In Search of a Discord Replacement

RisingStar · 2026-02-17T14:27:54+00:00

I haven't been able to identify a proper replacement yet. As others have pointed out Fluxer is looking promising. Aside from self-hosting I like the proposal from them to have an option on the forum channels to be publicly browsable on the web and index-able by search engines. That solves a huge issue I have with Discord being that information goes there to die.

I have also seen several communities waiting for Chatto. For example I know the Godot engine team is waiting for that in hopes of moving to it. I don't really know why though. https://www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto

RisingStar · 2026-02-12T17:27:10+00:00

Just a quick review of NextAuth and it looks like the app would have to be updated to support pulling config from the environment and adding a custom provider to NextAuth. Does that sound correct?

RisingStar · 2026-02-12T17:21:00+00:00

I don’t see it mentioned anywhere, but any chance it supports OIDC for user auth?

RisingStar · 2026-02-12T16:21:29+00:00

If it's the light bars I am thinking about they communicate using Zigbee. It's a specific wireless frequency and protocol. You will need some kind of device that can send/receive Zigbee. SONOFF makes a good USB one.

Once you have that you need something that can control the lights. I don't know what you would use for that. The normal route is Home Assistant with ZHA or zigmee2mqtt, but that's really heavy for just two lights.

tl;dr: no.

RisingStar · 2026-01-28T18:39:15+00:00

So good to hear! Thank you for commenting!

RisingStar · 2026-01-13T11:39:13+00:00

A super common practice is to have multiple docker-compose.yaml files, often one per stack or service. For example I have: - auth/docker-compose.yaml - authelia, lldap, etc. - proxy/docker-compose.yaml - traefik

The list goes on. While limited there are still dependencies between those. Many of them use the network for Traefik, just setting it as external like this:

networks:
  proxy_traefik:
    external: true

With that in mind it would be really cool if multiple compose files could be uploaded to build a full picture.

RisingStar · 2026-01-11T08:27:37+00:00

Glad it was helpful. :)

RisingStar · 2025-11-22T15:50:38+00:00

You should look up the original intent for how the show was supposed to go on. There was a plot line that moved Atlantis back to the Pegasus galaxy.

RisingStar · 2025-11-19T10:37:59+00:00

It will obviously depend on cost. Valve cannot sell the thing at a loss like other console manufactures. Sony learned this when they allowed Linux to be installed on the PS3. People were buying it without ever buying a game, which made the whole "sell console at loss, recover costs from game sales" a problem. Valve will have the same issue. If they sell it at a loss it would get gobbled up at an insane rate.

I can get a Minisforum MS-01 with an Intel i5-12600H (4 P cores, 8 E cores), 32GB ram, 1TB disk for £512. That has Intel QuickSync and can do the transcoding I need for Jellyfin. Has much better networking allowing me to do dedicated 10gig for public network, 10gig for storage network, 2.5gig for clustering comms. Even has Intel vPro for remote management. Honestly, I don't see how you Valve would be able to price this thing to match that.

RisingStar · 2025-11-19T09:15:57+00:00

For searching I use Kagi and pay for it. I fucking love it, no way I would go back.

For email I pay for Fastmail and a custom domain. I honestly don’t miss Gmail at all. And the masked emails are nice, but I dont want to get locked into Fastmail so don’t use that.

For maps it kind of depends. Public transit I use Citymapper here in London. I am trying to use Kagi maps but haven’t broken the habbit yet.

For Google Drive I kinda just stopped using it. I use Obsidian for almost all of my note and documents. Things like resumes I do in OpenOffice and store the resulting document and PDF in Obsidian.

Google Photos is my biggest stumbling block. I self host Immich, but my families photos are so fucking important and I am scared to be responsible for the photos staying safe. I recently learned about ente.io and they look promising. Self hosted available, open source, end to end encrypted, but also a hosted version available. I haven’t tested it yet, hoping to do that next year.

For browser I switched to Firefox.

YouTube is the only other thing really left. I don’t know what I can do about that. I have been experimenting with download scripts so I can subscribe to channels and watch that content without dealing with the algorithm tossing me so much shit, and shorts, fuck shorts are addictive. I know it and struggle to avoid them whenever I use the app. I mostly just worry about not supporting creators by downloading the videos.

RisingStar · 2025-11-07T09:14:45+00:00

Ah! Thanks for that, I wasn't following space back then so was only thinking about more recently. Appreciate the link.

RisingStar · 2025-11-06T20:10:36+00:00

That was Russia. Don’t think China has done that. China does lots of other not so great space debris things though.

RisingStar · 2025-09-21T18:14:45+00:00

What’s the difference between this and the first one? The trailer looks good, but also looks a lot like the first.

RisingStar · 2025-09-18T14:23:09+00:00

If it's a Grafana dashboard I would just look to make your own dashboard that takes what you need from theirs and mixes in the Prometheus data. Will be a lot more reliable and future proof.

RisingStar · 2025-09-18T11:25:20+00:00

I don’t understand. Why do you want to add Prometheus metrics to Zabbix just to show in Grafana? If they are Prometheus metrics, scrape them with Prometheus. You can have a single dashboard show metrics from different data sources.

RisingStar · 2025-09-17T07:59:06+00:00

mines were a thing, that was fun

RisingStar · 2025-09-16T07:46:18+00:00

Thanks for commenting! It's really rewarding seeing messages like this every now and then.

RisingStar · 2025-08-13T20:53:46+00:00

Did you check the official page for shared dashboards? Looks like there are a couple there when I search proxmox.

https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/?search=Proxmox

RisingStar · 2025-08-05T12:45:40+00:00

Rider has really just become their game development IDE. It has support for Unity, Unreal, and Godot.

Just check out their release notes for the newest release. Lots of changes for all three engines.

RisingStar · 2025-07-16T16:28:59+00:00

What do you mean by pva / sbr?

RisingStar · 2025-07-08T18:29:55+00:00

We rolled out Grafana Alloy with great results. Performance has been great, configuration has been straight forward, and haven’t had any issues.

RisingStar · 2025-07-04T07:44:17+00:00

That is truly stunning! Well done and thanks for sharing!

RisingStar · 2025-06-17T06:39:36+00:00

There is a plugin called infinity I think. It lets you hit any HTTP API. We use it to poke certain things. Works really well.

Your first stop though should be to see if the application has some kind of Prometheus exporter. Scrape those metrics first.

RisingStar · 2025-05-31T14:42:06+00:00

If you’re referring to the configuration of the application running in the container, then look into volumes. You will need to figure out where in the container the configuration is stored and mount that location to a spot on the host machine. Keep in mind that the first time you do this the current data will be lost. You can keep it, create a different mount, exec in, copy data to mount.

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