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TeaWithDani, teawithdani@lemmy.world
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TechnologyI think that’s how it went down for most people.
I remember getting free games with Gold back on the 360 and One. Eventually they became unplayable without the subscription. Kinda enshitified.
There’s just something about your progression being tied to a subscription that makes you want to invest less in the game.
There’s some kind of threshold of # of subscriptions and $ of subscription people are willing to be tolerant of.
Like most people were ok with Netflix/Prime when they were the only two in town and it cost like $20-$25 for both.
Now there’s how many different streaming services? You don’t even have an easy way to know which provider has what anymore either.
Microsoft currently sells 4 different passes… and I have no idea whatsoever which gives me what… And the prices range from $14 to $25 CAD, which is the upper limit of what people want to pay in total subscription cost alone.
People get games with Netflix and Prime on top of their existing subscription and I’m sure most people don’t play or even know about them. lol
I’m actually really surprised this didn’t work. They had acquired such a large amount of quality studios, IPs and a huge back catalogue. They had enough money to keep the subscription low indefinitely. Getting added to the Game Pass was a huge deal for indie devs at one point, but I think those who did were disapointed with returns.
Granted the article says they dropped 300 million on Jedi Survivor and Suicide Squad… which gets to the point of how unsustainable subscription models are. It’s like a smaller version of the Ai market. Just like how you can’t break even on 300 million selling a $10 a month subscription, you can’t break even on $30 billion investments with the same $10 subscription.
Still, how could you possibly mess this up. lol
The only requirement of the BSD license is you credit the code somewhere in a disclosure. That’s pretty much it.
At least it supports 64 bit then. 😅
Listen, can’t speak for 20 year old cpu, but yeah snaps are more optimized now than in 2018.
It’s more of a symbolic thing. FreeBSD has removed the vast majority of gpl code over the last decades. I think this specific removal was just a last lingering overlap that was difficult to replace.
Is it bad? It’s subjective. The project goals were always to be permissive. There was just historical borrowing from other open source projects.
I think both approaches are valid. GPL has fostered a greater number of maintainers and volunteer participants. That’s definitely its shown strength but you can also attribute fragmentation to this. Whereas BSD has created much more focused and targeted distributions. I guess that’s indirectly due to the license and more the smaller group of active contributors.
It’s really difficult to rival FreeBSD at certain specific usecases. I wouldn’t use anything else for a NAS or a router.
It’s a very lopsided distro, bad gpu and wifi support. Limited application support. Really not ideal for a desktop, nor is it really meant to be used that way.
Exactly, it’s a defining feature of the project. They don’t care how you use the code as long as you use it. It’s just a different philosophy.
BSDs are just doing their own thing and whether they benefit or not from others using their work is not really a concern.
Take OpenSSH, it’s used by virtually every operating system and just exists to be used. It’s a great contribution to software even if OpenBSD is a tiny marginal thing used by only those that need it. They are cool with that.
Yeah an appliance distro would be a different consideration. For me Ubuntu is really flexible and a great docker host. I feel it’s safer to tinker with since you get those extra layers of containment and sandboxing.
If I was to build an appliance I might also start with Debian, but so far I have used FreeBSD. Works great on my NAS, where I use XigmaNAS. You can transfer a surprisingly lot of skills. Learning what was common to FreeBSD and Linux really helped me with cli.
I’m curious to try making stuff with Ubuntu Core. I think it has potential, but that’s a future deep dive and project. lol
I discovered Tresorit and I like it so far. $150 usd a year for 1 TB. Owned by the Swiss Post of all things. I prefer state owned or non profit companies where possible as service providers.
I also wanted something GDPR compliant and outside the scope of the Cloud Act. I didn’t want my data accessible by a hostile nation.
I like their cli tools, though they are setup a bit weirdly on linux. It’s more like running binaries and scripts than installing a package. Nevertheless, it gets the job done. Upload speed isn’t amazing, but it is overseas. Took nearly 24 hours to send 100gb or something. My server handles it, so its not a concern.
I’m not sure I could recommend it as a replacement for a Google Drive since I don’t use it that way. I just turn the sync on once a week and it’ll diff what’s on my backups.
I might setup a different folder to use as a more daily cloud storage and see how that goes. There’s desktop and mobile apps.
I think that’s more of a Ubuntu Desktop concern. My thinkpad has a 4th gen i5 and launches Firefox maybe half a second slower on a fresh reboot and afterwards its normal.
Its really not relevant to a server who has all the time in the world to boot and stays up. Once the snap is launched, its launched, works fine afterwards. It’s all cached in the RAM or temp data or whatever afterwards.
Ideally your server install would be on an SSD and your data on HDDs. Performance will be good with that setup.
I wonder how viable it would be to do the opposite of quantum. If we remove every at risk feature and strip it down to the basics: no scripts, no multi-user, no public sharing etc…
Project could be pretty easy to maintain indefinitely?
