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• I wonder how this compares to Stoat. I found this comparison of many different options but I’m not sure how up to date it is

  on what is Fermi/Harmony Chat ? in c/foss@beehaw.org · 1d ago

• It’s already a regular and totally acceptable thing and has been for a long time, it’s so acceptable that nobody really even bothers to talk about it, but it is certainly reasonable to expect it to happen a lot more – more often, more widely, and more quantity, and I look forward to it. Canada’s got some new icebreakers rolling off the line right now, in partnership with Finland. We’re already a team, we’re just going to be working together even more now.

  on How do Europeans feel about having a federated army stationed in Canada and Greenland? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 17 Sep 2026

• rsync, SyncThing, or Nextcloud. I use all three, often on the same machine at the same time, for various purposes.

  rsync is great for scheduled syncs (but intentionally not TOO frequent – where blowing away one copy would almost instantly blow away the other copy could be a concern.) and outstanding for one-off syncs. With the right command line options it can even create a rough approximation of snapshots with copy-on-write rolling incremental backups. I believe this is the original documentation for that particular trick although it has spawned many genuine backup tools which operate very similarly using rsync under the hood, like rsnapshot.

  SyncThing is great for large, intensive datasets that you want to keep perfectly synchronized across multiple computers at the same time. One example is my saved games, so without relying on Steam “cloud saves” or anything, I can just save my game and hop from gaming on one computer onto my laptop and pick up right where I left off.

  Nextcloud is what I use for keeping separate copies of all my documents, photos from my phone, etc. It’s easier than SyncThing to setup and manage in my opinion, it’s simple and reliable and reasonably user-friendly in most use-cases, and seems to be more compatible with a lot of software due to its similar design to something like Dropbox. It isn’t ideal for handling huge numbers of files or very large folders in my personal opinion, but it does work if you want to try it.

  on Software for Syncing files between storages (Linux) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• I’m looking forward to the next update when they fix the 9,740 security flaws they created this week. It’s a flawless strategy, numbers always going up, just the way they want!

  on Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update Ever in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• I only meant it came out of nowhere to me. I’m not trying to universalize my experience onto everyone else or attack the game, I’m just living and sharing my own experience, and this is how it works and looks from where I am, which I thought was the kind of perspective OP was asking for. I’m glad they’re enjoying it, but I’m going to be holding off.

  on Temp Check on Blood of the Dawnwalker? in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• The temperature is too hot for me. That’s because I get suspicious of games that are mega-viral and seemingly come out of nowhere to have everybody talking about them all at once. I figure it’s often either a fad, a masterfully executed guerilla marketing campaign, or genuinely outstanding, or some combination of these things. Of course, sometimes it is just genuinely outstanding, and if that’s the case I’ll probably pick it up eventually. But there’s no rush, so regardless of which it is, I’m a patient gamer and I’m perfectly willing to wait and let the dust settle so I can get a better perspective, and very often I find these kind of games fade pretty quickly and are forgotten and in the clear light of day I’ll often realize they’re not really the kind of game I like anyway. And if they’re the kind of genuinely outstanding instant classic they seem to be at first, they’ll still be around once I’m ready for them, and potentially on sale. So, overall this strategy of suspicion-by-default and wait for more data has served me well.

  There are plenty of games I’ll impulse-buy, but it’s never the popular ones, it’s the ones that have a dozen reviews. I’m always suspicious of popularity. I do not believe in the wisdom of crowds, at least for my own entertainment preferences. I have very specific interests and preferences, and frankly I know them when I see them, and this probably isn’t it.

  on Temp Check on Blood of the Dawnwalker? in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• I highly doubt you are a developer of this game, but if you are, well… that explains a lot I guess.

  on Valheim: Deep North 1.0 in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• Reminder that the mnemonic for the Great Lakes has changed from HOMES

  … no it hasn’t.

