSL makes running Windows so much easier.

So I figured. I’m all for the 2nd Amendment, but the fear-mongering on both sides of the aisle really needs to stop.

That looks interesting. Looks like they only ship within the EU though.

Yep! It should work in reverse too!

Good bot!

Just search for tutorials based on the key words from my post and you'll get there.

I am sorry for the RTFM post though. Been a rough day and haven't been able to get near a computer to do a better write up for you.

Well, it’s happened once. It could happen again, although I suspect if we do have another civil war, there may not be many pieces left to pick up afterwards.

That was a good read, thanks!