Hearbeat notifications man. “Yes I am online” email once a day or so. Yeah it’s more emails to delete but it can be a lifesaver.

I’m remembering a very not fun discussion my team had about “the monitoring system not sending any alerts doesn’t inherently mean everything is ok” after an outage that was missed by our monitoring system.

You need to make sure you’re monitoring connectivity as well as specific problem states. No data is a problem state often overlooked, and it’s not always considered for every resource type in these systems out of the box.

And you probably want a heartbeat notification. Yes, it’s noise, but if you don’t see anything from monitoring you need to question if monitoring is the thing that broke. It sending out a notification every so often going “yes I am online” is useful.

There are various open source android apps for using your phone or tablet as a second monitor, but I don’t think that would solve the window focus issue.

Alternatively, most emulators have an option to allow input while the window isn’t focused, which might be an alternative for you.

TL;DR- No.

You can’t install homebrew (including unofficial emulators) on the Switch without being able to set up and boot into a hacked emuNAND (effectively a hacked backup copy of the Switch OS running off the microSD). Afaik you can’t do that without a launch edition Switch where you can short the controller pins to access the recovery “menu” and use that to push custom “hack” code to the Switch.

switch.hacks.guide is your friend if you want a reputable source on the current best method to get emuNAND set up. The current tool/custom OS/whatever the fuck they call it is named Atmosphere.

If you have an Android phone, you can try emulating those games using PPSSPP, and if it works at a decent speed (it probably will) you can pick up a phone mount for your controller of choice and a USB C to USB C cable to just slap the phone onto the top of a controller and then use your phone to emulate from.

Unless this is a dump of something that hasn’t been catalogued by one of the dump checking groups like nointro, there’s no advantage to even risking it.

You can search their database on their website, and you can find full romsets (collections of roms that match their known good file hashes) on archive.org.

And if it’s a romhack, wouldn’t you better serve your readers by pointing them to the safe downloads on archive.org, to the patch, and to tools to do it themselves?

It’s just not worth the risk.

Yes, that’s something we all should be doing, but that won’t stop this from effecting you.

Google is trying to make a change so that all apps will have to have their creator show their identity to Google so they can be installed. This specifically applies to sideloaded apks. That means it applies to everything from sketchy random apks, to github, to F-Droid.

There’s no way to work around it (if it even can be) until Google rolls it out so custom ROMs can reverse engineer it to offer an option to disable.

Even if it can be disabled on the phone’s end, that now cuts your potential userbase so dramatically that it’s going to gut the open source software scene on android. Either give in to Google (so goodbye high school student devs, people from not ok countries, or people making shit Google doesn’t like), or enjoy your potential userbase of maybe a few thousand people who have the custom rom(s) with a workaround, resulting in an actual userbase of maybe one hundred.

This is about all app makers, not just ones in the Google Play Store. This also applies to third party app devs and hobbiests making open source apps to put up on alternative app stores like the all open source F-Droid.

Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it’s clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don’t even want hybrid setups.

Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it’s Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn’t work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.

Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.

Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.

Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.

If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.

Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.

For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.

And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.

I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.

Anyway…

But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.

My understanding is that they forked it after he had a different, earlier crashout about their retroarch core and handling user support. He changed the entire license to prevent them from continuing to use his code to make a core. Then they hard forked from before the license change and made the swanstation core. So not illegal, but spiteful as all hell.

That said, forking it illegally wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility for the retroarch devs. It’s entirely possible I don’t have accurate info on the order of events etc.

But I’ll be real, while I care about these devs as people and wish they would just get some community members to act as filters for support requests (seems to be the leading cause of dev burnout)… emulator dev drama isn’t worth getting wrapped up in.

They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.

So this is your project? Judging from your username here and the test messages shown in your screenshot here and on the Github. Nemesis.

Brand new lemmy account with only this post on it.

And the entire Github codebase is made up of a single commit of all the files 2 hours ago as of the time I’m commenting.

As I’ve said before with similar posts from (I believe) other users/coders: just be up front about if something you’re posting was your weekend project or just something to fill out a portfolio.

Yes, but it still deserves the question to be asked explicitly. I don’t think most iPhone users looking for a music reccomendation app would assume they’d need to selfhost in order to use an app.

And again, if as the dev he’s not prepared to set up his own server for use to pass basic testing, it begs the question of what exactly he’s expecting out of his end users and if it’s truly a reasonable ask even if they’re prepared to self host

Wait, how is this app going to function on release if you can’t stand up the basic resources for it to function for them to test it? Every user has to self host their own?

Which brings up another issue: if there isn’t an easy way for you to secure the server as the developer, is it fair for you to just dump all that on your end users?

Lemmy doesn’t show overall karma anywhere by default, and as far as I know, no communities are using automated moderation to prevent “low karma” accounts from posting.

Not saying it isn’t, just that there’d be no point.

You could try your post on other selfhosting communities in the meantime like !selfhost@lemmy.ml or !selfhosting@slrpnk.net

The difference between 4chan and Reddit is pretty small

I’m sorry, but I sincerely doubt you’ve been on 4chan recently.

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