I remember reading earlier this year that the project was essentially “complete” and would only get security updates.
But like he says: “people keep making PRs for new features. Features that I do really think would benefit the project.”
I really struggle with folks’ sense of gratitude sometimes. Like there’s so many people making cool things for us… for free… When they could be doing the same work for money.
But yeah, sucks nobody could really keep the project up and secure. I’m not looking for a fork that will add anything to the project.
I’ll read some of the bug tickets to see what the current state is like. Figured this thing could just work indefinitely without much maintenance… its so simple?
NewsYou get free healthcare, but you now have to speak french. Deal? :p
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Yeah… I pay money for 2 cores and 4gb RAM. I’d read the fine print on those free services.
I’m not comfortable with free services anymore. Nor am I comfortable dealing with a company subject to the Cloud Act.
Ubuntu’s “reputation” is nonsense. It’s a great distro for servers. Security updates are really fast and using snaps in a server environment is really great. I recommend running things like Docker or Tailscale off snap. They will revert to a previous image if an update fails. Extra stability for a server as you run automatic updates. If you run everything that is not in the base install off a snap, you have an extra layer of sandboxing against any supply chain attack for dependencies.
Ubuntu will have more recent packages, that doesnt really matter in a server environment. Debian is otherwise fine, I just dislike it’s installer and prefer Ubuntu’s. I found it easier to sync third party drivers on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Pro gets you livepatches for kernal issues, which may be worthwhile. Also done without rebooting.
Ubuntu also gives you better apparmour default profiles on more things, whereas on debian, its up to you to set them up.
Debian will be exactly the same, its just more conservative and has less of those extras I mentioned. May be marginally lighter on resources for that. Either are fine.
Oh, Simplefin does that. Really solid.
It’ll be down to your bank’s rules. My main bank and brokerage work flawlessly, sync everyday. My secondary bank and Amex need to be reauthenticated every week or two. So I just update those once a month. Just go on simplefin and run the 2FA plus some waiting.
It doesn’t sync non-bank stuff, so there’s some RRSP providers I just enter manually.
For $20 cad a year its fine. I wouldn’t use it to track daily expenses unless you know everything will work. I do all my finances once a month so its fine for me.
I didn’t expect to even need a NAS, but I can no longer live without two now. Having all my data in one place, automated backups on my secondary NAS. I found a cloud storage provider I like. Just the whole stack is wonderful and I’m never going back.
GoCardless or Enable Banking don’t work? I see both on the Actual Budget website. One doesnt take new customers? Weird
I was using Wealthica before they started charging and Actual Budget + Simplefin is so much better. I’m really happy all my financial info is just mine and not exposed to any other company. The expense for Simplefin is worth it and minimal.
Any plans to support FreeBSD in the future? Or mainly focusing on a docker solution?
So far the only real vulnerabilities that Ai have spun up seem to be really obscure edge case privilege escalation bugs that have been around for ages but nobody discovered. They then get patched in days if not less. I would expect them to run out of low hanging fruit pretty soon.
Most of them can even be mitigated by preventing local access to a system.
There’s tools to audit your network and systems. You can setup a SIEM like Wazuh. It’ll tell you the same kind of stuff that have been good practice for a while and mitigate most of the ai assisted vulnerabilities.
Prevent password logins where ever possible too, especially SSH. Use ed25519 keys. Perform server actions with least privilege users, prevent root logins. Immutable systems and containers are a helpful tool too.
I also just host my public facing stuff on a VPS. DDOS protection and just otherwise isolated. 2FA on the VPS too.
I have a directory in my home folder for all my different docker containers. I back that up like my other critical files on my NAS, Backup NAS, cloud storage and external drive. Its all scripted to happen periodically.
The docker compose files I also upload to my local Git so I can version them. Make the git ignore skip everything that isn’t a .yml
If you would want to spin them up again, yeah you could just copy them in a new place, make sure the docker-compose.yml is at the top and docker-compose pull the image, then docker-compose up. If your yml specifies that your configs are ./ , it’ll know to look for them in the same folder as your yml and begin its file paths there. Anything outside your ./ in theory should be read only or be some kind of data off a NAS that is independent from the service. Its just not best practice in my eyes for your docker application to write outside of the folders beneath its docker-compose.yml location.
Just organize your volumes correctly and you can move the docker container anywhere you want with a copy paste and a docker-compose up. Imo docker-compose is WAY easier and faster than any GUI instance of Docker.
Distros are tools for a job. I stick with the ones that have the most helpful communities and/or the best documentation. I avoid communities that tell you off for asking help or documentation that is obtuse.
