Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/496594

Hey c/selfhosted,

we've finally done it. After years of people asking for it, GameVault now has its very own Web UI!

For anyone who hasn't heard of it yet: GameVault is a self-hosted gaming platform that gives you a Steam-like library experience, but for your own DRM-free games. You host it yourself, you own your data, and you can share your collection with friends and family. Basically, it's for gamers who also love the selfhosting mindset.

This Web UI / Cross-Platform Client has been the most requested and long-awaited feature for as long as we've been working on GameVault. When we first built it, it was just a small project for the two of us, written with the tech we knew at the time. Over the years, especially here on Lemmy, people gave us plenty of criticism for the tech stack and the UX, because you guys love to use linux. And honestly... fair enough. We knew it wasn't great.

The new Web UI is our way of addressing all the feedback we've received and setting the stage for the future. It’s not just a nicer interface. This also represents the first building block for a new cross-platform client that we’re working on.

The Web UI acts as a cross-platform core, which means that in the future we will be able to package GameVault to run both directly in the browser as well as a native application on Windows, Linux, or even mobile devices. This upcoming client will be built on the same foundation, ensuring a smoother and more unified experience whether you're on a desktop OS or just checking your vault from your phone.

Right now, we're planning to expand the Web UI continuously and figure out how to handle the legacy windows desktop client moving forward. The technology underneath is much cleaner now, so we finally have the freedom to iterate and improve without being stuck in the past.

Anyway, we're really excited about this step. It feels like a true milestone for the project, and we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback. If you're self-hosting and love gaming, give it a try, I'm curious what you think.

You can also check out a live running demo version on demo.gamevau.lt
Username: demo
Password: demodemo

Just noticed this brown stain above my living room window. I don't have a ladder at the moment so can't reach it to touch it but the wallpaper near it is starting to lift so I think it might be damp. But it's on the ground floor and there doesn't appear to be anything else around it or in the room above it. My bathroom is on the floor above too but to the right. Could it be water travelling from the bathroom down or getting in from outside? It hasn't rained locally since Saturday.

I'm no longer working class anymore.

I'd like to take over the customs_broker community, I am in contact with the creator/original mod via Discord and they no longer use Lemmy and forgot their login credentials. I'm the only person posting on it and would like to try and get it going again.

Fundamentally, it would face outward toward a public that is looking for solutions rather than inward to the comfort of its own activist base.

“Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are. Never let the man that you’re against form your opinions. This is the trick that’s played on everyone who’s oppressed: when you have a revolution in a country, the first thing you take over is the radio. Then, you start telling the people that the war is over, so all of them surrender. They believe that thing right there.

And once they take that over, they start telling you where you are and where they are, and you fall right in line — it’s plain thought control.

The majority of the American people aren’t segregationists. The majority of the American people aren’t imperialists. But the government is. The structure is. The power faction is. So, how, then, do all the majority go along with it?

Because those who sit in power over the television, over the radio, and over the press is constantly telling those who are the masses how free they are, how this they are, and how that they are.”

The Militant Labor Forum, New York, New York, May 29th, 1964

https://archive.ph/2025.09.23-235727/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/taiwan-curbs-chip-exports-to-south-africa-over-national-security

• Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought to rally global support for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
• Russia is facing accusations of starting this practice when the war began in 2014 and ramping up the abductions after its full-scale invasion in 2022.
• Zelenskiy announced a tracing mechanism to collect data about the displaced children and urged foreign leaders to increase pressure on Russian politicians involved in child abductions.

Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought to rally global support for the return of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, an issue that may resonate with the US administration even as it pulls back on financial and military aid for Ukraine.

The leaders of Canada and Ukraine co-hosted an event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly that focused on the nearly 20,000 children forcibly removed by Russia. The matter has previously caught the attention of First Lady Melania Trump, who wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin in August urging him to end the war in order to protect affected children.

“Putin has stolen Ukrainian children,” Carney said at the event on Tuesday. “To lose their child is every parents’ nightmare. For the people of Ukraine, it is a horrifying reality.”

...

Russia is facing accusations of starting this practice when the war began in 2014 and ramping up the abductions after its full-scale invasion in 2022. Some children were forcibly separated from their parents, while others were taken after their caregivers were killed or captured. Still others were seized from state institutions. They have been relocated to Russia or occupied parts of Ukraine.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of war crimes. Some children have reported they were subjected to Russian propaganda and maltreatment while in the country.

Russia has sought to erase the children’s Ukrainian identity by restricting their access to the Ukrainian language and history, imposing Russian citizenship and limiting access to alternative sources of information, the Canadian government said in a background document.

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Canada and Ukraine have co-chaired the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children since 2024, and say some 1,600 kids have been brought back to their home nation. Canada believes this issue of “fundamental human rights” must be at the forefront of the international agenda, and it appreciates the US First Lady’s “leadership” and Donald Trump’s “engagement” on the matter, a government official told reporters in a background briefing.

In his remarks, Carney welcomed Melania Trump’s “powerful appeal” to Putin and the US president’s call for secondary sanctions on Russia’s trading partners.

...

Carney’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, and Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska also gave speeches at the event, along with several European ministers and heads of state.

Im trying to find an easy way to do this. All the things I've found make it out to be pretty complex.

I have a synology nas, im somewhat knowledgeable but a lot of terms go over my head.

because with the recent update pushing all the actual unicode defined emojis to the top, how the fuck am i supposed to find without knowing that if I type more than 3 Os after :, I'm gonna get

what the fuck is the name for the emote the nervous hand-pointing emote, : shy : gets you the hands but i'm talking about the full one what's it called. who knows, maybe one of you does, i don't

anyways