I read the farseer trilogy last year and… man it’s a tough read. Not because of the writing - I was blown away by the prose, it is incredibly evocative - but just because they’re so relentlessly harsh.
Still taking some time off before any further Hobb books for that reason alone.
aerc is a very nice, a little less fiddly modern alternative for me nowadays
I may be misunderstanding your argument but just to make sure I want to point out that
desperate people will do desperate things to survive
does not run counter to
if you can’t afford to live, then you certainly can’t afford to move to another country
I am one of those happy taskwarrior users. For more advanced recurrence syntax in taskwarrior there’s also the relatively new nautical extension. It essentially splits recurrence into things that recur based on calendar/clock events (e.g. every first workday of the month, every second Sunday, etc.) or based on previous completions (e.g. do something 3 days after last time, or every x hours after last doing it).
It’s pretty neat and functional but, fair warning, also early on in development and changing quite radically through its versions still.
Otherwise also codeberg.org has a pages feature for a while.
And others that come to mind are surge.sh, Netlify, and Vercel that I think all offer simple one-push static hosting. Vercel and Render can also do dynamic pages, not sure about the others.
Edit: oh and of course GitLab if you’re looking for an almost 1-to-1 Pages experience.
Who brought that idea in? You just made that up.
Oh, that’s what I understood from the thread starting with:
its ok to fap
But I agree with your points, in general.
I guess where I am talking past you (or ‘listening’ past you, as it were) is that my argument is focused on this specific instance of someone doing something and I understood people to react with discouragement. You’re embedding the discussion into a wider societal angle. It still seems somewhat strange to bring it up in this instance as the original post also doesn’t mention any of the points you touch on and the ideas thus seem similarly ‘made up’ and brought in, for this case, to me.
But I definitely don’t have an argument with the points themselves, they are well made.
But that’s exactly what I am saying, there’s a wide variety of actions that - on their own - aren’t really harmful if done in moderation. Sure gambling and drinking are more extreme examples, but you yourself agree that these actions ‘release chemicals we can form a dependency on’. So does gambling, so does overeating, so does masturbation. If it’s an issue for the person and they’re not doing it for a while then I also don’t see the use in singling this out in the list of things here. If it helps the person get motivated/be proud and engage positive feedback loops to not do it, why single masturbation out as useless?
Of course, ‘never fapping’ and automagically being a good person is an absurd manosphere grift to push. But if they were following a specific diet which in itself also doesn’t turn your life around but gets the ball rolling would you have the same stance? If it’s part of a process of change for a person I just don’t see the sense in such strong antipathy for this single case, I suppose.
In other words, of the list of things here - cold showers, room tidying, brushing teeth, not eating like crap - it’s the masturbation this thread singles out and tells the person: no that thing, you should definitely continue doing that. Just seems unproductive to me.
I get what you’re saying, but would you adopt the same stance for example for gambling or drinking alcohol? They’re not necessarily bad per se, it’s the compulsion and the trigger points it evokes for some people where I think it’s completely fine to just accept that for them not doing it at all - even if for a time - might be the correct move.
While I’m a big proponent of version pinning your critical services, if you’re running stuff in docker swarm shepherd is a solid service updater for the less critical things.
Whoa I didn’t know that was an option, is it part of the export menu? That would make some of my - we needed to change something after all - situations much easier at work.
Couple of days ago ‘honey I shrunk the vids’ was posted here, a very lightweight tdarr alternative. https://piefed.ca/c/selfhosted/p/571213/honey-i-shrunk-the-vids-mr-universe-edition-v1-0-5
But I haven’t tried it - I’m not sure if it’s perhaps gui-only, and it seems to be AI coded to a certain degree, so YMMV.
Conversations is working very well on my phone as UP distributor.
I mean yes, definitely, it’s a topic I want to broach. But since I’m not even sure myself yet on my exact feelings or wishes I find it harder to open a gentle, full discussion - especially when it may be around adjusting some fundamental relationship assumptions.
But I definitely didn’t want to make it sound like a one-sided fault, as these things rarely are.
My partner tends to do the same and I am not sure how to start this discussion. We recently had a fight about our respective ways of interacting during arguments just before they get heated and talked about it afterwards, coming to a (what I thought) somewhat satisfying conclusion on the areas we could each work on. Fast-forward about a week and by now I have overheard her tell this ‘story’ of our fight to about 5 different friends and family members on the phone, over the various days.
Like I said, I’m just not sure how to handle it - I don’t want to cut off her communication with friends. I realize sometimes you need to bounce off an idea you’re mulling over with a close friend. But I also feel there are certain private affairs I just don’t wanted chatted about to all our extended friend circle, and this is a pattern that’s repeated itself often enough now for me to recognize.
On a more personal note, still eagerly reading your updates here every couple of weeks. Sounds like it’s shaping up nicely!
Good luck with the api wiring to let people control the forges directly from the interface for 1.0 - if you ever need a tester for forgejo integration you can hit me up.
While the comment was obviously a bit rude, perhaps you can take something constructive out of it. I see that you have a nice compose file prepared as an example with postgres, and a curl into bash for ‘automatic installation’.
Many feel a bit uncomfortable with doing that - especially if the script ultimately just sets up docker containers again. Maybe you could add a ‘quickstart’ section there which just consists of a single docker run command setting up the sqlite version.
That way you have the best of both worlds and both people wanting a production setup example and those just wanting to quickly try are served.
What do you mean by this, especially ‘companies making those games rather than a distributor?’ If I understand correctly, this insinuates valve is not creating games that do this?
In that case I’d have to disagree. They were the ‘originator’ of modern loot box design and subsequently pushed them in all their multiplayer games - Team Fortress, Counter Strike and Dota that i know of for sure.
In fact the whole Team Fortress lootbox economy was crazy, with the unboxed hats selling for sometimes thousands of dollars and thus providing very gamble-like incentives. Not to speak of the actual real-life gambling websites that sprang up all around counter strike knifes and skins. Hell, for years Team Fortress received no updates at all besides new loot crates and hats to extract more money.
While I agree with your assessment on fining anyone targeting lootboxes at vulnerable people, I would hold that valve is a fine target to start with for that.
I have long had a switch to pangolin for my homelab services on the roadmap. Can you explain what you mean with internal connections making more sense?
It uses a completely different paradigm of process chaining and management than POSIX and the underlying Unix architecture.
I think that’s exactly it for most people. The socket, mount, timer unit files; the path/socket activations; the After=, Wants=, Requires= dependency graph, and the overall architecture as a more unified ‘event’ manager are what feels really different than most everything else in the Linux world.
That coupled with the ini-style VerboseConfigurationNamesForThatOneThing and the binary journals made me choose a non-systemd distro for personal use - where I can tinker around and it all feels nice and unix-y. On the other hand I am really thankful to have systemd in the server space and for professional work.
Just throwing another alternative out there which I’ve been very happy with: lissen - ‘Clean audiobookshelf player’.
Has streaming/downloading for offline listening, sleep timer, custom bookmarks and custom speeds. Just the browsing functionality is at best ‘functional’ (nice search but if you don’t know what to listen to next just gives you one long list sorted by title)