The inbuilt VPN is a red flag. A VPN isn’t private unless you own the server. It’s channeling all your data through a third party. They could be watching it in the same way your ISP can.
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World News@lemmy.world•Indian music legend Asha Bhosle dies aged 92English
5·2 days agoShe’s the woman who kept the dream alive.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•I'm questioning the privacy focused choices that I made
18·3 days agoThat sounds like a bit of a ride. I just selfhosted everything. There’s still things tied to my gmail, and probably always will be. However they’re not seeing the important stuff like medical, school, banking and services.
NGL; selfhosting is quite a commitment too. Especially for email. There are a lot of hoops to get trust as a server, and full text search took me years to get working right. Hosting a keepass database on a personal webserver is not as convenient, but there’s 100% control.
I inherently don’t trust any company that sells trust or privacy as a product. I’ll only fully trust open source software running on my own metal.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How Do you keep your services updated?English
4·3 days agoI wonder if anyone ever wrote an update aggregator that would find all package managers, containers and git repos and whatnot and just do all of them.
Some are a right pain to update, such as Nextcloud. Installing a monthly update should not feel like an enterprise prod deployment.
It’s kinda ironic that package managers have caused the exact problem that they are supposed to solve.
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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.
19·7 days agoSo, ChatGPT can’t match any function of a Casio wristwatch. I’m concerned that when it can, it will consume the power of microwaving a turkey just to tell a user what time it is.
I didn’t realize you could ask for the 10 peso version.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Anyone know how Google's side loading rules will impact Graphene, e/OS, Fdroid, Lineage, etc?
381·9 days agoGrapheneOS and LineageOS don’t ship with any Google services at all, so Google’s policies shouldn’t affect them.
It’s not AI. I reckon every kid in Melbourne has been there on a school trip.
That’s Soverign Hill, Ballarat (Australia). Awesome little place. Was the local VLine station packed because trains are free? I did Bendigo today and boy was it busy. It’s great that there was almost no cars in town.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•jellyfin started stuttering recently, how to debug?English
2·11 days agoAhh. That’s usually among the red stuff in dmesg. I glad to hear you solved it, but a failing hard drive is a pricey thing to endure these days.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed appEnglish
19·13 days agoThis is no different to the meta pixel localhost listener exploit.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Linux reaches new massive peak of 5.33% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: March 2026English
4·13 days agoWindows users can’t even install Windows.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in FranceEnglish
12·13 days agoThis is absurd. They know we can go all the way to the root servers, don’t they?
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Linux reaches new massive peak of 5.33% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: March 2026English
95·13 days agoI have a theory: Windows users don’t have the skill to fix their broken PCs, and now they don’t have the money to replace them.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•jellyfin started stuttering recently, how to debug?English
101·13 days agoJust start listening to dubstep and you’ll stop noticing 😆.
Maybe run lm-sensors and make sure the CPU/GPU isn’t being thermothrottled? I’d usually look at dmesg and look for red stuff. Any hardware issues are usually pretty obvious.
Try other apps. If you youtube or VLC behaves the same, the problem may be outside of jellyfin. If not, it narrows it down.
If could even be the server not being able to transcode in realtime. Try watching a file known to already be in a suitable format. It should direct stream and be much less load on the server. I’ve seen server encode CPU saturation and it does kinda look the same as client decode stutter. If it’s the server, you’ll probably see the same stutter from another device such as a phone.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirementsEnglish
41·13 days agoThere’s a “minimal” install that gives you a bare desktop. The only thing I would consider bloatware is snapd.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirementsEnglish
24·13 days agoAgreed. It’s an uphill optimization battle. We’re now in a world where you need 6GB RAM to chat on Discord while scrolling Facebook.
Ubuntu and its apps (particularly Firefox) are incredibly efficient and respects your hardware resources. I can write a web page with a 5MB RAM footprint. It’s when you open the New York Times that your swapfile gets face-slapped.
Funnily enough, an Ubuntu server will run on a half-eaten potato. I’ve got 16GB in mine, and I’m running servers for LAMP (Nextcloud and Wordpress), NTP, Samba, Mail, Jellyfin, tor, XMPP, CUPS and a few other things. It typically uses around 2GB at idle.
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World News@lemmy.world•Italy denies use of Sicily airbase to US planes carrying weapons for Iran warEnglish
2·14 days agoThey’re keeping their options open in case they want to switch sides halfway through the war.
Neither have reported trackers on the Aurora store. But I would suspect it’s some kind of bloat. I’m sure it’s trivial to do an apk teardown and check the source code. I can’t be bothered though.




Way to stand up to the man!