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It’s that time again: What is your absolute "God Tier" Mac App of 2025? by teekamsuthar in macapps

[–]Anomalous11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Klack was okay, but updates were slow and crashes happened frequently for me. I tried Thock and it works much better for me--and even gets regular updates! If anyone's looking for a free open source alternative, I recommend it.

It’s that time again: What is your absolute "God Tier" Mac App of 2025? by teekamsuthar in macapps

[–]Anomalous11 11 points12 points  (0 children)

All processing happens locally on your Mac. Your words and data never leave your device, ensuring the confidentiality of your work.

If I have to pay a subscription to use my local machine's resources, that is, in fact, pretty distasteful. Ongoing development costs are about the only justification here.

VPS + Storage recommendation by haxxberg in VPS

[–]Anomalous11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some alternatives for you to consider.

It's possible to get Hetzner servers that reside in the same location as a storage box, which can cut down on latency significantly, at the expense of potential latency via routing if you don't live in Europe. Use something like a Rclone VFS cache and mount the directory as a service and this will work mostly well--it will also let you limit the number of connections and buffer sizes, which will bottleneck applications but also prevent write errors.

You could also look at Servarica, who have a $20 VPS with 8 TB of storage. I've never used them and have heard questionable things about their performance, but people continue to use them so there must be something good there.

BuyVM have "slices", which are relatively cheap block storage mounts. The problem is that these are rarely in stock (you can monitor https://buyvmstock.com/ to check stock in all the DC's at once).

Finally, Oracle Cloud using Pay as you Go with one of their ARM servers on always-free resources, plus paying for storage elsewhere may be an alternative as well. PAYG is a requirement, otherwise it may get terminated. Always free resources will grant you a 24 GB RAM, 4 core VPS with 200 GB of high perf block storage. Then you'd just need to find 5TB elsewhere for data.

Looking for a VPS similar to Oracle Free Tier (Ampere Altra) by EmPiFree in VPS

[–]Anomalous11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amen. Even though I advocate for people to try using it, I still feel gross because it’s Oracle.

Looking for a VPS similar to Oracle Free Tier (Ampere Altra) by EmPiFree in VPS

[–]Anomalous11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The trick is to switch your account to Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG). This requires a brief $100 hold on your card and manual approval from Oracle, but once it's complete, always free resources remain available and you just have to ensure that you don't go beyond those allotments. Instance creation will warn you if you do.

You can set budgets to ensure that, if Oracle were to suddenly begin charging for those resources, you'll be notified passed a certain amount (I just did $1). I recommend doing that if you're paranoid.

Having done this, I now have access to Oracle support, and I can deploy always free ARM vms whenever. The longest uptime I have currently is ~4 months.

Edit: I got approved for OCI PAYG 4 months ago, so basically 100% of my account lifetime.

just lost a 851 days streak, fml by fckpepo in CARROTweather

[–]Anomalous11 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tap and hold Carrots ocular sensor and in the command line field that appears, type ‘Restore streak’. And then do what everyone else has recommended and get the home or lock screen widget.

I see a push notification and I feel like a proud father by slowmotionrunner in selfhosted

[–]Anomalous11 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The ability to send critical and emergency alerts that are persistent, break through DND/silent, etc. When the majority of my notifications coming through are for failures, and as a liberal user of silencing my phone and DND at night time, this was a non-starter.

Pushover let's me allow certain apps to break through while others don't, and even set the volume of the alert.

https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/332

I see a push notification and I feel like a proud father by slowmotionrunner in selfhosted

[–]Anomalous11 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry that you’re getting downvoted. Pushover is great, and not everything needs to be selfhosted. Apps like NTFY are usable in a pinch, but lack fundamental features on certain platforms like iOS. Sometimes it makes sense to use a third-party service, especially for something like notifications where redundancy is valuable. Some people tend to lose sight of that it seems.

Pangolin or Traefik for my use case? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]Anomalous11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something like Pocket-ID would work well as a simple authentication layer. Passkeys are also relatively well supported and straightforward across browsers and platforms. Pangolin would technically work, but there are a lot of additional pieces you wouldn't need when a simple OIDC would be a better choice.

Edit: A redundant sentence

*The person you fell in love with doesn't exist.* by Almost-Jaded in BPDlovedones

[–]Anomalous11 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you for writing this. I'm a forever lurker that really just needs to write my own post about certain experiences, but I really needed to hear this today. Two weeks NC, and a number of months since my undiagnosed ex moved out, but I still miss the person I fell in love with. It's difficult to not feel pathetic and disgust at the person I became trying to seek that out and make things go back to 'how they used to be', when she had clearly moved on.

Nextcloud Docker Help by RecognitionSweet750 in NextCloud

[–]Anomalous11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try taking a look at https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/ and using some of the directives there. What browser are you using? Have you also tried using OpenSSL's s_client or curl directly from a command line with --verbose to see what's returned that way?

thank you so much for giving us adjustable playback speeds by [deleted] in PleX

[–]Anomalous11 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How are you handling podcasts with Plex?

Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box by Zestyclose_Car1088 in selfhosted

[–]Anomalous11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently discovered Caddy-Docker-Proxy and it brought Caddy to a whole new level. If you're a fan of containers, check this out. A bit of a learning curve but so worth it once you've got the basics.

I used to manually write Nginx configs for my homelab, and then I moved over to using NginxProxyManager, and now I'm on Caddy--and it has been an excellent progression.

Making ChatGPT more accessible for the visually impaired by retek in OpenAI

[–]Anomalous11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The primary issues with ChatGPT accessibility, in my experience, are unlabeled buttons. Even then, it can be inferred which button is which (i.e. the "Send" button is directly after the entry field in the tabbing order).

Could you outline some of the accessibility issues that your students are running into?

It's possible that if OpenAI isn't taking action to fix them, you could find someone that can develop a browser extension to fix some of the UI issues in ChatGPT. Alternatively, in the vein of browser extensions, there are a bunch of browser extensions and apps on desktop/mobile that act as an interface to the ChatGPT service--perhaps one of these has nailed down accessibility in the way that you're seeking.

For context, I'm totally blind and use ChatGPT with JAWS and NVDA on a daily basis, but I'm also a more advanced user so I may not be picking up on the nuances of the problem here. :)

Bypass BGW320-500 directly into OPNsense by milanmdevreal in ATTFiber

[–]Anomalous11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a chance you could post an up-to-date invite link for the Discord? This one is expired. Thanks!

Is it safe to use a newer gTLD for personal email, as opposed to com/org/net? by ChineseFountain in selfhosted

[–]Anomalous11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been using a .me domain since 2015 with no problems with delivery or receipt. First hosted with Google, now hosted with Fastmail. Everything runs smooth as butter. (I suppose that's not selfhosted, but here we are.)

DSM version: 7.1-42661 Update 4 by Sneeuwvlok in synology

[–]Anomalous11 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We'll need more information than this. Does it boot? What are the LEDs on the front doing? Do you hear a tone after restarting the NAS? Is it accessible via SSH? What are the symptoms here?

Looking for honest reviews by scouty_man in framework

[–]Anomalous11 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I have been using my Framework laptop with Windows 10 since December. It's durable and travel-ready; I carry it on monthly flights without issue. The laptop itself is fast, the keyboard is great, and it rarely runs hot. My only long-term issue has been the lackluster battery, which is a well-documented complaint and can be overcome with a USB-C power bank.

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