I was about to ask basically the same question! I’m actually about to make the same move for my home pc, which I mostly use for streaming and gaming. I already gave a try to Fedora on a VM (gotta say this is the nerdiest name out there) , and I was REALLY impress by how simple, smooth and polish this thing is. To the point where I believe 80% of standard users would be better serve by Linux then Windoss or macOS. The univ and college where I work also uses stupid Office365, but I think you can manage most of your requiere interaction with the browser version. I’m gonna keep a Windows partition because audio and video editing isn’t quite there yet, and VR doest work, but I mostly use my MacBook (not my choice) for those project so my home PC will probably run Linux 99% of the time, now that gaming works.
To work or study at my Univ, you have to give your phone number to Microsoft for the 2fa. They pay shitload of money for Office 365 and they are almist forcing us to use that stupid suite. This year I will give an special course on FOSS alternative to my students. Fuck that bullshit hail corporate.
I’ve been using the Google Office suite for the past 10 years and been looking for an alternative for a while. Degoogling is a hard process. I mostly use the office suite and the files storage. I teach in college and Univ, so I need to be able to access my files and presentations from different computers. I curently have 200gb...
Actually, I’m avoiding to work with the IT as much as possible. My univ has a contract with Microsoft for the 365 suite so they push us to use that. I’m pretty much the only teacher that cares about privacy and the use of FOSS, so I’m on my own for everything.
I dont completely understand the implication of self-hosting but everything seems to come back to this. Here are a few question I have.
Could I do it on an old computer running Windows?
Or could my modern home computer be the server?
The computer acting as a server would need to be on, and online all the time for me to access the files?
Would I be able to stream large files (video, audio, etc.) in real-time?
I’m seriously considering this. Interesting to know adding a GPU would help for video streaming, I have an unsued GTX1060. The only thing preventing me to do this, is that the setup process of rge server look quite complicated. I know it seems simple and obvious for the geek/linus community, but I spent the last evening warltching tutorials on how to do this, and none of them was using the same method and tools, and they all had some networking skills that I dont have. I’m definitely no digital idiot, but playing with network parameters is intimidating. In case something goes wrong, which will probably happen, I would probably get stuck for a while.
Do you know any good tutorials on an easy way to do this? Also, I have 2 computer I could use, which one would you recommend?
i5 750 (oberclocked to 3.6), 12gb ram, gtx1060
Macbook pro mid-2012, i7 2.6Ghz, 16gb ram, geforce GT 650m. Both have SSD. My plan would be to attach an external 6tb HD on USB 3.
Cryptpad looks good, but I need way more space. 25 gb for 10 euro is too expensive for me, for such a small drive. Board is an awesome etherpad, great for short-term collaboration, I actually show it to my students. Thanks!
Question here. If a user suscribed to world wants to keep seing content from that instance, cant he just suscribe to some subs over there? I’m still trying to figure that part out. I’m on ml but can see some content from world.
Nah, you’re not alone. I still lurk from time to time but I dont interact anymore and I’m under the impression the quality is going way down on reddit. Interesting users are leaving the boat. I’m quite happy to be part of the fediverse and I feel like it’s definitely more aligned with the future I would like the web to be. My mental health is thanking me for leaving reddit.
I’m on lemmy.ml and have not yet seen a NSFW post on All. Not that I care about it (I really dont use it for porn), but I’m curious why that is? Is it because ml is not feterated why instances where this content is mostly posted?
I’m surprised by how much of a big deal apps are for the users. I would have kept Jerboa if it was more stable. I got Connect for no specific reason and don’t really see a reason to try anything else… I was still using old reddit and an app called Slide, so I guess I’m some removed user or something. Happy that those apps brings more users tho.
I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...
I went to Reddit today for a simple, politly asked question. First time in 51 days. It turned into a shitshow within 2 hours, with people being incredibly mean toward me and others. Man, Reddit has become everything I hate about social media. I use to like it because it was easy to have civil discussion, but thats gone now.
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
I have an old 2009 i5 750, overclocked tp 3.6, with a gtx 1060, 12gn ram and an ssd. I use it in my living room for streaming and I can play pretty much any game I want at 1080p with it. Overall I spend less then 800$ on it, over the spam of 15 years.The socalled PC “master race” is basically capitalist brainwashing.
Hard to tell, I dont believe there is data about this. I was aware of the 2 you mentionned being a punk-rock fan. Original punk-rock values political activism and education so that would make sens. The only other PHD I can think of on top of m6 head, in popular music, is electronic musician Floating Point. Math PHD I believe. I also know some musicians like Flee from RHCP went back to university in their 50s, to study music theory. Now, if you look into contempory music, as well as jazz, it is far more common to get higher music education, in electroacoustic for example. I could name half a dozen composer with a doctorate in composition, only in my city, Montreal.
While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal...
Funny, people are mostly blaming the left for not adressing young boys mental health, but not the right for manipulating them into becoming sexist and violent.
Which distro is the right one for me?
Hey guys, I’m an entry-level IT professional and tech enthusiast....
They say use whatsapp, they say use zoom (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Online Office suite, easy to set-up?
I’ve been using the Google Office suite for the past 10 years and been looking for an alternative for a while. Degoogling is a hard process. I mostly use the office suite and the files storage. I teach in college and Univ, so I need to be able to access my files and presentations from different computers. I curently have 200gb...
On the future of Lemmy vs reddit
Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:...
Lemmy.world Rammy Statement
We recently received a message from a concerned Rammy user regarding their instance not having an active admin team....
Flat Beat - Mr. Oizo (1999) (www.youtube.com)
Is there a way to browse other locals?
Is there a way to view other domain feeds like .ca without creating and adding a bunch of accounts?
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
How capitalism made concerts be a bourgeois entertainment only (i.imgur.com)
Whenever I browse Lemmy All. (i.imgur.com)
Now that Sync and Infinity are out, which do people prefer? Also, how do they compare to the existing lemmy apps?
I have about 5 different apps installed right now, and while I plan to test them all out, curious what people’s conclusions are thus far.
Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announce separation (www.cbc.ca)
Is it just me or did Lemmy suddenly became more active now that Sync for Lemmy is released?
I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.
Be wary of spiteful Reddit users
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...
Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette (www.bbc.com)
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
The duality of man (i.imgur.com)
Does any music genre have a disproportionally high number of highly educated artists?
Was reading about The Offspring due to this post here: lemmy.ml/post/2628198...
High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)
While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal...
Is not that god damn hard. (lemmy.ml)