[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

I have a love hate relationship with this man. He has spearheaded some of my favorite games even if they came nowhere close to what was promised. It's so weird to come back to Fable and enjoy it more than I did when it came out.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I did it for 3 months. I really enjoyed my time doing it and learned a lot about my usage. It was a cheap $50 experiment. After I went back to my smartphone, I uninstalled ALL social media apps. Turned off ALL notifications but left calls and messages as an exception. My smartphone is now essentially a feature phone. It's not 100% the same since the big screen does lure you in to use it but my usage is still way down and because I don't have any social media there's no reason for me to be on my phone around other people. I wholeheartedly recommend trying it for those curious.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Just the type of mod I want!

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

Dad programming jokes are the finest there is.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Akira x Barbie, very cool.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah but can it host PiHole?

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

We have so much computing power at home and the chances you have good reliable Internet at home are better than before. I revived 5 year old PCs and it's way too much computing power for my self host needs. I'd have to pay $200+ a month for the same compute power in the cloud. Even a Raspberry Pi with 8GB is capable of running quite a bit for fractions of a penny in electricity.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sync is $20 to remove ads no? Where is it $100?

Update: nevermind I see it here for sync ultra

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago

This one triggers the entire spectrum of human emotion.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Just... make... it... fun and I'll play and don't make me sign up for a service or give away my data.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by betternotbigger@lemmy.world to c/creditcards@lemmy.world

In the clip Clooney and Farmiga brag about their credit card perks...

Also thanks to the mods for creating this community, was missing this one from Reddit!

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The default settings of librewolf would drive the average user crazy. I'm not a fan of Firefox and use Librewolf myself but Firefox has sensible defaults for an average user that would be a net positive coming from Chrome. Just an FYI thinking of making the switch.

For additional context of those curious, Librewolf is very hardened by default. When you close your browser all site data is wiped (this can be turned off). Most people don't mess with their browser settings though... there's also a lot of little things that are disabled by default that will make people think the browser is broken e.g. canvas requests are silently denied by default, it's just not realistic for most people to use librewolf.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If you only need public access to things like HTTP or SSH you don’t necessarily need to run dynamic ip and just setup Cloudflare Tunnels. So far I haven’t needed to put anything public that doesn’t run on the provided tunnels.

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I am debt-free thanks to YNAB and now when I buy something big, I really feel it. Before I buy something I always go to YNAB and see what it feels like to empty a category or move money away. If it doesn't feel good, I'll usually sleep on it a few nights until I feel comfortable making the purchase. A lot of times I've just outright skipped the purchase!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by betternotbigger@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I've never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it's my new addiction.

I'm a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I'm looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust... I feel like I'm living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it's so much fun.

Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I'm now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud.

Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can't get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community!

EDIT: Just also found Fission and OpenFaaS, selfhosted serverless functions, I'm jumping with joy right now!

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I dusted off my RPI4 and started tinkering with self-hosting things and it's sparked a fire. Suddenly I have 7 docker containers running and I need more RAM, more space and I want something reliable with room to grow. I like small form factors but it doesn't need to be RPI small. Any recs for your favorite hardware under $500?

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