Snot Flickerman

Dang it I finally literally just updated yesterday after not updating for like six months and being lazy haha.

Nice new features though and no breaking changes so no big deal. Just update it again today, I guess.

I am not OP but I actually have similar questions on backup because I didn’t have access to my Immich server for a few months and got really behind on keeping it updated. I want to make backups before I do a manual update, but I don’t know if following the directions on Immich’s Backup and Restore page is good enough or if I should handle it another way manually.

Just be careful running a Tor node and what kind of data could be flowing through your machine… It’s Tor… so some of the data can be pretty fuckin unsavory while other data can be political dissidents who need safety.

I’d say those SMART attributes don’t look great…

I paid for a lifetime pass like six years ago or more. It was definitely before Jellyfin was well known or well developed.

I’m probably gonna keep using it until they do the whole “lifetime is over” crap these kind of companies usually do.

I’ll at least have gotten my moneys worth.

I shut down my Immich server two months ago and moved it halfway across the state and did not have this issue.

All my files are on an internal disk.

I’m not OP, but maybe this one?

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

can I for example upgrade the OS?

I mean, technically, sure.

But what I suspect you’re really asking is “has someone else done the legwork to create a stable build of a modern version of android for what is probably a very underpowered device since it’s in a vehicle.”

The reality is you would probably have to dig into the hardware, find appropriate drivers, and then dig into the AOSP and build a stable Android build for it from there. And depending on it’s age, you might only be able to upgrade it to a certain point and not all the way to current Android. (For example, LineageOS no longer directly supports Google Nexus devices because their hardware is simply too old to work with the new versions of Android)

Because sadly, the likelihood of someone already having done it for an obscure vehicle head unit is less likely than, say, a flagship phone that tons of people own. It’s not impossible, someone may have already done the work, but I’d wager on that not being the case, because I’ve had just slightly unpopular phones that there are no LineageOS builds for, for example.

I don’t think that it’s that you can’t comment at all, it’s almost rather that you can only comment.

Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

You can link to other things and embed them in a text post using code, but there is no ability to upload anything, so the content really is all just text (since links are created using text commands).

No matter what choice you make, Lemmy or Plebbit or something else, it’s clear that decentralized/federated services are the real future. The return of the torrent swarms but forum swarms instead.

At some point something clicked with everyone, and they realized “the cloud” is someone else’s computer, someone else’s property. We all collectively realized you never feel truly free when you’re on someone else’s property, you’re always playing by their rules. At least with decentralization the levels of control are distributed so you have less of one person wresting control from anyone else.

It’s a bit like growing your own garden. You do it because you know what you’re putting into your garden and getting out of it. If you choose to use pesticides, that’s your choice, and no one else’s. When you choose how to run your own self-hosted services, it becomes your choice what comes and goes from your network.

I’m glad to be part of the self-hosting future here.

The best use of RSS I ever found was to put a feed of Metafilter/Slashdot/Hackernews/Lemmy into my magicmirror so when I blearily woke up in the morning, I could watch a stream of article titles flow by while I brushed my teeth.

https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/newsfeed.html

You can run it on a Pi via Box64. Source: I did it.

I’ve been able to control a consumer-grade CyberPower UPS for just my modem/router via a Raspberry Pi using Box64 to emulate the linux command line software for communicating with the UPS. I’ve never had any issues, and it had pretty okay documentation. You just connect it to a host PC via USB.

https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/standby/st625u/

This is the one, nothing special.

As you can see though, source, rpm, and deb versions are available. If a low-power consumer grade one like this has Linux support, I’d daresay most of them do. Like I said, I never had trouble.

Most election data comes from the Associated Press, but I don’t see a place to purchase API access, may only be available to news orgs.

https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/

A reddit poster had some JSONs from New York Times four years ago for 2020 but I’m not sure if you can make them work for 2024.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/jo1yuw/us_election_results_api/gmnxfz3/

Public Libraries are struggling and looking for relevance in the modern world. Libraries brought us the Dewey Decimal System, and early attempt to “categorize all the world’s information and make it useful,” as was Google’s claimed original goal.

A coalition of public libraries and data-scientists seems like the path to me. Libraries are already in the business of categorizing and organizing information, sooooooo.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bookworm-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/

So reading around it looks like Raspberry Pi Foundation now suggests TigerVNC because its optimized for Wayland and the newer version of Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) is all Wayland now. RealVNC is not optimized for Wayland and now is pulling this shit on Home users.

I haven’t tested this myself yet, just found it through some quick searching.

How-To Set Up TigerVNC on RPi OS Bookworm: https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/tigervnc-and-realvnc-on-raspberry-pi-bookworm-os/

But this How-To seems to recognize the reasons why the changeover is happening and what RPi Foundation suggests to use, so it seems like a good place to start.

TigerVNC also seems to be Open Source and unpaid, so it seems like a valid replacement option for the moment.

https://tigervnc.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerVNC

It looks like Bookworm is supported all the way back to the Pi 3B+ which is good news for me, specifically. Sounds like its some hoops to jump through in the Raspberry Pi OS Imaging Tool to get it to happen, but it’s there.

I am unsure about TigerVNC support for previous versions of the RPi OS, but its maybe still possible for older models.

I think the main reason this comes as a Fuck You to a lot of folks is that this came with (don’t know if it still does) Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS as the default VNC software. So a lot of hobbyists might have not thought about this in a long time and are suddenly facing needing to set up SSH suddenly because the VNC they were using is now off the table. (Makes me glad I defaulted to SSH+keys pretty soon after learning how to use it)

It probably should have never been bundled as the default for a hobbyist operating system. I guess we’ve seen the writing on the wall for the Raspberry Pi Foundation making bad moves for a while now.

Oh man it’s been a while, but I used to be super interested in getting an Air Quality Monitor going. There’s definitely ones that can seed their data to public databases.