James R Kirk
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for selfhosted alternative to "Find my phone"English
0·9 days agoHow do you ping a location update? I’ve tried sending the hidden sms that’s supposed to do is but it only seems to work about 25% of the time, and I have to run the actual location check like 3-4 minutes later
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November.English
51·16 days agoYes exactly, my potentially hot take is that twenty years from now we’ll look at immutability as the tipping point that sent Linux mainstream on desktop.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is there a reason to pick Fedora over Ubuntu?English
7·16 days agoI think Fedora Kinoite is the best distro for someone coming from Windows due to KDE’s flexibility and similarity to Windows and it’s immutability. Default Ubuntu is great for people familliar with MacOS, and it can even be themed to be basically indistinguishable.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of releaseEnglish
0·27 days agoThere was a Ted Talk a while back (I can’t remember who) where they said “I have always wanted to give a Ted Talk… but when I got selected to do this I realized that what I really wanted was to say I had given a Ted Talk”. Meaning they want to be known as someone who had given a Ted Talk, not actually go through the process of writing and delivering the Talk.
People who write open source code do it because they like the process of writing, just like an author enjoys writing books. LLMs are for people who just want to be able to say they have written a book. People who slop-code aren’t actually interested in learning how to code. Which is a fine toy for them to play with, but not sustainable (or reliable for others to use).
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•The First PC Shipping With SteamOS Arrives Next MonthEnglish
51·1 month agoSteamroller is a great name. I built a similar SFFPC with Bazzite a few years ago but if I was in the market I would probably choose this over the Steam Machine (as cool as it is).
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Moving to Fedora? How stable is it?English
3·1 month agoFedora has two immutable distros KDE (Kinoite) and GNOME (Silverblue) and both are excellent and very stable.
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam machine prices are liveEnglish
1·1 month agoOnly if you’ve never bought a game on Steam before. I don’t think I’ve paid over $10 for anything.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam machine prices are liveEnglish
7·1 month ago
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam machine prices are liveEnglish
7·1 month ago“I am sure this overpriced plastic trinket will fill the meaningless void in your finite life” 🤣
Shit I think I may need to go play through the Portal games again.
(HL3 tease at the end)
ALSO WHAT
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam machine prices are liveEnglish
4·1 month agoWhen they priced the controller at $99 I immediately suspected it would be part of a bundle deal for “a $99 value!”
Also WOW that cube is so much more than just a dbrand skin. That’s amazing.
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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam machine prices are liveEnglish
213·1 month agoI’m convinced hardly anybody on Lemmy has a functioning theory of mind.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Steam machine prices are liveEnglish
71·1 month agoEven at double the cost of a normal console, once you factor in the cost of games it comes out ahead. And hopefully the RAMpocalypse will end eventually.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Recommendations on self hosting ebooksEnglish
0·1 month agoI’ve seen that but it’s a weird vibe coded app and doesn’t actually work
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Recommendations on self hosting ebooksEnglish
0·1 month agoShelfMark is the go-to option now. It’s also far better than Readarr was and works seamlessly with both Prowlarr and Anna’s Archive.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Recommendations on self hosting ebooksEnglish
0·1 month agoI think CWA is the most robust option out there. BookLore was vibecoded and behaved in the typical weird/unexpectedly way vibecoded apps tend to. I haven’t tried the Fork of it, but CWA checks nearly all the boxes and is actively developed.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Recommendations on self hosting ebooksEnglish
0·1 month agoI wish ABS synced progress between formats with KOReader!
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Does anybody know what's going on with Calibre Web Automated?English
0·1 month agoIIRC those updates were a series of bugfixes after a major update, which seems to be how they prefer to work.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg?English
3·2 months agoNo love lost for IBM but I still wouldn’t expect to see casually mentioned alongside Palantir.




Pardon my ignorance but isn’t that exactly what Inoreader and Feedly do?