Also helps the general population to take part in science. Plus, you can read things your (small) academic institution didn’t subscribe to. And when I tried it, it was super convenient. Just put in the DOI and get a paper, no other steps like university logins, VPNs etc needed.

It’s all the scams, crypto-bros and stupid, unnecessary “use-cases” that it got applied to, just to make someone a big pile of money. Also: I didn’t get rich.

I think rolepley with LLMs is fun. They’re surprisingly creative and cabable of describing fantasy settings. Though, it doesn’t really compare to D&D. I mean first of all your friends are missing and so is the pizza, so it’s a different experience altogether.

And the LLMs are more invested in the storytelling. They don’t strictly adhere to the rulebook. And they don’t do the calculations and dice rolls correctly. They’ll decide to push for a resolution, happy ending or whatever they deem fit. And it’s not a fair game that feels like encounters are settled by the character’s abilities. It’s more storytelling tropes being the deciding factor. And I believe I’m missing a proper story arc… So I think it’s fun, but not D&D.

Though, that takes 2.500 gp and character level 5. If I had that IRL, I’d also fly for 10mins, deal several d6 of damage and snoop on people with clairvoyance. 🙃

every time I find myself trying to browse enclosures without having an account and they simply won’t allow me to browse much before prompting me to sign up or subscribe to view more.

Yeah, like Pintrest and Facebook an a lot of services these days. I avoid those like the plague. That’s enshittification and for the users: living within small confined spaces. Though, that’d get me started babbling about freedom and starting the technobabble on how the internet is supposed to liberate information, and not confine it…

as simple as them being open and ad-free

I generally recommend uBlock to my friends. With that, 90% of the internet is ad-free. And I don’t mind watching the advertisements itself… It’s (again) the other things that come with it. The tracking, selling of data, being an object to the ad selling algorithms…

I can’t help but immediately proceed to the technobabble… Maybe with a few exceptions. I could explain why it’s stupid to watch 2 ads before each Youtube video.

What kind of DM and group do you have that grant your characters 8h of sleep? I agree with all of the other points. But in my D&D times it was often some surprise encounter during the night, or the other characters were fine with just 4h of sleep and I was the only idiot who needed the full 8h.

I think this is good advice, but has some caveats. If you skip the technobabble and politics about free (as in freedom), what’s left? If it’s just a platform that feels more complicated to sign up, because you have to learn about instances and it’s not clear which one you want, plus your friends aren’t there, plus it’s just 45k users total instead of a lot…?

I mean we then need some positive thing. For all I care, we might call it detox. But what’s the detox? We’d need something like a substancially better (healthier/more welcoming) culture, less posts that make up for that with quality… And I’m not 100% sure we’re there… Feel free to disagree or comment on my perspective… I mean the atmosphere here is nicer than on Reddit. But not radically different, in my opinion.

postmarketOS though I think your devices aren’t supported. And it’s not easy to add support. Phones are highly integrated devices and drivers etc often aren’t available to third parties. So unless you have a phone where at least the SoC is supported, “theoretically possible” to add support, could mean months or years of work.

Yeah, I think $349 is too much. You can get a MiniPC on Amazon for like $250 and that’d include a recent (low-power) CPU, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD. So way more for $100 less, and you don’t even need additional cloud subscriptions.

That’d be a Chromecast TV stick, just with Azure?! How much is the hardware? I’d say this sells if it’s priced right. Let’s say $20 for the box plus $120 anually for a base subscription including Office 365. With optional extras like gaming that’d be on top. Plus extra storage fees and a bit of upselling, it’d be a viable business model, in my eyes.

Edit: It’s $349 plus a currently unknown subscription: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsoft-builds-a-349-mini-desktop-but-only-for-accessing-windows-in-the-cloud/

We had the same discussion 3 weeks ago: https://lemmy.world/post/21202413

Tl;dr: mastodon.social is hardcoded in the program. So it supports that one instance only.

And I think OP is sneaking this post in from Reddit. The mentioned discussion on “selfhosted”, isn’t what happened here. So I guess they mean r/Selfhosted

You could add Fediverse support: https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app/issues/345

(Just thinking of that, since we’re currently talking via the Fediverse. But this isn’t a request, I don’t use social media enough to need a scheduling tool.)

Ah, I didn’t know. I’ve never ran my own Lemmy instance. I just found out after installing Piefed, that content doesn’t appear on it’s own. I had to go ahead and add some communities manually. Idk if that changed since.

Ultimately, the same thing applies to all internet services. If you’re paying for a service by watching advertisements, they have to show them to you. I’ll be an additional line in your mail inbox, mixed with the messages. Or an ad in-between the posts of social media. In between the list of news articles. And of course for AI serviced that include advertising, it needs to be the same.

I can log in with lynx… It sets a few cookies and then I’m logged in… Though I haven’t tried signing up, if you mean sign up as in register a new account.

It connects to the same Fediverse. But it has a few filters and features added. And the Piefed instances block some known unpleasant instances by default. And it doesn’t pull in all the content unless someone subscribes… So it should be a bit better. But underneath, it’s the same network and content.

You’re welcome! Glad I could help, happy self-hosting ☺️ Hope it also forwards everything correctly and the chat client/app works, too.

Check your indentation. I’m not sure if Lemmy is messing with that, but there seems to be an additional erraneous space before turn_username and password in your config. And the dash should (I guess) be indented two spaces further than the previous line and then one space after the dash. I’m not sure if it’s that.

Alright. I believe that means you need to fix your DNS.
“turn.domainexample.com” is pointing to a different server, and not the one running coturn.

Do you use Cloudflare as a DNS provider? I mean I don’t know how that works, since I’ve never used it… But judging by the following documentation: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/reference/proxied-dns-records/

I believe you need a dedicated record for the turn subdomain that’s not “Proxied”, but “DNS only”.

But(!) there seems to be a caveat. There is a note on that page, saying: “If you have multiple A/AAAA records on the same name and at least one of them is proxied, Cloudflare will treat all A/AAAA records on this name as being proxied.” I believe that means you can’t point one of the subdomains directly at your VPS. At least not with Cloudflare DNS.

Edit: I’m not sure though, why putting in the IP address doesn’t work… I think that should work. I’m not sure what Dendrite does in the background. Have you added the correct secret or username/password and set the correct transport type (TCP/UDP)? Maybe you could add the port number if it’s non-standard…

Once the TURN testing tools I linked, work with the domain name: You should be able to fill out the turn section in config/dendrite.yaml with that. It should be something like turn:turn.domainexample.com?transport=udp.

Maybe your DNS isn’t pointing to the correct IP? You could try pinging it, or use the command dig A turn.domainexample.com and see if it returns the correct IP for the VPS.

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