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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Otter@lemmy.caOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - NextcloudEnglish3·10 days agoI think they’re looking for local “AI” anyway. Since those work directly on your machine, there’s no concern around trust (nothing leaves your device) and the resource cost is whatever your hardware uses, or was already using.
There are some concerns still with local models, such as any biases in the training data that was used, but for image classification it wouldn’t be that bad.
There is also !localllama@sh.itjust.works :)
crossposting between the communities can help grow both
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternativesEnglish6·18 days agoBeing able to compare between options would help me pick which one I want to use :)
Alternatively, a way to filter the full list would be helpful. That way I can select the items that I need and see everything that has what I need.
This for example:
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternativesEnglish121·18 days agoIt would be cool if there was a table to compare them with, since right now you’d have to open each of them to check.
Thank you for putting it together though!
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternativesEnglish2·18 days agoYou can add an image to the thumbnail field to get the best of both options :)
Otter@lemmy.caOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is BornEnglish5·25 days agoOrganic Maps was on iOS, my guess is that it’ll take time to get a new app approved on the iOS store
Otter@lemmy.cato Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•What's your plan to allow family access to important materials on your servers upon your death? What about for materials you don't want them to access?English5·1 month agoThere are a few self hosted dead man’s switches which might work in this case.
Easiest might be to give passwords to a trusted friend with technical experience and a list of the important things that you want done.
Otter@lemmy.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situationEnglish811·1 month agoThere’s a quote along the lines of “User error is not a thing, the system allowed for the error through bad design”
Which can be true depending on how far you stretch it. I’d say that if a chunk of the user base is having a problem, it’s a design problem
Here is a list
https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks
Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven’t tried it yet
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Best tool for creating a basic business websiteEnglish3·2 months agoI think you want a static site generator
We use Vitepress for https://fedecan.ca/en/
https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started
If you want to selfhost it, there is https://www.coolify.io/ , but imo you want something like GitHub pages/ Netlify since it’s for your business
What kind of fediverse features did you want for the website? You might be better off making accounts on fediverse platforms and linking to the website
Otter@lemmy.cato Technology@beehaw.org•Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody WantsEnglish9·2 months agoI also remember seeing articles about how the design was meant to be very simple because it was going to be cost effective, and that they were experimenting with a manufacturing technique that would work better on Mars
Yea nope.
Instead now Slate Auto seems to be going for the cost effective minimalistic truck
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/slate-auto-crosses-100000-refundable-reservations-in-two-weeks/
While Hyundai has put out some actual retro futuristic models
https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/heritage/heritage-series-grandeur
https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/heritage/heritage-series-pony
Otter@lemmy.cato Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•Selfhost offline software for a power outageEnglish61·2 months agoBriar comes to mind, although not directly related to self hosting or Linux
You might also find some of these answers helpful. Some of the services mentioned include Meshtastic, Briar, Kiwix
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Fully self-hosted password manager optionsEnglish6·2 months agoThe autofill popup has always been unreliable for me on Android (with Bitwarden)
I use the quick settings tile most of the time instead
Otter@lemmy.caOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devicesEnglish3·3 months agoI think it’s a mix of the two. There are legitimate reasons, and commercial reasons
Synology does not manufacture its own hard drives but instead certifies and rebrands drives from Toshiba and Seagate, leaving out only Western Digital among the world’s largest manufacturers.
Otter@lemmy.caOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devicesEnglish12·3 months agoThey’re disabling features
Synology, maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, will seemingly remove advanced features from its Plus devices that are not using hard drives provided by, or certified by, Synology itself, starting with its 2025 lineup.
What you might lose from using non-Synology-approved hard drives could include pool creation and support for any issues. De-duplication, lifespan analysis, and automatic HDD firmware updates could also disappear on non-approved drives, Synology’s press release suggests.
Otter@lemmy.caOPto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to?English16·4 months agoSome brainstorming from me:
- Ideally people do not buy more teslas
- An initial goal would be to use the vehicle without it phoning home. Would the TeslaMate project be sufficient for that?
- Long term, would it be possible to replace the software running on the car’s console? Or would it be better to tear out the console and replace it with something else?
Alternatively, what would a recycling/conversion program look like?
I should have specified, people we’re downvoting you
But looks like the score is positive again 🙂
I’ve heard Kobo is better than the other big players when it comes to interoperability with open formats / self hosted setups.
As for the servers
The main one
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
A popular newer one
https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
Also (to everyone else reading your comment) let’s not downvote good faith comments, especially when they’re phrased as a question and wanting to learn more
With that in mind, I LOVE how lean and fast some FOSS apps/projects are. One of my motivations to go searching for FOSS alternatives is when something seems slow for no reason.
It’s not always the case, but it’s often the case
Cool!
I love the UI for this one, it’s unique compared to the others