shaked_coffee

shaked_coffee, 1 month ago

Even if the corporate is a public benefit corporation with open source foss code both for server and client?

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

It can be a bit overkill for your use case if you only need to stream the USB media on your tv, but take a look at Jellyfin, it’s a program you can install on any PC and as long as this is up and running on the same network you can access your media on that PC (in your case with the USB plugged in) from any other device (TV, other PCs, Tablets, smartphones)

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

Still haven’t looked into podman properly, but docker is much easier to learn because as you said there’s a lot more material available online. I’d say start with Docker, and if in the future you will find out podman better fits your needs you can always switch (they should not be that different)

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

Matrix is a communication protocol, such as IMAP+SMTP communication protocols that are behind emails. This means that the “communication stack” when you use Matrix, as well as when you use emails, can be summarized in 3 parts:

• the client (the app you use to chat, such as Apple Mail or Outlook for emails, Element or FluffyChat for Matrix)
• the provider (who is offering you the service, such as gmail.com or yahoo.com for email, matrix.org or chat.mozilla.com for Matrix)
• the server (the app that your provider runs to let you chat, for emails all most famous providers have their own proprietary servers, for Matrix the two main options for server are Synapse or Dendrite)

I haven’t read the article properly yet, but from what I’ve understand for now it seems Commune.sh aims to build a new client for Matrix that reproduces the layout and features of Discord, while at the same time being based on an open communication protocol and therefore having all its related benefits.

Seems pretty promising, I’m gonna keep an eye of it 👀

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

Not an exper either, but I’ve used OCI Free Tier for a while and most of the times I was encountering issues they were related either to the fact it was ARM and not x86_64 (most tutorials and guides are not written with ARM CPUs in mind) or to the sort of Firewall built in the Oracle Cloud Platform. Have you already checked if the ports required for the services not working are opened correctly?

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

Ahah dw, it happened to me as well and to be fair the OCI UI for opening ports is not the most intuitive piece of software I’ve seen…

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

Public money, public code! 🎉

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

Currently using Infomaniak.com and I’m really liking it. They are a bit pricy compared to other registrars but

• they have solid privacy policy
• their servers use renewable energy
• they let you set up DDNS with a simple bash script
• they offer some cool email and kSuite benefits with the purchase of a domain

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

and (from what you know of course) there’s no way to make it work as automatically as it was before using adb?

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

And do you have to enable some setting on the desktop side to make it work from linux to android? 'Cause I tried and it wasn’t working out of the box (maybe it’s because I was using GSConnect without having install KDEConnect, could it be?)

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

Thanks for pointing this issue out! Idk how the KDE team is moving to address this, but I know that for example the gnome extension Pano (which is a clipboard manager) has a blacklist of apps that should ignore (and which by default is most popular password managers), so KDEConnect could do the same I guess…

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

I didn’t know about the toggle, but it seems me much more practical than the notification. I’ll probably go for that one, thank you!

shaked_coffee, 2 months ago

For anyone else with the same issue, Clipboard sync is disabled by default on GSConnect, but can be simply enabled going to the extension settings and then tapping on the device name. (Yes, I just found out that the device name was tappable and there were lots of per-device settings, wow)

shaked_coffee, 3 months ago

Well, to be fair the EU can’t force Apple to change outside of its territories, and it makes sense that Apple prefers to maintain the status-quo untill other countries will follow EU example with similar regulations.

I can see Mozilla’s point there, but this scenario, even it it’s not optimal, still seems me a better one compared to the All-WebKit-Everywhere one. If Mozilla struggles to maintain two versions of Firefox for iOS, I’d say they can drop the useless WebKit version and just maintain the real version for EU only market (untill other markets will follow).

How many people are currently choosing FF in favour of Safari on iOS after all?

shaked_coffee, 3 months ago

I am a Firefox user both on desktop and on my android phone. And not only to support Mozilla in keeping the browser engine competition alive, but also because of some really good features that alternatives are missing (respectively Multi-Account containers on desktop and extensions on Android).

On my iPad, though, I tried using Firefox (even just to have bookmarks and history synced) but it’s really just a reskin of Safari with worse integration with the system and less features. Therefore I moved back to safari.

Why am I telling this? Because for any non tech-savvy user, if their first experience with FF is on their iPhone / iPad (with the WebKit version), they will probably not like it, and eventually associate in their mind “Firefox = bad browser”, preventing them to give it a try on their desktop. So, from a certain point of view, maybe getting rid of the WebKit version would help Mozilla gather some more users on the other platforms in the long term…

shaked_coffee, 4 months ago

I think there are some better alternatives out there such as Firefox + uBlock Origin extension, Brave, Vivaldi (maybe Arc? Haven’t tried it yet) that gives you some extra features that are missing in safari (for example Multi-account containers, vertical tabs, split tabs,… just to mention the ones I enjoy the most)

But if you just want a browser that works from a normal usage I don’t see nothing wrong in using Safari.

+it uses an engine different from Blink (aka Chromium) which keeps a little bit of variety in the browser engine market. So while using Safari you’re also doing something good for the internet imho

shaked_coffee, 3 months ago

Hard to disagree with that… the flawless integration of every piece in Apple’s “ecosystem” is hard to reproduce (even if all those features can be achieved as you were saying, it wouldn’t be “as flawless”) Just maybe pair it with an Ad and Tracker blocker extension like AdGuard

shaked_coffee, 4 months ago

That seems cool! And it’s something possible only with synapse?

shaked_coffee, 4 months ago

Thank you! If resource consumption is not a problem for small instances I’ll probably give Synapse a try, and keep watching Dendrite to eventually move to that when it will have all the features I like (mainly Matrix 1.5 to use it with Element Web and proper Threads support)