KRunner, Plasma’s search/launch/unit converter/calculator/“but wait, there’s more” tool, uses fuzzy matching to look up applications. This means that even if you misspell an app’s name, KRunner will probably still find it for you. How search results are ordered has also been improved, and KRunner will start to provide those results after the first character is typed.

Oh nice!

I also didn’t know it could do unit conversions lol

I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?

For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact

It makes me wish I was selfhosting more services, music & chat in particular. It wasn’t important enough to set up yet

Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work

Is tailscale running / logged in on those other devices? Does it auto detect the server like it did on the phone?

Is there a downside to using the term “provider” when talking about choosing an instance? Ultimately, that is where the difference would be. The entity in charge of the instance needs to be trustworthy and have a moderation style/philosophy that the user agrees with.

I like “home”, I might try using that in the future :)

An immediate problem is that “community” is a term in the threadiverse, where !fediverse@lemmy.ml is a community. It also might make it sound like an exclusive thing with a specific topic, whereas in reality when you join a server you can still interact with the wider network.

IMO this is a concept that can’t be expressed in one word when someone is unfamiliar with the concept. We put together this guide a while back to try and explain it: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

There’s also this on Windows

https://github.com/files-community/Files

Although it seemed to freeze up from time to time back when I was on windows

I posted this to /c/news where it was promptly removed of course

The removal might be duplicate post or original title related? I see this another post in the community with the same article here:

https://lemmy.ml/post/36868753

If you check the web UI, the cross post section should have links to those other posts.

As for the title rule, I’m not a mod there but we have a similar rule in !canada@lemmy.ca. What I’ve recommended to people is to keep the original title and then add extra context in the post body. The exception being when people add updates or fix clickbait with some indication that the title was modified. Or alternatively, make a text post where it’s clear that you wrote the title, and add the link(s) as supporting evidence in the post body.

Even if your custom title is correct, the rule is needed since it gets difficult for mods to weigh in on every post and decide on what’s correct and what’s misleading/disinformation

Unless they mean something like the Respondus rootkit

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/best-way-to-use-respondus-lockdown-browser-for-school/26098

IMO some exams should just be proctored in person

Is this because it’s getting difficult for students to mess with the boot options?

Have you tried the third party ones? I’ve seen recommendations for Swiftfin

https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

I’m not sure which guides to recommend, but in case it helps narrow down your search, you could share more about your situation:

• Do you have any existing hardware or are you planning to buy? If so, what is the budget for the equipment and where in the world are you approximately?

• What did you want to self host? Some services would benefit from a certain type of setup. For example, if you’re serving lots of media, if you need redundancy and uptime, if you’re running AI models or something that needs a GPU

General tips:

• take lots of notes on your process. This will help you iteratively improve your setup. If it all falls apart, it will be easier to quickly get going again since you know what options you picked at each step.
• Make more posts here when you get stuck on something :)

For Linux, a lot of people go with Ubuntu server because there are a lot of existing guides for it. You don’t need much Linux knowledge to start self hosting since you can learn by doing over time. Some concepts to explore before getting started might be cron, the Linux file system, and user permissions.

For Docker, you should be fine if you know the basics. I’d recommend using Docker Compose since it’s easier to understand what’s happening when its written out in a nice yaml file. Install Docker and Docker Compose on the server, and then install something like DockGE to manage the compose files. When you want to run a service, copy the Docker compose file and then swap the port to what port you want to use, and the volume to the location you tend to use.

For a very basic setup, I’d find a video guide for

• installing Ubuntu server on the machine
• basic setup of the Ubuntu server (file permissions, docker, docker compose)

We’ve had to block a number of IPs for our instance. One was a misconfigured fediverse project that was hammering our instance, and a number of them seem to be AI companies scraping for content.

Maybe something similar is happening on your instance?

Thank you!

Just do like 10 minutes of research before you buy

The average person might not know what’s reputable and what’s not. A lot of the VPN review sites are also secretly run by the VPN companies, or get paid off by them. Someone might even mix up the bad PrivacyTools for the legitimate PrivacyGuides

I haven’t heard of any learning curve with Jellyfin. It seems easy to set up, and the apps are about as user friendly as you can get (especially the third party ones)

On a related note, this story from 2024:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks-onavo-vpn-used-to-wiretap-competitor-data-court-filings-reveal

Even ignoring any ownership issues, it’s an awful service. If you look up “ExpressVPN cancel” you’ll find lots of posts and comments from people complaining that they were charged again after cancelling, that the interface makes it difficult to cancel, that they needed to reach out to support multiple times, etc.

Instead:

• Use a different VPN
• Check if you actually need a VPN for your situation

I check this guide from time to time to see if anything has changed with the usual recommendations:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/