Leechblock and unhook are required browser extensions for me.

YouTuber is extra tricky because I can easily convince myself that I’m not wasting time, I’m “learning”. Even though I doubt I’ll ever need to know how to build a mud hut with a secret swimming pool underneath…

In general, I found if I remove the addictive elements from YouTube or whatever, as opposed to blocking the website entirely, I’m more likely to stick to being sober. I treat my phone the same way, I use YAM Launcher to help remove distractions.

Here’s my PR:

-A small and tidy task organiser 
+A small and giddy task organiser 

Most days I doomscroll fediverse

Yep. Same. When I worked at an office, my coworkers and I would play ping pong a lot.

Also, I would work on my own software projects. This has the advantage that it looks like you’re doing work work.

Or… go off into a corner of the office and play some games on Steam.

Take long walks. I used to be able to kill about half an hour walking around my old office park. Do more laps…

Drive somewhere kinda far for lunch.

Grind leetcode. Doesn’t hurt to stay sharp.

Ah, fuck.

Hardware

• AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
• GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
• Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
• 64GB ECC RAM
• Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
• Intel Arc B580 GPU
• Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
• Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU

OS

• Fedora

execute doesn’t mean to start, it means to stop…

No?

First Known Use 14th century, in the meaning “to carry (something) out fully : to put (something) completely into effect”

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/execute#h1

I just started donating to GNOME, Guix, and LogSeq. I wish more people used OpenCollective. Sometimes I see orgs there, but I’m not sure if they actually use that account…

lol. I don’t even review my coworker’s AI slop code. I’m not starting now.

What’s IPTV and is it related to this?

How the heck did you install Seafile!? I spent a whole day trying to get it to work, but there are so many moving parts and proxies behind proxies behind proxies. I managed to get the UI to load, but other parts of the app didn’t work. I want to like it, but it seems pretty complicated to install… 😢

Interesting! I didn’t know about: https://sonoff.tech/en-us/products/sonoff-dongle-max-zigbee-thread-poe-dongle-dongle-m

I currently have my ZBT-1 connected to my server way off in the corner of the house, which is obviously not great. I was hoping one day to move to a more central location… Maybe the Sonoff dongle would help with that? 🤔

Whoa, surprised this is coming from The Verge. Is it really the year of the Linux desktop now??

Frigate + Reolink (or actually Frigate-approved cams)

You know. mTLS might be an option. I have a tiny number of clients. Laptops and Android phones, seems easy to install a client cert. The part I’m not sure about is TVs… Does Nvidia Shield or Firestick allow installing client certs?..

Oh, wait and also: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/discussions/96

You can’t always use the dev tools. Sometimes the sites have JavaScript that detects when you open the dev tools and then lock stuff up more.

Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32621021

tl;dr https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/ + yt-dlp

Link? I went to https://lemmy.today/post/18243468 , but didn’t see anything relevant. (I’m sure there probably is something relevant in there, but it’s a huge area to sift through.)

Harden your server first

Do you have any tutorials or guides on this handy?

Use your router/server to block some counties using geoip

Yeah, definitely all my users are in the same town/region/country as me. So this could be doable.

Configure rate limits in Nginx

Hm, currently using Caddy as my reverse proxy. I guess there’s some module for this.

only open ports in your firewall you really want to open

The only port I need open is 443 for accessing Jellyfin and Immich. I can definitely block 22 from the public internet. And fuck it no automatic redirects from 80 to 443. TLS or bust.

GAAH! OK! I’M NOT CRAZY!

The exact same thing is happening to my wife’s phone. We’re both on Pixel 8s, have the same VPN settings, but for some magic reason Tailscale breaks only her phone. She has to turn off Tailscale and reboot her phone to regain connectivity.

These shenanigans is why I’m considering just exposing things to the public internet. I’m using Tailscale on several device types and Tailscale adds friction to all of my devices (except Arch where everything always works).

I understand the friction is there for a good reason, but my family doesn’t. They just see that Jellyfin doesn’t work and that all of this is buggy and maybe they just should sign up for Netflix instead of dealing with all of these bugs.

“roaming” device is always connected to their “home” network by VPN

Ah, right. Well, currently I do have my wife’s and my phone on the Tailscale VPN. The issue I’m trying to solve is that the VPN app on Android (and other environments) isn’t 100% bug-free. For some unknown reason, my wife frequently has issues with Tailscale. It’ll break her entire networking on her phone. The only way to fix it is by rebooting her phone. I have no idea why because we have the same phone and the same settings and it works fine on my phone. I’ve tried turning off Tailscale, logging out, and back in, and the network won’t recover. Sometimes the Tailscale app won’t even trigger the SSO page to sign in. So it just stays permanently logged off.

The Nvidia Shield also has similar issues where I have to fuss around with the VPN.

So at this point, I feel like I’m done debugging VPN apps and maybe it would be easier for users if I expose stuff to the public internet. Obviously, it makes management for me harder, but that’s ok if everything Just Works for everyone without extra steps or without having to reboot your phone every week.