smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It has to have the same energy though. Dong have to be the same characters, doesn't have to feature Brakebills for Fillory, but needs the same "we're broken and magic doesn't make it better, but hey, here's a canonical musical" feeling

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 22 points 3 months ago (9 children)

No, mate. I don't need a guide, or a tour. Just a single clarifying sentence.

"My product does x". Right now, x could be:

  • help you scam people
  • provide a meditation partner
  • help you learn how to code in Cobol
  • give travel tips
  • ...

What does your product DO? And dong you dare answer "it helps you make money", that does not explain anything.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 25 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I have clicked every link on that site and I still have exactly zero clue wtf this is.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

FWIW, I have no issues sending mails/having them be received from my self-hosted to Google mail

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Pimsleur. It's very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

Sorry, I should have mentioned: liking bare-metal does not mean disliking abstraction.

I would absolutely go insane if I had to go back to installing and managing each and every services in their preferred way/config file/config language, and to diy backup solutions, and so on.

I'm currently managing all of that through a single nix config, which doesn't only take care of 90% of the overhead, it also contains all config in a single, self-documenting, language.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

YES, WATCH STEINS;GATE!

Not Steins;Gate Zero though, that's a sequel.

The most common criticism is that the first handful of episodes are slow, but I hard disagree. Every moment is either re-contextualized later on, or is important character work.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

Nice. My partner has a Proxmox setup, so we've adapted the Nix config to spin up new VMs of any machine with a single command.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

NixOS :)

Maybe I should have clarified that liking bare-metal does not imply disliking abstraction

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Containers != services.

I don't think I am better than anyone. I jumped into these comments because docker was pushed as superior, unprompted.

Installing and configuring does not an expert make, agreed; but that's not what I said.

I would say I'm pretty knowledgeable about the things I host though, seeing as I am a contributor and / or package maintainer for a number of them...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They are using a hosting provider - their dad.

"The cloud" is also just a bunch of machines in a basement. Lots of machines in lots of "basements", but still.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (14 children)

OK, but I'd rather be the expert.

And I have no troubling spinning up new services, fast. Currently sitting at around ~30 Internet-facing services, 0 docker containers, and reproducing those installs from scratch + restoring backups would be a single command plus waiting 5 minutes.

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