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• I use a different ‘type 1’ hypervisor, create a small handful of VMs and then have a mess of containers inside containers in a couple of those. There’s a distinct VM for email since that has so many special requirements that it was just easier, one lxc/incus container host for admin tools, one for user apps, one for piefed because all these fediverse apps are so busy with the constant exchanges it kind of needs its own host to not affect others…

  Why is more a case of ease of administration frankly. Pretty much everything gets auto patched and backed up and it’s easy to put up a new service or restore things if I hose something up.

  The structure though has been a years long evolution that started out as ‘I just want a NAS to share files’ which then needed a frontend to make it more user friendly, and another app to play videos, and why not organize different file types rather than just dump em in a folder…

  on Why use Proxmox over Podman or Docker? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 7h ago

• A hit with the 18 gazzilion bots they hire from an app launch farm to crank up those download numbers.

  on Meta's Muse personal agent is a hit, as AI commerce starts to take off in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• To an extent that’s how it works with my ebook. Got a case off Etsy that has a snap-shut pocket the size of my phone. That couple seconds to unclip it and slide it out in addition to unlocking it makes it a lot less tempting to check on that ding that went off while reading.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Same + Same = 2xSame

  on We live in tough times in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Borg is its own thing, just handy to have it built in and preconfigured to work. If you run VMs on your working host instead of running NC directly on the machine you could just back those up for pretty much the same effect, though it wouldn’t usually be a realtime backup.

  The next cloud data is fine being remote, when I say realtime I guess it could be better said as time sensitive. A database needs to update something and read it back in the right sequence for it to work properly. Just retrieving a file doesn’t have those issues.

  If you happened to use it in a way like shared collaboration of a document with realtime updates it might be an issue, but I expect in that case the revisions would hit the DB first and then be put to the file as a secondary operation. Never tried that myself though.

  on Moving db data (MariaDB) to NFS NAS in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Without getting into things like a SAN it’s generally not a good plan to put anything that needs realtime access remote to the device processing it. DBs are constantly making updates and introducing the odd bit of latency or a disconnect can make for lots of issues. I also have a worker/storage split setup and for a while tried just running the VMs as a whole using remote storage to host the vdisk, it wasn’t pretty even with a separate network dedicated to it.

  For NC particularly, if you use their official AIO docker setup there is a built in borg backup you can store remotely and it makes restoration pretty painless.

  on Moving db data (MariaDB) to NFS NAS in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• On a similar note, I saw a story a bit back of someone saving input tokens by feeding the bot an image of a wall of text rather than the text itself and having it read the image via OCR.

  Satire and reality are too hard too distinguish these days.

  on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026

• As nice as a return to a more decentralized web experience would be, people have come to rely on the social platforms as a sort of info hub to have everything delivered regardless of device.

  Does make me curious though about a site or maybe a self hosted software you could log into and have a stack of feeds all maintained there

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 Aug 2026

• My mouse kept nagging to install their special software until I tracked down a registry key to disable it.

  Hardware vendors, you sell a piece of equipment, quit trying to be a damn marketing company too

  on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Free turbo boost while you’re at it

  on Fine, I'll do it myself [Rule] in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 Aug 2026

• Only? I would have to guess at far greater given secondary factors like chip manufacturing and power consumption

  on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• I see them in medical environments sometimes. Occasionally simpler than finding some compatible network method that complies with all the privacy requirements to just send screaming screeches direct point to point.

  on We ignored the signs. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 25 Aug 2026

• How about we compromise by saying remove them all, give back the money spent, delete all data and in exchange you don’t get the treatments due one helping enable orwillian levels of suvelance

  on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026

• Bosses cashed out and left the carcas to rot

  on EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Low level anti-aircraft system design sounds like a fun engineering hobby

  on Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• More alarming was the upshot of that lawsuit: a judge ruled that because Anthropic was turning the physical texts into digital ones and destroying the original copies, it was “transformative” and therefore didn’t violate copyright law.

  So by that token if someone digitizes a physical medium and makes it available to the public copyright is no longer valid. Otherwise, having it ingested by an AI has no purpose it it’s not meant to be referenced in response to requests by the end user.

  on Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• There’s that, and also part that’s donations by viewers and sponsors. While they need funding to maintain operational costs I don’t think they have the typical pressure of expecting a return on investment to deal with, so volunteer supported archiving, hosting via things like peertube or youtube without needing to show ads, there’s room for some novel operations that other content producers don’t have.

  on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data after cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• I keep saying, if this stuff is publically owned works made by the corporation for public broadcasting, put up some official torrents and let the public archive it for free. Mr. Rogers would surely approve of sharing for the common good.

  on PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data after cloud storage vendor goes defunct in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026