faultypidgeon

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

This is the correct way. I wish hetzner had a storage box size between the 1TB and 5TB version though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago

ht o you men? You cn typ jut fine ith keybor like tht.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I think this somewhat depends on how tech savvy the people you want to give editing access are. If they know how to handle git and write markdown, I'd go with a git repository with (for example) mkdocs and setup CI/CD to automatically deploy to Github Pages. This would be free. If they are more like the typical MS Word andy, I'd go with a self hosted instance of bookstack. You could host it for example on fly. Unfortunately bookstack does not (yet) support sqlite so you'll also need mariadb, which will make hosting it on fly slightly more expensive (but probably still far below $10), because you'll need 2 machines in total. One of which you can't scale to zero. There are probably other cloud providers where its going to be cheaper though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

[...] script something that does this.

Theoretically this pandoc one liner already does it, but depending on the website the layouting is going to be trash.

pandoc -i 'https://the-website-your-rss-items.link.to/' -f html -t epub -o out.epub
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Might not be for you if you are not a TUI person, but I like newsboat. I also use it to watch youtube and listen to podcasts (with mpv). For pdf/epub export you can probably script something that does this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yaos. I was expecting a nice fantasy story with dragons and shit. But the romance part of it was just so annoying. "Oh look that dude is so hot..." at every. single. occasion. I could've known beforehand that this book is more targeted towards female readers, but sometimes I just like to go to the book store and buy a book based on the blurb. Since then I made the new rule to keep my distance to books that mention TikTok or #BookTok on the cover.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Surprised to see jellyfin here tbh. The docker image needed literally zero configuration to work perfectly for me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I know this is suppossed to be a good vibes post, but "nobody" is probably a slight underestimation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even with an ad blocker it's insufferable though. Every time a page ask me to sign up for their stupid newsletter I want to punch a hole in my screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, of course you are right. The problem is that for many people (including me) it is hard to use it in a way that actually brings value, because it is just too easy to spend hours on there without getting anything in return.

I also think that it is highly subjective what can be considered "good" or "bad" content. When it comes to educational content, I also would consider it a waste of time. Sure, if I have a real life problem and the solution happens to be described in a youtube video, there is nothing wrong with watching it. But often times I was just like "Oh, this could be useful at some point in the future" and at the end of the video I could hardly remember what it was about. I also don't think that "mindless" content is inherently bad. If it helps someone to relax, go for it. I always felt worse afterwards.

Saying youtube would be a big waste of time in general is indeed reductive, but I think for many people it actually is, because it is just not designed to be used to bring you value. The only objective is that you spend as many hours on their platform as possible.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This + DeArrow. DeArrow replaces clickbaity titles and thumbnails with better titles submitted by the community. I wouldn't ever use youtube without it again. With this setup I don't even want to watch most videos anymore, which is a good thing, because let's be real, youtube is a big waste of time.

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