Still successfully troubleshooting stuff through 10 year old Ubuntu forum threads. Meanwhile learning the most through the FreeBSD handbook and it’s not even Linux. lol
Hell yeah! I was using Ubuntu 10-14 in college and now back on the train with 24, 25 and 26. Everything just works every time and all the professional apps I need are first class citizens and well supported.
Ubuntu Server, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are my server distros of choice as well. FreeBSD for a NAS. Gotta pick the right tools for the job!
Well, they do share one thing in common and that they are all massive users of or suppliers for datacenters. This makes sense since Linux is used in all kinds of servers and appliances. The possible bias of these companies is going to more towards the Cloud and SAAS rather than anything else. Likewise, generative ai is marketed nearly solely as a cloud technology, when it can be hosted locally. We are like a year or two off the average person’s web ai usage being possible to replace by ewaste gpus or entry level consumer hardware.
Nevertheless, I don’t see how the Linux foundation can really be steered towards that bias in a way that is concrete. Its just the kernal. All the userspace development is done by other parties.
sudo apt install kate it is then!
Fuck yeah! This slaps. Brb while I get my headphones to listen to it again.
Exactly! It’s not even that revolutionary in my eyes… heck that’s effectively what it does most of the time.
But nevertheless, it can write a ton of code and it will for the most part achieve what you want. It’ll still need to be reviewed, trimmed down and optimized. To me it’s just like a college essay. I can write 2000 words in a 20 minute blitz as I am sure any decent dev can write a ton of lines in the same amount of time. Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be acceptable for the level you are writing? A college paper of 2000 words I’ll rewrite 4-5 times and keep maybe as much as a paragraph’s worth of text from the original draft.
Like what I just wrote above, I could probably condense into a few lines if I was trying to make it a ‘’professional’’ statement rather than casual writing. There’s these degrees of competence that I think LLMs haven’t reached yet.
You always have to wonder if they even have the skills to debug the thing in the first place. Having tested generated code or code suggestions, its just like the age old practice of copying code off a google search. You need the skills to at least understand what the code does and why its the right implementation for what you want to achieve.
I wished more people tried their own machine learning experiments in video games, rather than only using existing models. Would be a really interesting way to develop procedural map generation or NPC/Enemy behaviours trained on your own work in progress builds. Probably difficult to tweak but I’m still curious to see someone try it out. I just see this persistent lack of genuine curiosity from those most interested in Ai technologies.
Otherwise, using generative Ai in general is just bad for business. I don’t see the controversy and lost sales outweighing the benefits. Heck, even in business relationships: working with publishers, outsourcing etc… A number of partners will just flat out not work with you if you use Ai.
Throw in the morale effect on your team who is most likely spanning from apathy to open hostility. Its just not a good way to retain your best contributors,
Tokens are and will moreso get really expensive, so its just not a sustainable long term strategy. Creating a dependence on the highest end models will backfire financially and likely cost more than labour very soon. We are already seeing this with some of the largest tech companies busting their Ai costs.
Generative ai creates the environment where, I believe, the market will be dying to see genuine artistic creations and expressions. I think games, and most creative works, will soon be permitted to be of ‘’humbler’’ qualities, as long as they are genuine. People want to interact with things people made. There’s an opportunity here.
Compare it to game playing Ais, we have been able to beat all humans at chess for years, yet people still prefer playing other humans at chess. Chess is probably as popular now as it has ever been. I don’t see people stop playing chess or making art just because some machine can do it ‘’better’’. Better isn’t even the point of those things and it misunderstands the human condition and experience.
What made you switch from Notepadqq to Kate? I’m currently still stuck on my Notepad++ bias too.
We should celebrate these kinds of changes. Like its great that they’ve already achieved so much and not just that, but left behind a group of folks just as committed in the future of the project.
I always feel that posterity of your work beyond your own contribution is the real achievement and a sign of humility.
Oh, I’ve been there! lol Yeah, you sometimes don’t expect to have to update an entire stack, not just one thing. Possible the companion app image was just released later and it wasn’t on you either. :P
But yeah, give the cron job a try. I’d be curious to try it out myself! In theory your webinstance shouldn’t cut out unless you click on something the exact moment the container is resetting.
What kind of issues have you had? How did you resolve them?
I haven’t used this tool specifically, but anything involving Youtube is always going to be an uphill battle. In the instance of a video downloader like Channeltube, you frequently need to feed it fresh cookies to make sure Youtube doesn’t flag it as a bot. I assume this is a similar situation.
The requirements also list ‘’2gb if you restart frequently’’ so there might be a memory leak issue, or the way it’s setup means the RAM usage will increase in perpetuity.
I would just script a task to restart the docker container every hour. Shouldn’t be too much a hassle, you’re unlikely to ever notice since it shouldn’t take more than a few seconds. I would track its RAM usage over a few days too. See if there’s something fishy happening. Something like Beszel will let you track your docker socket, so usage per container. Preferably left on read only imo.