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[–] 67 points 8 months ago (19 children)
  • [–] 44 points 8 months ago* (11 children)

    Great, now instead of just being bored, I get to manage three servers and two dozen public-facing services that I have to maintain for a growing number of users, along with the physical servers themselves, as any cog in this machine may break and burst into flames like a house of cards... and still be bored with the added stress.

    Yaaaaay, hobbies...

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    You may have chosen the wrong one.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This hobby would be significantly better if it came with a six-figure salary

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If the cogs didn't break occasionally, I feel like it wouldn't be a very good hobby.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, though anxiety and self-perfection make every task dreadful and stressful when anyone else is impacted; doesn't matter if it's the family vaultwarden instance or a game server needing an update to become available again, all of it is AHHHHHHHH

    🫠

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I run basically all my stuff through docker containers, and have...

    NAS:

    • BentoPDF
    • Clam-Shell (discord bot using clamav)
    • FreshRSS
    • Haven (discord alternative)
    • Kitchen Owl
    • Linkwarden
    • LubeLogger
    • MeshCentral (for me to admin systems)
    • Nametag (relationship organizer and visual map)
    • Owncast (streaming, for myself)
    • Plex
    • Radicale
    • Red (discord multifunction bot)
    • RustDesk
    • Snipe-IT
    • Uptime Kuma
    • Vaultwarden
    • Wallos (subscription manager)
    • YourLastFM (for myself)

    ThinkServer - Proxmox:

    • Debian 13, running BOINC
    • Home Assistant
    • Windows Server 2022, running Motor Town dedi

    VPS:

    • American Truck Simulator dedi
    • BeamMP dedi x7
    • Duplicati (for backups)
    • FiveM dedi
    • Minecraft Bedrock dedi
    • Wireguard

    I have stuff offline like a Satisfactory dedi, and the docker container for Euro Truck Simulator is broken for whatever reason... and stuff that is running for admin purposes that I won't list since security and all that (and a couple 'bare metal' services too). My users are family, close friends, and members of my discord/haven gaming community that I have brought in over the last few years.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Y'all have money left for hobbies?

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  • [+] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Ever had a conversation with a person about two different topics at the same time but each topic is being talked about in a different app, in real time?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    My wife does this.

    Our text DMs are about the kids.

    Our family chat DMs (Zulip, which is a open-source version of Slack/discord) is full of memes.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    (Zulip, which is a open-source version of Slack/discord)

    Did you do this to brag, or to avoid the FOSS Enforcement Patrol?

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    Try eating your keeper.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    Hell yes, get rid of anything that's an algorithm.

    If you can't run out of content on the platform you're on, it's a bad thing.

    Use youtube clients that follow users

    Browse text platforms that let you follow communities.

    TT, IG, /all, and shorts are where your brain goes to die.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Everything that's on your phone has an algorithm. It's like saying I don't eat things with chemicals in it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Group chats with Friends? Games? Ebooks? There might be algorithms associated with those somewhere, but you'd have to go digging for them.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Chats: an algorithm decides the order of the messages shown Games: a lot of algorithms everywhere. Ebooks: eg algorithms are used to decode the drm of you are using a Kindle.

    You don't need to dig very deep.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    A pedant's job is never done, huh?

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    We should use technical words in a technically correct way, or else public discourse becomes obscured and confused. Like what Discord did with the word "Server", it's not innocuous even when people are doing it by accident.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Language isn't set in stone, and when people use the term "algorithm" when referring to the system in place that decides what content is put in front of them, people understand what they mean. No one gets this algorithm mixed up with the math/computer science term algorithm.

    The discord one is slightly different, but I'd argue it isn't that harmful, as Discord "servers" function effectively as a server from a user point of view. The only problem with this nomenclature is that it somewhat implies to a layperson that there is some form of privacy/security in place, which there isn't.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Ahh yes, the old "things are bad so we shouldn't worry about making them any better" argument.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    That's not what I wrote. It's just that they were complaining about the wrong thing. Algorithms are not bad, just how they are sometimes used is bad. Most of the time they are applied in a good or neutral way.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well I didn't write anything about phones, I was talking about social media echo-chambers, but you took that there.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Okay then let's get rid of the phone, it was just an example either way. Every program consists of algorithms, no matter where it is installed: in your phone, car or TV. In a street light, a digital thermometer or a smoke detector.

    You wrote:

    get rid of anything that's an algorithm.

    If we do that, no digital thing will work anymore. It's not just social media. Or phones. It's everything.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    I mean, it would make for an interesting day.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Please keep your dirty hamburgers away from my virgin pumpkin

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    I have now deleted my accounts, but there was at least one time that I was browsing reddit and got really bored, so I opened a new tab to check out reddit.

    I looked at the front page posts and was like, "Oh yeah."

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    That scrolling the same apps loop is way more relatable than most people want to admit.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Take a break from social media.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Does Lemmy count as social media?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I think so, yes.

    I have been posting things on websites that allow the general public to participate since my childhood, that is, for more than 20 years. At the time I was familiar with "forums", slightly later also "wikis" and "blogs"… I have no idea why or even when exactly the world started to insist on that strange term "social media" to describe some poorly defined subset of such websites. 🤔

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Controversial take here:

    In my opinion, if you're just here to shit post and not actually use your "socializing" brain, then no. Like when you're picking the weird options in Skyrim and then restoring your last save.

    But if you're committing to the actions and this is your "real playthrough", then yes.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Yeah i do sometimes just shit post on here, but I'm also trying to treat it like forums in the pre social media age when you could recognize a few users just by their user name. I am also trying to contribute to the "community" aspect.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Oh I have a literal ton of stuff I could/should be doing. Haven't had any would for a long time though

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    The 4 apps I jump between:

    Connect, Voyager, Raccoon, and Summit.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Instructions unclear. Now have salmonella.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    No, the tiger does not need "enrichment", it needs to be set free. Do not accept being caged as the normal and don't be gaslit into thinking the toys you get is "enrichment".

    Reject the premise altogether.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I have an app for that, I mostly just do the daily rewards now tho.

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