Midnight Wolf

So you’re offering to manage my ~40 services, and make sure that all the dependencies are met - and none conflict…?

I mean, I enjoy hosting things myself, but I’m not going to invite issues that have been resolved by simple solutions. I’ve been around the block with dependency hell, fuck all of that. Now if I was getting paid like 6 figures instead of zero, sure boss, whatever the fuck you say boss, job security all day long. But unless you’re offering, I’m sticking with the easy way.

I don’t see any options or mention of changing instances, beyond discord canary and public testing…? I might be blind

It’s been around a few years. I investigated it last year. It had a name change some times ago.

I can’t vouch for the code quality, but it’s too old to be slop.

I set this container up yesterday. Technically it’s running. But all the settings are in the fucking sql db, and I know fuck all about sql other than drop tables is funny meme from xkcd. But also, ignoring the settings, I would like to point out that there is effectively no client. I mean, there are two official ones - the depreciated one, and the alpha one, and the alpha one has a total of 4 releases with the newest being two years ago. How do you deprecate a client when the server is still in alpha? What the fuck? And on all pages it screams ‘this is alpha testing software, do not use as a daily’. Also the docs are, uhh… rough. If rough was falling 4 stories into a bed of poisonous cacti. It took me 3 hours to get the container running properly and finally poking at the db. It’s as organized as my bedroom (‘it’s somewhere in this dresser, I think…’).

The idea, the potential, is brilliant. Literally everything about getting it working though…

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I’ve read that Stoat is bad for self-hosting, something about calls/video broadcasting not being part of the docker image, and needing to compile from source with every update?

I spent most of my day searching, spinning up containers, and discussing with friends and users on my discord ‘server’ about what to do. I burned out after a few hours of frustration. I had Mumble up and running a year ago but that was a bit too techy for new users, and it’s not really the ‘community’ feature set that I’d want…

Gonna need a salad at this point

I retested about six weeks ago, but the issue is discussed on forums and reddit as far back as 8 years ago (maybe further back but that’s the earliest I saw). I just assume that nobody has a sb card + using it as a 5.1/7.1 system + is also a programmer capable of solving it.

I went so far as to shop for sound cards by other manufacturers specifically for Linux support, but according to others Asus is no better vs Creative regarding Linux support, and in a general search for sound cards with Linux support, the only other stuff I found is for like audio creation and is eye-watering expensive. Others here on lemmy suggested an external card, which I could try, but I don’t have the cash for and I’d like to keep my existing hardware, so that’s a kinda extreme solution.

I tried to fix the channels by overriding it by creating setting files (way out of my element about how it works, but people suggested it) which also didn’t work. I did not try/see anything regarding a middle virtual adapter, I’ll have to keep that in mind the next time I test again, as the windows ESU deadline approaches.

The Z works, but again only in stereo mode. Which is fine, the Z is for voice chat, the AE-5 is for 5.1… but both have the exact same issue, 5.1 garbled the channels.

I’ve looked at input override tools… But I’d need it to be automatic and per-application, and if the g903 acts how it works on windows, the official software can differentiate between left side buttons and right side buttons, whereas the OS cannot. I didn’t find anything that met the auto + per-app requirement the last time I looked, so it’s back to the ‘eventually’ pile.

Basically, you can’t do 5.1 surround sound (3x 3.5mm) and stereo (headset) + microphone (2x 3.5mm) on the same card. I’ve been using sound cards since like, 2005? And I hate on-board audio chips. I don’t particularly trust the quality (both sound and physical build quality, longevity) of USB-based audio/headsets. Thus I disable the on-board mobo chip and run the two add-on cards.

I’m like an audiophile but on a shoestring budget, so I work with what I have :p

It’s the SB AE-5 and SB Z, I’d you’re curious.

