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CubitOom,

The language of love

CubitOom,

What if there were a service to convert ticktock videos into Lemmy posts? Would that be a good thing?

CubitOom,

I’m not asking if any platform is better than Lemmy.

I’m asking if it would be good to facilitate the ability to post the user generated content from a terrible platform to Lemmy.

CubitOom,

Wouldn’t it be more like having your family owned restaurant cook dishes using user posted recipes from food.com?

It’s user generated content in both analogies. It’s still valid content no matter which platform it was originally posted too.

If a Lemmy user posts a ticktock video to Lemmy then how would it be different then a Lemmy user posting a YouTube video to Lemmy?

CubitOom,

There are a few reasons I can think of that Lemmy is a better platform than ticktock.

  • ticktock uses an algorithm to drive engagement and keep users on the platform for as long as possible, recommending posts that it thinks the user will like or hate. Lemmy doesn’t do this.
  • I’ve never actually used ticktock so I’m not sure if it’s possible to block content in the same way but the ability to block users, communities, and entire instances is I think one of Lemmy’s best features.
  • there are no ads on lemmy.

Now for the content in question, my understanding is that it’s entirely user generated. Just like Lemmy, reddit, YouTube, Etc. It’s not like the Chinese government is making American women film themselves dancing and then forcing them to post it on ticktock. That’s just what that person wanted to make and post and ticktocks algorithm is recommending it.

With that being said, there are potentially useful, funny, or important content that might be uploaded to ticktock by a user, the same way that girl dancing video was. If that happened, wouldn’t make sense to move that content to a platform without many of the down sides of the ticktock platform?

CubitOom,

Did anyone else just hear the twin peaks theme music in their heads?

CubitOom, (edited )

You should try out all the options you listed and the other recommendations and find what works best for you.

I personally use Kubernetes. It can be overwhelming but if you’re willing to learn some new jargon then try a managed kubernetes cluster. Like AKS or digital ocean kubernetes. I would avoid managing a kubernetes cluster yourself.

Kubernetes gets a lot of flack for being overly complicated but what is being overlooked with that statement is all the things that kubernetes does for you.

If you can spin up kubernetes with cert-manager, external-dns, and an ingress controller like istio then you got a whole automated data center for your docker containers.

CubitOom,

Well the kubernetes API has all the necessary parts built in mostly, although sometimes you may want to install a custom resource which often comes with complex service installs.

But I think the biggest strength of kubernetes is all the foss projects that are available for it. Specifically external-dns, cert-manager, and istio. These are separate projects and will have to be installed after the cluster is up.

You can also look at the cloud native computing foundation’s list of projects. It’s a good list of things that work well.

Caution, not all cloud providers support istio. I know that Google’s GKS doesn’t, they make you use their own fork of it

I would also recommend you avoid helm if possible as it obfuscates what the cluster is doing and might make learning harder. Try to just stick to using kubectl if possible.

I have heard good things about nomad too but I have yet to try it.

CubitOom,

With a basic understanding of how k8s works and an already running cluster, all one needs to know is how to run a service as a docker file to have it also run in k8s

CubitOom, (edited )

I would say that if you are going to host it at home then kubenetes is more complex. Bare metal kubernetes control plane management has some pitfalls. But if you were to use a cloud provider like linode or digital ocean and use their kubernetes service, then only real extra complexity is learning how to manage Kubernetes which is minimal.

There is a decent hardware investment needed to run kubernetes if you want it to be fully HA (which I would argue means it needs to be a minimum of 2 clusters of 3 nodes each on different continents) but you could run a single node cluster with autoscaling at a cloud provider if you don’t need HA. I will say it’s nice not to have to worry about a service failing periodically as it will just transfer to another node in a few seconds automatically.

CubitOom,

Checkout ollama.

There’s a lot of models you can pull from the official library.

Using ollama, you can also run external gguf models found on places like huggingface if you use a modelfile with something as simple as


<span style="color:#323232;">echo "FROM ~/Documents/ollama/models/$model_filepath" >| ~/Documents/ollama/modelfiles/$model_name.modelfile
</span>
CubitOom,

Not hotdog

CubitOom, (edited )

The best thing about arch is the wiki.

wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

That said, on a laptop, you will likely need prime, optimus, or bumblebee depending on your CPU/GPU.

CubitOom, (edited )

I once heard that there is a theory that things written on yellow is more memorable. Which is why the default original color for legal pads, post-its, and highlighters is yellow.

So yellow should be what ever you need to memorize more. So it depends on your teacher and how much of the subject matter needs to be memorized. I’d say it should be history as there are a lot of dates and minute details, but I could also understand it being used for any subject that needs memorization like foreign languages, science, and even math.

Blue and green are both calming colors so those should either be reserved for that classes that give you the most stress or the classes that benefit the most from being calm, like creative writing or music.

Red is an exciting color, use it on what ever subject you are most confident i or interested in.

I guess I think the bearded guy (wait…it that a beard or just a long mustache?) Is using my system correctly.

CubitOom, (edited )

If you like xfce, I think that kde is more similar to it than gnome. So I would recommend giving kde a try too.

An easy way to test out both is to just use a live image booted from a USB. You could always install them to your everyday PC but then you have a lot more packages installed and I personally would rather keep my installed packages to a minimum. If you can’t do a live cd because your os doesn’t provide one then I would try a vm or a different drive that you can boot into.

CubitOom,

I guess my espresso absinthe martini is the one that did psychedelics when they studied abroad.

CubitOom,

Place a couple ice cubes in the glass first. Then,

  • 15 g absinthe, stir till opaque
  • 20 g cocchi Americano
  • 10 g grand Marnier
  • 5 g hazelnut syrup
  • double shot of espresso (mine is dialed in at 36 grams)

Admittedly, it’s a bit light on the absinthe.

I also recommend using a German/Austrian absinthe if possible.

I call it “the early bird gets the wormword” but I’m not too inlove with the name.

CubitOom,

Yeah, it’s all in grams.

It’s just a very small increment so it’s more useful than ounces for me (maybe this goes back into the whole study abroad thing, although I never did that).

And even though it’s all liquid, I find it a lot easier to measure by weight than using a measuring cup or jigger.

Especially if making fresh espresso, I’m going to dial in my shot by weight anyway so I don’t make bitter espresso. So I’ll have a cheap scale that is accurate within 0.01 grams at the ready.

CubitOom,

Arch, NixOS and openSUSE Tumbleweed are very supported.

Source: wiki.hyprland.org/Getting-Started/Installation/

I would recommend an Arch based distro if you want to keep it simple. That will give you access to the AUR and compatibility with the arch wiki.

PS: Arch can be very stable, especially if you use an LTS kernel and don’t restart during updates.

CubitOom,

Everything is edible once.

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