hendrik

The big one is fine. I think it’s already grown up. And does most of the chores around. And the small one: I tend to bring it with me. I carry it in my backpack, especially to some nerd activities. I don’t think there is any rivalry. They’re individuals and I think my machines all feel my love and affection. No, I don’t miss them in day to day life. We’ll meet each afternoon anyways and I think some leeway is healthy. But that changes if I go on vacation for a week. I sometimes really miss them when I’m in a different city for several days… Idk. Seems one-sided anyways, because they then just sleep all day like a cat and don’t really mind my absence.

They’re awesome. There are foldable ones which you can carry around. Or big ones that you don’t even need to charge, because they’re directly hooked to the power grid. You don’t need to hold them, because they sit on the table. Have about 105 separate keys (ever wondered what your 8 other fingers are for?), a mega large screen… Mine even has 2 screens, I can open like 5 apps at the same time! They have headphone jacks, sd-slots, multiple(!) charging ports which you can use for other things than charging… almost endless storage… And there are very smooth operating systems available, which don’t even lock you into Google or Apple’s ecosystem… I really like them!

Best thing is, they won’t even drop out of cellphone coverage when you go grocery shopping. You’ll just leave them at home and they keep on downloading. Once you return, you might have all bad sitcoms of the 90s saved on them.

Ah, thanks for explaining. Guess I’m just old. I do my piracy on a regular computer.

What’s the title got to do with the post?

I’d say get some support by friends or relatives so you’re not completely on your own. Then get out there and maybe get professional help if you like.

What’s your life situation like? Do you study? Do an apprenticeship (Ausbildung)? Can you afford to pay rent? Or can you get “BAföG” or “Unterhalt” from your parents? Do you have any friends or people who you can rely on?

Other option: Call a help line, they’ll have some advice on who to ask for direct help:

• https://familienportal.de/familienportal/lebenslagen/krise-und-konflikt/krisetelefone-anlaufstellen

And the Lemmy Explorer. Though, I recommend brushing up the knowledge which instances are nice. I skip lemmygrad, hexbear and even lemmy.ml these days. Also lemmit.online since that’s just reddit bots.

I for one, unsubscribe from communities that copy and dump content from someplace else. I found they’re low engagement anyways. But there are plenty good ones. Idk what to recommend because I don’t know other people’s interests and spoken languages.

(It might be a different story for meme pictures, since they’re usually circulated and regurgitated. That happens on other platforms as well.)

I enabled the DLNA server in Jellyfin. And that works okay with my LG webOS TV. But it’s down to the quirks of the TV which also likes to enable subtitles and the default audio track.

That’s right. People want a firewall. Maybe on the devices and/or on the router. But NAT isn’t that. It’s address translation. Predominantly because there aren’t enough addresses available. It’s a workaround. And it kills things like VOIP, videoconferences, direct communication etc. And then you need a workaround for the workaround to work around that… If you just want to drop incoming traffic and not expose clients, that’s what the firewall is for.

A standard DMZ still does NAT. You get a private IP and the router "nat"s you, just that it forwards all incoming traffic to that device by default. I think technically, that gets you disqualified for no nat november. Though, you’d end up exposing the ports of the machine to incoming traffic, that’s correct.

By your definition an english teacher also can’t be better than a 3 year-old, because they’re both native speakers. So the 3yo would babble something and by definition no one can be better at english.

And I’m not sure if you can smash your forehead on the keyboard and say, this is now an english sentence by definition… Due to lack of a state authority… It’s some consensus what is accepted as english language and what’s not.

It’s certainly correct that there are multiple variants. There is more than one english.

hmmh. I recently installed linkwarden to do this. but i regularly forget to add links 😅 good advice though.

There aren’t that many users doing this, and I’m abysmal at remembering names. I’d say it’s a 1/3 chance it was you. It was someone usually writing silly stuff or participating in memes and random talk, with the one-off meaningful contribution, software or website recommendation or something. I forgot, and I think I removed the bookmark… But I’m not trying to convince you. You do you. If you like it this way, I totally respect that.

Btw, it’s super annoying if I bookmark something, or remember something, check out the old post and the author deleted it. Happend more than once to me already. I mean it’s your content and your choice. Just wanted to say it’s annoying to me.

Yeah, most PCs get turned on and off like once per day. For example at most offices or at home. That’s perfectly within normal use.

Consumer harddisks are made to be spinned up and down occasionally. Don’t do it every five minutes… But I’ve been doing it for years and years with my server that spins up the disks once or twice a day, once I access some of my archived files. And it’s perfectly fine.

I think you can set up a VPN in a way that it doesn’t forward all traffic, just specific traffic to one IP or a certain network, and everything else goes out the default route. That would leave you with your regular connection, except if you’re talking to your VPS, then it’ll go through the tunnel. But that won’t help you with the android and multiple VPN apps at the same time.

Maybe you could configure the firewall on the VPS to drop all traffic from the internet, but just accept packets from your home IP address? I mean with most providers your IP is going to change regularly. You’d need some additional logic or write some script. Your VPS would add an exception to its firewall so you can access it, while dropping all other internet traffic by default. That’d be a solution completely without VPNs.

Or if it’s just a few simple services… Lock them with some login screen and people would have to log in with username+password to your services.

I think people talk a lot. Especially politicians and populists. It’d certainly be sad if the USA forgot altogether that the country was supposed to be about freedom and democracy. And not a monarchy/autocracy or some religious Caliphate. I think there’s still quite some sane people around. So my hopes are up. But it’s a big problem, for sure.

What’s the difference regarding this task? You can rent it 24/7 as a crude webserver. Or run a Linux desktop inside. Pretty much everything you could do with other kinds of servers. I don’t think the exact technology matters. It could be a VPS, virtualized with KVM, or a container. And for AI workloads, these containers have several advantages. Like you can spin them up within seconds. Scale them etc. I mean you’re right. This isn’t a bare-metal server that you’re renting. But I think it aligns well with OP’s requirements?!

Well, there’s both. I’m with runpod and they bill me for each second I run that cloud instance. I can have it running 24/7 or 30min on-demand or just 20 seconds if I want to generate just one reply/image. Behind the curtains, it’s Docker containers. And one of the services is an API that you can hook into. Upon request, it’ll start a container, do the compute and at your option either shut down immediately, meaning you’d have payed like 2ct for that single request. Or listen for more requests until an arbitrary timeout is reached. Other services offer similar things. Or a fixed price per ingested or generated token with some other (ready-made) services.