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Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what's this or that sticker. I'm impressed when they can pick one out on their own.
FOSS source is here.
It must be a lot of work to self-host DigitalOcean.
Also Steam... i mean it's a LOT of games!
I'm proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?
Out of interest by "selfhosting" steam are you running a steam cache or just using it? Or is there something else I'm missing lol
I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few "normie" stickers but few people I know that would even recognize that. I also don't self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that's not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
And yet I see no pornhub sticker....
Should be a stash sticker if we're selfhosting
What is stash?
You can use jellyfin for this 👀
you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?
Hehe, why do you have a butthole next to Tux?
I think it's Claude, the LLM from Anthropic.
Yeah, that's what I said :)
I don't get how you "self-host" some of these things like Linux, Ubuntu, Android, and Raspberry Pi. Are you saying you installed them on your computer or am I missing something?
I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.
I like the idea of this. Perhaps not on a laptop, but small hexagon badges that show some sort is relation to something. Favorite media, projects, software you're good with, coding languages you a comfortable with, etc. A simple snapshot into someone that can be identified easily, what a great conversation starter.
These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?
I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They're still a little wobbly but they're good enough.
I got them from Etsy
Ugh.. just say you made them if is your shop.. this is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, even if the product looks nice..
edit: FYI, this shop is OP's shop
Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn't name (or knew I'd got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn't Commodore 64).
They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.
This is what drunk dads say about their 1 year old son who's just learning to walk.
Since I see both on here,
Trilium > Obsidian
I've used both but really like jotty...
I see Trilium!
FOSS source is here.
The second "S" in "FOSS" is "software". You did not publish software, just its output: bitmap assets needed to print the stickers. Thanks for CC-licensing your creative work but source would mean showing what's under the hood. We don't know how you sourced the images used in each triangular tile: generated to best correspond with AI? Matching pieces from Wikimedia Commons photos?
Edit: Look closely at Arch for example. It's clearly just the logo placed in a hexagon, approximated by a mosaic of 24 triangles with AI images of differing quality. Is that snow or whipped cream? How can PCB traces be as blurry as watercolor and go nowhere? At least they're topical: for Arch the prompt was probably "mountain OR architecture OR arch OR technology".
Presumably, the process for each tile is this:
To consider this open source, I'd expect you to at least post the scripts you used in steps 3 and 5. To consider this good open source, it should contain a guide detailing this process, best with examples. I'd expect the AI part will be "bring your own model" but you could tell which one you used and its settings.
The idea is creative and "human" enough for me not to condemn it. "FOSS" or not though, you should disclose use of AI, especially since you're selling the printed stickers.
I'm fascinated by the process you've described and it's not far off. I knew that once I put these online, especially here with you people, someone would piece the steps together in no time. I've been doing pixel art for decades which has always been a mix of algorithms and manual labor. This mosaic process has been a few years coming between scripts, models, scales, pre/post processing, and output medium. The FOSS part was that I was including the print files for any FOSS project but not proprietary stuff. I'm still looking for a way to monetize the image process so I can spend more time making things I think are beautiful and less time grinding for the boss. One can dream.
Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?
these ones: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SoHexy ?
I think I'm in love. They have such great variety, and the artstyle is so neat. And I love stickers because they are such great conversation starters.
~$5 for a single sticker??
I wonder is OP the one selling them? 🤔
EDIT: Turns out that OP is the one selling them.
I was thinking you could buy a pack for $5 but power sticker is ridiculous
power sticker
I am sure you mean per sticker but the typo is hilarious :D
If you don't want to pay, print them for yourself.
They do look really nice. Don’t get me wrong, these are lovely stickers. But say I want 10 of these, it would be $50, which I am not going to pay for stickers, no matter how nice they are.
Maybe put them in packs? 10 for $20 for example? Something like that.
I appreciate the feedback. I figured out how to fit 5 on a 6x6 sticker. So that's five stickers for $12. I can also fit 4x that on a big sheet, so it'll be 20 stickers for $25. I just need to find a group of 20. The downside is that Etsy doesn't do volume discounts, I have to build the multipack myself. I'm also trying to figure out how free shipping works to take that off larger orders.
What is the "LL" monogram in the second one? I crudely recreated it to reverse-image-search but got no results.
Here's the list of logos row by row so you don't have to awkwardly ask what they are
Steam (not FOSS)*
"LL" (likely OP's own design, not a FOSS project)*
Zigbee
Obsidian (not FOSS)*
Brave
Protonpass
Tailscale*
Home Assistant
Raspberry Pi (not open HW)*
Ubiquiti (not open HW)*
Android (not really FOSS)*
Signal
DigitalOcean (service)*
Ubuntu
Linux
Claude (not FOSS)*
Proxmox
Nextcloud
Jellyfin (rotated)
Trilium
Nginx
Tabby
Bash
Debian (rotated)
Docker
NodeJS
Python
HomeBox
XPipe
PiHole
Prometheus
Grafana
* not in gallery of printable sticker images
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.
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