  on MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation in the Apple App Store, after refusing to rename Lake Ontario in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• It is equivalent until Flatpak adds a new (probably completely justified) limitation to its sandbox that breaks your (needs unrestricted system-wide permissions) application, sure. Nevermind if you decide to add more features that go beyond what the sandbox allows, and then you need to figure out why they’re broken in your flatpak and what new flags you need to unbreak them. The problem is you’re constantly swimming upstream against a very strong current. It’s not a very sustainable mode of development. Like OP said, flatpak is designed for sandboxed desktop GUIs. It may be convenient at first to shoehorn your TUI application into it, but you’re working against its design and intent, and that is a genuine problem, for many reasons.

  npm -g is another TUI install method I loathe. pipx/uv shares most of the same issues. Like the author, I’ve gone through almost all of the same options they have, and come to basically the same conclusions. There really is no good option for packaging and managing userspace TUI utilities. And it’s brutal. I hate that so many terminal utilities have standardized to use completely unrestricted, opaque and dangerous curl/sh copy-pastes, leaving anyone who’s not both fluent in shell script and willing to invest the time to inspect what the scripts are doing out in the cold, bravely running commands that are potentially malicious with no safety net. I understand it, it’s viable, it works, I do it myself for my own projects, but we have to acknowledge that it’s a symptom of the lack of any better solution for TUI packaging, and it’s okay to admit that it sucks, and we could do something so much better.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• Sounds about right, my friend. I’ll meet you in the Badlands with the other nomads after the blackwall goes up!

  on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• I donated a server to my brother across the country to use as his media server, it also doubles as my own offsite backup. And vice versa for his, although he’s not really tech savvy enough to care.

  on What is your cloud backup solution? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Piefed is already doing that, frankly.

  on Support Lemmy development in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 28 Aug 2026

• Why do we need a centralized hub for AI models anyway? I’ve never figured this out. We flock to these big “friendly” fucking companies with obviously unsustainable business models trying to own and sell things that should be shared in a decentralized, democratized mesh anyway. AI models should all be distributed magnet links, not hosted files. Why do we do this to ourselves?

  The way things are going at Huggingface now, I imagine we probably will have to start building the infrastructure we need to handle AI models as distributed links sooner rather than later. Let the enshittification begin, we’ll move on to a different tactic for sharing AI models while cheerfully they squeeze cash out of people and businesses too lazy to adapt. Everything working as it should, I guess.

  on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• Yes, it’s not the technology I hate, it’s the people pushing it, demanding it, saying it will replace humans. Those people can fuck right off. Technology exists to serve humans, not the other way around. We are being sold a lie. The technology has some interesting aspects, but the pushers are pushing bullshit.

  on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• I used to think UBI was a reasonable solution, but I think that might be its problem, it’s too reasonable, it would probably be the only thing that can prevent total class warfare from breaking out. But these billionaires (and now trillionaires?) are fucking idiots and I kind of hope they are too stupid to realize they need to placate the masses to avoid it or so narcissistic they think they can actually win if it does. We’d fucking slaughter them in a class war, no problem. They are not as smart nor as well-prepared as they think that they are. I think they’re pushing all the wrong buttons and I think the way things are going they’re going to get burned. They’re flying too close to the sun, and like Icarus, they’re having a real fun time. Until at some point, suddenly, they’re not.

  on Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Zero. Zero accurately. They don’t even talk about it, because they don’t care. The arbitrary cruelty is a bonus feature.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• This feels like marketing disguised as criticism.

  on As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings | Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• “9:40 AM EDT on August 17, 2026” so… yesterday. This is old news. Not to defend github, but it’s currently working fine for me and has been all day. Can confirm yesterday was a shitshow.

  on Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• a camera openly displayed, but off,

  I know enough about technology and big tech companies to be completely unwilling to believe that any device claiming to be “off” or even just to have some feature “off” can be trusted not to be collecting data anyway, at least in certain situations. They have completely and utterly destroyed that trust, and are at this very moment still dancing gleefully on its corpse. It doesn’t really make any sense for them to act surprised when we refuse to believe a company like Meta will take anyone’s privacy seriously.

  on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026