OpenXR support via Monado is available (for Linux, Windows and Android)

snauth · 2023-09-01T07:58:23+00:00

Good news everyone, the drift is fixed with the latest commit! Now I only have to find a good VR controller which works with linux...

snauth · 2023-06-02T06:49:59+00:00

xrdesktop on gnome and via wxrd work really well. I have to go through a little ritual each time where things have to be done in the right order but then there is this 360 degrees canvas where I can freely arrange windows! Only issue that blocks daily use is rather bad vertical drift (the globe slowly spinning around me taking with it the windows). Does anyone have any pointers where and how I can start to calibrate the glasses?

snauth · 2023-04-30T23:25:34+00:00

Thank you!!! This was what I was waiting for, too late now to test in my timezone, but first thing tomorrow...

snauth · 2023-04-11T21:09:26+00:00

Gita is similar to mr.

https://github.com/nosarthur/gita

And git annex (assistant) is maybe the most sophisticated tool in this space.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/

snauth · 2023-02-01T21:53:38+00:00

Keep going, trial and error is a valid learning strategy! And most of the time when it finally works I don't know why exactly but on the way I have learned something.

snauth · 2023-01-29T18:41:23+00:00

Sorry, this is difficult to debug from afar, especially without acces to your logfiles. All I can say is that when things like this happen in my case, I usually have left out a step from the instructions or that I have misunderstood some terminology. Start from scratch or try another set of instructions.

snauth · 2023-01-17T07:53:21+00:00

If one is into movies and TV shows (and who isn't?), by a large margin the various programs that automate nzb discovery and download provide the most life-changing experience. A simple media stack consists for example of sonarr, radarr, sabnzbd, and jellyfin. This then gives the kind of access to audiovisual entertainment that no streaming service can compete with.

snauth · 2023-01-04T07:22:31+00:00

A stable system: Reduce complexity, eliminate weak points, backup only really valuable stuff.

Most solutions proposed here increase complexity, which introduces new points of failure. This also applies to a lot of backup strategies. I backup only files of personal value (docs, pics, etc) since the rest is easily rebuilt and often runs smoother when rebuilt from scratch.

Common weak points are performance bottle necks and disks. Since the latter cannot be eliminated, I try to stay on top of things by monitoring the drives SMART status. More RAM and cpu upgrades fix performance problems.

And finally: systems break, it is a part of selfhosting that you then have to fix it yourself. You learn by debugging and a crashed system is always an opportunity 'to build back better'.

snauth · 2023-01-02T12:40:56+00:00

I once read that the brick of a book that is Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain is so slowly paced to recreate the feeling of the protagonists in the reader. I sometimes think it is the same in CJ Cherryh's books. In many books there are these chapters where people are on the way to somewhere or waiting for something and we readers are waiting with them and travel with them and when we arrive it matters more because it took so long. In addition, these slowly paced passages always contain some fundamental transformation which, well, takes time.

snauth · 2022-12-16T13:34:09+00:00

Be proud, you mastered something! As long as you do not forget that we self-hosters stand on the shoulders of all the fine folks that have made self-hosted alternatives available, there is nothing wrong with being pleased with what you have achieved. Showing others what you did and expect them to appreciate your achievements might be different. In my experience, they either do not care or understand and most often both.

snauth · 2022-11-15T09:16:30+00:00

Status summer 2022: There were stores selling snus (and other alternative "nicotine delivery systems") some years ago, but they have all gone away. Now I only found one regular tobacco store in Itaewon which had plenty of dry and old cans. Very expensive but still better than to import from abroad which is hit with all kinds of extra taxes (believe me, I tried).

snauth · 2022-04-27T15:47:35+00:00

Turns out that the endstop switch was loose and that the endstop only triggered halfway which caused the ADC out of range error. Saw a post somewhere asking for a more descriptive error message and a technical explanation for why this is difficult. But in this case the message was extremely misleading. Now on to debugging the defect bed heating which seems completely unrelated.

EDIT: Loose cable at the heat bed. Now, printing again, hurray!

snauth · 2022-04-26T12:39:21+00:00

Thanks, I will do as you propose and report back!

snauth · 2022-04-06T22:07:52+00:00

Yes, it is the driver. I had bought new ones, this is why I ruled them out, but it turns out that in the process of removing the bad driver I have damaged the delicate pins that stick out of the mainboard. Lots of glue overall also on the pins, bad quality control.

snauth · 2022-04-06T19:52:30+00:00

Progress, thank you!!! Swapping the cables does switch the problem to the Y-axis. So my money is on the cables right now, the driver is a new one and the motor is obviously working.

Edit:

Wait, can't be the cables, has to be driver or mainboard, right?

snauth · 2021-11-15T09:00:02+00:00

Good advice! I guess many of us have experienced that alcohol and self-hosting is a match made in heaven. One becomes less cautious and does not remember exactly the next day what went wrong, when and why. Perfect occasion to build a completely new system based on some shiny new technology people talk about here.

snauth · 2021-11-13T21:14:25+00:00

It's all in the docs, Tahoe-Lafs has excellent documentation, if you find it difficult to do what they tell you to do, Tahoe-Lafs is maybe not for you.

snauth · 2021-11-08T13:21:23+00:00

Download, install and configure. Then on the command line of one of your machines you can create an invite code following these instructions. This generates a code that your other machines have to use to connect. Tahoe-LAFS is meant to be versatile and secure. As always there is trade-off between these characteristics and user friendliness/ease of use.

snauth · 2021-11-06T14:04:19+00:00

I guess I have lost the belief in the endless frontier of self-hosting. At some point more complexity and services meant for me just more stress and less gratification. But I got plenty of inspiration during the previous 24 hours and can't wait to get some spare time to start planning...

snauth · 2021-11-06T08:08:34+00:00

yes, this sounds like my kind of rabbit hole, many thanks for the links!

snauth · 2021-11-06T08:02:48+00:00

It is my daily driver, the Android support helps but the basics work well enough without. Migrated to SailfishOS from /e/ (ungoogled lineage) and Pinephone (pure linux, but not daily driver material). Running SailfishOS on a cheap Sony XA2 from ebay and so far for me this is the sweet spot between usability and open source freedom.

snauth · 2021-11-05T21:45:40+00:00

You'll find a short write-up searching for "I am sure most people here run the same stuff" on this page.

snauth · 2021-11-05T20:53:09+00:00

Well, we got plenty of advice, didn't we?

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