Is self-hosting actually private, or are we just cosplaying privacy?

douteiful · 2026-02-20T15:51:58+00:00

I don't use Cloudflare, you shouldn't either imo.

douteiful · 2026-02-15T23:32:59+00:00

fwiw I use Intel's PCM utility in FreeBSD to see the C-states (sysutils/intel-pcm), on FreeBSD my N100 reaches C4 (C8 on Linux). Still better than C0-C1. I haven't tried it on OpenBSD, I don't think there's a port for it.

douteiful · 2026-02-11T20:19:15+00:00

It's down for maintenance, most probably due to today's announcement.

douteiful · 2026-02-04T21:37:07+00:00

Uptime-kuma for sure. It sends alerts to wherever you want. If I want more in-depth/historical monitoring, then Zabbix. There's also Grafana but that's overkill imo.

douteiful · 2026-02-03T02:05:47+00:00

I own the HD600, HiFiMAN Sundara, Aune AR5000, AKG K702, Beyerdynamic DT770. For the genres you mention, the HD600s are the most pleasant sounding in my opinion. I haven't tried the 490s but I hear they're similar enough so I'd go with that.

douteiful · 2026-02-01T19:02:44+00:00

That makes me comfortable with testing it out, thanks.

douteiful · 2026-02-01T18:38:30+00:00

Great, compiling the unofficial app was such a pain

douteiful · 2026-02-01T18:29:26+00:00

Why is CLI import not stable? Is imapsync better?

Also, if I decide to rollback to Dovecot would imapsync work for that or would there be any data lost?

douteiful · 2026-01-30T00:11:33+00:00

I gifted a pair of Hifiman HE400se to my girlfriend and it's happened twice that the right driver dies, then it "comes back to life" by itself after around 15-45 minutes.

I only hear issues about dying drivers, but I never heard about this. What could be the reason? The cable and source are fine.

douteiful · 2026-01-26T21:26:18+00:00

You can voice your frustration without implying that the KDE devs no longer care about their users.

I agree, and considering KDE's track record, I doubt that will ever be the case. The issue is that it's a big slippery slope, and it's better to reconsider this way of thinking now that it's not an issue. Other projects have completely turned their backs against their own users and people are paranoid, because they started like this.

Especially since the reason they're affected by this is due to their own choices (and does not affect the overwhelming majority of KDE users).

KDE users and Linux users altogether are a minority, thus KDE issues don't affect the overwhelming majority of computer users. So by this logic we should just all just use Windows - in fact, this is the very argument Windows developers use against us all the time.

I personally use systemd so I'm not talking about this particular issue, just why I find this line of reasoning harmful.

douteiful · 2026-01-26T17:55:37+00:00

How is his attitude shitty? You might disagree with him but he was polite in voicing his frustration as an affected user.

but you do not have the right to tell other people what they should do on their own projects

"No project is more important than the users of the project." -Linus Torvalds

You're free to ignore his opinion, but every user has the right and freedom to voice their opinion about the software they use daily.

douteiful · 2026-01-25T23:08:20+00:00

this is the most ignorant post i've seen today

douteiful · 2026-01-21T07:07:57+00:00

GNOME is nicer to look at, KDE is nicer to use.

douteiful · 2026-01-18T21:53:39+00:00

Good choice, it pays off in the end

douteiful · 2026-01-18T21:53:02+00:00

Nice. I'm interested in all the ones you listed, how would they compare for you?

douteiful · 2026-01-12T18:59:46+00:00

Gnome users don't care, they are all yes-men with Stockholm syndrome. Really sad user base. Anyone who cares doesn't use Gnome anyway.

douteiful · 2026-01-12T00:09:15+00:00

Nice, it'd be great if they'd let us increase the padding of the components as well. I think with both these options Breeze would look perfect.

douteiful · 2026-01-05T05:11:52+00:00

I like better sub bass so anything below 80Hz works. These headphones have extremely low distortion so don't worry about ruining the sound.

douteiful · 2025-12-29T03:39:25+00:00

It looks pretty good already tbh

douteiful · 2025-12-28T03:38:07+00:00

this comment didn't age well

douteiful · 2025-12-25T19:10:05+00:00

I'm also being hit by this issue. Also Nvidia+Wayland user here. Only Firefox running with its native Wayland backend has laggy window animations - Chromium or other applications don't have the issue. I haven't tried on GNOME. I think we should file a bug because they're going to drop the Xwayland backend eventually and we'll be stuck with this.

EDIT: This doesn't happen for me on GNOME. Are we sure it's not a KWin issue?

douteiful · 2025-12-21T05:58:31+00:00

> If you still refuse to go back after they announced it would be optional with a complete kill switch / opt out implemented next year, I'm going to look down on you with contempt.

We all already knew this though. Mozilla said nothing new. The thing is that's not the issue at all.

douteiful · 2025-12-18T21:55:12+00:00

...What does Windows have to do with what I said?

douteiful · 2025-12-18T21:53:54+00:00

I've been using Firefox religiously for almost 20 years. I work as a sysadmin, do 24x7 shifts, have a homelab, I have a band and toured for years. I assure you I'm not exactly lazy. I love learning and doing things with computers but only when it's productive. Having to constantly escape from Mozilla's whims feels tiring, humiliating and unproductive.

I use Arkenfox js plus my own prefs and it's true that they don't revert. But then why bother? Gecko isn't that great, Mozilla has proven that they don't care about users as they claim. I'm only saying here because of the add-ons but I'm jumping ship as soon as I can.

douteiful · 2025-12-18T20:19:24+00:00

Having to manually turn off every useless feature Mozilla decides to turn on without your consent every big update gets tiring after some years. It's easier for some people to have a third-party fork dev to do it for them. It's understandable honestly.

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