What other people haven’t quite touched on is that the in-built system certainly won’t be powerful enough to run demanding VR games with good frame rates and resolution.

I also have my doubts about the 6GHz WiFi connection being enough for it, I hope there is also a wired option.

But it will be awesome to be able to do normal tasks like coding, writing, etc… outside in the garden, as an example. I think for people that don’t have a dedicated VR space, this could be awesome with 6GHz WiFi outside without needing base stations.

That only solves maybe one of the listen problems. Whatever instance you have, you still have to get and serve media to other viewers and instances. The only problem that this solves is potentially CSAM spam/moderation.

Let’s say it was a cell phone, it could handle maybe 2 concurrent transcoding streams before stalling out and people running into buffer times (which makes them leave).

If every person had their own tiny, low powered servers, then you could have max like 5 concurrent transcodes on any instance in all of peertube for old laptop or desktop computers. Assuming an average of people have a 100/30Mbps connection (which is true in much of the world outside of major cities, or even lower), then that would be absolutely maxing out at 10 concurrent viewers if everyone is running AV1 compatible clients (which is not the case) and more like 6 concurrent viewers per video at h.264. Those estimates are at low bitrates also, so low quality, absolutely no slowdown from your ISP, and absolutely no other general home or work-from-home use. In reality it would be closer to 3-6 concurrent viewers per instance (not even per video)

Still not even counting storage which is massive for anyone that creates more than a couple videos per year.

My point is just that it is an extremely difficult and costly problem that is not as simple as “more federation” like in text and image-based social media because of the nature of video, the internet, and viral video culture. Remember, federation replicates all viewed and subscribed content on the instance (so the home instance has to serve the data and both instances have to store it)

Yep. I have posted on stack overflow exactly 3 times. One time it was marked as duplicate and referenced to something that was not even the same topic. One time I had too much detail and debugging done for the classic knowitalls to come make a smartass remark and was completely ignored. The final time I got one comment, addressed it, and that person was never heard from again lol.

Just a few thoughts as to why it hasn’t taken off:

Video is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive to serve than text or even audio.

• Your server needs a great upload speed which is not achievable for on-site home servers for most people in the world

• Your server has to have at least one dedicated encoding GPU (no raspberry pis or Intel nucs if you want any meaningful traffic)

• Your server has to have a ton of storage, especially if you allow 4k content to be uploaded, which while much cheaper than before, is still expensive. Here in the EU, reliable storage is around 300€/12TB for drives, which fills up very fast with 4k videos or if you try to store different resolutions to reduce transcoded loads.

• Letting random people upload video onto your instance is significantly harder to moderate than text or photos. Like think of the CSAM spam that was on Lemmy when it started in taking many new users…

• The power usage (and bill) of the server will also be much higher than without peertube because of constant transcoding

The cost, both financial and server taxation-wise is simply too great for me, and many others to setup a peertube instance.

Regardless of how easy it is for people to create on peertube, someone has to bear the cost of hosting it. That is cheap-ish for Lemmy or mastodon, but there is a reason YouTube was a loss leader for a long time for google, and many streaming services restrict 4k video.

That isn’t even getting into compensation for the content makers.

I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.

It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn’t in there.

I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn’t auto-restart without my permission…

Hell, a 12TB WD red Plus in the EU is 300€. $160 for a 14TB is absolute dirt cheap

Yet every 1-2 years the same proposal comes back with a different name and they have to have the exact same discussions over again because it has already been talked to death so it just depends which EU Parliament members have switched sides because of totally-not-bribary from lobbyists and nationalists.

This time around was razor thin margins.

I started using activities instead of virtual desktops with 2 desktops each.

Separate wallpapers, separate start menu favorites, separate panel pins, etc… Plus you can hide activities not in use to keep it tidy. I used to use virtual desktops more, but I think of it now as a 2D grid. Vertically activities very organized and for each you can switch horizontally where organization doesn’t matter as much.

Activities are great except there is a bug where the little wallpaper previews won’t show with the default, batch resized and renamed wallpapers.

Immich

Jellyfin

*arr suite

Mealie

Authelia

Aegis

Liftlog

Syncthing

Aves Libre

Gadgetbridge

Lemmy

Forgejo/codeberg

It’s definitely improving! I hope they also improve the default shortcuts because having to reach to almost the last key on the other side of the keyboard (k) for the single most used constraint is pretty nuts while there are almost unused closer keys lol.

I wish he would bring his skills to freecad 😂😂 it is needed!

I would be interested to see a figure of people with home servers that have had that happen to them. DoS & pwned yes, especially 15+ years ago before there were good resources, TLS, reverse proxies, or authentication front ends.

I would be very interested to see any stat whatsoever of selfhosters that have gottened murdered specifically because of their server.

It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn’t harden ssh at all, and most people didn’t use a VPN for downloading.

That is literally like saying that people who light wall torches in their wooden home burned their house down, so let’s not use lightbulbs or electricity.

Eh, I only do embedded work which doesn’t work even with layering unless you layer everything which defeats the point.

Good thing is that I just have a distrobox for embedded work that spins up whenever I need.

What is the difference between a paid service and a paywalled service in this case?

So you have absolutely no devices that are a different resolution thans you download? You don’t direct play 4k on a 1080p screen for example.

Me too, and the new one I didn’t even realize this change happened. I saw there were no breaking changes, updated, and saw “oh, it isn’t synced anymore” so I reselected the folders, it ran a sync check on everything, which took a while, and everything works fine again.

I didn’t even realize there was a difference until now, but I guess there is a start/stop sync switch.

I mean, jellyfin is absolutely even.more of a security nightmare than Plex, with multiple unfixed CVEs IIRC (software, not website or forum)

I use jellyfin also, but I only trust it not exposed to the internet at all. That is one very big area of improvement for them.

That and subtitle syncing.

I was already a long time KISS launcher user after the sale (long time nova user)

Recently discovered Kvaesitso and I have fully switched! It is just a bit more featureful than KISS while still being very clean and now when people use my phone for something, they can actually find apps too which is nice.

Everyone will claim it is the hardware, but we can see from cheap phones that a majority of people actually get outside of the US that it doesn’t matter as much.

It was never a complete phone after 5 years. It never had the software to actually use it as a daily driver. Calling still “doesn’t work all the time” according to users and similar with texting. If your phone literally can’t be trusted to make a simple call and receive a text out of the box, then it won’t be bought to be used as a normal phone. That’s as simple as it gets.

It has just been relegated to being a fun side experimental phone for enthusiasts, but you can’t have a company-carrying product like that because the consumer base is too small to fund the software development.

They also specifically say

While in the future the PinePhone Pro will be able to serve as your daily-driver smartphone, at present the PinePhone Pro should be considered a development platform.

On the store, which further discourages consumers.

Building a smartphone OS and all the features needed is an extremely expensive task, so it is completely understandable that it has gone at a snails pace.

Open source Obsidian notes application.

The second brain part comes (I think) from the zettelkasten method of brain dumping all of your thoughts, notes on things you learn, etc… "On paper” in order to organize it and not lose it.

It is often recommended (along with to-do lists) for people with ADHD, and good for people like me with bad short-medium term memory.