surfrock66

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This is a good breakdown. A firehose relay takes TB's of storage and is not practical for self-hosting, and AppView isn't hostable yet: https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's probably more than you are looking for but if you are already looking at self hosting things connected with NextCloud, use NextCloud Talk. We use it for the family and it is great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There were a lot of SpongeBob and Patrick interpretations, the inflatable costumes were huge

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Updated night pic

 
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

This may not be exactly what you want, but I use Apache guacamole for this. The client becomes a web browser, and a chromium based browser allows seamless bidirectional clipboard. I use Ubuntu VMs with Mate as the DM and with a few keybinds tweaked it is solid. I use tightVNC as my server which supports dynamic resize, and the soon to be released guacamole 1.6 supports sending dynamic resize (since the underlying libraries are now updated to support it; RDP in guac already supports dynamic resize). How performant is it? I have a single proxmox vm which runs 3 Minecraft instances for our server's 3 bot accounts (which just stand still) and the desktop is still navigable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All you have to do is name tag them and they won't dig into the ground!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This would make a terrible farm, ultimately the warden just stares at them a lot and half the time they despawn. They also don't spawn too often, but that's because this is a zoo with trapped hostile mobs all over and I think it impacts the rates. I also spammed sensors and shriekers to try to make him angrier faster, but it didn't really help. That being said, you just make a plus farm under them with a cat in the middle; they get scared and run into a bubble column which pushes them into a pool where they can be seen by the warden, but not close enough to hurt him if they explode.

This is for a zoo, so the idea is that viewers can see the warden but not get blasted by him, and can get blindness by going up on the observation platform. Occasionally, like the goat in Jurassic Park, it acts like a predator, but just like in the movie, it's disappointing a lot of the time lol.

 
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'm super happy and excited for GIMP 3.0. I hate that this info was presented in a youtube video. I can gleam what I want to know from an article with bullet points (which I could find) but I'm sick of half the information I search for being returned in a video, with a fixed time commitment and imprecise "scrolling" to skip. I feel like in search and link aggregators, more and more content is video instead of text and I'm not here for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I totally agree...the best solution for the specific problem. "Cloud" was the buzzword solution to every problem for a few years and it wasn't great in a lot of cases. High I/O home grown apps to be used from a single campus don't need to be in the cloud. Bulk archive storage doesn't need to be in the cloud, things like lecture recordings from 10+ years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't understand your disbelief here, the 2 major players in online email and account mgmt (for education) are Google and Microsoft and both are 0 cost, but the bait and switch is the limit lowering mid cycle, not even on the academic calendar. Now that exchange on-prem is essentially dead and Google and MS control email via blacklist politics, it's a captive market.

 
 
 

Story time! We recently bought a rural property with a burnt down house on it and are going up every few weekends to clean it up. I'm up there this morning picking up random sheet metal and yeeting it into the trash pile. Suddenly I hear frantic squeaks....I look, and I accidentally yeeted the cover of a squirrel nest (I think squirrel)! I got the baby, got it out of the baking sun and made a new nest under another piece of cover. Still, holding a baby squirrel so new it's eyes weren't open was pretty magical! The kids (I have a 7 year old girl and a 9 year old boy) got to each hold it for a second too! Ideally we wouldn't have touched it, but the existing cover was mega-gone and it had to be relocated to safety out of the sun, so we got some brush and put it under a smaller wood plank right near where we found it, hopefully it's mom finds it, no one will be up there for the next few weeks so it won't be disturbed by people again.

 
 

I paid for Puzzle Quest 2 on android like a decade+ ago. It is a local single-player game. It has a validation check when you open the app. That check fails because this game is ancient and the servers are offline.

I want to replay the game I paid for. I have the APK from an APK site. It's even been pulled from steam to push their crappy p2w pq3. Anyone have tricks to crank an APK and bypass a server check? I've decompiled the APK but am in a bit over my head.

 
 

Question is in the title, I am a fan of a channel and would like to automatically connect to the swarm and support the broadcast even if I am not watching live. I seem to remember a project that ran in docker and kind of acted like a cdn node for a channel, but I can't find it now. Anyone know of such a solution?

 

I've been struggling with getting a completely self-sustaining VNC server working on Ubuntu mate, and I'd like some advice from anyone who has been down this road before. My target platform is Ubuntu Mate, and it is a combination of VM's and old laptops that may still have local sessions. I've landed on TigerVNC due to dynamic resolution support (to eventually pair with apache Guacamole), and specifically do NOT want to use x0vncserver as I want this to be separate from the local session should one exist on the laptops.

Ideally, this would be a systemd service for a couple of users. To the best I can tell, I would need a different systemd unit file per user account, which is fine (it'd be easy enough to create a mapping for user to session across systems; when you start a session my user could always be display 10 at 5910 and my wife's could be 11 at 5911, etc). I have seen a LOT of struggle with this, particularly in recent ubuntu, because of some changes. Specifically, this cannot be a user systemd service as those do not run until the user logs in, and I want these started at boot. I've followed these guides below:

https://bytexd.com/how-to-install-configure-vnc-server-on-ubuntu/ https://superuser.com/a/1724271

At this time, my systemd unit looks like this:

/etc/systemd/system/vncserver.service

[Unit]
Description=TigerVNC Server
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=surfrock66
Group=surfrock66

WorkingDirectory=/home/surfrock66
PIDFile=/home/surfrock66/.vnc/%H%i.pid

ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/vncserver -kill :%i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -localhost no :%i
ExecStop=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill :%i

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

At this time, my xstartup file looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey 
vncconfig -iconic &
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
x-window-manager &
/usr/bin/mate-session 

This works when my user launches the vncserver from the terminal, but when launching from a systemd service, it fails to start. I believe this is somehow due to user environment variables not being set; I've seen some guides recommending running the execStart commands as "su -l surfrock66 " to force the user's environment, but I have nothing to support that. Here's the front of the log file for the systemd service when I try to start it:

Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com vncserver[12983]: New Xtigervnc server 'hostname.subdomain.domain.com:1 (surfrock66)' on port 5901 for display :1.
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com vncserver[12983]: Use xtigervncviewer -SecurityTypes VncAuth,TLSVnc -passwd /tmp/tigervnc.WITIzx/passwd hostname.subdomain.domain.com:1 to connect to the VNC server.
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.a11y.Bus' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=12995 comm="x-window-manager")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.4' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com org.a11y.Bus[13008]: dbus-daemon[13008]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=12995 comm="x-window-manager")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com org.a11y.Bus[13008]: dbus-daemon[13008]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com org.a11y.Bus[13024]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Successfully activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/surfrock66/.config/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop: Key file does not have key “Name” in group “Desktop Entry”
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: Custom constructor for class GsmAutostartApp returned NULL (which is invalid). Please use GInitable instead.
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: could not read /home/surfrock66/.config/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'marco-compton' of required component 'windowmanager'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: Unable to find provider '' of required component 'dock'
 

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