I can’t, not on this machine - not yet at least. I’m disabled and use a logi g903 that has side buttons on either side that I use to play fps games (I’m left handed only, so finding an ambidextrous gaming mouse with enough side buttons, that I can remap buttons per-application is like 3 options, before adding 🐧 compatability to the list); and I have two sound blaster cards - one for system and game, one for voice chat - that, with either of them in 5.1 mode, the rear, center, and sub channels are incorrect. No fix worked for me :(

So here I sit, broken hearted, tried to shit but only farted switch but only [got] frustrated 😞

Lmao I’m over here literally right now backing up, wiping, and reinstalling windows because the fucking in-place upgrade system is hanging at like 90% completion on referenced files that aren’t necessary (user created) but that it can’t find, so instead of fucking ignore them it just nopes out and does fuck all. I’ve been passively trying to fix this for about 18 months, actively for the last 4 days.

I swear to fuck

I thought the small indie devs were mostly on itch?

I’ll be that guy and say that I do prefer buying from GOG, going as far as paying more money in doing so, so the issue isn’t really ‘friction’ but ‘mfs don’t bother offering on GOG’.

My hate for drm has only grown over the last two decades, and so I’ll get stuff wherever I can that isn’t plastered with it. But it’s not even a rounding error in comparing the number of games available of steam vs GOG. You’d have to go so far out with zeros that you fall off the page before encountering a positive value (0.00000[…]00001%). Which is upsetting and frustrating, since the other option is steam or piracy. And I do like rewarding developers for their work, so that leaves one option basically all the time.

I have a owncast container setup, I’ve used it a few times. It combines a customizable webpage with the stream, kinda-sorta like a twitch page. Hook obs to it and you’re off. Took me a couple hours to get everything set.

My only complaint is that the stream will fall behind - not sure if obs or oc is to blame. Perhaps my nas being underpowered, though I was testing/watching with ‘source’ so it shouldn’t be transcoding. After an hour or two I can, watching my own stream, see it’s fallen back by like a minute. If I remember right it continues linearly, so more time = more discrepancy.

It’s nice though, so I haven’t bothered to try other solutions. I should re-test and see if it’s been fixed…

Yeah, CR has been waving a red flag since the day I discovered them. Their testing methodology is meh and the fact that they (afaik, it’s been decades now) don’t purchase the items they test, but instead request them from the manufacturer, means they are not impartial, thus they cannot be trusted.

I’ve always regarded them as drawing parallel lines to things like the BBB. Sure they put on a decent public image and people put trust in them, but… why? What do they actually do? Specially, what do they do for you? You’re basically purchasing a magazine that is 100% ads. Even if you are already interested in an item in that edition, it’s still literally an ad that you will be reading. A biased ad. That you fucking paid to read. That is bonkers, and yet apparently there is still enough people who willingly buy ads for the company to continue existing.

I think we have tried that before…

gives 3 million in small unmarked bills

‘actually no wrongdoing was found’

You vastly overestimate boomers-era individuals (and really the entire general population). Beyond turning things on and ‘everything magically works’, most know fuck all about tech.

I know that if I croak tomorrow, while my ex partners and a couple friends would be able to piece together things, 1) they’d have to be informed that I’m dead, 2) they’d have to be asked to help with my different hosts, and 3) they’d need to remember where I physically put the password in case of emergency to access the main host (with all of the family’s important shit, like all of it). Assuming they got those three things done, they would have to convey to the ex/friend how to access the main node, and then figure out my password manager master password, and the mfa (multiple options), or assume it’s inaccessible and use the physical password to retrieve the data and restore… on an OS none of them has ever used before.

Assuming all that is doable, after the restore is to maintain the system and the containers, perpetually, as well as continue paying for the domains so they can access the services hosted on the nodes, and continue paying for my vps and the backup storage strategy (two different companies on two different continents alongside the local copy).

As I have literally almost died before (I was supposed to have died, according to doctors who saved me), I have tried to make this hypothetical situation easy, and still it would astonish me if they get past like step #2.

Legoing more for that Pay brand name?