betternotbigger

joined 1 year ago
[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a love hate relationship with this man. He has spearheaded some of my favorite games even if they came nowhere close to what was promised. It's so weird to come back to Fable and enjoy it more than I did when it came out.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did it for a few months and really enjoyed it. At the end of 3 months, I realized I could achieve nearly the same thing by turning off all notifications except messages and calls and uninstalling all social media. I realized... if I have the willpower to use a dumbphone I have the willpower to keep the distraction off my smartphone. Phone usage is now 100% intentional with the right setup.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did it for 3 months. I really enjoyed my time doing it and learned a lot about my usage. It was a cheap $50 experiment. After I went back to my smartphone, I uninstalled ALL social media apps. Turned off ALL notifications but left calls and messages as an exception. My smartphone is now essentially a feature phone. It's not 100% the same since the big screen does lure you in to use it but my usage is still way down and because I don't have any social media there's no reason for me to be on my phone around other people. I wholeheartedly recommend trying it for those curious.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just the type of mod I want!

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

Dad programming jokes are the finest there is.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's done like that on purpose so that their Canes sauce does a lot of the heavy lifting.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There's this fast food fried chicken chain called Raising Canes, used to serve massive strips. Now the price is 50% more expensive and 50% less chicken. They're extremely tiny, never going back again... yet all the zombies who love that place are relentlessly spending their money there anyway.

Edit: grammar

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There's one called the Light phone and the battery life is below average. The screen is definitely a hog but cell radios can just as easily chew through the battery.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can this work with the "off the shelf" mesh routers.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Akira x Barbie, very cool.

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Please tell me ya'll actually talk to your ducks? Just me? Alright...

[–] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah but can it host PiHole?

 

In the clip Clooney and Farmiga brag about their credit card perks...

Also thanks to the mods for creating this community, was missing this one from Reddit!

 

I've never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it's my new addiction.

I'm a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I'm looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust... I feel like I'm living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it's so much fun.

Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I'm now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud.

Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can't get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community!

EDIT: Just also found Fission, selfhosted serverless functions, I'm jumping with joy right now! https://github.com/fission/fission

 

I dusted off my RPI4 and started tinkering with self-hosting things and it's sparked a fire. Suddenly I have 7 docker containers running and I need more RAM, more space and I want something reliable with room to grow. I like small form factors but it doesn't need to be RPI small. Any recs for your favorite hardware under $500?

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