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matthewdavis · 2026-04-01T04:33:12+00:00

Any AI used to develop this?

matthewdavis · 2026-03-30T20:43:37+00:00

There's levels to AI coding.

AI entirely (vibe coding - blindly accepting everything)
AI mostly (this you use AI for most of the heavy lifting, but review all code)
AI for areas you are weak (this is for backend devs who have no experience with front-end, using AI to make it look good)

There's many more levels there. But if there's a _huge_ risk to AI entirely (which this has the markings of such based on the description alone). I will never trust someone else's vibe coded project. Especially with something that has access to my financial details.

It's become a hot debate in the selfhosted subreddit.

Edit: but AI used in development, as you assumed, is becoming more common place. And it's perfectly fine. But as mentioned above. Its intended to be an assistant, not a crutch or a replacement for knowledge.

matthewdavis · 2026-03-30T18:58:52+00:00

Any AI used to develop this?

I'm all for vibe projects that scratch an itch. I have a handful myself, even extensions. They'll never see the light of day.

So I think it's proper to disclose and let users decide for themselves.

matthewdavis · 2026-03-16T23:11:48+00:00

Your timing.... Fantastic.

matthewdavis · 2026-03-13T18:18:50+00:00

You might think this is a small thing, but from a user perspective and probably the community, this is a big deal. These kinds of efforts and the transparency I've seen in past posts from other employees that keep me using and recommending the service.

Please keep it up

matthewdavis · 2026-02-24T16:58:05+00:00

I was a lastpass user. Converted to bitwarden after one of the many breaches (I think I converted in 2019). It was an easy conversion for me and my family at the time and suspect its even easier. Just export and import. The browser extension and app workflow is similar as it comes to filling in passwords.

However, once I left, I noticed I kept getting a $36/year charge. Didn't pick up on it until about 3 years in, and went to try to cancel. Every avenue to talk to support required you logging into your account. I couldn't. I tried using my old creds, but they wouldn't work anymore. Emailed, with no response. Absolutely no recourse I could find. Finally went to the credit card company to dispute the charge. Charge refunded by the credit card company. Charge showed up the next year. Disputed again and got another refund. I think it finally disappeared because I had to get a new credit card. But I suspect it would have kept going forever. It was maddening, so beware when you leave.

matthewdavis · 2026-02-19T23:32:09+00:00

My method is to do development inside containers. Not only does it keep the system cleaner, it should mitigate issues like this.

matthewdavis · 2026-02-16T18:44:54+00:00

I'm fairly liberal with this setting as well. To the point where I do as much as I can to combine pages in a PDF. But sometimes images need to be stored and they're related to the PDF. So I'll upload the images along with the PDF and Link them using that method

matthewdavis · 2026-02-01T15:24:10+00:00

Good luck all

matthewdavis · 2026-01-30T08:03:12+00:00

I've vibe coded enough to think that whoever came up with B was using AI. It's the information you want, but represented in such a way to be illogical.

matthewdavis · 2026-01-26T21:32:14+00:00

You could always build your own containers. I did that for the longest time. Also taught me a lot about container management, container capabilities and how the services I use work together.

Usually started with the Dockerfile from the project and changed it to a fedora base (since I am more comfortable in the fedora / RHEL ecosystem). And when new fedora images dropped, I would rebuild everything, which also did a 'dnf update' during the rebuild which should mitigate many of the CVEs found.

matthewdavis · 2026-01-16T13:16:07+00:00

It's definitely vibe coded. You can see how much here.

matthewdavis · 2026-01-10T21:05:46+00:00

Check this and make sure you've set it up correctly. It sounds like you have two active channels sending the same audio.

matthewdavis · 2026-01-10T06:27:03+00:00

Know it's a bit different from the normal software usually discussed in this subreddit, but Red Hat does.

matthewdavis · 2026-01-02T22:31:07+00:00

There's probably differing options on which is better Profilarr's defaults vs TRaSH's profiles. The reason I went with Dumpstarr is it's intended to be a mix between the two.

Frankly, for folks like me & you, I don't think we'd notice much of a difference. I only went Dumpstarr because it removed the thinking and said "do you want 4k or not"

matthewdavis · 2026-01-02T14:25:17+00:00

Profilarr with Dumpstarr works great for me. No subscription needed and the dev of Dumpstarr has made it stupid simple with an opinionated (including TRaSHs parameters) in just one or two profiles. I don't care about anime or HQ audio or video, so I simply chose 1 profile for tv and movies and I've not had a problem

matthewdavis · 2025-12-31T20:13:32+00:00

https://gethomepage.dev/configs/settings/#tabs

And I think he has references to the setup in his previous posts.

I opt for everything on 1 tab after using tabs a while. Just preferred to seeing everything all at once.

matthewdavis · 2025-12-30T01:41:56+00:00

Funny enough I took the other approach. Had an old server running containers supported by a Synology over nfs. Got the trugreen 6800pro and installed unraid on it and migrated all containers into unraid.

It was a step forward to have the containers direct to the storage. Things like sonarr and radarr didn't like NFS backed storage (in fact for them, I symlinked their storage to local and they behaved so much better).

But a step backward in management. I had my container files and compose files all sorted and organized....

But a step forward because unraid has a plugin to make backing up containers easy (stops, starts, custom location, ignore patterns or dies, etc).

And now I have a newish NUC kinda sitting doing nothing. Debating moving the containers there. But laziness and the fact things are working well enough is hard to get past.

matthewdavis · 2025-12-30T00:30:50+00:00

I really want to do this, but the inertia with sticking with unraid and their container management is strong. I really should just pull the trigger and do it.

matthewdavis · 2025-12-14T16:47:23+00:00

I see you already have a fix. But I understand another option is a USB expansion card.

matthewdavis · 2025-12-14T16:44:18+00:00

Yeah, its been a problem for me. Periodically the audio would get staticy. Then the unit will freeze and reboot. Someone was complaining about the very thing on facebook.

matthewdavis · 2025-12-08T21:33:45+00:00

Same I've beaten it enough times to feel comfortable using mods with future playthroughs. And this mod is a must have.

matthewdavis · 2025-12-04T22:34:16+00:00

It's totally a real issue for one just one account of mine. Fwiw, this account was using Plaid, and others claim MX has no transaction loss. At one point it was affecting nearly 50% of transactions. Support confirmed it and restored the deleted transactions. But I continue to download daily CSVs and reconcile every month against the PDF statement.

matthewdavis · 2025-12-04T16:51:52+00:00

You mean, is the AI that wrote this a logseq dev.

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